Saeta TV

Saeta TV Channel 10 founded in 1956 by Raul Fontaina, is the first television channel Uruguayan, and the fourth based on Latin America, the acronym means SAETA Sociedad Anónima de Emisoras de Televisión y Anexos.
Raul Fontaina, broadcaster of great path from the direction of Radio Carve, was the pioneer who one day he happened to go a step further. In 1949, at the headquarters of ANDEBU, created the founding statute of SAETA. And seven years later, after numerous tests, officially began broadcasting.
The first picture emerged of a warehouse on blocks, wood and veneers located at the site of the First National Exhibition of Production (today cylinder Hall). It generated through a single chamber 90 kg (managed by Jorge Severino), a team of 100 power and an antenna 45 m, installed on an old water tank.
At 1830, December 7, 1956, saw the picture and was heard to say Raul Fontaina (h): "Ladies and gentlemen, from that moment, Saeta TV Channel 10 is in the air ..." It then irradiated the National Anthem, spoke ministers Hector Grauert and Fermin Sorhueta and started programming with documentaries supplied by various European embassies, educational films, the News American, and so on. All other content, leaving air live, even commercials.
The first faces that appeared on the screen, were Charles Giacosa, Mario Fonticiella, Victor Hugo Pedroso, Barrett Puig and Cristina Moran. All of them came from the radio, in a country which at the time had no film industry, and therefore not cultivated the language of images.
Eight years later, the institution-building is manifested through the acquisition and refurbishment of premises where he had worked as a barracks paint (local topped by Carmel Empire), on the street Tacuarembó 1234 (today Carnelli Lawrence), who was being successively extended by the annexation of several properties linderas and is the current location of Channel 10. Time then erected the tower 187 meters (raised through efforts of Milton Fontaina, another son of Don Raul), which since then is an inescapable referent of the urban landscape of Montevideo. In other words, the foundation and subsequent development of SAETA, was due to the joint effort of the family Fontaina until 1970, when it left Raul Fontaina (h) office manager, assuming the same Juan Enrique De Feo, who until that moment had remained at the forefront of Radio Carve alongside Raul Fontaina gift (as Omar Defeo recounts in his book "The crazy from the roof").
In January 1995, Channel 10, along with Equital SA, founded a cable operator called CBT, which is just around the canal. In 1991, based on Maldonado, Channel 7, which functions as a repeater of Channel 10, with a tele-flash informative own every 1 hour.
On October 10, 1996, with the movie "Malcolm X", issued in the Stream "Festival", began broadcasting in stereo, and so far, the only channel open Uruguayan to use this form of broadcast.
In 2004, preafilió with the News Corporation, operates FOX. Since 2004, Saeta is another conglomerate over the News. The highest percentage of Channel 10 is still taking its owners Uruguayans (95%).
This station has 2 producing, performing much of their programs, these are: Media Oz, and ZUR Infotainment.

Antenna
The Channel 10 transmitting antenna is installed in a tower rising 187 meters in above the ground, called the tower Saeta. It was built after the channel start to operate in its current direction. It stems from the idea and subsequent efforts Milton Fontaina. Today is the highest structure in Montevideo, it can be seeing from many parts of the city.
More than five years ago, Channel 12 of Uruguay, collocated his antenna in the tower.
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*Monday: Intruders in the entertainment / Underline / Film Festival / So we
*Tuesday: Intruders in the entertainment / Underline / Just to Reír Plus / Case Closed / Missing
*Wednesday: Intruders in the entertainment / Underline / Bread and Circus / CSI Las Vegas
*Thursday: Intruders in the entertainment / Underline / Cruel World / The Simpsons
*Friday: Intruders in the entertainment / Underline / The fault is Ours / CSI Miami
*Saturday: Consentidas / CSI New York / Horror Film / Goes by Vos
*Sunday: Underline Sunday / Just to Reír / Blessed TV / CSI Las Vegas
Film

In the year 2006 the channel signed a contract with film companies: Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and Dreamworks, to transmit the most recent releases of these film companies. These releases are already being cast in "Film Festival", a program that goes Monday at 21.00. A person specializing in film on Channel 10 is Jackie Rodriguez Stratta, for many years in Saeta.
Competitions

It was the first channel to create a talent competition, in 1996, by virtue of his 40 years. Then Channel 4 did the same in 2004, and in 2006, celebrating its 50 years of new Channel 10 conducted a contest called CONTA, which was to create: series, novels, cartoons, etc., all of this for CONTA and Channel 10 . In 2007 premiered the first prize in the national series: "Flat 8." The 5-Setiembre/2007 premiered another production CONTA called History Clinic.

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