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Organización de Telecomunicaciones de Iberoamérica

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Organización de Telecomunicaciones de Iberoamérica / Organização das Telecomunicações Ibero-americanas
AbbreviationOTI
Formation19 March 1971; 53 years ago (1971-03-19)
TypeUnion of broadcasting organisations
HeadquartersMexico City, Mexico
Membership
  • 52 members
Official language
Spanish and Portuguese
Director-General
Miguel Diez de Urdanivia
Websitewww.otitelecom.org
Formerly called
Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana / Organização da Televisão Ibero-americana

The Organización de Telecomunicaciones de Iberoamérica in Spanish and Organização das Telecomunicações Ibero-americanas in Portuguese (acronym OTI), formerly known as Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana / Organização da Televisão Ibero-americana (transl. Organization of Iberoamerican Television), is an organization of Spanish and Portuguese-language television networks in Ibero-America –comprising Latin America, Portugal, and Spain; as well as Canada, Equatorial Guinea, Netherlands Antilles, and the United States–. Its mission is to foster relations between television networks in the region to share their knowledge and experience. Among other activities, it shares news, cultural, educational, and sports programming among its members.[1][2]

Between 1972 and 2000, OTI organized the Festival OTI de la Canción, an international song competition between its member broadcasters that was transmitted live via satellite to all of them, and which gave many famous artists and hit songs in the countries in which it was broadcast.[3]

Between 1977 and 1983, Televisión Española (TVE) with the support of OTI, produced the weekly magazine 300 millones. This variety show, with musical performances, cultural and news reports, interviews, and contests, was broadcast in Spain and transmitted to the Spanish-language OTI member broadcasters via satellite.[4]

OTI also secured the television broadcasting rights for its members in their countries of major international events such as the Olympic Games, FIFA World Cups, Copa América, etc.[5]

Members

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Featured as in the OIT's members list

Country Channels
Latin America AT&T
DirecTV
Telefónica
ESPN
CNN en Español
DNews
DSports
DSports 2
DSports+
OnDirecTV
Ve Plus
Ve Plus USA
Love Nature
ZooMoo
Sun Channel
DHE
Kanal D Drama
 Argentina Grupo Clarín
 Bolivia Unitel
Red UNO
 Brazil Band
 Chile Chilevisión
Mega
Canal 13
TVN (Chile)
 Colombia Caracol
RCN
 Costa Rica
 Ecuador Teleamazonas
RTS
 El Salvador Telecorporación Salvadoreña
 Honduras
 Mexico Televisa
TV Azteca
Sky
izz!
Imagen Television
Grupo Radiorama
Grupo SIPSE
Grupo Multimedios
 Panama Medcom
Telemetro
TVN
 Peru Latina
América
Panamericana
TV Perú
Grupo ATV
 Spain PRISA
 United States Telemundo
Univision
 Venezuela

Former members

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Former logo of the Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana
Country Channels
Latin America
 Argentina Televisión Pública
 Brazil TV Globo
 Chile La Red
 Colombia Producciones PUNCH - RTI Producciones - Producciones JES - Datos y Mensajes - Inravisión
 Costa Rica Repretel 6
 Cuba Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión
 Ecuador Gamavisión - TC Televisión - Ecuavisa - Canal Uno
 Equatorial Guinea TVGE
 Guatemala Canal 3 - Canal 7 - Canal 11 - Canal 13
 Paraguay SNT - Telefuturo
 Portugal RTP
 Spain RTVE

Soccer broadcasting rights

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Asamblea General de la Organización de Telecomunicaciones Iberoamericanas". Casa Real (in Spanish). 16 March 2007.
  2. ^ "Producción: OTI (Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana)". Radio y Televisión Argentina [es] (in Spanish).
  3. ^ Rico, Vicente (6 January 2015). "Especial La OTI: El festival de la canción iberoamericana que nació y quiso ser como Eurovisión". eurovision-spain.com (in Spanish).
  4. ^ Sempere, Antonio (22 October 2018). "'300 Millones': Cuando TVE hizo las Américas". Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish).
  5. ^ Miquel de Moragas, Nancy Kay Rivenburgh, ed. (1995). Television in the Olympics : international research project (illustrated ed.). James F. Larson. pp. 257–260. ISBN 978-0861965380.

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