Canal 9 (Argentina)

Canal 9 is an Argentine television station based in Buenos Aires.

History

Canal 9 was the first private television channel in Argentina and sends since July 9, 1960, Argentina's national holiday. During the first years 9 Canal was partially owned by foreign companies and served as Argentine stations for ABC, CBS and NBC.

1993 Alejandro Romay was appointed manager and acquired the shares previously owned abroad and made Canal 9 becoming the first private television station, which is fully in Argentine possession.

1974, during Perón's third term of office, Canal 9 has been taken by the Government in possession and continued to work as a state-owned station during the military regime. The station was re- privatized in 1984 and was re- Romay owners. Romay was thus one of the most important people in the Argentine media landscape. From the re- privatization of the channel " Canal 9 Libertad " was.

Since 1997 he is part of the Australian group of companies "Prime Television". The appearance was realigned and changed the name to " Azul Televisión ". In the same year moved back to the owner. 51 % of the shares were bought by Telefónica, which already belonged Azul's rival Telefe.

In 2002, the station went to a company, the board of journalist and media manager Daniel Hadad and renamed back to " Canal 9 " under which he sends up today.

Canal 9 sends shows, news and series. Here in 2005 launched the popular entertainment program Showmatch, hosted by Marcello Tinelli. The program now runs on Canal 13