Television in Colombia has evolved significantly since its inception on June 13, 1954, beginning as a public service focusing on education and culture. Today, it primarily aims to entertain the audience with a diverse array of formats, including telenovelas, series, game shows, and news broadcasts.
It is one of the world's most popular television shows and is considered the most famous Latin telenovela in history. It's about the life of Betty, an ugly economist who starts working at Ecomoda under the relationship of her boss, Don Armando.
2. Café, con aroma de mujer
Café is a telenovela that tells the story of a love between a coffee gatherer who is nicknamed Gaviota and Sebastián Vallejo, belonging to a distinguished coffee family who obviously does not accept their love affair.
3. Protagonistas de Nuestra Tele
It is a reality show about a group of participants competing to win the signing of an acting contract with the television production company RCN.
4. Padres e hijos
One of the main series. It was the program that accompanied the Colombian homes after the midday news. The series was broadcast for 16 years and showed life inside a middle class family in Colombia.
5. También Caerás
It was a program of humor, quiz, jokes and entertainment that has become the street of various cities in the country.
6. Especiales Pirry
Guillermo Prieto, also known as 'Pirry', presented the adventures he made on different trips through Colombia and abroad, little by little the program took on a more political tinge and then he presented journalistic specials and interviews with controversial characters in Colombia.
7. El siguiente programa
An animated series where the main argument was the criticism of the situations that were presented in Colombia.
8. Séptima puerta
It was a series about a couple of journalists who investigate paranormal phenomena for the magazine 'Séptima Puerta'.
9. Club 10
It was the children's program of the Colombian families that aired on Saturday in the morning. Which included films, contests and the traditional family history, in which a single father who was called "Pap" lived with his children and their animals
10. Pandillas, guerra y paz
It showed the lives of young people who grow up in aggressive environments and fought battles to survive in the midst of drugs, weapons and crime.
Best TV Shows in Colombia
TV broadcast
Telenovelas, series, game shows and TV news are the main television formats in Colombia.
Let's see my best 10 TV programs in the history of Colombian television.
Any Colombian will be able to identify some of these tv shows.
TV Today
TV channels
Colombia has two main TV channels: Caracol and RCN
RCN
It is the second most watched channel in Colombia
CARACOL
It is the most watched channel in Colombia
History
Television in Colombia
Initially television in Colombia was public, with emphasis on education and cultural topics. However, today television has the mission of entertaining the audience.
It is characterized for broadcasting
telenovelas, series, game shows and TV news