Telediario


Telediario is the flagship television newscast produced by Televisión Española, the television division of Spanish state-owned public broadcaster RTVE. It is the longest running program in the history of television in Spain as it has been broadcast daily since 15 September 1957.
Three Telediario editions a day are produced by Televisión Española news services and are simulcast live on La 1, on 24 Horas news channel, on TVE Internacional and on RTVE Play. Previous editions are also available on their online platform on demand. Additional international editions are also produced and aired on TVE Internacional every day.
TVE's territorial centers in every autonomous community produce and broadcast in regional variations in each of them, a shorter midday local newscast, each one with a different name, following the format and visual identity of Telediario.

History

Televisión Española was established at a building of Paseo de la Habana in Madrid and began its broadcasts on 28 October 1956. Within a week, the news services were created and its initial newscast, named Últimas Noticias, began broadcast; with the weather forecast first airing on 2 November 1956. This initial newscast only lasted until that summer break. On 15 September 1957, the evening edition of Telediario was premiered, with the afternoon edition following on 28 April 1958.
On 14 July 1959, TVE opened its Miramar studios in Barcelona and on 12 February 1964, its production center in the Canary Islands. When Prado del Rey was inaugurated on 18 July 1964 in Pozuelo de Alarcón, all entertainment programming was soon transferred to the new facilities and the Paseo de la Habana studios was transformed into a dedicated news and current affairs facility, inclusive of studios for Telediario. They were there until they were also transferred to the Prado del Rey complex in 1967 to join the other divisions of TVE.
In August 1966, TVE stationed its first permanent foreign correspondent in London, followed in 1968 by the ones in New York, Vienna and Brussels. On 24 May 1971, the first bureau was opened in Bilbao, followed by the ones in Santiago de Compostela on 25 July 1971 and in Seville on 29 July 1971, which would later become the first territorial centers. In 1975 it started its broadcasts in color.
On 13 November 1983, the last live episode of Telediario from the Prado del Rey news center was broadcast, as TVE's central news services were moved to the new Torrespaña studio facilities in Madrid at the foot of the broadcasting tower. On 14 November, Telediario was broadcast from the Torrespaña studios for the first time, and it has been broadcast from there ever since. To celebrate the move, a new CGI intro for the program, featuring the Torrespaña transmitter, premiered in 1984.
On 14 July 1989, it was presented out-of-studio for the first time. It was partially presented live from the Champ de Mars in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower in the background, on the occasion of the celebrations for the bicentennial of the French Revolution. Since then, the main presenters have anchored on location on special occasions or when major stories break.
On 11 September 2001, Telediario 1 began with the breaking live feed of the World Trade Center's North Tower in New York since it had been hit a few minutes before. That edition ran for more than seven hours, making it the longest Telediario news bulletin in its history.
Many presenters and correspondents have worked for Telediario. Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano was an anchor for three years, just until the day before the unexpected announcement of her engagement with then Prince of Asturias Felipe de Borbón. Writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte was a TVE war correspondent for twenty-one years and chronicled, among others, the Bosnian war. Rosa María Mateo was an anchor for twenty years. Ana Blanco served as anchor for thirty-two years, from 15 September 1990 until she stepped down on 29 August 2022.
In 2019, a plan to transfer TVE's news services and Telediario back to Prado del Rey starting in late 2021 was approved. This plan was eventually halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was replaced by another plan to modernize the facilities in Torrespaña.

Programme format

The programme is presented by one or two main newsreaders with an additional sports news presenter. News items are produced, with the footage taken by their own cameramen, by the central newsroom of TVE's news services in Torrespaña, by the newsrooms of TVE's territorial centers across Spain, by TVE's foreign correspondents around the world or by on-the-scene special reporters. All the news feeds are coordinated by TVE's news services' master control room in Torrespaña. Additional footage can be taken from the TVE historical audiovisual archive, from the Eurovision news exchange service or from news agencies. Many items are preceded by the journalist reporting live from the scene of the story. The sixty-minute programme is followed by a weather report known as El Tiempo, produced by RTVE's meteorological service with data from the State Meteorological Agency. The entire running time, including El Tiempo, is about seventy minutes.
Álex Barreiro and Lorena Baeza present Telediario Matinal, the breakfast edition consisting of a rolling news service that airs for two hours from 06:30 CET/CEST, with Paula Murillo presenting the sports. presents Telediario 1, the afternoon edition at 15:00, with Ana Ibáñez presenting the sports. Pepa Bueno presents Telediario 2, the flagship evening edition at 21:00, with Lara Gandarillas presenting the sports. and Lourdes Maldonado present Telediario Fin de Semana, the weekend editions at 15:00 and 21:00, with presenting the sports. Until February 2010, TVE used to broadcast a late-night edition, named Telediario 3, which was typically aired between midnight and 03:00.
All Telediario editions provide closed captioning, and the 24 Horas news channel simulcast include sign language interpretation during the bulletins.

Current editions and presenters

Telediario Matinal
Telediario 1
Telediario 2
Telediario Fin de Semana

Former main presenters

The 21:00 edition is broadcast head to head with the programme Antena 3 Noticias on former rival commercial network Antena 3. As of 2010, Telediario wins a larger audience share than Antena 3 Noticias. Since the removal of ads from TVE on 1 January 2010, Telediario lasts for more than sixty minutes, with El Tiempo adding about ten minutes more after it, and its audience continued to grow even more.

Territorial news bulletins

TVE's territorial centers in every autonomous community produce and broadcast in regional variations in each of them, a shorter midday local newscast, each one with a different name, following the format and visual identity of Telediario.
RegionNameSinceLanguage
AndalusiaNoticias de Andalucía1970Spanish
AragonNoticias Aragón1979Spanish
AsturiasPanorama Regional1974Spanish
Balearic IslandsInformatiu Balear1979Catalan
Basque CountryTelenorte1971Spanish
Basque CountryGaurkoak1971Basque
Canary IslandsTelecanarias1971Spanish
CantabriaTelecantabria1984Spanish
Castile–La ManchaNoticias de Castilla–La Mancha1989Spanish
Castile and LeonNoticias de Castilla y León1982Spanish
CataloniaL'informatiu1977Catalan
CeutaNoticias de Ceuta1987Spanish
ExtremaduraNoticias de Extremadura1989Spanish
GaliciaTelexornal1971Galician
La RiojaInformativo Telerioja1986Spanish
MadridInformativo de Madrid1974Spanish
MelillaNoticias de Melilla1987Spanish
MurciaNoticias Murcia1982Spanish
NavarreTelenavarra1981Spanish
NavarreArin Arin1981Basque
Valencian CommunityL'informatiu – Comunitat Valenciana1971Valencian