Retro: Buenos Aires, Argentina Sat, Oct 28, 1989

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guia
Stations ran a continuous sked on weekends (on Sundays, stations signed-on at 11am)-on weekdays, the stations aired 2 hrs of programs at noon, then signed-off until 6pm

Listings use 24 hr clock

Canal 2-TeVeDos
13.00 La Hora de Grock (children's program, includes cartoons)
15.00 Cine Argentino "El honorable inquilino"
17.00 La vida tiene esas cosas
18.00 Tropivision (tropical music)
19.00 Desafio tecnologico
20.00 Ring Side 2 (international fights)
21.00 Europa Europa (RAI import)
22.00 Todo golf
23.00 Italia '90 (World Cup qualifier)
1.00 Ondas de amor y paz

Canal 7-ATC
Las aventuras de Nikkol airs during day
13.00 Festlindo (children's music)
14.00 La salud de nuestros hijos
15.00 Vida o droga
16.00 Comunicandos
17.00 Latinoamericano
18.00 Musica total (Argentine and international videos)
19.00 El grand debut
20.00 El mundo de Ante Garmaz
21.00 Juguemos en familia (families square off in various games)
22.00 Funcion privada "Esperando la carroza"
1.00 Agenda diplomatica

Canal 9-El Canal de la Palomita (the station featured a dove in its logo)
13.00 El club de Madonna (videos from the Material Girl, as well as other artists)
14.00 Sabado de los mejores
18.30 El juego de los matrimonios (sounds like a local version of Newlywed Game)
19.30 Todo al nueve
21.00 Hiperhumor '89
22.00 La noche VIP del cine "Sin aliento"
0.00 Club 700

Canal 11-Canal Once
13.00 Johnny Allon presenta (live music show)
14.00 Sabados de super accion I "Oro para el Cesar"
15.30 Sabados de super accion II "El primer Texano"
17.00 Sabados de super accion III "Duna"
20.00 La noche del sabado con Gerardo Sofovich
0.30 El sonajero

Canal 13-Canal Trece
13.00 Realidad '89
14.00 El canal de los sabados
16.55 Clemente
17.00 El canal de los sabados
18.00 Batman Club
18.55 Clemente
19.55 Clemente
19.00 ALF (given the slot, likely 2 episodes)
20.00 Hunter
21.00 Cine de los sabados "Furia de titanes"
21.55 Clemente
22.00 Cine de los sabados cont'd
22.30 Clemente
22.35 Cine de los sabados cont'd
23.30 En busca del Clio (pt 1 of a look at Clio award winners, for advertising)
0.30 Todo nuevo

[Eduardo]

Pretty surprising schedule: I never ever watched "Waiting for the hearse" (Esperando la carroza) on ch. 7 in my life, that film has been always shown on ch. 11 since I can recall (I was born in 1989). Also strange they showed it on a 3-hout timeslot, probably the ad bulk was huge.
Anyways, thanks a lot for posting this! By any chance do you have any Sunday schedule?

[Bluenoser]

Pretty surprising schedule: I never ever watched "Waiting for the hearse" (Esperando la carroza) on ch. 7 in my life, that film has been always shown on ch. 11 since I can recall (I was born in 1989). Also strange they showed it on a 3-hout timeslot, probably the ad bulk was huge.
Anyways, thanks a lot for posting this! By any chance do you have any Sunday schedule?

Yes, I do...I'll post that early next week...

[Eduardo]

Thanks!

[M.J.]

And as a bonus, there are call signs for these stations.

Canal 2 - LS86
Canal 7 - LS82
Canal 9 - LS83
Canal 11 - LS84
Canal 13 - LS85

[onairb]

Out of curiousity,on 'Canal 13'  what was the 'Clemente' that kept airing between movies..and what was 'Batman Club'?

[Eduardo]

Clemente is a famous character of a daily comic strip features in the Clarín newspaper: http://www.caloi.com.ar/clemente/clemente.htm
'Batman Club' was a show hosted by Guillermo Mazzuca where they would play reruns of the old Batman series with assorted features in between like games and trivia.

[Gregg]

This was Saturday but there were no news shows that I recognize.  Question for Eduardo... Do stations in Buenes Aires today have seven day news operations?  Are stations today 24 hours?  Are there more than five local channels now? 

I also know many residents of Buenes Aires trace their heritage not to Spain but to Italy, hence the RAI show.

It also seems there weren't that many U.S. programs... I saw ALF, Hunter (a cop show), Batman but that's about it.   I know several Buenes Aires radio station broadcast all American/British music even though all the announcements and commercials are in Spanish.  So I'm surprised there aren't that many U.S. shows, dubbed or subtitled into Spanish.

Gregg
nh153@mail.com

[Eduardo]

I'll happily answer your questions, Gregg. By 1989 there were some American shows still on TV, however their popularity began to vanish around that time, since cable got more and more famous. People preferred to watch American shows with subtitles on cable than watching them dubbed on terrestrial TV, where you have to cross you fingers for the network to buy anymore more than the first season of any given series. Because of that, over-the-air TV nowadays hardly has anything American, save for Simpsons reruns.

About the news, the only channels with newscasts on weekends are channel 7 (normally a 30 minute showing on both Saturdays and Sundays around 9 PM) and ch. 2 (7 PM).

About 24-hour operation, channel 11 and 13 keep closing their programming everyday. Ch. 11 does so around 2/2:30 AM, coming back at 6 AM on weekdays and 9 AM on weekends. Ch. 13 closes around 1 AM and comes back at 5:45 AM on weekdays and 8 AM on weekends. Channel 7 still closes down once a week (early Monday morning), while ch. 2 and 9 are 24-hour operators.

We still have only 5 channels in Buenos Aires, but many parts of the country (including my town) have digital terrestrial TV. Unfortunately, while the video quality is excellent and there are new channels that aren't even seen on cable, the only network included on this service is channel 7, so we still have to resort to analogue TV (or DirecTV, in my case) to watch the other channels.

I hope I had answered your questions.