24 Horas

24 Horas is Spanish television network owned by Televisión Española. The channel broadcasts news related to nationwide and worldwide, sports, weather, business, lifestyle and culture programmings.

History

It began its broadcasts at 14:00 on September 15, 1997, within Vía Digital, being the first continuous information channel in Spain. The programming is structured in blocks of news of half an hour of duration that include information on the national and international news, society, culture, economy, sports and weather information.

24 Horas issues different news programs, newsletters and discussion programs.

This channel changed its logo at the end of November 2005 with its entry into terrestrial digital television in Spain and again changed its global image in October 2008 together with the rest of RTVE, unifying the image of the Informative Services and logos of radio, television and internet channels.

It is broadcasted by satellite for Europe (through Eutelsat) and America (through Hispasat 30W-5 and Intelsat 11 in Band C). In Spain, it is also broadcast by Digital Terrestrial Television and through pay-TV platforms such as Movistar+, Vodafone and Orange. Through the internet it broadcasts through streaming with Octoshape technology.

In addition, La 1 connects with 24 Horas from 06:00 to 06:30 in the morning on business days and between 06:00 to 09:30 on the weekend.

Since its creation it has been directed successively by Pedro González, Pedro Roncal and Juan Cristóbal Vidal Doce.

In 2001, Canal 24 Horas was recognized by the Spanish Television Academy as the best digital thematic channel.

From September 2008 to October 2009, its director was the journalist Juan Pedro Valentín, who began a process of complete renewal of the channel based on more speed and direct, with greater personal presence of national and international character. After the departure of the previous director, the functions of the direction were assumed temporarily by the deputy director Vicente Vallés, until it was named new director Asunción Gómez Bueno weeks later.

On August 3, 2012 he was appointed as director of the Sergio Martín Herrera channel. In September 2016, after being appointed director and presenter of Los Desayunos de TVE, the functions of the management were assumed temporarily by the deputy director, Moisés Rodríguez, for 3 and a half months, until Álvaro Zancajo was appointed as the new director in December. that same year.

In 2013, the channel for Internet was launched, +24, which transmits up to 5 signals simultaneously.