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WIPR-TV was created as a result of lobbying for public broadcasting in Puerto Rico, beginning in the 1950s. The station went on the air for the first time on Three Kings Day (January 6), 1958, becoming the first educational television station in Latin America, and the facilities were dedicated in memory of revered Borinquen entertainer Ramón Rivero (Diplo).
"United States TV Stations: Puerto Rico", Yearbook of Radio and Television, New York: Radio Television Daily, 1964, OCLC 7469377 – via Internet Archive; Pedro Miranda Corrada (1974). "La cable television en Puerto Rico". Revista Jurídica de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (in Spanish) (42).
It was founded in 1949 under the Department of Public Instruction to serve as the primary broadcasting corporation in Puerto Rico. [2] The Corporation owns and operates several radio and television stations, including WIPR (AM), WIPR-FM, and WIPR-TV. [2]
WORA-TV began airing on October 12, 1955, due to the efforts of Alfredo Ramírez de Arellano to create a station for the west coast of Puerto Rico. [34] On January 6, 1958, the government debuted its own station, WIPR-TV, with the claim that it was the first educational station in Latin America. [34]
This shutdown left Puerto Rico without a PBS station as fellow public television station WIPR-TV (channel 6) had dropped its PBS membership in 2011. [5] On December 20, WMTJ returned to the air via Liberty Puerto Rico , some of PBS programming can be seen on Channel 3 & 67 and in HD on channels 203 & 267.
Towards the turn of the century, Chaves moved to WIPR, where she became a radio show host, on a show named Hoy 940 (Today 940). She then joined WIPR's television arm, WIPR-TV, canal 6, where, from March 12, 2002, she joined actress Linnette Torres on a program named En Tod@s (In Everything). [3]
A longtime and beloved studio grip died early Saturday in a car accident after pulling a 14-hour overnight shift on the TV series “9-1-1.” Rico Priem, 66, who worked on productions including ...
WIPR-TV, a television station (channel 6) licensed to San Juan, Puerto Rico The World Intellectual Property Report , a biennial analytical publication by WIPO World Intellectual Property Review , a bimonthly magazine providing news and analysis on issues in intellectual property