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| Country | Venezuela |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Caracas, Venezuela |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | Spanish |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 480i for the SD feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Omar Nicolas Camero Zamora |
| History | |
| Launched | 23 July 1988 |
| Links | |
| Website | televen.com |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Analog VHF/UHF | Channel 10 (Caracas, listings may vary) |
| Digital UHF | Channel 23.5 |
Televen (legally known as Corporación Televen C.A.) is a private Venezuelan national television network headquartered on the Caracas neighborhood of Horizonte. For this reason it is also called 'Canal de Horizonte'. Televen was inaugurated on July 10, 1988, by Omar Camero Zamora and T Radioven, S.A. As an alternative for the two-leading-private television channels, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) and Venevision, Televen distanced itself from this trend and made a different oriented programming in some cases the middle classes who do not usually watch TV and it was open and being composed of talk shows, sports, movies, a full range of series, mainly American, and Brazilian, Colombian, Mexican, and U.S. Hispanic telenovelas, and in the 1990s, anime.