1950s

1950

CMQ's First Mobile Unit

CMQ's first mobile unit departing New York.

August 31, 1950

XHTV (Canal 4, Mexico City)

First TV station in Mexico. Owned by the O’Farril family.

September 18, 1950

PRF-3 TV Tupi (São Paulo)

First TV station in Brazil. Owned by Assis de Chateaubriand.

October 24, 1950

Union Radio (Canal 2, Havana)

First TV station in Cuba. Owned by Gaspar Pumarejo.

December 18, 1950

CMQ Televisión (Canal 6, Havana)

Second TV station in Cuba. Owned by the Mestre brothers.

November 29, 1950

'A Vida Por Um Fio'

'Teatro Walter Foster' (TV Tupi São Paulo): First Brazilian 'teleplay'. Adaptation of 'Sorry, Wrong Number'. In the first years of television in Latin America, any drama formats were broadcast live.

March 21, 1951

XEWTV (Canal 2, Mexico City)

XEWTV-Canal 2 inaugural broadcast. Owned by the Azcárraga family.

October 17, 1951

LR3 Radio Belgrano TV (Buenos Aires)

First TV station in Argentina. The first televised event was 'El día de la lealtad peronista' ['Day of the Loyalty to Peronism']–featuring one of Eva Perón's final speeches.

July 17, 1952

'Doña Bárbara'

Teleplay based on the original by Rómulo Gallegos (XHTV, Mexico).

November 22, 1952

Televisora Nacional (Canal 5, Caracas)

First TV station in Venezuela.

June 27, 1952

'El derecho de nacer' (Film)

Premiere of 'El derecho de nacer', film adaptation of the radionovela written by Félix B. Caignet. Starring Jorge Mistral, Gloria Marín, and Martha Roth.

1952

'La Mentira' (Film)

'Film adaptation of the radionovela written by Caridad Bravo Adams. Starring Jorge Mistral, Marga López, Gina Cabrera, and Alberto González Rubio.

November 15, 1953

Radio Caracas Televisión

Second privately-owned TV station in Venezuela–concession granted to Empresas 1BC, the same business group that operated Radio Caracas since 1930.

June, 1954

Overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz

Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz is deposed–a CIA-sponsored 'coup d'etat'.

1955-56

'Historia de Tres Hermanas'

'Novela de continuidad'–one weekly episode. Written by Mercedes Antón. Remade as a daily telenovela in the 1960s: 'Historia de Tres Hermanas' (Venezuela) and 'Tres Destinos' (Argentina).

June 9, 1959

Premiere of 'Senda prohibida'

First daily telenovela, Monday to Friday, 6:30 pm. Sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive. Written by Fernanda Villeli. Starring Silvia Derbez.