Alberto Gollán is an Argentine

Argentina

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 media businessman from Rosario

Rosario

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, province of Santa Fe

Santa Fe Province

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. He is the head of Televisión Litoral S.A., the largest media conglomerate in Argentina outside Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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, which includes the local TV channel Canal 3, and the radio stations LT2 (Radio Dos), FM Vida, and Radio Cataratas. Gollán started Televisión Litoral S.A. in 1965.

Gollán was the mayor

Mayor

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 of Rosario for four months, between 18 May and 23 September 1971, during the military dictatorship presided by Alejandro Agustín Lanusse

Alejandro Agustín Lanusse

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.

After the coup d'état of 1976 that deposed Isabel Martínez de Perón

Isabel Martínez de Perón

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 and started the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional, he continued to support the military government. In a reception held on 1976-12-28 in the Officers' Mess

Mess

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, Gollán spoke to Commander of the 2nd Army Corps Leopoldo Galtieri

Leopoldo Galtieri

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 in the name of the press: "We are proud to be able to stand by you and the force you represent in the task you are undertaking. We the journalists will always support this labor."

Through Televisión Litoral, Gollán started in 1977 the Ibero-American Advertising Festival (Festival Iberoamericano de Publicidad

Festival Iberoamericano de Publicidad

Festival Iberoamericano de Publicidad was created in 1969 by Alberto Gollán - a pioneer of Argentine Television. The objective of this first Spanish and Portuguese-speaking advertising festival, has been since then, to promote and integrate the communication of the region.The globalization of the...

, or FIAP), which has continued to be celebrated annually, with the participation of producers from Spain, Portugal and several Latin American countries.

On 2005-03-15 Gollán was awarded an honorary membership of the Order of the British Empire

Order of the British Empire

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, which was delivered by British

United Kingdom

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Ambassador John Hughes, "for his service, because he is a friend of the British Embassy and visitors". Gollán is the First Vice-Deacon of the Consular Corps of Rosario and the Honorary Consul of the United Kingdom.