Telediario is a flagship television news programme, produced by the Spanish public service broadcaster Televisión Española

Televisión Española

Televisión Española is the national state-owned public-service television broadcaster in Spain. TVE's activities were previously financed by a combination of advertising revenue and subsidies from the national government, but since it's been supported by subsidies only.TVE belongs to the RTVE...

 (TVE). Three news programmes a day are broadcast domestically on TVE1 and internationally on TVE Internacional

TVE Internacional

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. Special international editions of Telediario are also aired on TVE Internacional every day.

The term Telediario in Spain

Spain

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 has become synonym

Synonym

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ous with television news, with people saying 'put on the Telediario' when simply referring to news. "Le quedan dos telediarios" (he's got two news programmes left) is a common colloquial Spanish expression to suggest someone's days are numbered, either literally (about to die) or metaphorically (about to be removed from a position of responsibility).

Programme format

The programme is generally presented by a sole main newsreader with an additional sports news presenter. Most items will be made up of reports and are generally preceded and followed by the correspondent

Correspondent

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 reporting live (Directo) from the scene of the story. The 60-minute programme is followed by a weather report

Weather report

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 known as El Tiempo. The entire running time including El Tiempo is about 70 minutes.

The breakfast programme, Telediario Matinal, consists of a rolling news service and airs for two hours from 0700 CET.

Presenters and correspondents

Senior anchor Ana Blanco, a Telediario anchor since 1991, presents the afternoon edition (Telediario 1) at 1500 CET, with Jesús Álvarez presenting the sports section since 1989. Pepa Bueno and Sergio Sauca (sports) present the flagship evening bulletin at 2100 CET. Telediario Matinal is presented by Susana Roza and Ana Roldán with Desirée Ndjambo presenting the sports section. Weekend bulletins at 3pm and 9pm are presented by Marcos López and María Casado, with María Escario presenting the sports section.

Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano worked as a Telediario anchor before engaging and marrying Prince of Asturias

Prince of Asturias

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 Felipe de Borbón. Writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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 chronicled the Bosnian war

Bosnian War

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 for Telediario in his time as a TVE war correspondent

War correspondent

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Broadcast times

The programme is broadcast three times daily:

• 0700-0900 Telediario Matinal
• 1500-1600 Telediario 1
• 2100-2200 Telediario 2

The 9pm edition is broadcast head to head with the programme Antena 3 Noticias

Antena 3 Noticias

Antena 3 Noticias is the brand for Spanish broadcaster Antena 3's news programmes.-Programme format:The programme is generally presented by a single newsreader but with additional newsreaders for the sport. Most items will be made up of reports and are generally preceded and followed by the...

on former rival commercial network Antena 3

Antena 3 (Spain)

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. As of 2010, Telediario wins a larger audience share than Antena 3 Noticias. Since the removal of ads from TVE on January 1, 2010, Telediario lasts for more than 60 minutes, with El Tiempo adding about 10 minutes more after it, and its audience continued to grow even more.