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Arte Radiotelevisivo Argentino (Artear) is an Argentine company owned by Grupo Clarín dedicated to production of television channels and content, with its flagship property being El Trece, as well as cable networks. Its content production center, inaugurated in 2017, became the most advanced in the country in both size and technology.[1]
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The company was founded in 1989, in order to take part in the bidding process for channels 11 and 13 of Buenos Aires (up until then part of the National State); on December 22, 1989, the license of LS 85 TV Canal 13 was granted to the company, which it still owns today.
Alongside the LS 85 TV license, Artear acquired all of the assets and became in charge of the staff which up until then was controlled by Proartel S.A. (Producciones Argentinas de Televisión), former company of Goar Mestre and associates, operator of Canal 13, which was put under state control in 1973 and liquidated by the National State in 1989 alongside the privatization of its license.
Among Proartel's assets was its facility at Cochabamba 1153, in the capital's Constitución neighborhood, where Artear currently has its headquarters and where the studios of most of its channels broadcasts from is located. According to what was published by Tiempo Argentino, this building over Cochabamba and with entrance from Lima 1261 is still part of the Argentine Natiional State. It was given to Artear 1989 by the state as a five-year condominium with an acquisition option. In 1994 Artear communicated to the State the ability of learning about the cost, but the company considered it to be too high and rejected the taxation held by the official organs, this operation was repeated several times, the company demanded a valuation of the bulding only to reject it later. The condominium period expired on January 12, 1995, but per a resolution from Secretaría de Medios de la Nación, Artear has the benefit of using the building for free, evaluated on September 16, 2009 at a cost of over 14 million pesos. Former staff of the Carlos Menem government, Guillermo Seita, established a limit for the condominium status “until the option process is finished”, which implies that until the State reaches an agreement with Artear, the company will continue occupying and using the building for free.[2]
Artear denied what Tiempo Argentino published and sustained that the building where the company is in was acquired by the buying option which established by the decree of granting the channel's license and that the land is given to Artear's name.[3]
On December 14, 1998, Artear and Radio Televisión Río Negro (operator of Canal 10 de General Roca agreed to form a Transitional Company Union (named «Radio Televisión Río Negro Sociedad del Estado LU 92 Canal 10 - Unión Transitoria de Empresas» and controlled by Artear at 85%) to operate the station and its 21 relay stations from January 1, 1999 and for a (minimum) period of ten years. As part of the agreement, the station's license continued in the hands of the Provincial State. On December 29, 1998, the Legislature of Río Negro Province ratified the agreement by means of Law 3276 (announced on January 14, 1999).[4] The TCU became in charge of the station's operations on March 10, 1999.[5]
On February 25, 2000, the company acquired 50,185% of the shares of Telecor S.A., owner of Canal 12 de Córdoba, which was owned by Sociedad Argentina de Medios S.A. and José María Buccafusca; in addition, on March 16 the same year, it also acquired 35% of the company's share package which was owned by Aron Braver and Francisco Quiñonero.[6] Finally, on November 11, it acquired Teledifusora Bahiense (owner of Canal 7 de Bahía Blanca) by means of acquiring the percentage which was owned by Carlos D'Amico and the acquisition of the share package of Imagen del Trabajo S.A. (absorbed by Artear on October 9, 2003). Both transactions were approved on April 5, 2016 by ENACOM.[7][8]
On July 4, 2007, Artear acquired Bariloche TV S.A. (licensee of Canal 6 and Radio Seis in San Carlos de Bariloche) for approximately US$ 1.1 million.[9] One day later, Artear sold 0,1% of the shares to GC Minor (another Clarín subsidiary). The transafer of Bariloche TV's shares to Artear and GC Minor was approved on April 5, 2016, almost nine years later.[10] On its behalf, on July 4, 2007, Teledifusora Bahiense acquired FM del Lago (also form Bariloche), which at the time was owned by Jorge Frettes; however, on December 17 the same year, such station was put at the hands of Radio Mitre.[11]
In November 2008, it became known that Río Negro's government would not renew its managing contract with Artear of Canal 10, and announced that such station would be controlled by the province again.[12] The management contract ended on March 10, 2009,[5] hwoever Artear retained the station's commercial management at a national level.[13]
In 2009, interferences affected El Trece's satellite feed, Todo Noticias and Radio Mitre, among other cable networks it owns. This happened on March 24-26 and May 5-6. The cause was due to "intermittent interference problems generated in an unintentional manner by the malfunctioning of a high-power amplifier operated by another respectable longtime Intelsat customer which used the IS-3R satellite, outside of Argentine territory".[14]
Per a 2011 Noticias Urbanas report, neighbors of the Constitución neighborhood denounced that Artear occupied a plot of land next to its headquarters since 2009 and is owned by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. The plot was annexed as a second private parking lot at Lima Street under the node of highways on 9 de Julio Avenue. After these denounces in June 2011, Artear and the city had signed an agreement to legalize the occupation.[15]
At noon on January 31, 2016, a fire happened at Artear's studios, located in Constitución, where the playout of its channels is located.[16] This forced the total evacuation of Artear's facilities, for which around 1:35pm., El Trece and Todo Noticias and the remaining channels, Quiero música en mi idioma, Magazine and Volver, left the air, even after being live.[17][18] According to reports, there were no injuries, and the origin of the fire happened at a utility quarter, which had affected some studios and offices in the building.[19] The channel resumed at 4:14pm, with the broadcast of Almorzando con Mirtha Legrand from Mar del Plata, which had been interrupted live.[20] However, a few minutes later, its signal failed, being later re-established. Todo Noticias resumed after 4:30pm, in an emergency broadcast outside the building,[21] as well as a message given by Minister of National Security Patricia Bullrich on the site of the fire.
On January 1, 2020, Artear joined Agencia Informativa Latinoamericana.
On July 22, 2021, Grupo Clarín sold 99% of the shares of Bariloche TV and its media assets (Canal 6, Radio Seis and three news portals) to Televisión Litoral S.A., owner of Canal 3 de Rosario, and 1% a Margarita Scaglione for a ottal sum of US$ 600.000.[22][23][24]
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Over-the-air television stations
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- 1 Artear is the shareholder of the licensee (Telecor S.A.C.I.) with 85,185%, while Francisco Quiñonero owns the remaining percentage of the share package.
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1994-2008
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- Pol-Ka Producciones: Producer of television content founded by Fernando Blanco and Adrián Suar. It specializes in fiction. Currently Artear owns 55%.[25]
- Patagonik Film Group: Film production company. Artear owns 33%.[26]
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