El Día (Chile)

El Día is a Chilean newspaper based in La Serena serving the Coquimbo Region.

El Día
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Antonio Puga y Cía Ltda.
EditorEleazar Garviso Galvez[1]
FoundedApril 1, 1944 (1944-04-01)
HeadquartersCalle Brasil 431
La Serena, Chile
Websitewww.diarioeldia.cl

History

El Día was founded by Pedro Vega Gutiérrez on April 1, 1944, with 1,200 copies of the first edition sold from a building at the corner of Calle Los Carrera and Calle Brasil in the center of La Serena. Antonio Puga Rodríguez acquired the newspaper in 1959, and his family continues to own it through the company, Antonio Puga y Cía Ltda. As of 2015, El Día had an estimated 55,000 daily readers.[2]

References

  1. "Diario el Día y Radio Montecarlo realizaron lanzamiento de programación para Municipales 2016". 19 October 2016.
  2. "70 años del Diario El Día" (PDF). anp.cl (in Spanish). Revista ANP. 23 August 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2019.


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