El Radar

El radar was a Colombian current affairs programme broadcast on weeknights at 23:00 on Caracol TV.

El Radar
GenreNews and current affairs programme
Directed byDarío Fernando Patiño
Presented byJorge Alfredo Vargas
Darío Fernando Patiño
Country of originColombia
Original languageSpanish
Production
ProducerCaracol TV
Running time30 minutes with commercials
Release
Original networkCaracol TV
Original releaseApril 28, 2008 (2008-04-28)[1] –
December 2011 (2011-12)
Related
  • Mesa de noche

It was presented in April 2008 by Jorge Alfredo Vargas or its director Darío Fernando Patiño (before that its presenter was D'Arcy Quinn. Most episodes feature one, two, or three interviews with politicians, analysts, artists, businesspeople, etc. The interviewers are well-known Colombian journalists from radio, television, and print media.

Twice a week the comical duo Tola y Maruja appear to mock Colombian politics and society. Its section on El radar was nominated for the India Catalina award (part of the Cartagena Film Festival) for Best Journalism and/or Opinion Programme in 2008.[2]

On early 2009, its Monday time slot was filled with repeats of Séptimo día. During some weeks in May and June 2009 it was moved to 23:30 to make room for the Telemundo telenovela La novela basada en Sin tetas no hay paraíso, but after complaints from the viewers[3] (and jokes by Tola y Maruja during the programme),[4][5][6] it was returned to its initial time slot.

Regular interviewers
  • Paulo Laserna Phillips
  • Camilo Durán
  • Daniel Samper Ospina
  • Ernesto McCausland
  • Darío Arizmendi
  • María Emma Mejía
  • José Gabriel Ortiz
  • Paola Ochoa
  • Félix de Bedout
  • Javier Hernández Bonnet
  • María Elvira Samper
  • Yamid Amat Serna
  • Gustavo Gómez
  • Manuel Teodoro
  • Gustavo Duncan
  • Felipe Zuleta
  • Beatriz Gómez
  • Antonio Morales

Footnotes
  1. "EL RADAR, el nuevo programa periodístico del Caracol Televisión" (in Spanish). Farándula Criolla. 2008-04-21. Archived from the original on 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
  2. The nominations for the Catalina Indian have been made, Cartagena Film Festival
  3. Montoya Gómez, Óscar Darío (2009-05-26). "Definitivamente no me gusta…". Así lo veo (in Spanish). El Colombiano. Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
  4. "Tola y Maruja se despiden de 'El radar'". El radar (in Spanish). Caracol TV. 2009-06-11. Archived from the original on 2009-07-20. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
  5. "Tola y Maruja dejan carta de despedida". El radar (in Spanish). Caracol TV. 2009-06-16. Archived from the original on 2009-06-24. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
  6. "El regreso de Tola y Maruja". El radar (in Spanish). Caracol TV. 2009-06-30. Archived from the original on 2009-08-04. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
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