Factoría de Ficción

Factoría de Ficción (lit. 'Factory of Fiction'; formerly Telecinco Estrellas and then FDF Telecinco) is a Spanish free-to-air television channel owned by Mediaset España.[1] It is a 24-hour channel and airs both acquired and original television series and films. It is available on free-to-air digital television, and cable television.[2][3][4]

For the defunct television channel operated between 2000 and 2007, see Factoría de Ficción (TV channel, 2000–2007).
Factoría de Ficción
CountrySpain
Broadcast areaSpain
Andorra
Programming
Language(s)Spanish
Picture format576i (16:9 SDTV)
Ownership
OwnerMediaset España
Sister channelsTelecinco
Cuatro
Boing
Divinity
Energy
Be Mad
History
Launched10 November 2005 (2005-11-10)
Former namesTelecinco Estrellas (30 November 2005–17 February 2008)
FDF Telecinco (18 February 2008–25 July 2009)

History

Gestevisión Telecinco launched the channel as Telecinco Estrellas on 30 November 2005, broadcasting drama and comedy programmes from around the world. The channel broadcast on Digital terrestrial television (DTT), as well as on satellite and cable.

On February 18, 2008, Gestevisión Telecinco relaunched the channel as FDF Telecinco,[5] reinstating the FDF brand previously associated with Factoría de Ficción, a specialty television channel which Gestevisión jointly operated with Grupo Antena 3 and the production company Globomedia from 2000 until 2007.[6] At the relaunch, the channel broadcast drama series of Gestevisión's own production or from its catalog of series acquired abroad.[5] On 25 July 2009, the channel was renamed Factoría de Ficción, a name it has kept since then.[7]

In November 2015 Mediaset España relaunched Energy as the company's second channel dedicated to television series, so FDF's programming began to focus on Spanish drama series and films, as well as some general entertainment programs, while most of the foreign series acquired by Mediaset España began to be broadcast on Energy.[8]

Programming

Factoría de Ficcion airs acquired television series, both international and local, most of them reruns of series previously aired on sister channels Cuatro and Telecinco.

The channel also used to broadcast TV series aimed at children, but in 2010, such programmes were moved to Boing, a new channel jointly launched by Gestevisión Telecinco and Turner Broadcasting System España.[9]

References
  1. "Quiénes somos?" (in Spanish). Mediaset España. 30 May 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  2. Rosario de Mateo, Laura Bergés, Rosario de Mateo Pérez, Laura Bergés Saura – Los retos de las televisiones públicas. Financiación, servicio ... 2009 – Page 68 "En este grupo se pueden incluir las sociedades Grupo Editorial Telecinco (gestión de derechos), Estudios Picaso Factoría de Ficción (producción audiovisual), Premiere Megaplex (salas de cine), Cinematext (subtitulado), Canal Factoría de Ficción ..."
  3. Verónica Baena Graciá Fundamentos de marketing: Entorno, consumidor, estrategia e ... 2011 – Page 159 "La nueva cadena completará así la estrategia de Telecinco en su familia de canales, compuesta actualmente por Cuatro, orientada al público joven; La Siete, una ventana al contenido de Telecinco y Cuatro; Factoría de Ficción, único canal ..."
  4. La industria audiovisual en España – Acadenmia de las Ciencias y las Artes de Televisión, Corporación Multimedia – 2010 Page 190 "Sin embargo, el operador siempre ha contado con una señal dedicada a la redifusión de sus series de producción propia -Telecinco Estrellas en origen y Factoría de Ficción en la actualidad-, uno de sus contenidos tradicionalmente más ..."
  5. "Telecinco reestructura su TDT con Telecinco 2 y FDF". Fórmula TV (in European Spanish). 15 February 2008. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  6. "Desaparece Factoría de Ficción". Espinof (in Spanish). 21 June 2007. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  7. "Telecinco estrena nueva imagen en Factoría de Ficción". Panorama Audiovisual (in Spanish). 24 July 2009. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  8. "Energy se transforma en el canal masculino de series USA". Vertele (in Spanish). 28 November 2015. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  9. "Boing, un nuevo canal de Telecinco dirigido a los niños y a los adolescentes Televisión". elmundo.es (in Spanish). 2 August 2010. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
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