The October 28, 1956, he was born the tv Spain in a building, now closed, located in madrid, Paseo de La Habana. Gabriel Arias-Salgado, minister of Information and Tourism, was on hand to inaugurate the first issue of TVE. He did so by repeating his speech until in three occasions due to the nerves of the cameras that were not able to shoot well your intervention. The dictator Franco did not want to go to the first set because he did not trust too much in that “box” were to one day have success.

Who were at that time with a tv in their homes were extremely privileged. The speech of Arias Salgado, in fact, could only be followed by the 600 television sets in Madrid. And is that the price of this appliance was prohibitive: each drive to cost about 30,000 pesetas on average, a real fortune for the time. The sixtieth birthday of television in Spain may be held for sixty moments, unique and unrepeatable as that we have selected.

The first moments (1956)

The assassination of Kennedy (1963)

The family Telerín (1964)

Carmen Sevilla and Philips (1965)

pump Palomares (1966)

Catalan in TVE with Serrat (1968)

Martin Luther King killed (1968)

Massiel gana Eurovisión (1968)

the arrival of The man on the Moon (1969)

Second victory in the Eurovision song contest (1969)

Spaniards, Franco is dead (1975)

A dictator dead, king (1975)

The man and the earth (1977)

The first elections (1977)

The return of Tarradellas (1977)

The referendum on the Constitution (1978)

for The first time Mechano (1979)

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