Prado del Rey (studios) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Prado del Rey
Television building
General information
Town or city	Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid)
Country	Spain
Inaugurated	18 July 1964; 60 years ago (1964-07-18)
Owner	RTVE

Prado del Rey is the main office and production center for RTVE, which is Spain's public broadcasting company. This is where Televisión Española (TVE) and Radio Nacional de España (RNE) create many of their TV shows and radio programs. It's located in Pozuelo de Alarcón, a town near Madrid, Spain.

History

Prado del Rey opened its doors on 18 July 1964. It was built to replace TVE's first offices in Madrid. Francisco Franco, who was the leader of Spain at the time, and Manuel Fraga, the government's Minister of Information, officially opened the building.

When it first opened, Prado del Rey had three TV studios ready to use, and six more were being built. Studio 1 was very large, about 1,200 square meters. This made it the biggest TV studio in Europe back then! Soon, many shows and TV series started being made there. However, the main news program, Telediario, and its news teams did not move in until 1967. In 1971, the main offices for Radio Nacional de España (RNE) also moved to a nearby building called Casa de la Radio.

On 13 November 1983, the last Telediario news report was broadcast from Prado del Rey. This was because TVE's news services, which were in the basement of the Casa de la Radio, moved to a new place. They moved to the Torrespaña complex in Madrid, which is at the base of a tall communications tower. Today, the main control room for TVE, the central newsroom, the 24 Horas news channel, Telediario, and Informe Semanal are all located at Torrespaña. However, in 2019, a plan was approved to move them back to Prado del Rey, starting in late 2021.

Buildings

Television building

The Television building is where Televisión Española (TVE) creates its TV content. It has six television studios and all the rooms needed for production, like dressing rooms and control rooms.

Casa de la Radio

This building holds the main studios for Radio Nacional de España (RNE). It also stores RNE's old recordings and documents, which are called the Historical Archives. These are kept separate from TVE's archives. The basement of this building used to be where TVE's news teams worked before they moved to Torrespaña in 1983.

Corporation Building

This building is where the main offices for the entire RTVE company are located. It's where the administrative work happens.

Archive Building

The Archive Building is where the Historical Audiovisual Archive of TVE is kept. This is a collection of old TV shows, news reports, and other video and audio recordings from TVE. It is separate from RNE's archives.

Production trucks Building

This building stores all the special technical equipment used for TVE's broadcasts. This includes things like outside broadcast trucks and cameras used for live events away from the main studios.

Gallery

See also

In Spanish: Estudios de Prado del Rey para niños