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Buscando la letra with Carmen Maida and Rodolfo Schaerer Peralta, were some of the most popular programs. Later, the main news program Hora 20 started, airing at 8pm, hosted by Héctor Velázquez and Susana Ibáñez Rojas. In 1966, the first "live telenovela" was broadcast, which was actually a televised play: Una noche en familia, with Mario Prono, Mercedes and Stella Marys Jané and 12-year old Luis D'Oliveira.
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In 2013, the channel adopted its current logo, with a more "solid" approach and with a logo that was less diluted in colors, as the logo used since the 90s was already deemed outdated and out of phase. SNT has been transmitting in high definition (HD) since April 2017, in a process that started with
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Argentina that year, coinciding with the opening of the Aregua Satellite Earth Station, which cemented Paraguay's connections to the outside world. In 1975, SNT started working on the affiliate in Encarnación (Itapúa) on channel 7, which started the following year and in 1980, in Presidente
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owned by a businessman with close links to the government, SNT remained in a hegemonical position. SNT was also financed by
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Sucesos Paraguayos, by Prisciliano Sandoval, and Paraguay al día (produced by Telefilm, 1968-1982), a sort of
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over the construction of the Itaipú dam, Goulart said "Will this air on
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from September 28, 1963, with investigations and support from those countries coming to Paraguay. The company was set up by 1963 by Carlos Morinigo Delgado, with the aim of receiving help from abroad and assist in its creation. While in the
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