Puerto Rico. Wapa Televisión will host the eleventh Annual Assembly of the Latin American Information Alliance, AIL, to be held for the first time in San Juan, Puerto Rico. From April 5 to 8, the Hotel San Juan will be the venue that will receive the members of the Latin American countries that make up the Alliance, as well as the representatives of the European News Exchange, ENEX, and the North American network CBS.
Juan Carlos Isaza, director of AIL, told TVyVideo+Radio that among the main news from the continent that were covered by Alliance channels were:
- Chapo Enero captures
- Visit Pope Mexico February
- Viña del Mar Festival February
- Elections Peru April
- Earthquake Ecuador April
- Impeachment Dilma April, May, August
- Second round Peru
- Inauguration of the Panama Canal June 26
- Olympic Games August 5 to 21
- Death Juan Gabriel – August 28
- Peace Signing Colombia – September 26
- ELECTIONS USA November 8
"During these events the local stations provided the rest of the members of the organization with all the support in terms of production and content, offering live satellite signals, fully produced reports, general video material of each news and the human team such as cameramen, journalists, editors, engineers and producers to cover the requests made by the different members of the organization, "- Highlighted.
According to its Director, for 2017 the Latin American Information Alliance has committed to work on three integration fronts:
To. With the support of the LiveU company, the Information Alliance has the goal of completing the implementation of a LiveU AIL community which will allow all stations an unprecedented connectivity integration in the region, allowing participants to receive video signals generated by more than 60 LIveU units located throughout the continent and the Caribbean with a multi-point distribution.
B. That the digital platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Periscope) of the stations that make up the Alliance are integrated, in the same way that they have already done at the level of transmission of their newscasts.
C. Sign cooperation agreements with third parties outside the Alliance that can contribute news content that joins the information service that the Alliance delivers to its twenty-one television stations.
The AIL is a non-profit organization that integrates 21 private television channels, which share news information and resources with each other in order to disseminate them immediately.
The media that make it up are: TV Azteca and Proyecto 40 of Mexico; TV Azteca of Guatemala; Channel Six of El Salvador; Teletica of Costa Rica; TVN and TVMAX of Panama; Aruba's ATV Channel 15; Venevisión of Venezuela; Ecuavisa of Ecuador; Telefuturo of Paraguay; Channel 11 of Honduras; Latina from Peru; UNITEL of Bolivia; TeleFe of Argentina; Megavision of Chile; Monte Carlo Television of Uruguay; Grupo SIN from the Dominican Republic, Bandeirantes from Brazil, Wapa Televisión from Puerto Rico, CBS from the United States and Caracol Televisión from Colombia.
