Puerto Rico’s first Public TV Station celebrates 50 Years!

Puerto Rico’s first public television station, TUTV (WIPR-TV), announced the station’s evolution to high definition digital production, with the inauguration of modern, state-of-the-art facilities.

“Our operations have always been at the forefront of innovation,” said Víctor J. Montilla, President of the Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corporation. “When we opened in 1958, our educational mission and our commitment to content excellence set us apart from other stations. Now, half a century later, we are leading the way, as the first station in Puerto Rico ready to record and broadcast in digital high definition.”

At a cost of 28 million dollars, the new facilities -which include an electronic room, master controls, three studios, studio controls, antennas, and cameras in Hato Rey and Mayagüez-, set a new technological standard for production and broadcasting in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.

At the press conference for the launch, which also launched the beginning of Television Week, an annual celebration of television media in the island, Montilla, accompanied by Carlos Ríos, President of the Board of Directors, pressed the symbolic button that would launch TUTV into the digital era.