Controversies
Although the television channel is declared as pluralistic and independent critics call it a be a pro-government channel shift in its editorial. Thus, during the government of Salvador Allende and the authoritarian military regime of General Augusto Pinochet, Televisión Nacional was considered by critics as a means of propaganda. This is evident, with programmes like "Avanzada cultural anfi-fascista" and the transmission of speech by the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro at the Estadio Nacional during the leftist UP government, and military government as the 60 Minutos news programme, the International Festival Viña del Mar song, Porque Hoy es Sábado and the game matches of Colo Colo football soccer team, among others. Since the restoration of democracy in 1990, critics swindeled.
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