# CPT (programadora) > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/CPT_(programadora) > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/CPT_(programadora).md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPT_(programadora) > Source revision: 1223442788 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **CPT** (Compañía Productora de Televisión) was a Colombian *[programadora](/source/Programadora)* that operated in several incarnations from 1979 to 2003. ## Producciones Eduardo Lemaitre y Cía. (1979–1988) The company started under the name *Producciones [Eduardo Lemaitre](/source/Eduardo_Lemaitre) y Cía Ltda.* in 1979. In the *licitación* of that year, it received a paltry 1 1⁄2 hours a week of programming. The flagship program of this *programadora*, which aired in one of Colombian television's best timeslots (Sundays, 8pm, [Primera Cadena](/source/Canal_Uno)), was *Revivamos nuestra historia* (Let's Revive Our History). Since Lemaitre lived in [Cartagena](/source/Cartagena,_Colombia) (and since most of the national television infrastructure was and is centered in [Bogotá](/source/Bogot%C3%A1)), [Promec Televisión](/source/Promec_Televisi%C3%B3n) produced the programs (but Lemaitre had final approval of the scripts and contents). Promec also marketed the other half-hour a week that this *programadora* was allocated (Friday 5pm, [Cadena Dos](/source/Canal_A); originally home to the program *Debates Lemaitre*, it soon was replaced with [The Pink Panther Show](/source/The_Pink_Panther_Show). In the *licitación* of 1983, in which Lemaitre received 3.5 hours a week, *Revivamos nuestra historia* (renamed in 1985 to *Revivamos la historia*) moved from 8pm to 8:30pm (directly after Noticiero Promec), where it would remain until its cancellation in 1987 due to high program costs. Other programs in this time period included *Telesemana* with [Jota Mario Valencia](/source/Jota_Mario_Valencia) on Saturday mornings, then on Saturday afternoons in conjunction with [Producciones Cinevisión](/source/Producciones_Cinevisi%C3%B3n); a spinoff of *Revivamos nuestra historia* known as *Revivamos Nuestra Historia Universal* featuring world history topics; and a Saturday afternoon sports news program called *Deportevé con Oscar Rentería*. The *licitación* of 1987 awarded Lemaitre 4 hours a week, used to broadcast shows like the TV series *Genghis Khan* , the journalistic program *Nuestro Colombia*, *Grandes Series Mundiales*, and the animated *El Correcaminos*. Lemaitre also teamed up with Promec in another area: the programming of movies for holidays (*festivos*), beginning in 1984 and continuing through 1991. In 1988, Producciones Eduardo Lemaitre was sold to Humberto Arbeláez, the founder of Promec. Under his direction, the *programadora* took on a new name: CPT (Compañía Productora de Televisión). ## CPT (1988–1993) This first incarnation of CPT inherited Lemaitre's four hours a week of programming, plus it continued to program *festivos*. Most of the programs stayed. Debts piled up, and CPT (like Promec and Gegar Televisión) did not place a bid in the *licitación* of 1991, exiting television in August of that year. CPT however did come back briefly in 1992–93 to program *festivos* on Canal A. ## CPT (1997–2003) In 1997, the dead CPT was acquired by Fernando Barrero Chávez, Gustavo Castro Caicedo and Francisco José Pereira,[1] placing a bid in that year's *licitación*. It was awarded 9.5 hours a week on Canal A, airing programs including *Sexo Sentido con Lucía Nader*, the [War of the Worlds](/source/War_of_the_Worlds_(1988_TV_series)) TV series, and [Todo por la Plata](/source/Todo_por_la_Plata), transferred from [DFL Televisión](/source/DFL_Televisi%C3%B3n). It also partnered with [Andes Televisión](/source/Andes_Televisi%C3%B3n) to air the *Premier [Caracol](/source/Caracol_TV)* movie for the first seven months of 1998. (Caracol was not awarded any timeslots on Saturday prior to becoming a private channel; [Sábados Felices](/source/S%C3%A1bados_Felices) was being presented by [Coestrellas](/source/Coestrellas), CPS and [Proyectamos Televisión](/source/Proyectamos_Televisi%C3%B3n).) CPT, however, did not receive a news license, for which it had bid.[2] By 2001, CPT, amidst the rapidly growing *programadoras* crisis, had fallen under *Ley 550*, Colombia's then-bankruptcy reorganization law.[3][4] It would leave the air in 2003. ## References 1. ["Programadoras podrían quedar fuera del aire"](http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-617171) (in Spanish). El Tiempo. 22 September 1997. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20150603235308/http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-617171) 2015-06-03 at the Wayback Machine. 1. ["Quiénes están tras los noticieros de TV"](http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-625948) (in Spanish). El Tiempo. 17 August 1997. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20150603233120/http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-625948) 2015-06-03 at the Wayback Machine. 1. ["Programadoras en crisis"](http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-582929) (in Spanish). El Tiempo. 23 March 2001. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20150603233546/http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-582929) 2015-06-03 at the Wayback Machine. 1. ["Más empresas se acogen a Ley 550"](http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-440325) (in Spanish). El Tiempo. 17 July 2001. 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