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Originally Posted by Bobby Brady

Wow, I imagined south america getting TV much later. Todays spanish TV shows seem to be mostly "T"&"A" shots mixed into everything for kids and adults alike. I would love to see early broadcasts from spanish TV. Does anybody know if spanish broadcasts were always as sexual as they are today?
I would guess yes but perhaps with a little more good taste.

Here in Brazil we don't speak spanish, but portuguese.
However, the standard of TV programming here has been very low, lots of sexual stuff, but it is a little better now.
I don't know about the other latin-american countries, but the standard of programming here was very different on the early days of television. Very high level - Shakespeare plays, some short documentaries, lots of musical numbers, Quiz shows, cartoons for kids and sport broadcasting. I imagine that the standard for TV broadcasting here went downhill when the TV set began to became affordable to the masses of the poor and uneducated, no longer being just the rich people's toy it was in the begining. I also imagine that the "liberation" of the morality that happened around the world in the 60's played it's part as well.
Very little recording of the brazilian television of the 1950's exist today, because 90% of the programs were live staged, and most of the stuff that was recorded on film was destroyed on fires that plagued the TV stations in the 1960's ( believed cause of those fires is political motivation ), and also, many of the earlier TV stations, including the first one, went bankrupt and are no longer operating.