Back in high school our Spanish teacher required us to watch a certain
amount of Spanish TV. I'd almost always choose Sabado Gigante because it
was just so insane and random. If the games ever had rules, I was never
able to understand them. Just a couple hours of people having fun.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:08 AM, David Lynch <[email protected]> wrote:

> The story en español from Univision News
> <http://noticias.univision.com/article/2306271/2015-04-17/estados-unidos/noticias/univision-anuncia-la-ultima-temporada-de-sabado-gigante?cmpid=444222>.
> My quick translation of the first couple paragraphs below.
>
> After 53 years on the air and almost 30 of them produced and broadcast in
> the United States, the popular program Sábado Gigante, hosted by Don
> Francisco, ends its successful run in September of this year. The
> entertainment division of Univision, the network which has presented the
> show since 1986 and which has brought it to more than 40 countries,
> announced that the final program of its run will be broadcast on the 19th
> of September, at the end of the 2014-2015 television season.
>
> Sábado Gigante is the longest-running entertainment program in the history
> of global television. Since 2001, when the show had completed 40 seasons,
> the show has been in the Guinness Book of World Records. Curiously, the
> origin of the show was a Sunday show, broadcast in August 1962.
>
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