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RCN Studios: strategic evolution in Europe

RCN Studios is highlighting its ongoing transformation and enhanced market position as it prepares for a significant presence at key summer content markets in Europe, including Content Warsaw, NEM Croatia, NATPE Budapest, and Conecta Fiction this June. The company, traditionally known as a broadcaster, is now emphasizing its expanded role as a multiplatform content producer.

Alexander Marín, head of RCN Studios, articulated the company’s current standing. ‘This is just the beginning of what comes next’, stated, noting that four years of investment and dedicated work have led to an ‘enhanced market position, not just as a broadcaster but as a powerhouse of successful multiplatform content’. He pointed to the presence of SVoD executives and the talent brought from Colombia, the U.S., and other countries as confirmation of their evolution, describing it as ‘a pivotal moment in the company’s history’.

Juan Pablo Posada, VP of Content Production, underscored the company’s increased output. ‘We are currently producing eight projects annually in our studios’, confirmed. He detailed recent productions: in 2024, they delivered two fiction series and two reality shows for RCN, along with Manes, Betty: 20 Years Later, and Top Chef for Amazon Prime, and an additional project for Netflix. Looking ahead, Posada also indicated that 2025 will see new seasons of these shows, stating the company has the capacity to maintain or even increase this volume.

And Andrés Posada, Production Manager, provided insight into their operational strategy. He highlighted the studio’s specialization in ‘producing more with less, delivering top-tier projects at a fraction of the standard cost in developed markets’. Furthermore, he noted a commitment to sustainability, exemplified by ‘replacing traditional power generators with solar panels’. The studio is also leveraging tax incentives, such as Colombia’s 25% reimbursement program, a strategy intended to drive efficiency and growth.

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DARÍO, el rey del despecho

Darío’s life is marked by tragedy. At 17, he accidentally kills his father, and a witch curses him to lose everyone he loves and die alone. Burdened by this fate, Darío moves to Medellín to pursue his musical dream, facing adversity, enemies, and the loss of loved ones. His pain becomes his greatest inspiration, leading him to become the one and only King of Heartbreak.

I Loved a Rose (100×60′):

Pars discovers that his biological father is alive and enters a completely new world as «Akabey.» Although he still remembers Gül, who left him because he was poor, he decides to marry Asya, a stranger, to settle a family dispute. He leaves his humble life in Adana and moves to the opulent Istanbul, where he faces rejection from his new family. Asya becomes his greatest support, falling in love with him from the very beginning. Torn between a love from the past and the present, Pars must heal old, deep wounds as he searches for a new beginning.

La Sustituta (51×60′):

Eva Cortés begins working as a maid in the home of Victoria de Urquijo, a tormented woman haunted by the memory of a past tragedy that occurred in the house. There, Eva endures her employer’s brutal mistreatment with stoic patience, while secretly plotting against her. Using psychological manipulation, she begins to infiltrate Victoria’s disturbed mind, driven by a dark purpose that remains shrouded in mystery. Meanwhile, young and talented psychiatrist Mabel Calderón becomes obsessed with finding her missing patient, Berta Ríos, who vanished under strange circumstances, leaving behind only an unidentifiable corpse. Soon, the twisted secrets of the Urquijo House and Mabel’s investigation will collide dangerously, triggered by a coincidence that puts the lives of all three women at risk.

RCN Estudios

We are a content generation company based in entertainment. We produce high quality audiovisual content for the national and international market. Our digital ecosystem has more than 13 million monthly users in our portals and more than 250 thousand users on mobile apps, which consume more than 60 million page views and more than 138 million views of our video content.

We also have 2 television channels in Colombia (RCN Nuestra Tele, RCN HD2) and 3 international channels (Nuestra Tele Internacional, RCN Novelas and NTN24). On social networks, more than 80 million people follow us and subscribe to our channels, so we have a reach, in Colombia, of approximately 37 million people per month with a coverage of 71% of the Colombian population.

Our trajectory of more than fifty years in the television industry, has established us as a benchmark in the production of great stories such as “Yo soy Betty, la fea”, “Café, con aroma de mujer”, “La viuda de la mafia”, “Hasta que la plata los separe”, “Los Reyes”, “Pura sangre”, “A corazón abierto” “Rosario Tijeras” and “Amor sincero” among many others.

RCN productions have reached more than 180 countries, we produce more than 3,600 hours of fictional content per year, and we have the capacity to simultaneously produce 5 series or telenovelas, 3 entertainment programs and 3 live interviews, as well as news and sports. We have one of the largest catalogs in the industry in Latin America, which exceeds 19 thousand hours.

At RCN we have 45 AVID editing rooms, 10 audio rooms, 5 mobile units with state-of-the-art equipment, which place the production company at the forefront of technology to produce content with the highest quality standards. We also have the invaluable legacy of the unpublished works of one of the greatest writers in Latin American television: Fernando Gaitán.

RCN Studios: strategic evolution in Europe

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DARÍO, el rey del despecho

I Loved a Rose (100×60′):

La Sustituta (51×60′):

RCN Estudios

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Luisa Fernanda Pérez

Lina Maria Waked

Maria Lucía Hernández Frieri

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