We travel back in time to find out about the new RTVE contest. It is one of the longest-lived on television, since it was broadcast for almost 20 years.
Even without a heifer, the RTVE Grand Prix contest is being one of the most successful open programs this summer. RTVE knows that nostalgia always sellsand that is why it has rescued from oblivion another of its most mythical contests, released in 1991. We talk about the longed for Ciphers and letters.
If you are over 20 or 30 years old, surely you have ever seen some program of Ciphers and letters. The mythical contest, presented by Elisenda Roca It premiered in 1991 on La 2, and was broadcast until 1996. It then went on to the regional channels FORTA (Telemadrid, Canal Sur 2, Televisión Canaria and TVG) and other regional channels, where it remained between 2002 and 2013. You can see a program here.
A decade later, RTVE recover Ciphers and lettersas revealed The Digital Confidential, via Hobbyconsolas.com.
The new contest Figures and letters in 2023
Apparently, RTVE has reached an agreement with the production company We’ll see to recover the emission rights of Ciphers and letters.
But it will not be Elisenda Roca who presents it, but Aitor Albizuawho also conducts the contest the joker in the 1.
Ciphers and letters will return in 2023 in La 2from Monday to Thursday to compete in the schedule of the anthill and The intermediate, two other inexhaustible television classics in Spain.
In case you don’t know him Ciphers and letters is a cultural contest in which tests alternated with figures, and others with letters.
The number tests consisted of getting a number, using different ones and basic mathematical operations. The contestant who got the closest, won the round.
The letter tests focused on making the longest word possible, with certain letters that you can combine.
We don’t know if the new edition will keep the same mechanics, or will “modernize” it.
The mythical RTVE contest, Figures and Letters, returns to La 2 in 2023. Public television uses nostalgia to improve its audience ratings. We are glad that it is with a cultural and intelligent program.