1. Controversies

2. References

Sonográfica is a record label based in Caracas, Venezuela. It has links with the Empresas 1BC, which also owns Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) and Radio Caracas Radio, among other business.

During the 1980s, it started to support Venezuelan musical talent, as the result of a naal decree known as "One for One", which required radio stations to play a Venezuelan song for every foreign song. In this way numerous Venezuelan artists like Ilan Chester, Maria Rivas, Daiquirí, Franco de Vita, Carlos Mata, Rudy La Scala, Yordano etc.

The label has always maintained a ferocious rivalry with its counterpart, the Cisneros Organisation, the producing company Rodven Discos and its affiliate, Sonorodven Distributors. Every release by the latter company resulted in a release from Sonográfica.

Sonográfica was solely a music-distributing company (as defined by their guarantee), the music coming from the pressing plant Sonoindustrial and which was often recorded in their own studio, Telearte Studios. Sonográfica's releases were so popular, that with their temporary alliances with Palacio and Velvet to encourage artists, they now only release music based on their catalog. Later, the decline in the music market meant that the business was sold to another company.

Sonográfica is still active, but it is far from being the business motivating national talent that it used to be, with the result that it has been affected by the increase in piracy and by the absence of a link with the Empresas 1BC, which provided support in their early days.

Sonografica was purchased by the company of Alvaro Veli to become Sonografica Music Digital operating from Madrid Spain and in the United States since 1995 to the present acquiring all the catalog of original masters of music in Caracas Venezuela under the brand Sonografica Music & Distribuidora Sonografica Digital.

Controversies

Sonográfica, along with its counterpart Rodven Discos, did not escape censure and controversy caused by many of its releases. Some examples include:

• In 1990, former President Carlos Andrés Pérez prohibited the playing on air of the Christmas song "La Gata Blanca" ("The White Cat"). Public opinion supposed that the prohibition, more than for its political content (it attacked two political figures), occurred because of two words which were spoken in the song.
• In 1991, the CD "Las Odas de Emilio Lovera" ("The Odes of Emilio Lovera"), produced by the comedian Laureano Márquez and interpreted by his colleague Emilio Lovera was vetted and those responsible for it were investigated by the Ministry of Transport and Communications. The reason given was that this album was offensive to the President, as well as to many other political figures.
• In 1994, after pop singer Ricardo Montaner fell out with his record label, Sonorodven, Sonográfica took him under their wing; this was the motive for a legal dispute between the two companies, and which increased the struggle that has been fought between them for over 14 years.

References

• Traffic albums
• Traffic and Weather
• Traffic and weather
• Traffic and Weather (song)
• Trafficator
• Trafficators
• Traffic barrier
• Traffic Bridge
• Traffic (broadcasting)
• Traffic Calming
• Traffic Checking
• Traffic Circle
• Traffic Code (US)
• Traffic collision reconstruction
• Traffic.com
• Traffic Cone Hotline
• Traffic congestion map
• Traffic (conservation programme)
• Traffic Control
• Traffic control
• Traffic Cops
• Traffic counter
• Traffic court
• Traffic Court
• Traffic crash