Calle 7

*Calle 7*
Calle 7
Created by	Daniel Sagüés
Starring	Jean Philippe Cretton; Martín Cárcamo; (seasons 1–4); Rodrigo del Real "Rigeo"; (season 3+); Karen Doggenweiler; (season 1); Valeria Ortega; (seasons 3–5; on Internet); Alain Soulat; (season 5+; on Internet)
Country of origin	Chile
Production
Production locations	TVN Studios; Santiago, Chile
Running time	120 minutes
Original release
Network	TVN
Release	January 12, 2009 –; May 31, 2013

Calle 7 was a Chilean television program, shown by TVN from Monday to Friday at 6 pm. It was last co-hosted by Alain Soulat and Lucia Covarrubias, and involved two teams of young adult contenders participating in unique challenges and performing arts to win a top prize at the end of the competition.

Early months

Calle 7 began airing on January 12, 2009, at 6 pm and was presented by Martín Cárcamo and Karen Doggenweiler. The program was aimed at youth and family area where a group of participants known as "Team Calle 7" danced and competed in several tests, where the winning team gave $100,000 Chilean pesos to a viewer. The changes began with the exit of Karen Doggenweiler, on February 20, 2009, because she went to host of another project at the station called, Todos a Coro, an adaptation to the British program from BBC, Last Choir Standing, that began airing in March 2009. However changes to the program became clear when the result on the ratings came out. The level of audience for Calle 7 was about 8 points, low compared to competition. Rumors of cancellation where everywhere, but lately ratings have shown Calle 7 beating the competition. In this re-formatting of the program, "the Team Calle 7" was divided in two teams (yellow and red) and competed in different contests to win points. The winners won great prizes, while the losers were suffering hard challenges.

Seasons

	Premiere	Finale	Winner	Runner-up	Number of contestants	Spirit of Calle 7
Season One	March 9, 2009	July 31, 2009	Francisco Puelles	Valentina Roth	27	Francisco Puelles
Season Two	August 3, 2009	January 29, 2010	Francisco Puelles	Felipe Camus	31	Felipe Camus
Season Three	March 15, 2010	June 5, 2010	Maite Orsini and Francisco Rodríguez	Camila Nash and Federico Koch	26	Alain Soulat
Season Four	June 7, 2010	November 13, 2010	Catalina Vallejos and Felipe Camus	Camila Nash and Francisco Puelles	22	Felipe Camus
Season Five	November 15, 2010	January 22, 2011	Catalina Vallejos and Philippe Trillat	Karen Paola and Juan Carlos Palma	20	Juan Pedro Verdier
Season Six	February 28, 2011	July 15, 2011	Romina Parraguirre and Juan Carlos Palma	Tamara Primus and Maximiliano Cruchaga	29	Katherina Contreras
Season Seven	July 18, 2011	November 10, 2011	Bárbara Hofmann and Federico Koch	Tamara Primus and Juan Carlos Palma		Claudio Valdivia
Season Eight	January 2, 2012	March 26, 2012	Romina Parraguirre and Charlie Bick	Jocelyn Medina and Claudio Valdivia		Nicole Ugarte
Season Nine	April 2, 2012	July 13, 2012	Fernanda Gallardo and Federico Koch	Jocelyn Medina and Juan Carlos Palma	20	Jacqueline Gaete
Season Ten	July 23, 2012	October 26, 2012	Fernanda Gallardo and Federico Koch	Jocelyn Medina and Charlie Bick	20	Felipe Camus
Season Eleven	November 5, 2012	February 15, 2013	Danae Vergara and Felipe Camus	Catalina Vallejos and Charlie Bick	25	Danae Vergara
Season Twelve	March 4, 2013	May 31, 2013	Fernanda Gallardo and Francisco Rodríguez	Catalina Vallejos and Stefano Ciaravino	23	Camila Nash

Note: In seasons six, seven and nine two finals were made, divided by gender. In seasons three, four, five and eight the final was contested between two couples.

Season 1

The first season premiered on March 2, 2009. On this season the cast of Calle 7 formed the yellow team as "Team Calle 7" and new participant formed "The Challengers" (red team). Competing every Tuesdays and Thursdays, the team with less score nominated one contestant of their own team and the Fridays one cast member was eliminated. The competition started on March 9 and the finale of the season was on July 31 and the winners was Francisco "Chapu" Puelles.

Season 2

The second season of Calle 7 began on Monday, August 3, 2009. The new competitors were presented, and called "Challenging team", they will team up to compete against the well known "Team Calle 7" that includes all cast members of the season one and the winner Francisco "Chapu" Puelles. The competition system is the same as the one utilized in the first season; on Mondays and Wednesdays, the two teams compete in three events, each worth 100, 200 and 300 points. The winner of those days is saved from competing in elimination, while the loser has to compete among themselves on Tuesdays and Thursdays to elect a nominated team member. The elimination competition was on Fridays, and the loser leaves Calle 7 for ever. The winners of this was again Francisco "Chapu" Puelles.

Season 3

Before the start of season three, there was a pre-season from February 1 to 26, the participants were divided in the yellow and red teams, which competed from Monday to Friday in three tests and the winning team earned a sum of money. The raised money was donated to the victims of the 2010 Chile earthquake. Finely the third season of Calle 7 began two weeks after at the end of the pre-season, in this period of time the program was not delivered due to the earthquake that struck the central-southern of Chile, becoming the March 15. This time the competition system was in mixed couples, but compete in the familiar yellow and red teams. The winners of this season were Maite Orsini and Francisco "Pancho" Rodríguez.

Season 4

The fourth season was premiered on June 7, 2010. Like the third season the system of the competition was in mixed couples. In October 2010 it was announced that former co-host Jean Philippe Cretton was replacing Martin Carcamo as the program's host. It was never mentioned that Martín Cárcamo left the program due to his contractual signing with Canal 13. The final was held on Saturday November 13, 2010 in primetime. Felipe Camus and Catalina Vallejos were the big winners winning $6.000.000 Chilean pesos.

Season 5

The season began on November 15, 2010, new participants were introduced as some of the known cast did not return. The style of competition is the same, the two teams contain the designated couples and the competitions are similar to previous seasons. This season, in addition to the award of six million Chilean pesos, the winning couple will get a zero km car.

Calle 7 OnLine

Calle 7 OnLine (also known as the "tiendita") is the satellite of Calle 7 delivered virtually through TVN's website from 18:00 to 19:00. It began broadcasting on Wednesday June 3, 2009 to be presented officially to all Chile on June 11, 2009 live on Calle 7, becoming the first program in a dual issue and live (television and the Internet) in Chile. The online program, which was led by Jean Philippe Cretton until he became the co-host of Calle 7, is a sort of online backstage where participants interact with viewers, who send their comments immediately through a chat system through the platform provided Cover It Live, and subsequently was formally led by Valeria Ortega a few days after Nicolas Opazo did, then made Ronny "Dance" Munizaga and from April 19, 2010 was taken up officially by Valeria Ortega.

Contestants timeline

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Contestants
Francisco P.	W	W	SF	F	Absent
Valentina R.	F	5th	Q	Absent				8th	Absent
Francisco R.	SF	9th	W	13th	Q	Absent						W
Felipe C.	13th	F	15th	W	6th	SF	A	SF	5th	4th	W	4th
Juan Pablo	18th	SF	SF	4th	5th	8th	Absent				6th	5th
Maite	A	10th	W	5th	Absent
Catalina	A	A	SF	W	W	Absent					F	F
Federico	A	A	F	11th	A	4th	W	A	W	W	SF	7th
Juan Carlos	A	A	17th	5th	F	W	F	12th	F	6th	A	A
Camila N.	Q	A	F	F	5th	13th	Absent			6th	SF	4th
Philippe	A	A	6th	8th	W	Q	Absent
Fernanda G.	Absent				SF	6th	Absent		W	W	7th	W
Romina P.	Absent					W	13th	W	Absent
Charlie	Absent						SF	W	SF	F	F	SF
Bárbara	Absent						W	Absent
Tamara	Absent				4th	F	F	Absent				17th
Jocelyn	Absent							F	F	F	A	A
Danae	Absent										W	A

References

La Movida No Pudo con su Debut Archived April 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
Martin Carcamo Interview