Events

14 February – The show El Irreal Madrid, directed by Valerio Lazarov, wins the Golden Nymph Award in the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.^[1]
22 February – Salomé is selected to represent Spain at the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest with her song "Vivo cantando". She is selected to be the ninth Spanish Eurovision entry during Festival de la canción española held at Teatro Balear in Palma De Mallorca.
29 March – The 14th Eurovision Song Contest is held at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Spain shared the win of the contest, in a four-way tie with the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and France. Salomé represents Spain, singing Vivo cantando.^[2]
20 July: TVE broadcasts Neil Armstrong's arrival to the moon, commented by Jesús Hermida, Spanish correspondent in New York City.^[3]
8 November: Adolfo Suárez is appointed Director General of RTVE.^[4]

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English title	Spanish title	Original title	Channel	Country	Performers
Arrest and Trial	Arresto y juicio	–	La 2	USA	Ben Gazzara, Chuck Connors
Atom Ant	La hormiga atómica	–	La 1	USA
Cain's Hundred	Yo fui criminal	–	La 2	USA	Peter Mark Richman
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines	El Escuadrón diabólico	–	La 1	USA
Gentle Ben	Mi oso y yo	--	La 1	USA	Clint Howard
It Takes a Thief	El ladrón sin destino	–	La 1	USA	Fred Astaire
Kimba the White Lion	Kimba, el león blanco	Janguru Taitei	La 1	JAP
Land of the Giants	Tierra de gigantes	–	La 1	USA	Gary Conway
Star Trek	La conquista del espacio	--	La 2	USA	William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy
Stingray	El meteoro submarino	--	La 1	UK
Strange Report	Enemigos del crimen	–	La 1	UK	Anthony Quayle
Tarzan	Tarzán	–	La 1	USA	Ron Ely
The High Chaparral	El Gran Chaparral	–	La 2	USA	Leif Erickson

^ "Ninfa de Oro para El Irreal Madrid de TVE" (in Spanish). diario ABC. 15 February 1969.
^ Redaction (28 March 2009). "Hace cuarenta años ganamos Eurovisión con Salomé" (in Spanish). eurovision-spain.com. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
^ RTVE.es (16 July 2009). "Jesús Hermida y RTVE.es rememoran la llegada del hombre a la Luna" (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
^ Álvarez Gallardo, Beatriz (24 March 2014). "Adolfo Suárez: una vida dedicada a la política" (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 20 May 2014.

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