Radionovela

[1] Radionovelas are typically melodramas or soap operas which are issued in chapters, in contrast to other radio dramas which may encompass different genres and are often broadcast as individual works, such as The War of the Worlds.

[2] With the advent of television, the radionovela began to be displaced by the telenovela, while the Internet allows for a renewal of the genre in the form of the "MP3 saga [fr]" (most notably in the French-speaking world).

In addition to El siniestro Doctor Mortis [es], a creation of Eva Martinic and Juan Marino, Eduardo Calixto is considered a pioneer of radio stories in Chile, through his work ¡Hogar, dulce hogar!

[3] The communications center Voces Nuestras produced a series of radio dramas with a political and educational approach within a traditional melodramatic package.

Likewise, Félix B. Caignet's magnum opus El derecho de nacer [es] holds an abiding place in sentimental memory, perhaps owing its longevity to television adaptations which have been made in several Latin American countries.

The first radionovela in Mexico, The Three Musketeers, was transmitted by XEW in 1932, but it was not until 1941, with Ave sin nido (Bird Without a Nest), the exciting life of Anita de Montemar, that this radio genre gained momentum and began to transmit up to five radionovelas a day – which, as in the United States, were sponsored by manufacturers of soap, perfume, and cleaning products.

Spanish stations which pioneered the broadcasting of popular and historically important serials at the national level were Cadena SER and Radio Nacional de España (RNE).

[11] Among the jewels of Radio Nacional de España was an adaptation of the novel El viaje a ninguna parte [es], a radionovela which was recorded and broadcast in 1983.

In 1930 the first acting troupes led by Concepción Olona and the husband and wife team Pedro Becco and Teresa Lacanau adapted classics of international literature.