Canal A (previously known as ''Cadena Dos'') was a Colombian open television network launched on January 16, 1971, under the name ''Tele9 Corazón''.

History

TV9 Telebogotá (Teletigre), the first private television station in Colombia, began broadcasting on January 14, 1966. It was founded by

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, a journalist, politician, and businesswoman. It broadcast on channel 9 of the VHF band in Bogotá and could also be tuned in to the rest of Cundinamarca, Tolima and part of Huila. Due to its strong opposition to the corruption of the National Front, a coalition between the

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and

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parties that alternated power, the television channel was expropriated on January 2, 1971, and became administered by the State. TV9 Telebogotá changes its name to Tele 9 Corazón two weeks later, on January 16 of the same year. The station changes its name again on March 27, 1972. Its new name became Second Chain, and it began to increase its coverage with the installation of repeater stations at the national level in 1974. In 1979, due to the arrival of the televisión color to Colombia, temporarily changed its name to ''Segunda Cadena Color'', and again in 1984 as ''Cadena Dos''. Finally, in 1992 it changed its name to ''Channel A''. This latest name change was made to encourage competition with its sister channel Cadena Uno, because since then the

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s had spaces on only one channel; Previously, the

s were assigned spaces indistinctly in both channels. Until 1998, together with Channel 1 and

Señal Colombia Señal Colombia is a Colombian public Terrestrial television, which offers opinion, informative, entertainment, educational, sports and cultural content and is part of RTVC Sistema de Medios Públicos. History Señal Colombia began its broadca ...

, they were the only television stations in the country with national coverage. However, the entry into operation of the private channels

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and RCN and the economic crisis at the beginning of the

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decade left Canal A and the Canal Uno without

s, who declared

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or became production companies. In 2003, RTI Televisión, the only remaining programmer on Channel A, moved to Channel One, thanks to a rescue plan for programmers in crisis, approved by the Comisión Nacional de Televisión on June 19 of the aforementioned year. After several months of broadcasting only the spaces of the state programming

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, on February 2, 2004, Canal A definitively closed its transmissions as a commercial public television channel, changing its name to Señal Colombia Institucional, with a political focus in its programming.

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(successor of

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, its operator) Television networks in Colombia Television channels and stations established in 1972 Television stations in Colombia Television channels and stations disestablished in 2004 {{Colombia-tv-stub

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