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''Canal Catorce'' (Channel 14, formerly known as ''Una Voz con Todos'') is a national public television network of
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
, operated by the
Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano (SPR). It began operations in 2012 and is distributed via the SPR's national digital transmitter network, as well as on all cable and satellite providers. It is based in
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...
.
History
The ''Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales'', or OPMA, was the predecessor to the SPR. It was founded with the aim of extending the breadth and depth of public television in Mexico. Two national-level public television stations were already on the air —
XEIPN-TV
Once (Eleven; formerly Once TV México and Canal Once) is a Mexican educational broadcast television network owned by National Polytechnic Institute. The network's flagship station is XEIPN-TDT channel 11 in Mexico City. It broadcasts across ...
, established in 1959, and
Canal 22
XEIMT-TDT, known as Canal 22, is a television station located in Mexico City. Broadcasting on channel 22, XEIMT is owned by Televisión Metropolitana, S.A. de C.V., and operated by the Secretariat of Culture. It is one of Mexico's principal pub ...
, established as public/cultural in 1993 — but they were not available outside Mexico City except through pay television and select programs carried by the public television stations in the various states, as well as Canal Once's few existing retransmitters. Outside Mexico City, XEIPN had a national penetration of 28%, and XEIMT had 22% reach.
Furthermore, in 2005, the
teveunam network (not to be confused with
XHUNAM-TDT
XHUNAM-TDT is a low-power digital television station operating on channel 20 in Mexico City, owned by and broadcasting from the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
History
XHUNAM began broadcasts on analog channel 60 o ...
) owned by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) began its broadcast as a Pay TV-only channel.
On March 31, 2010, an official decree published in the
Official Gazette of Mexico created OPMA.
OPMA created a new public television channel, initially called Canal 30 TV México, to serve as its flagship programming source. Initially, OPMA's first transmitters outside Mexico City
The first four transmitters for the system began operations in 2010. The Mexico City transmitter, XHOPMA-TDT (now
XHSPR-TDT
XHSPR-TDT is a television station in Mexico City, the flagship station for the Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano (SPR) transmitter system. It broadcasts on channel 30 from a transmitter atop Cerro del Chiquihuite; its primary ...
) channel 30, launched on March 23, 2012. With this new transmitter, the Canal 30 network launched. The name was changed to ''Una Voz con Todos'' in 2012 to reflect that outside Mexico City, it was usually on other channel numbers.
In October 2016, all SPR transmitters were assigned virtual channel 14 for Una Voz con Todos; as a result, cable providers, who are required to carry the channel, placed it on channel 14. On November 13, 2017, the name of the channel was changed to ''Canal Catorce'' (Channel 14) to reflect its over-the-air and cable channel position.
Programming
Programming on Canal Catorce is largely of a cultural and educational nature with the aim of strengthening democratic values in Mexican society.
In 2019, the SPR and Canal Catorce for the first time took the lead in producing coverage of
Independence Day events, which were aired on all Mexican television stations.
Sports
In January 2014, Una Voz con Todos acquired the rights to broadcast the
2014 Winter Olympics
, ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'')
, nations = 88
, events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines)
, athletes = 2,873
, opening = 7 February 2014
, closing = 23 February 2014
, opened_by = President Vladimir Putin
, cauldron =
, stadium = Fisht Olympic ...
and
Paralympics through a contract made between SEGOB and
América Móvil
América Móvil is a Mexican telecommunications corporation headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico. It is the 7th largest mobile network operator in terms of equity subscribers and one of the largest corporations in the world. América Móvil is a ...
.
Later that year, the SPR followed up by signing a deal with the same company to carry the
2014 Youth Summer Olympics
The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports ...
and the
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
. Una Voz Con Todos produced independent coverage of the event along with other public broadcasters. Since then Channel 14 thus has been serving as Mexico's principal home of Olympics coverage co-shared with Channel 11.
Transmitters
Since October 27, 2016, all
SPR transmitters carry the network on virtual channel 14.1.
In August 2017, the SPR began broadcasting Canal Catorce to the state of Morelos via a subchannel of IPN-operated
Canal Once
Once (Eleven; formerly Once TV México and Canal Once) is a Mexican educational broadcast television network owned by National Polytechnic Institute. The network's flagship station is XEIPN-TDT channel 11 in Mexico City. It broadcasts across ...
transmitter XHCIP-TDT, also using virtual channel 14.1.
References
External links
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{{Mexican broadcast television
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Television networks in Mexico
Public television in Mexico
Spanish-language television stations in Mexico