Once Niñas y Niños (''Eleven Girls and Boys'') is a Mexican children's television network owned by the

Instituto Politécnico Nacional The National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico ( es, Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México; ), abbreviated IPN, is one of the largest public universities in Mexico with 171,581 students at the high school, undergraduate and postgraduate level ...

. It is a companion to the

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 ...

public television network. Once Niñas y Niños is broadcast as a subchannel on the IPN's Canal Once transmitters and is a required channel for carriage on all pay television systems in Mexico; it also airs a programming block of children's programs on the main Canal Once channel.

History

Canal Once launched Once Niños as its first digital subchannel on August 24, 2015. The channel would serve as an extension of the main channel's original children's programming for children between the ages of four and twelve; overnight, between midnight and 6am, it would not air programming, but instead an image inviting kids to go to sleep. The name was modified from ''Once Niños'' to ''Once Niñas y Niños'' on January 15, 2020, as part of an initiative to promote gender parity; the name in Spanish had previously read ''Eleven Boys''.

Coverage

Once Niñas y Niños is available on the entire IPN-owned transmitter network, though not from SPR transmitters. It is also available as a subchannel of

XHZHZ-TDT XHZHZ-TDT is a television station on channel 24 in Zacatecas, Zacatecas, operated by the (Zacatecan Radio and Television System, SIZART), a branch of the state government. The station is colocated with XHZH-FM 97.9 at the Instituto Zacatecano ...

, the state-owned television station in the state of

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References

{{IPN Television networks in Mexico Public television in Mexico Instituto Politécnico Nacional Spanish-language television stations in Mexico 2015 establishments in Mexico Children's television networks