Once (Eleven; formerly Once TV México and Canal Once) is a Mexican educational broadcast television network owned by
National Polytechnic Institute
National may refer to:
Common uses
* Nation or country
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Places in the United States
* National, Maryland, ...
. The network's
flagship station is
XEIPN-TDT channel 11 in
Mexico City
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. It broadcasts across Mexico through nearly 40 TV transmitters and is required carriage on all Mexican cable and satellite providers. The network also operates an international feed which is available in the
United States
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and
Venezuela
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via satellite from
DirecTV
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and
CANTV
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, via online from VEMOX,
VIVOplay and also on various cable outlets, on "Latino" or "Spanish" tiers. Most of its programs are also
webcast through the
Internet
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, though its programming is not the same as the actual broadcasters or satellite signal.
History
The network began broadcasting on March 2, 1959, when its flagship station became the first non-profit educational and cultural television station in Mexico, owned and operated by a Mexican institution of higher education.
The television channel was conceived by
Alejo Peralta y Díaz, the director of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional between 1956 and 1959, and supported by his successor
Eugenio Méndez Docurro
Eugenio Méndez Docurro (April 17, 1923 – August 23, 2015) was a Mexican engineer and politician. He served as the Secretary of Communications and Transportation from 1970 to 1976 during the administration of former President Luis Echeverría. ...
, as well as
Secretary of Communications and Transportation Walter Cross Buchanan
Walter may refer to:
People
* Walter (name), both a surname and a given name
* Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968)
* Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 1 ...
and
Jaime Torres Bodet
Jaime Mario Torres Bodet (17 April 1902 – 13 May 1974) was a prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three Presidents of Mexico.
Life
Torres Bodet was born in Mexico City. His mother was Emilia Bodet ...
,
Secretary of Public Education
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.
Its first broadcast was a
mathematics class transmitted from a small
television studio
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located at the
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, in the northern part of Mexico City.
In 1969, Canal Once was the first Mexico City TV station to relocate its transmitter to
Cerro del Chiquihuite
Cerro del Chiquihuite (Chiquihuite Hill) is a hill located in the north of Mexico City, in the borough of Gustavo A. Madero and bordering the municipality of Tlalnepantla de Baz in the State of Mexico. The hill has a height of above sea level a ...
, in order to improve its signal. It would later be joined on the mountain by most of Mexico City's other television stations as well as several radio broadcasters. Around this time, Canal Once converted to color. By the 1980s, it already had four of its own studios.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Once TV (as the network had been renamed in 1997) embarked on a two-pronged expansion strategy. The IPN built transmitters in cities such as
Cuernavaca
Cuernavaca (; nci-IPA, Cuauhnāhuac, kʷawˈnaːwak "near the woods", ) is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico. The city is located around a 90-minute drive south of Mexico City using the Federal Highway 95D.
The na ...
and
Tijuana
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(US) and [< ...]
in the late 1990s, and in the 2000s and early 2010s, it expanded to build in the states of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua. It also allied with state networks, such as those of
Guerrero
Guerrero is one of the 32 states that comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 81 municipalities and its capital city is Chilpancingo and its largest city is Acapulcocopied from article, GuerreroAs of 2020, Guerrero the pop ...
,
Nayarit
Nayarit (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nayarit ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Nayarit), is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 20 municipalities and its ...
and
Quintana Roo
Quintana Roo ( , ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 11 mu ...
, providing them with Once TV programs. The launch of the Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales, now the
Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano (SPR), in 2010 marked the beginning of a second expansion, which finally brought Once TV to such large cities as
Guadalajara,
Monterrey and
Puebla.
![Once TV 2011 logo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Once_TV_2011_logo.png)
The SPR operates 26 transmitters to the IPN's 13, and all of them (with the exception of Mexico City) carry Canal Once as one of their subchannels.
In 2013, Once TV México returned to its original name of Canal Once as part of a branding refresh.
In 2015, the IPN launched
Once Niños, a subchannel of Canal Once featuring children's programming, which is available on all Canal Once transmitters operated by the IPN as well as on all Mexican cable systems. On December 31, 2015, Canal Once completed its
digital television transition.
In July 2016, Olympusat added the channel to its OTT platform, VEMOX.
![Logo CanalOnce](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Logo_CanalOnce.png)
On January 23, 2019, President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Andrés Manuel López Obrador (; born 13 November 1953), also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican politician who has been serving as the 65th president of Mexico since 1 December 2018. He previously served as Head of Government of Mex ...
nominated senator
José Antonio Álvarez Lima to serve as the new director of Canal Once. marking his return to public media after 28 years away. Álvarez was installed in that position in March.
He announced his resignation in late October 2020, in order to fill the Senate vacancy in his seat that resulted from the death of alternate senator
Joel Molina Ramírez
Joel Molina Ramírez (1 November 194224 October 2020) was a Mexican politician and senator representing the state of Tlaxcala from the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) party. He served in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress from ...
. If Álvarez Lima had opted to remain at Canal Once, the vacancy would have triggered a special election for the seat. He was replaced by 25-year-old Carlos Brito Lavalle, the youngest director in the station's history, who had previously helped coordinate the Aprende en Casa program and held other posts.
In 2021, Canal Once was authorized a further 24 new transmitters, many to be co-sited with existing or new SPR installations.
Logos
File:XEIPN-TV Logo 1950 1980.png, 1959-1986
File:Antiguo logo de Canal Once (Canal Once Televisión).png, 1986-1990
File:XEIPN logo 80s.PNG, 1991-1996
File:Antiguo logo de Canal Once (Once TV).png, 1996-2007
File:Antiguo logo de Canal Once (once TV).png, 2007-2011
File:Antiguo logo de Canal Once (ONCE TV MEXICO).png, 2011-2013
File:Logo CanalOnce.png, 2013-2019
File:Logo Actual Canal Once.png, 2019–present
Once Niñas y Niños Logos
Once.2 2014.svg, 2014-2016
Once Ninos 2016-2020.svg, 2016-2020
Once niñas y niños 2020.svg, 2020–present
Programs
Canal Once produces a wide variety of cultural and educational programming. It also produces and airs ''Once Noticias'' national newscasts.
Canal Once has also been one of the national broadcasters that has carried the Olympic Games under contract from
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 ...
, including the
2014 Summer Youth Olympics
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and
2016 Summer Olympics.
During
Holy Week
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, as a result of the
coronavirus pandemic
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, Canal Once,
Canal Catorce
''Canal Catorce'' (Channel 14, formerly known as ''Una Voz con Todos'') is a national public television network of Mexico, operated by the Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano (SPR). It began operations in 2012 and is distribu ...
, and
Capital 21 co-produced for the first time television coverage of the
Passion Play of Iztapalapa.
Awards
![Estudios del Canal Once de México - 2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Estudios_del_Canal_Once_de_M%C3%A9xico_-_2.jpg)
Canal Once has won many national and international prizes, including the following:
*
Promax World Gold Awards 2004
New York, U.S.:
:Golden Prize T 08 for Program Promotion: "Violencia Doméstica"
:Golden Prize T 10 for Special Event Program Promotion: "Violencia Doméstica"
:Silver Prize T 08 for Program Promotion: "Diálogos en confianza" (
Talk show
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)
:Silver Prize T 27 for Non-Promotional Animation: " Master of lounge music "
*Promax BDA World Gold Awards 2004, New York, U.S.:
:Gold 56 for Consumer Topical Advertising: "Pasión por la Naturaleza "
:Silver 4 for Topical Print: "Tour de cine francés"
:Silver 65 for Poster: "Tour de cine francés"
:Silver 69 for Illustration for Print: "Pasión por la Naturaleza "
:Bronze 13 for Open: "Violencia Familiar"
:Bronze 16 for Art Direction & Design, Topical Promo: " Diálogos en Confianza "
*I Festival Internacional de Documentales de Madrid 2004,
Madrid
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,
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
:
:Jury's Special Mention for "Series del Once"
IPN-owned transmitters
Canal Once has an extensive transmitter network owned by the IPN that is supplemented by the
SPR transmitter network. All Canal Once transmitters, whether owned by the IPN or the SPR, use virtual channel 11.
Once Niñas y Niños is only available on Canal Once transmitters owned by the IPN and as the subchannel of one separately owned station,
XHZHZ-TDT in
Zacatecas, Zacatecas
Zacatecas () is the principal city within the municipality in Mexico of the same name, and the capital and the largest city of the state of Zacatecas. Located in north-central Mexico, the city had its start as a Spanish mining camp in the mid- ...
. A third subchannel, known as Mente Abierta, was authorized for the IPN transmitter network in August 2020 but never launched.
One transmitter, in
Cuernavaca
Cuernavaca (; nci-IPA, Cuauhnāhuac, kʷawˈnaːwak "near the woods", ) is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico. The city is located around a 90-minute drive south of Mexico City using the Federal Highway 95D.
The na ...
, carries
Canal Catorce
''Canal Catorce'' (Channel 14, formerly known as ''Una Voz con Todos'') is a national public television network of Mexico, operated by the Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano (SPR). It began operations in 2012 and is distribu ...
as a subchannel under agreement with the SPR.
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In 2017, the IPN was authorized for four additional transmitters; it surrendered the concession for one of the four, at
Tepic, Nayarit
Tepic () is the capital and largest city of the western Mexican state of Nayarit, as well as the seat of the Tepic Municipality.
Located in the central part of the state, it stands at an altitude of above sea level, on the banks of the Río Mo ...
, to the IFT in 2019.
Canal Once was formerly relayed by the state networks of Guerrero (
Radio y Televisión de Guerrero
Radio y Televisión de Guerrero is a statewide public television network and series of radio stations, owned and operated by the agency of the same name in the State of Guerrero.
History
RTG began operations in 1980 with a television station, ...
), Nayarit (
Tele 10) and Quintana Roo (
Sistema Quintanarroense de Comunicación Social
The Sistema Quintanarroense de Comunicación Social (SQCS, English: ''Quintana Roo Social Communication System'') is the state broadcaster of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, founded on January 30, 1985. It operates several television and radio s ...
), and also by
XHCOZ-TDT, an independent local station in
Cozumel, Quintana Roo
Cozumel (; yua, Kùutsmil) is an island and municipality in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen. It is separated from the mainland by the Cozumel Channel and is close to the Yucatá ...
. XHCOZ holds virtual channel 11 as an artifact of its former carriage of Canal Once's programming.
Canal Once continues to supply programming to state networks, such as
XHBZC-TDT
XHBZC-TDT virtual channel 8, known on-air as Canal 8, is an educational and public television station owned and operated by the government of the State of Baja California Sur in La Paz. It is part of IERT, the Instituto Estatal de Radio y Televisi ...
in Baja California Sur. Some commercial stations in markets without public television air some Canal Once programming, notably
XEJ-TDT
XEJ-TDT (channel 50) is a television station in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, owned and operated by the Meneses Hoyos family. It is currently an independent television station.
History
Founded by Pedro Meneses Hoyos on May 17, 1954, it wa ...
in
Ciudad Juárez and
XEFE-TDT
XEFE-TDT (channel 17) is a television station in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, known as XEFE, La Imagen Familiar. XEFE primarily carries programming from the public Canal Once network as well as local news, information and entertainment prog ...
in
Nuevo Laredo
Nuevo Laredo () is a city in the Municipality of Nuevo Laredo in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The city lies on the banks of the Rio Grande, across from Laredo, United States. The 2010 census population of the city was 373,725. Nuevo Lar ...
.
References
External links
Official siteOnce Noticias (Newscasts)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Canal Once Mexico
Television stations in Mexico City
Television channels and stations established in 1959
Television networks in Mexico
Public television in Mexico
Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Spanish-language television stations in Mexico
1959 establishments in Mexico