Televisión Canaria is a Spanish free-to-air

television network A television network or television broadcaster is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations or multichannel video programming distributo ...

for the

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...

. Although the registered office and principal place of TV Canaria is located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.Aviso Legal de la Televisión Canaria
/ref> The creation of the channel arose in the 1980s with promulgation of the law 8/1984 of the autonomous region of Canaries relating to Broadcasting and Televisión Canaria. The first broadcast was made on the 21 August 1999 under the name ''Televisión Autonómica de Canarias (TVAC)'', in 2001 the company adopted the simpler name of ''Televisión Canaria'' and the slogan ''la nuestra''. The channel broadcasts on analogue and TDT throughout the Canary Islands, and on TDT in the rest of

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. TV Canaria also broadcasts three other channels, TV Canaria 2, an online channel named ''TV Canaria Net'' and an international channel named ''TVCi'' which broadcasts in North and South America.

Logos and identities

File:Segundo logo 2002-2008.png, Second logo 2001-08 File:TV Canaria.jpg, Third logo 2008–11

References

External links

Official Site

Mass media in the Canary Islands Mass media in Santa Cruz de Tenerife Television stations in Spain FORTA Spanish-language television stations Companies of the Canary Islands Television channels and stations established in 1999 1999 establishments in Spain {{spain-tv-station-stub