Televisión Canaria is a Spanish regional free-to-air

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in the

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; ) or Canaries are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and the southernmost Autonomous communities of Spain, Autonomous Community of Spain. They are located in the northwest of Africa, with the closest point to the cont ...

belonging to the regional

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broadcaster Radio Televisión Canaria (RTVC). It has two production centers in

Las Palmas Las Palmas (, ; ), officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a Spanish city and capital of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital city of the Canary Islands (jointly with Santa Cruz de Tenerife) and the m ...

and

Santa Cruz de Tenerife Santa Cruz de Tenerife (; locally ), commonly abbreviated as Santa Cruz, is a city, the capital of the island of Tenerife, Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and one of the capitals of the Canary Islands, along with Las Palmas. Santa Cruz has a ...

, and has offices in the rest of the Canary Islands, as well as in Madrid . The headquarters and management are located at Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The channel broadcasts on DTT throughout the Canary Islands. Televisión Canaria also broadcasts an international channel named which broadcasts in the rest of Spain, Europe, North and South America. Formerly TVC also broadcast two more channels: TV Canaria 2 and an online channel named ''Televisión Canaria Net''.

History

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''. In 2010 the channel launched its HD version. In 2012 Televisión Canaria faced a financial crisis, in order to solve it was necessary to lay off several workers and close down TV Canaria 2, the TVC's secondary channel. Since 2012, the channel has faced different processes of administrative changes and interventions by the Canarian Parliament and Government due to problems in the election of its administrative council. During September 2021, TV Canaria recorded its best audience numbers for the channel's coverage of the volcanic eruption on La Palma, in addition, the channel's signal was used by other media outlets to report on the event.

Programming

Televisión Canaria broadcasts a general programming, which is based on informative programs, contests, local culture, sports, music and typical Canarian festivals.

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