Television in Latin America currently includes more than 1,500

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stations and more than 60 million TV sets throughout the 20 countries that constitute

Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...

. Due to economic and political problems television networks in some countries of this region have developed less than the North American and European networks, for instance. In other countries like Colombia or

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

, television broadcasting has historically been public-broadcast dominated until the 1990s. The largest commercial television groups are Mexico-based

Televisa Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...

, Brazil-based Globo and Canada-based Canwest Latin American Group. Due to the shared language of Spanish by two thirds of Latin Americans a lot of programmes and broadcasters operate throughout the region, offering both United States television (often dubbed into Spanish) and Spanish-language television.

Argentina

El Trece Channel 13 (known by its current brand name El Trece, stylized as eltrece) is an Argentine free-to-air television network and the flagship station of the network of the same name, located in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires. It is owned by ...

Telefe Telefe (acronym for Televisión Federal) is a television station located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The station is owned and operated by Paramount Global through Televisión Federal S.A. Telefe is also one of Argentina's six national televisio ...

* El Nueve * TV Pública * América TV * Net TV *

TyC Sports TyC Sports is an Argentine pay television sports channel owned by Torneos and Clarín Group, based in Buenos Aires. In Argentina, the channel broadcasts the Argentine B Nacional, CONMEBOL Qualifiers, Argentina national football team friendly ...

Bolivia

* Activa TV *

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Bolivia TV Televisión Boliviana (Bolivia TV) is the first television channel of Bolivia and serves the only means of television communication from the government. The channel was established in August 1969 under the government of Luis Adolfo Siles after yea ...

* Bolivisión * Cadena A *

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* RTP * Unitel

Brazil

* Globo (since 1965) *

RecordTV RecordTV (), formerly known as Rede Record, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network. It is currently the second largest commercial TV station in Brazil, and the 28th largest in the 2012 world ranking. In 2010, it was elected by the adver ...

(since 1953) * Bandeirantes (since 1967) *

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(since 1981) *

RedeTV! RedeTV! () is a Brazilian television network owned by Amilcare Dallevo and Marcelo de Carvalho. It is the newest television network, among the five major networks in Brazil, being a relaunch of Rede Manchete in 1999. RedeTV! has modern produc ...

(since 1999) * Cultura (since 1969) *

TV Brasil TV Brasil is a Brazilian public television network owned by Empresa Brasil de Comunicação. Its main headquarters are in Brasília, DF and Rio de Janeiro, RJ, with owned-and-operated stations in São Paulo, SP and in São Luís, MA, as we ...

(since 2007) *

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(since 1970)

Chile

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(since 1957), channel 5 * Canal 13 (since 1959), channel 13 *

Chilevisión Chilevisión (often abbreviated as CHV) is a Chilean free-to-air television channel. It is the third oldest Chilean television network, owned by Paramount Networks Americas, being founded by the University of Chile on November 4, 1960. Histo ...

(since 1960, under different names), channel 11 *

TVN TVN may refer to: * TVN (Australian TV channel), a former horse racing channel * Televisión Nacional de Chile, a public broadcaster * TVN (Indonesia), a former television station; predecessor of Rajawali Televisi * TVN (Norway), or TVNorge, a comm ...

(since 1969), channel 7 *

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(since 1990), channel 9 * La Red (since 1991), channel 4 *

Telecanal Telecanal is a private owned TV channel of Chile, launched on December 5, 2005. It currently airs in Santiago on VHF channel 2. The station for the channel mostly airs American films and TV series. History Launch (2005–2010) Following the sh ...

(since 2005), channel 2

Colombia

Caracol TV Caracol is a large ancient Maya archaeological site, located in what is now the Cayo District, of Belize. It is situated approximately south of Xunantunich, and the town of San Ignacio, and from the Macal River. It rests on the Vaca Plateau ...

RCN TV RCN may refer to: * ''Radio Cadena Nacional (disambiguation)'', a broadcast network in Colombia ** RCN Radio ** RCN TV * RCN Corporation (formerly Residential Communications Network), a cable television, telephone, and Internet service provider in ...

Canal 1 Canal 1 ( en, Channel 1; pronounced "Canal Uno") is a Colombian state-owned television channel. It is owned by the Government of Colombia and managed by Plural Comunicaciones, S.A.S, a private company. From 1957 to 2017, the channel was administ ...

Costa Rica

* Canal 38 Estereo * Conexion TV *

Repretel 4 Canal 4 is a private Costa Rican television channel, owned and operated by Repretel. It was the second television station acquired by Repretel in Costa Rica. The station broadcasts on channel 6.2 which the frequency is used by sister channel Ca ...

Repretel 6 Canal 6 (previously known as Telecentro) is a private Costa Rican television channel, owned and operated by Repretel. It is the flagship TV station of the media group. History The channel was founded on September 12, 1965 as Telecentro Canal 6, ...

Repretel 9 Canal 9 is the second television station established in Costa Rica, having begun broadcasts in 1961 as Tic Tac Canal 9. In 1993, the channel was acquired by Remigio Ángel González becoming the first station owned by the then-new Repretel grou ...

(discontinued) * Repretel 11 * Sinart *

Teletica Televisora de Costa Rica S.A., known as Teletica is a Costa Rican television broadcaster, founded in 1958. It operates Teletica Canal 7, XperTV Canal 33, and, since 1991 (partially since 2018), CableTica (now called Liberty). History In Octob ...

* UCR TV

Cuba

Dominican Republic

* TeleAntillas - Channel 2 * Corporación Estatal de Radio y Television CERTV - Channel 4 Public TV Station * Telemicro * Antena Latina - Channel 7 * Color Visión * Telesistema Dominicano - Channel 11 * Telecentro - Channel 13 * Sport Vision - Channel 35 * Cana TV - Popular local morning shows, news coverage, cooking shows and family entertainment * Vegateve * CDN 37 * SuperCanal

Ecuador

El Salvador

* Ágape TV Canal 8 * Canal 10 * Canal 12 * Canal 33 *

Megavisión Red Televisiva Megavisión (MEGA) is a Chilean private television network headquartered in Santiago. It currently airs on digital frequency channel 27 ( ISDB-Tb) for HDTV. In 2012, ownership of Mega channel was transferred from Claro Group to B ...

(Channels 15, 19 and 21) * Telecorporacion Salvadoreña (Channels 2, 4, 6 and TCS+)

Guatemala

VHF * Canal 3 (Albavision) * Canal 5 TV Maya * Canal 7 Televisiete (Albavision) * Canal 9 TV Congreso (off air) * Canal 11 Tele-Once (Albavision) * Canal 13 Trecevisión (Albavision) UHF * Canal 19 Albanoticias -mirrored- (Albavision) * Canal 21 Enlace * Canal 23 Albanoticias (Albavision) * Canal 25 Guatevision * Canal 27 El canal de la Esperanza * Canal 31 TV Azteca Guatemala * Canal 33 TV USAC * Canal 35 TV Azteca Guatemala * Canal 37 Telecentro -mirrored- (Albavision) * Canal 41 Telecentro (Albavision) * Canal 61 Enlace Juvenil * Canal 63 Televisión Arquidiocesana * Canal 65 Family TV Satellite * 18-50 TV * Canal Antigua * Vea Canal * Guatevision Guatemala doesn't have a digital terrestrial standard yet, but it seems that ISDB-T will be the standard. Albavision broadcast in the ATSC format for about four years on channel 19 HDTV, but is now back to analog transmission on that same frequency.

Honduras

* Globo Tv Honduras * Canal 3 Quimistan * Televicentro * Canal 6 (Honduras) * Teleceiba 7 * Sulavision * TEN (Television Educacional de Honduras) * Villavision * Canal 11 * Yojoa Tv * Telemas Canal 13

Mexico

TV Azteca TV Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V. is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate owned by Grupo Salinas. It is the second-largest mass media company in Mexico after Televisa. It primarily competes with Televisa as well as some local operators. It owns two nationa ...

* Canal Once Mexico *

Telehit TeleHit is a Mexican cable/satellite television network. Its main programming is music and music videos. It is a part of Televisa Networks, an affiliate of TelevisaUnivision, and is also available in various countries in Latin America and Unit ...

*Gala TV *FOROtv *Cadenatres

Nicaragua

Panama

Paraguay

*Trece *LaTele *Paravisión *SNT *Telefuturo *Unicanal *Paraguay TV

Peru

National networks

Frequency numbers for Lima in analog TV. (most are also available on Digital terrestrial television, DTT) *Channel 2 Latina Televisión, Latina *Channel 4 América Televisión, América TV *Channel 5 Panamericana Televisión, Panamericana TV *Channel 7 TV Perú *Channel 9 ATV (Peruvian TV channel), ATV *Channel 11 *Channel 13 Global TV (Peru), Global TV

Pay TV

National channels from Telefónica#Peru, Telefónica's Cable Mágico, the country's most popular operator. *Plus TV *Canal N *Movistar Deportes

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico follows USA TV Code system *WKAQ-TV, Telemundo Puerto Rico (WKAQ) *WMTJ, Sistema TV (WMTJ) *WAPA-TV, WAPA TV (WAPA) *WIPR-TV, Puerto Rico TV (WIPR) government *WSTE-DT, TeleIsla (WSTE) *WLII-DT, Univisión PR (WLII) *Canal de Vídeos (WTCV) *TeleOro (WORO) religious-catholic church *New conscience network (WUJA (religious) *La cadena del milagro WCCV RELIGIOUS *WJPX, América Tevé (WJPX) *WECN, Único TV pr WECN *Bayamon Christian network WDWL RELIGIOUS *AMÉRICA TE VE PR (WIRS) *Canal iglesia de dios Pentecostal WIDP RELIGIOUS *VMAX (WRFB) *Accu weather WMEI *WAPA 2 (sports) *Punto dos

Uruguay

*Channel 4, Uruguay, Canal 4 (Montevideo) *Channel 10 (Uruguay), Canal 10 (Montevideo) *Teledoce *La Red *Televisión Nacional Uruguay, TNU *TV Ciudadhttps://www.tvciudad.uy/

Venezuela

References

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