Channel 8 (Tucumán, Argentina)
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broadcasting on analog channel 8 in
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, the capital of the
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province of Tucumán. It carries programs from
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and is owned by Grupo Televisión Litoral.


History

Canal 8 signed on in 1983. It was one of the members of the Televisión Federal, S.A., consortium, that acquired the license for channel 11 Buenos Aires when it was privatized in 1989. In 2018, all of Telefe's stations in interior Argentina dropped their channel number branding to go by "Telefe (city)", including Canal 8, which became Telefe Tucumán; this was done in preparation for the end of analog television. Telefe sold the Tucumán station to Televisión Litoral, which owns Telefe's rival
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's affiliates in Rosario and Bariloche, in 2023. As a result, the station rebranded as "Elocho TV", matching the imaging of the other two stations, on February 1.


Local programming

Within a few months of beginning transmission, Canal 8 aired its first newscast, called ''12 Minutos'' (''12 Minutes''). The newscast eventually was changed to a one-hour show, and the name was changed to '' División Noticias'' (''News Division''). Canal 8 presents music programs such as ''Conexión Videos'', ''Musica Libre'' (''Free Music''), and '' Elegidos'' (''Elected''), which aired from 1987 to 2008. It has produced series for children and teens such as ''El Jardín de Florencia Flor'' (''Florencia Flor's Garden''), ''El Payaso Tapalín'' (''The Tapalín Clown''), and ''Tevematch''. ''Commented Third Time'' is the first sports show of the channel. Canal 8 was the first channel in the province to air live sporting events. In the early 1990s the station showed a miniseries set in the Tucumán of the 17th Century called ''
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'' (''After 100 Years'').


National programming

Canal 8 was the first channel in the area to rebroadcast news programs from
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such as ''28 Millones'' (later called ''30 millones''), ''Realidad 84'' (''Reality 84''), ''Redacción Abierta'' (''Open Drafting''), and ''Buenas Noches Argentina'' (''Good Night Argentina'').


References

{{reflist Television stations in Argentina Mass media in San Miguel de Tucumán Television channels and stations established in 1983 Telefe