Canal Once (channel 11) (stylised as canal once, formerly once and once tv) is a Mexican educational broadcast television network owned by

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. The network's

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is XEIPN-TDT channel 11 in

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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

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and the rest of countries of

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via satellite from

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and

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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

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through the

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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

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, the director of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional between 1956 and 1959, and supported by his successor

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, as well as Secretary of Communications and Transportation

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and

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. Its first broadcast was a

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class transmitted from a small

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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

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, 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

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and

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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

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and

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, providing them with Once TV programs. The launch of the Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales, now the

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(SPR), in 2010 marked the beginning of a second expansion, which finally brought Once TV to such large cities as

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and

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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

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. In July 2016, Olympusat added the channel to its OTT platform, VEMOX. Logo CanalOnce

On January 23, 2019, President

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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

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. 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, 2019–2025

Once Niños Logos

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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

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, including the

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. During

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, as a result of the

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, Canal Once,

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, and Capital 21 co-produced for the first time television coverage of the Passion Play of Iztapalapa.

Awards

Canal Once has won many national and international prizes, including the following: * Promax World Gold Awards 2004

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, 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" (

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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,

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: :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

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. A third subchannel, known as Mente Abierta, was authorized for the IPN transmitter network in August 2020 but never launched. One transmitter, in

, carries

as a subchannel under agreement with the SPR. , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - In 2017, the IPN was authorized for four additional transmitters; it surrendered the concession for one of the four, at

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, to the IFT in 2019. Canal Once was formerly relayed by the state networks of Guerrero (

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), Nayarit ( Tele 10) and Quintana Roo (

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), and also by XHCOZ-TDT, an independent local station in Cozumel, Quintana Roo. 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 in Baja California Sur. Some commercial stations in markets without public television air some Canal Once programming, notably

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and

XEFE-TDT XEFE-TDT (channel 17) is a television station in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, serving the Laredo, Texas area, known as XEFE, La Imagen Familiar. XEFE primarily carries programming from the public Canal Once network as well as local news, in ...

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References

External links

Official site

Once Noticias (Newscasts)
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