Television in Latin America currently includes more than 1,500 television stations and more than 60 million TV sets throughout the 20 countries that constitute Latin America. 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, television broadcasting has historically been public-broadcast dominated until the 1990s. The largest commercial television groups are Mexico-based Televisa, 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 Telefe El Nueve TV Pública América TV Net TV TyC Sports
Bolivia
Activa TV ATB Bolivia TV Bolivisión Cadena A F10 Red Uno RTP Unitel
Brazil
Globo (since 1965) RecordTV (since 1953) SBT (since 1981) Bandeirantes (since 1967) RedeTV! (since 1999) Cultura (since 1969) TV Brasil (since 2007) Gazeta (since 1970)
Chile
TV+ (since 1957), channel 5 Canal 13 (since 1959), channel 13 Chilevisión (since 1960, under different names), channel 11 TVN (since 1969), channel 7 Mega (since 1990), channel 9 La Red (since 1991), channel 4 Telecanal (since 2005), channel 2
Colombia
Caracol TV Canal RCN Canal 1
Costa Rica
Canal 38 Estereo Conexion TV Repretel 4 Repretel 6 Repretel 9 (discontinued) Repretel 11 Sinart Teletica UCR TV
Cuba
Cubavisión Tele Rebelde Canal Educativo Canal Educativo 2 Multivisión
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
Ecuavisa RTS La Tele TVC Teleamazonas Oromar Televisión TC Televisión Gamavisión Ecuador TV
El Salvador
Ágape TV Canal 8 Canal 10 Canal 12 Canal 33 Megavisión (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
Televisa (Las Estrellas, Canal 5) TV Azteca (Azteca Uno, Azteca 7) Imagen Televisión Canal Once Mexico Telehit Gala TV FOROtv Cadenatres
Nicaragua
Canal 2 Canal 4 Canal 6 TN8 Canal 9 Canal 10 Canal 11 Nicavisión Canal 6 Nicaragüense Viva Nicaragua Canal 15 Nicaragüense
Panama
RPC TVN Telemetro FETV Oye TV TVMax Sertv Nex
Paraguay
Trece LaTele Paravisión SNT Telefuturo Unicanal Paraguay TV
Peru
National networks Frequency numbers for Lima in analog TV. (most are also available on DTT)
Channel 2 Latina Channel 4 América TV Channel 5 Panamericana TV Channel 7 TV Perú Channel 9 ATV Channel 11 Channel 13 Global TV
Pay TV National channels from Telefónica's Cable Mágico, the country's most popular operator.
Plus Life Canal N Movistar Deportes
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico follows USA TV Code system
Telemundo Puerto Rico (WKAQ) Sistema TV (WMTJ) WAPA TV (WAPA) Puerto Rico TV (WIPR) government Univisión PR (WSTE) TeleOnce (WLII) Canal de Vídeos (WTCV) TeleOro (WORO) religious-catholic church New conscience network (WUJA (religious) La cadena del milagro WCCV RELIGIOUS América Tevé (WJPX) 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
Canal 4 (Montevideo) Canal 5 Canal 10 (Montevideo) Teledoce La Red TV Ciudad
Venezuela
private television Venevisión Televen Globovisión Meridiano TV Canal I
State television VTV ViVe Telesur TVES Colombeia
See also Latin American television awards
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