Canal Once (Mexico)
| Canal Once | |
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| Launched | March 2, 1959 |
| Owned by | Instituto Politécnico Nacional |
| Slogan | Abre Horizontes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Broadcast area | Mexico (with international feed in the United States) |
| Headquarters | Mexico City |
| Formerly called | Once TV/Once TV México (1996-2013) |
| Website | oncetv-ipn |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Nationwide (cities with an SPR or IPN transmitter) | 11.1 |
| Satellite | |
| SKY México | 111 (1111 HD) |
| Dish México | 111 (611 HD) |
| Cable | |
| Izzi Telecom | 011 |
| Megacable | 111 |
| IPTV | |
| Totalplay | 011 |
Canal Once (Channel Eleven; formerly Once TV México), is a Mexican educational broadcast television network owned by Instituto Politécnico Nacional. The network's flagship station is XEIPN-TDT channel 11 in Mexico City. 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 United States via satellite from DirecTV and also various cable outlets on "Latino" or "Spanish" tiers. Most of its programs are also webcast through the Internet, though its programming is not the same as the actual aerial or satellite signal.
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 Alejo Peralta y Díaz, the director of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional between 1956 and 1959, and supported by his successor Eugenio Méndez Docurro, as well as Secretary of Communications and Transportation Walter Cross Buchanan and Jaime Torres Bodet, Secretary of Public Education. Its first broadcast was a mathematics class transmitted from a small television studio located at the Casco de Santo Tomás, in the northern part of Mexico City.
In 1969, Canal Once was the first Mexico City TV station to relocate its transmitter to Cerro del Chiquihuite, 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.
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