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El Trece (Argentina)

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Buenos Aires
Branding eltrece
Slogan Prendete al aire de eltrece
Channels Analog: 13 (VHF)
Digital: 33 (UHF)
Owner Grupo Clarín
(Arte Radiotelevisivo Argentino S.A.)
Founded 1960
First air date October 1, 1960
Website http://www.eltrecetv.com.ar/
eltrece (Artear)
Type Broadcast Television Network
Branding El Trece
Country Argentina Argentina
Availability National
Owner Grupo Clarín
Launch date
October 1, 1960
Official website
www.eltrecetv.com.ar

eltrece (literally "The Thirteen", also known as Channel 13 or El Trece) is an Argentine television network and the flagship station of the same network, located in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires.

Channel 13 was founded on October 1, 1960 and began broadcasting at 20:30. The channel was tendered to the company Rio de la Plata SA TV, made by Cuban Goar Mestre, the U.S. network CBS and Time-Life company. In the mid-1960s, Editorial Atlantida and Mestre's wife bought the shares of the channel. Since then, the channel began to compete strongly with the other two open private channels (Canal 9 and Telefe) in the city of Buenos Aires, which had gone through a similar process. In those years there were great successes of television in Argentina, as Seeing Biondi, comedy show centered on characters from Pepe Biondi, the Falcon family, with Peter Quartucci, nut, sketch comedy show, like the great success "Telecataplúm", featuring an innovative group of comedians like the Uruguayans Ricardo Espalter, Enrique Almada and Gabriela Acher, among others.

In 1974, the government of Isabel Perón nationalized the station along with two other private channels of Buenos Aires (Canal 9 and Telefe), in order to bring a media policy in the European style, where television was largely directed from the State. During the self-styled National Reorganization Process, the last military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983 - the channel's administration was handed over to the Argentine Navy, a condition maintained until 1983, when democratic rule was restored. However, the network continued under public administration, as it was always been since the Peron years. The Navy helped the station in its transition to color broadcasts on Labor Day, May 1, 1980.


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