Television in El Salvador

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Television in El Salvador consists of both local channels and foreign television, normally distributed through cable.

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History

The first attempts to create television were made by the Mexican Rubén González on his own initiative in April 1956. In the same month, Boris Eserski, Guillermo Pinto and Tono Alfaro, former owners of the YSEB radio station, collaborated in this creation. The first television channel launched was YSEB-TV, now known as Canal 6 was launched on September 7, 1956 as a public channel that lasted for ten years; Its programming was very short, transmitting for six hours, and it only covered the city of San Salvador. [1] Canal 4 began as the second public channel that lasted from 1959 to 1963, which it relaunched to be a private channel in 1966 and which became the first channel with national coverage; Both channels were parts of Telecentro, which was the first conglomerate company for more than one channel until its dissolution in 1966. [2]

Later it was founded as a successor to two former public stations called Televisión Educativa de El Salvador (Canal 10) in 1964, and nine years later Canal 8 was born that would last until 1989. [3] However, the first private Salvadoran television channel is Canal 2 which was launched in 1965 on the basis of the radio station Circuito YSR. And due to the stagnation of having only this channel and Canal 4, this amount lasted until Canal 6 was relaunched on April 6, 1973 as the third private channel and the first color television channel using the NTSC-M format, although three years before due to geographical reasons it was only transmitted in the western zone on the Guatemalan signal. With this innovation in the television system, all television channels throughout the 1970s switched to color screens.

The quantity of five television channels remained until on December 15, 1984, when Canal 12 was born as a direct competitor of the three private channels. [4] By 1985, with the merger of channels 2, 4 and 6, Don Boris Eserski, one of the pioneers of Salvadoran television, founded Telecorporación Salvadoreña to facilitate its administration with the three concessions, and compete with other companies. [5] On March 1, 1993, the third private media company called Grupo Megavisión was founded, with the beginning of transmitting the first UHF channel nationwide, Canal 21, and two years later Canal 19 was founded, both with the operational of Inversiones de Desarrollo Industrial y Agrícola (INDESI). [6] These first two UHF channels paved the way for more television companies to take concessions from channels such as Canal 33, VTV (today TCS+) and regional channels of El Salvador; including the return of Canal 8 under the ownership of Asociación Agape de El Salvador in 2001.

Other ways of watching television in El Salvador came cable and via satellite due to technological advances and the adaptation of international television, which is why they are based on subscription. The first to arrive with ANTEL approval were Telesat and Futurama in 1986, and in the 1990s it grew with the extension of the UHF band concessions with Cablevisa, Multicable and Amnet, including foreign companies such as Tecavisa. It currently offers variable programming on thematic channels with hundreds of operators and providers such as Tigo Star, Claro TV, Movistar TV, Sky México and Universal Cable Apopa. [7] [8]

Entering the 21st Century, El Salvador was ready for digital television to be released, which initially adopted the ATSC Standards for the transmission of digital terrestrial television, but then in 2017 decided to adopt the international standard ISDB-T used in many other Latin American nations. The first digital television channel is Canal 10 on December 21, 2018, and it serves three channels in one; activity that other channels began the digital switchover, and it is expected that on December 1, 2024, El Salvador will only be broadcast in a digital signal. [9]

Salvadoran TV channels

In El Salvador, there are many religious television shows and many telenovelas. El Salvador is served by three national television corporations (TCS, RSM and Megavisión), two state-run channels (Canal 10 and Televisión Legislativa) and many minor and regional channels.

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References

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  2. ↑ Herrera Palacios, Antonio (October 1998). "Un breve recorrido por la televisión en El Salvador" [The Brief Road of Television in El Salvador] (in Spanish). San Salvador. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social. p. 12. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  3. ↑ Flores (2008). "The Television" [The Television](PDF) (in Spanish). San Salvador. Dr. José Matías Delgado University. p. 76. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 June 2024. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  4. ↑ Herrera Palacios, Antonio (October 1998). "Un breve recorrido por la televisión en El Salvador" [The Brief Road of Television in El Salvador] (in Spanish). San Salvador. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social. p. 12. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  5. ↑ "Acerca de TCS" [About TCS]. esmitv (in Spanish). Telecorporación Salvadoreña. 2013. Archived from the original on 18 March 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  6. ↑ Larín, Mario (21 September 2011). "Políticas Públicas: La Regulación de los Medios en El Salvador (Radio y Televisión)" [Public Politics: Regulation from Radio and Television in El Salvador] (in Spanish). San Salvador. pp. 34–35. Archived from the original on 3 March 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  7. ↑ Superintendencia General de Electricidad y Telecomunicaciones (SIGET), ed. (24 November 2021). "Reseña Histórica de los Servicios de Televisión por Suscripción" [Brief History of Pay-Television Services] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2 October 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  8. ↑ Córdoba, Alicia María; Hernández, Luis Adalberto; Herrera, Alices Ernesto; Mena, Rocío Guadalupe (28 June 2005). "La Televisión en El Salvador (canales) y las compañías de TV por cable y TV Digital" [Television in El Salvador and Cable and Digital Television Companies]. Antiguo Cuscatlán: Universidad Centroamericana, José Simeón Cañas (UCA). pp. 12–15. Archived from the original on 7 July 2024. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
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