Television in Uruguay

Analog television in Uruguay had a history of more than 50 years since it began in 1956, with the first television channel, Channel 10. Since then Uruguay has three other channels, Channel 12 Teledoce, Channel 4 Monte Carlo TV and Television Nacional Uruguay

Cable television

Cable television is largely controlled by the Equital conglomerate, founded in 1991, which is owned in equal parts by the three private television stations of Montevideo. Each network owns a cable company: Teledoce owns Nuevo Siglo, Monte Carlo, Montecable and SAETA, TCC. The tripartite conglomerate monopolizes pay television in Montevideo and parts of the inland, controlling at least one of the two providers available in Colonia del Sacramento, Salto, Paysandú, Treinta y Tres, Melo, Durazno, Minas, Rocha and Tacuarembó. Equital has been accused of cartelization and has been investigated by URSEC in the first half of the 2000s for collusion and price control. ^{[1] [2]}

Digital television

On August 27, 2007, the Uruguayan government issued a decree stating that the DVB-T and DVB-H standards would be adopted. ^{[3] [4]} On February 17, 2011, the government issued a new decree revoking the former one, and selecting ISDB-T as the standard to be adopted. ^{[5] [6]} Uruguay hoped for neighboring countries to reach an agreement on an HDTV standard, but so far^{[ when? ]} that does not seem to be the case.

• Brazil adopted the ISDB-T system in November 2007 after a very extensive and consistent study (executed by Mackenzie University and Television Engineering Association) where ISDB-T standard presented a more robust signal, more flexible services including mobile TV reception for free and excellent user interactive services. The implementation rollout through the country has been very successful.^{[ clarification needed ]} The prices of digital TV receivers and set-top boxes are rapidly decreasing.^{[ clarification needed ]}
• In the late 2000s, Argentina was analyzing ISDB-T to verify if the standard also attends their needs. There is a wish to implement only one digital TV standard in all Mercosur Area, and if Argentina chooses ISDB-T it will be an important step for that integration (except for Uruguay and Colombia).
• Uruguayan URSEC authorities ^[7] provided no information on which road they would go until late in 2007. On August 27, 2007, Ursec settled on DVB-T and DVB-H. The TV sets being sold in Uruguay seem to be closer to ATSC HDTV-based standards (60 Hz systems, with ATSC tuners in some cases). Most of the DVD-based content in the country is NTSC/60 Hz-based, while the TV standard in use is PAL/50 Hz-based. Most of the analog TV sets sold are PAL-N, PAL-M and NTSC-capable, while most DVD players are multiregion. Authorities are not asking retailers to identify which standard the HDTV sets sold adhere to.
• 2010: All subscription television operators offer HDTV premium packages at varying prices. The offers rely on proprietary set-top boxes.

Channels

National

Logo	Name	Content	Launch	Owner	Operator	Coverage	Website
	Canal 10 (Primary)	Generalist	December 7, 1956;68 years ago (1956-12-07)	Uruguay Grupo Fontaina - De Feo (Private)	Uruguay Sociedad Anónima de Emisoras de Televisión y Anexos	Uruguay National	Canal 10
	Canal 4 (Primary)		April 23, 1961;64 years ago (1961-04-23)	Uruguay Grupo Monte Carlo (Private)	Uruguay Monte Carlo TV S.A.		Canal 4
	Teledoce (Primary)		April 2, 1962;63 years ago (1962-04-02) [note 1]	Uruguay Grupo Disco (Private)	Uruguay Sociedad Televisora Larrañaga		Teledoce
	Canal 5 (Primary)		June 19, 1963;62 years ago (1963-06-19) [nota 1]	Uruguay Servicio de Comunicación Audiovisual Nacional (Public)	Uruguay Televisión Nacional Uruguay		Canal 5
	La Red (Secondary)		August 25, 1981;44 years ago (1981-08-25)	Uruguay Grupo Monte Carlo Grupo Disco Grupo Juanicó (Private)	Uruguay Red Uruguaya de Televisión S.A.
	TV Ciudad (Primary)		September 1, 1996;29 years ago (1996-09-01)	Uruguay Intendencia de Montevideo	Uruguay Servicio de Información y Comunicación del Gobierno de Montevideo		TV Ciudad

1. At the time, it launched as Tele12. In 1980 it was renamed Teledoce Televisora Color and in 2000, it adopted its current name, Teledoce.

Regional

Each of the departments of Uruguay contain at least one television station broadcasting from within its territory. Each station airs its own productions and content, with some exceptions such as Canal 8 from Cerro Largo Department, operated by Televisión Nacional del Uruguay and the public channel of Montevideo, TV Ciudad also considering itself as the only network with international coverage, which is also avialable in Chile and Argentina (as a cable channel).

• Artigas

Channel	Type
Canal 3 Artigas Televisión	Private
TV5 Artigas
Canal 8 Bella Unión TV
Canal 10 Bella Unión

• Canelones

Channel	Type
Canal 6 Ciudad de la Costa]	Private
Canal 6 TVL Pando
Canal 8 Canelones Capital
Canal 11 Las Piedras
Canal 11 Santa Lucía
ANPI TV San Ramón
TalaVisión

• Cerro Largo

Channel	Type
Canal 8, Televisión Nacional	Public
Canal 12 Melo	Private
Canal 38 Río Branco TV

• Colonia

Canal	Titularidad
Canal 3	Private
Canal 4 Juan Lacaze
Canal 5 Tarariras
Canal 5 Noticias y Deportes
ABCTV Colonia

• Durazno

Channel	Type
Canal 6 Zebra Televisión	Private
Canal 7
Canal 8

• Flores

Channel	Type
Canal 8 Trinidad	Private

• Florida

Channel	Type
Canal 4 Televisión Florida	Private
Canal 23 TVD
Florida Televisora Color
Tevé Más Florida

• Lavalleja

Channel	Type
Canal 2 Minas	Private
Vivo Canal 3
Canal 13 Cerro del Verdún

• Maldonado

Channel	Type
Canal 2 San Carlos	Private
Canal 7 Punta del Este
Canal Once
Canal 8 Cable Carolino
Canal 30 PuntaCable

• Montevideo

Channel	Type
TV Ciudad	Public
VTV	Private
A+V
CRTV
UCLTV
Cardinal TV
Canal 26 (off air)	Privado

• Paysandú

Canal	Titularidad
TV Río Canal 3	Private
Latina TV
Efusiva TV
Canal 4

• Río Negro

Channel	Type
Canal 11 Fray Bentos	Private
Río Uruguay Televisión
Canal 14 Young

• Rivera

Channel	Type
Canal 3 Minas de Corrales	Private
Canal 8 Rivera
TeveDiez Rivera

• Rocha

Canal	Titularidad
Canal 2 Lascano	Private
Canal 4 Chuy Color
Canal 8
El Nueve de Rocha

• Salto

Channel	Type
Canal 4	Private
UNO TV Canal 5;
Canal 8

• San José

Channel	Type
CLD TV	Private
Canal 9 CCV

• Soriano

Channel	Type
Canal 4 Dolores	Private
Tele 8 Mercedes
CV10 Canal 10
TVEO Dolores

• Tacuarembó

Channel	Type
Canal 4	Private
Canal 7 Zorrilla de San Martín
Canal 9 Paso de los Toros

• Treinta y Tres

Canal	Titularidad
Canal 4 Plaza Canal	Privada
Canal 11
33TV

Most viewed channels

Position	Channel	Share of total viewing (%)
1	Teledoce	12.3
2	Channel 10	9.8
3	Channel 4	8.9
4	Canal 5	3.6
5	TV Ciudad	3.3
6	La Red	2.5
7	VTV	2.0
8	UCL TV	1.2
9	VTV Plus	1.0
10	Canal A+V	0.6

Notes

1. Formerly known as Canal 5 SODRE.

References

1. "Bergara de Ursec: Amerita evaluar llamado a nuevos operadores en Montevideo". Produ (in Spanish).
2. Lanza, Edison; Buquet, Gustavo (September 2011). La televisión privada comercial en Uruguay (pdf) (in Spanish). Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Uruguay.
3. "Uruguay" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-12-05. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
4. DVB.org announcement on Uruguay's decision Archived 2008-01-10 at the Wayback Machine
5. "Uruguay" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-07-17.
6. "Televisión Digital Abierta" . Retrieved 2014-07-17.
7. "Inicio" . Retrieved 12 August 2016.

External links

• "Uruguay celebra 60 años de TV" (in Spanish). EL PAIS. 4 December 2016. With interviews to Cristina Morán, Julio Sánchez Padilla, Julia Möller, and Cacho de la Cruz.

• Uruguay portal

https://www.amasv.com.uy (in Spanish) https://mediospublicos.uy (in Spanish)