Canal 9 Litoral
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| Branding | Canal 9 Litoral |
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| Affiliations | El Trece |
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First air date | 22 April 1985 |
| Canal 9 (1985-2005) | |
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Licensing authority | ENACOM |
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| Website | www |
Canal 9 Litoral, is an El Trece-affiliated Argentine free-to-air television station that transmits from the city of Paraná. The channel can be seen in a large part of the Entre Ríos Province and surrounding areas through repeaters. It is mainly operated by Grupo Neomedia.
History
On 23 May 1984, the Federal Broadcasting Committee, through Resolution 419, authorized the provincial government to install a repeater in the city of Paraná, capital of the province of Entre Ríos, to retransmit the state network ATC. The channel was operated by the provincial government. In addition, it broadcast its own programming for a few hours.[1][2] The license began its regular broadcasts on 22 April 1985 as LRI 450 TV Canal 9 de Paraná.[2][3]
At that time, the province still did not have its own television station and depended on the stations from Santa Fe or Buenos Aires. With the endorsement of then-governor Sergio Montiel (1983-1987), the station was organized and launched, with Reynaldo Adrián Puig as its first director. Víctor González, Alfredo Pintos (head of news), Jano Colcerniani, Eduardo Camargo, Raúl Galanti, Santiago Rinaldi and Inés Ghiggi were the first presenters of the channel, with Rubén Noble as technical manager and Tati Vieyra as commercial manager. [2]
Its first broadcasts were made from two rooms equipped on the 4th floor of the Retirement Fund building and the transmission plant at the Paraná Seminary. In the first years, viewers in the city of Victoria had to point their VHF antennas towards the capital of Entry to be able to receive the signal – of poor quality – from Channel 9, until the station installed a repeater in the town of Febre.
On 25 November 1997, Australian company Prime Television Ltd. announced the purchase of the Canal 9 Libertad network and its stations (including Canal 9 Paraná) for approximately US$150 million.[4] Said transaction was completed the following month.[5] In January 1998, 50% of the network had been handed over to Torneos y Competencias;[6] while, by March 1999, TyC co-owned such percentage with Atlántida Comunicaciones through AC Inversora.[7]
In October 1999, by means of Resolution 1639, Secretaría de Comunicaciones authorized Canal 9 to conduct digital terrestrial test broadcasts on VHF channel 8 in the ATSC standard.[8]
On 6 August 2001, Prime Television announced that the remaining 50% it had in Azul Televisión was sold to JP Morgan Chase for US$67,5 million; however, the financee did not have the maintenance of the station in Buenos Aires or its regional assets (including Canal 9 Litoral) as its plans for a long time.[5] However, in 2004, Canal 9 was acquired by Grupo Neomedia.[2]
In January 2005, Canal 9 became an affiliate of Artear's Canal 13.[2][9]
AFSCA, by means of resolutions 304 of 7 September 2010, and 1037 of 30 August 2011, authorized Canal 9 to hold digital terrestrial signal tests, this time on the new ISDB-T format, on UHF channel 43.[10][11]
On 3 January 2014, The channel began broadcasting programming in HD.
On 31 March 2015, the Federal Authority for Audiovisual Communication Services, through Resolution 236, granted Canal 9 physical channel 35.1 for its regular broadcasts (in HD format) on digital terrestrial television.[12]
References
- ^ "Resolución 419/1984" (PDF). COMFER. 23 May 1984. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- ^ a b c d e "A 36 años de la creación de Canal 9, primera emisora de TV en Entre Ríos". Ahora. 22 April 2021.
- ^ "Canal 9 Litoral cumple 40 años de trayectoria en la Región". Ahora. 22 April 2025.
- ^ "Una empresa australiana compra el 75% de Canal 9". Diario Clarín. 26 November 1997. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
- ^ a b "Medios. JP Morgan compró el 50% de Azul TV". Diario La Nación. 7 August 2001. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
- ^ "Un año en alza para TyC". Diario La Nación. 28 January 1998. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
- ^ "Medios. Prime vende su parte en Azul TV". Diario La Nación. 13 March 1999. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
- ^ "Resolución 1639/1999". Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina. 6 October 1999. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ "Canal 9 Litoral". Artear. Archived from the original on 19 January 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Resolución 304/10" (PDF). AFSCA. 7 September 2010. Retrieved 27 September 2010.
- ^ "Resolución 1037/11" (PDF). AFSCA. 30 August 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
- ^ "Resolución 236/2015". InfoLeg. 4 June 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2015.