 Logo used since 2025 | |
| Broadcast area | Mexico |
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| Transmitters | See below |
| Headquarters | Mexico City |
| Programming | |
| Language | Spanish |
| Picture format | HDTV1080i (downscaled to480i for the SD feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | National Polytechnic Institute |
| Sister channels | Once Niñas y Niños Canal Once Internacional |
| History | |
| Launched | March 2, 1959; 66 years ago (1959-03-02) |
| Former names | Canal 11 XEIPN-TV (1959-1969) TVONCE (1978-1986) Canal Once (1991-1996) Once TV (1996-2008) Once TV México (2008-2013) |
| Links | |
| Website | canalonce |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Digital terrestrial television (Mexico) | Channel 11.1 |
| Streaming media | |
| Sling TV | Internet Protocol television |
Canal Once (channel 11) (stylised ascanal once, formerlyonce andonce tv) is a Mexican educational broadcast television network owned byNational Polytechnic Institute. The network'sflagship station isXEIPN-TDTchannel 11 inMexico 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 theUnited States,Spain and the rest of countries ofLatin America andthe Caribbean via satellite fromDirecTV andCANTV, via online from VEMOX,VIVOplay and also on various cable outlets, on "Latino" or "Spanish" tiers. Most of its programs are alsowebcast through theInternet, though its programming is not the same as the actual broadcasters 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.[1] The television channel was conceived byAlejo Peralta y Díaz, the director of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional between 1956 and 1959, and supported by his successorEugenio Méndez Docurro, as well asSecretary of Communications and TransportationWalter Cross Buchanan andJaime Torres Bodet,Secretary of Public Education.[1][2] Its first broadcast was amathematics class transmitted from a smalltelevision studio located at theCasco de Santo Tomás, in the northern part of Mexico City.[1]
In 1969, Canal Once was the first Mexico City TV station to relocate its transmitter toCerro 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.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Once TV (as the network had been renamed in 1997) embarked on a two-pronged expansion strategy. The IPN built transmitters in cities such asCuernavaca andTijuana in the late 1990s, and in the 2000s and early 2010s, it expanded to build in the states of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua. It also allied with state networks, such as those ofGuerrero,Nayarit andQuintana Roo, providing them with Once TV programs. The launch of the Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales, now theSistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano (SPR), in 2010 marked the beginning of a second expansion, which finally brought Once TV to such large cities asGuadalajara,Monterrey andPuebla.
The SPR operates 26 transmitters to the IPN's 13, and all of them (with the exception of Mexico City) carry Canal Once as one of their subchannels.
In 2013, Once TV México returned to its original name of Canal Once as part of a branding refresh.[3]
In 2015, the IPN launchedOnce Niños, a subchannel of Canal Once featuring children's programming, which is available on all Canal Once transmitters operated by the IPN as well as on all Mexican cable systems. On December 31, 2015, Canal Once completed itsdigital television transition.
In July 2016, Olympusat added the channel to its OTT platform, VEMOX.[4][5]
On January 23, 2019, PresidentAndrés Manuel López Obrador nominated senatorJosé Antonio Álvarez Lima to serve as the new director of Canal Once.[6] marking his return to public media after 28 years away.[7] Álvarez was installed in that position in March.[7] He announced his resignation in late October 2020, in order to fill the Senate vacancy in his seat that resulted from the death of alternate senatorJoel Molina Ramírez.[8] If Álvarez Lima had opted to remain at Canal Once, the vacancy would have triggered a special election for the seat.[9] He was replaced by 25-year-old Carlos Brito Lavalle, the youngest director in the station's history, who had previously helped coordinate the Aprende en Casa program and held other posts.[10]
In 2021, Canal Once was authorized a further 24 new transmitters, many to be co-sited with existing or new SPR installations.
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Canal Once produces a wide variety of cultural and educational programming. It also produces and airsOnce Noticias national newscasts.
Canal Once has also been one of the national broadcasters that has carried the Olympic Games under contract fromAmérica Móvil, including the2014 Summer Youth Olympics and2016 Summer Olympics.
DuringHoly Week, as a result of thecoronavirus pandemic, Canal Once,Canal Catorce, andCapital 21 co-produced for the first time television coverage of thePassion Play of Iztapalapa.
Canal Once has won many national and international prizes, including the following:
Canal Once has an extensive transmitter network owned by the IPN that is supplemented by theSPR transmitter network. All Canal Once transmitters, whether owned by the IPN or the SPR, use virtual channel 11.
Once Niñas y Niños is only available on Canal Once transmitters owned by the IPN and as the subchannel of one separately owned station,XHZHZ-TDT inZacatecas, Zacatecas.[11] A third subchannel, known as Mente Abierta, was authorized for the IPN transmitter network in August 2020 but never launched.
One transmitter, inCuernavaca, carriesCanal Catorce as a subchannel under agreement with the SPR.
| RF | VC | Call sign | Location | ERP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 11 | XHCPDE-TDT | Tijuana, BC | 78.96 kW |
| 20 | 11 | XHCHU-TDT | Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chih. | 22.09 kW |
| 20 | 11 | XHCHD-TDT | Cd. Delicias, Chih. | 146.17 kW |
| 25 | 11 | XHCHI-TDT | Chihuahua, Chih. | 130.31 kW |
| 31 | 11 | XHCPDF-TDT | Saltillo, Coah. | 9.08 kW |
| 33 | 11 | XEIPN-TDT | Mexico City Coacalco Chalco–Ixtapaluca | 104.05 kW 0.419 kW 0.2319 kW[12] |
| 33 | 11 | XHDGO-TDT | Durango, Dgo. | 10.04 kW |
| 34 | 11 | XHGPD-TDT | Gómez Palacio, Dgo. | 14.23 kW |
| 21 | 11 | XHCPDG-TDT | Valle de Bravo, Mex. | 2.82 kW |
| 20 | 11/14 | XHCPDH-TDT | Cuernavaca, Mor. | 22.92 kW |
| 24 | 11 | XHCPDJ-TDT | San Luis Potosí, SLP | 22.52 kW |
| 21 | 11 | XHCPDI-TDT | Culiacán, Sin. | 44.45 kW |
| 21 | 11 | XHSIM-TDT | Los Mochis, Sin. | 218.51 kW |
| 23 | 11 | XHPBGD-TDT | Guadalajara, Jal. | 125 kW |
| 36 | 11 | XHPBMY-TDT | Monterrey, NL | 60 kW |
| 20 | 11 | XHPBCN-TDT | Cancún, Q. Roo | |
| 7 | 11 | XHCPBN-TDT | Celaya, Gto. |
In 2017, the IPN was authorized for four additional transmitters; it surrendered the concession for one of the four, atTepic, Nayarit, to the IFT in 2019.
Canal Once was formerly relayed by the state networks of Guerrero (Radio y Televisión de Guerrero), Nayarit (Tele 10) and Quintana Roo (Sistema Quintanarroense de Comunicación Social), and also byXHCOZ-TDT, an independent local station inCozumel, Quintana Roo. XHCOZ holds virtual channel 11 as an artifact of its former carriage of Canal Once's programming.
Canal Once continues to supply programming to state networks, such asXHBZC-TDT in Baja California Sur. Some commercial stations in markets without public television air some Canal Once programming, notablyXEJ-TDT inCiudad Juárez andXEFE-TDT inNuevo Laredo.
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