Canal 8 de Tucumán
Commercial Name	Canal8
Slogan	Siempre "Always"
Operated by	Telefónica Telefónica Telefónica, S.A. is a Spanish broadband and telecommunications provider in Europe and Latin America. Operating globally, it is the third largest provider in the world...
Frequency
Frequency	LRK 458 TV Canal 8 Tucumán

Canal 8 de Tucumán (Channel 8 of Tucumán) is a television station transmitting from San Miguel de Tucumán, the capital of the Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 province of Tucumán

Tucumán Province

Tucumán is the most densely populated, and the smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina. Located in the northwest of the country, the capital is San Miguel de Tucumán, often shortened to Tucumán. Neighboring provinces are, clockwise from the north: Salta, Santiago del Estero and...

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Local programming

Within a few months of beginning transmission, Canal 8 aired its first newscast, called 12 Minutos (12 Minutes). The newscast eventually was changed to a one-hour show, and the name was changed to División Noticias (Breaking News).

Canal 8 presents music programs such as Conexión Videos, Musica Libre (Free Music), and Elegidos (Elected), which aired from 1987 to 2008.

It has produced series for children and teens such as El Jardín de Florencia Flor (Florencia Flor's Garden), El Payaso Tapalín (The Tapalín Clown), and Tevematch.

Commented Third Time is the first sports show of the channel. Canal 8 was the first channel in the province to air live sporting events.

In the early 1990s the station showed a miniseries set in the Tucumán of the 17th Century called 100 Años Después (After 100 Years).

National programming

Canal 8 was the first channel in the area to rebroadcast news programs from Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

such as 28 Millones (later called 30 millones), Realidad 84 (Reality 84), Redacción Abierta (Open Drafting), and Buenas Noches Argentina (Good Night Argentina).