Once TV

Once TV México, Spanish for México Eleven TV is a Mexican

Mexico

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 educational broadcast television network owned by Instituto Politecnico Nacional. The network's flagship station is XEIPN channel 11 in Mexico, Distrito Federal. It broadcasts across Mexico through local television affiliates, cable television, and free-to-air

Free-to-air

Free-to-air describes television and radio services broadcast in clear form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription or one-off fee...

 satellite. The network is also avaibale in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 through Once Mexico Channel via satellite from DirecTV

DirecTV

DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...

 and also various cable outlets. Most of its programs are also webcast

Webcast

A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand...

 through the Internet

Internet

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, though its programming is not the same as the actual aerial or satellite signal.

History

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. The television channel was conceived by Alejo Peralta y Díaz, Director of the National Polytechnic Institute (1956–1959), and supported by Eugenio Méndez Docurro, Director of the National Polytechnic Institute (1959–1962), Walter Cross Buchanan, Secretary of Communications and Transportation

Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (Mexico)

The Secretariat of Communications and Transportation of Mexico is a federal entity that regulates commercial road traffic and broadcasting...

, and Jaime Torres Bodet

Jaime Torres Bodet

Jaime Torres Bodet was a prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three Presidents of Mexico....

, Secretary of Public Education. Its first broadcast was a mathematics

Mathematics

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 class transmitted from a small television studio

Television studio

A television studio is an installation in which a video productions take place, either for the recording of live television to video tape, or for the acquisition of raw footage for post-production. The design of a studio is similar to, and derived from, movie studios, with a few amendments for the...

 located at the Casco de Santo Tomás, on the northern part of Mexico City.

Awards

Once TV has won many national and international prizes, including the following:

• Promax World Gold Awards 2004 New York
  New York
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  , U.S.:

Golden Prize T 08 for Program Promotion: "Violencia Doméstica"

Golden Prize T 10 for Special Event Program Promotion: "Violencia Doméstica"

Silver Prize T 08 for Program Promotion: "Diálogos en confianza" (Talk show

Talk show

A talk show or chat show is a television program or radio program where one person discuss various topics put forth by a talk show host....

)

Silver Prize T 27 for Non-Promotional Animation: " Master of lounge music "

• Promax BDA World Gold Awards 2004, New York, U.S.:

Gold 56 for Consumer Topical Advertising: "Pasión por la Naturaleza "

Silver 4 for Topical Print: "Tour de cine francés"

Silver 65 for Poster: "Tour de cine francés"

Silver 69 for Illustration for Print: "Pasión por la Naturaleza "

Bronze 13 for Open: "Violencia Familiar"

Bronze 16 for Art Direction & Design, Topical Promo: " Diálogos en Confianza "

• I Festival Internacional de Documentales de Madrid 2004, Madrid
  Madrid
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  , Spain
  Spain
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  :

Jury's Special Mention for "Series del Once"

Affiliates

The following is a list of all full-time Once TV affiliates:

CH Television channel A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and...	Callsign	City of License	A Power Electric power Electric power is the rate at which electric energy is transferred by an electric circuit. The SI unit of power is the watt.-Circuits:Electric power, like mechanical power, is represented by the letter P in electrical equations...	DT Digital television Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...	DT Power Digital television Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...	Owner / Operator
3	XHTJB XHTJB-TV XHTJB is the television call sign for the local Once TV repeater in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico....	Tijuana, Baja California	40 kW			Instituto Politecnico Nacional
20	XHCHU	Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua Ciudad Cuauhtémoc is a city located in the west-central part of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It serves as the seat of the municipality of Cuauhtémoc....	63 kW			Instituto Politecnico Nacional
20	XHCHD	Delicias, Chihuahua Delicias, Chihuahua Delicias is a city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua and serves as the seat of the municipality of the same name. It is located southeast of the state capital, Chihuahua. Delicias was declared an official municipality of the state of Chihuahua on January 7, 1935...	254 kW			Instituto Politecnico Nacional
20	XHCHI	Chihuahua, Chihuahua Chihuahua, Chihuahua The city of Chihuahua is the state capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It has a population of about 825,327. The predominant activity is industry, including domestic heavy, light industries, consumer goods production, and to a smaller extent maquiladoras.-History:It has been said that the...	245 kW			Instituto Politecnico Nacional
13	XHSCE XHSCE-TV -External links:*...	Saltillo, Coahuila	9 kW			Instituto Politecnico Nacional
7	XHGPD XHGPD-TV -External links:*...	Torreon, Coahuila	32			Instituto Politecnico Nacional
11	XHIPN	Mexico, Distrito Federal	324 kW	33.1		Instituto Politecnico Nacional
13	XHEW XHEW-TV XHEW was the television call sign for the local Once TV repeater in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.The station went dark in 2000 due to equipment failure; its license was cancelled by the SCT in 2007....	Matamoros, Tamaulipas Matamoros, Tamaulipas Matamoros, officially known as Heroica Matamoros, is a city in the northeastern part of Tamaulipas, in the country of Mexico. It is located on the southern bank of the Rio Grande, directly across the border from Brownsville, Texas, in the United States. Matamoros is the second largest and second...	15 kW			Patronato Cultural de Televisión de Matamoros, A.C.
34	XHDGO	Durango, Durango Durango, Durango -Climate:The city of Durango has a semi-arid climate, classified as Bsk in the Koppen system. The climate is temperate in the western portion , with the average annual temperature being 15 °C and consisting of an average annual rainfall of 1,600 millimeters. In the eastern region, the average...	29 kW			Instituto Politecnico Nacional
7	XHGDP XHGDP-TV XHGDP-TV channel 13 is the television call sign for the TV Azteca owned television station in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico. The station is affiliated to the Azteca 13 network and is part of Azteca 13 Noreste. This channel also broadcasts local news and programming.-External links:**...	Gomez Palacio, Durango	32 kW			Instituto Politecnico Nacional
12	XHOPCE	Celaya, Guanajuato	59 kW	20.1		Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales
38	XHOPLA	León, Guanajuato León, Guanajuato The city of León, formally León de los Aldama is the sixth most populous city in Mexico and the first in the state of Guanajuato. It is also the seat of the municipality of León...	111 kW	34.1		Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales
27	XHOPGA	Guadalajara, Jalisco Guadalajara, Jalisco Guadalajara is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,564,514 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality...	110 kW	43.1		Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales
7	XHVBM	Valle de Bravo, México	.5 kW			Instituto Politecnico Nacional
45	XHOPMO	Morelia, Michoacán	45 kW	44.1		Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales
6	XHCIP	Cuernavaca, Morelos	5 kW			Instituto Politecnico Nacional
47	XHOPMT	Monterrey, Nuevo León	133 kW	51.1	36 kW	Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales
2	XHOPOA	Oaxaca, Oaxaca Oaxaca, Oaxaca The city and municipality of Oaxaca de Juárez, or simply Oaxaca, is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of the same name . It is located in the Centro District in the Central Valleys region of the state, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre at the base of the Cerro del Fortín...	41 kW	35.1		Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales
38	XHOPPA	Puebla, Puebla Puebla, Puebla The city and municipality of Puebla is the capital of the state of Puebla, and one of the five most important colonial cities in Mexico. Being a planned city, it is located to the east of Mexico City and west of Mexico's main port, Veracruz, on the main route between the two.The city was founded...	118 kW	30.1		Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales
5	XHNQR	Cancún, Quintana Roo	14 kW			Gobierno de Quintana Roo
9	XHCZQ	Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo	2 kW			Gobierno de Quintana Roo
4	XHSLP	San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí, commonly called SLP or simply San Luis, is the capital of, and most populous city in the Mexican state of the same name. The city lies at an elevation of 1,850 meters...	6 kW			Instituto Politecnico Nacional
5	XHSIN	Culiacan, Sinaloa	10 kW			Instituto Politecnico Nacional
11	XHSIM	Los Mochis, Sinaloa	10 kW			Instituto Politecnico Nacional
35	XHOPHA	Hermosillo, Sonora	174 kW	27.1		Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales
30	XHOPTA XHOPTA XHOPTA analog channel 30 digital channel 35.1 is a Once TV affiliate in Tampico, Tamaulipas.-External links:*...	Tampico, Tamaulipas	77.5 kW	35.1		Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales
31	XHOPCA	Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz	81 kW	46.1		Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales
34	XHOPXA	Xalapa, Veracruz	251 kW	35.1		Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales
5	XHOPME	Merida, Yucatán Mérida, Yucatán Mérida is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Yucatán and the Yucatán Peninsula. It is located in the northwest part of the state, about from the Gulf of Mexico coast...	90 kW	23.1		Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales

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