Chilevisión

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Chilevisión
Launched	November 4, 1960
Owned by	Sebastián Piñera (Local businessman and politician)
Audience share	15.0% (May, 2005, Source:[1])
Formerly called	RTU (Red de Televisión de la Universidad de Chile) or Canal 11
Website	http://www.chilevision.cl
Availability
Terrestrial
Analog (Santiago)	Channel 11
Analog (Great Valparaiso)	10

Chilevisión or CHV is the third oldest television channel in Chile. Formerly called Teleonce (Universidad de Chile Televisión) and RTU (Red de Televisión de la Universidad de Chile), this TV station was owned by Universidad de Chile, a Chilean national university. This educational institution sold an important percentage of its TV channel to Venevisión, changing its name to Chilevisión. It was later sold to Claxson Multimedia Group and then to Chilean businessman Sebastián Piñera.

Mainly airs celebrity gossip shows, newscast, Venezuelan, Brazilian telenovelas, and anime. It's currently the fourth place of audiences in the country behind Canal 13, TVN and Mega (in that order).

Chilevisión reaches Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, continental Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay through the Brazilian satellite Estrela do Sul.

Currently the most important programs of the TV station are SQP, a gossip celebrity program, Invasion, a teenage oriented program who shows mostly Anime series, Chilevision Noticias, their News program, REC, a miscelaneous show and Primer Plano, another gossip celebrity program with a more serious tone.

[edit] See also

List of Chilean television channels

[edit] External link

Official Site (Spanish)

Nationwide Chilean television channels

Nationwide terrestrial television channels: Canal 13 \| TVN \| Mega \| Chilevisión \| RED TV \| UCV TV \| Telecanal
National cable/satellite channels: ARTV \| Canal 13 Cable \| CDF \| CDtv \| etc...TV \| Showbiz \| Teletrak TV \| TV Senado \| Via X \| Zona Latina
International/Internet Stations: TV Chile