TVMax

TVMax is a commercial privately owned TV station in Panama City, Panama that is available all over the country, except the province of Colón. Its owned by Televisora Nacional, S.A that has an older TV station named TVN.

TVMax was created to absorb all the sports programming of TVN. A sports news program was created. It also received most of the series, sitcoms and reality shows of this channel, and acquired new ones. TV MAX is aimed towards male audience and people who like sports and action movies and series.

It has become a very popular TV station in the country.

Programmes Broadcast on TVMax

Own Programmes

• GOLMAX (a weekly sports magazine about national and international soccer)
• Baseball MAX (a weekly sports magazine that cover all the Major League Baseball activities and also the Panamanian Baseball League)

Sports Programming (usually during weekends)

• Soccer: Lega Calcio, UEFA Champions League, and LPF (The Panamanian Soccer League).
• Baseball: Major League Baseball (usually 3 matches during weekends), and the Panamanian Baseball League from January to April. (usually 2 matches during weekends)
• Formula One World Championship

Prime Time Series (dubbed Latin American versions)

• Prison Break
• TNA Impact!
• 24
• American Gladiators
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Shark
• Knight Rider
• The Clone Wars
• Band of Brothers

Series Waiting New Seasons

• Californication
• Nip/Tuck
• Smallville
• Survivor
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Damages
• Medium
• Sleeper Cell

The rest of the scheduling consists on action movies and a kids block from Monday to Saturday from 6:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and on Sundays from 6:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. that includes the following animated series:

• Tak and the Power of Juju
• Hi-5
• Rugrats
• Kappa Mikey
• Dinosaur King
• Danny Phantom
• Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl
• Yu-Gi-Oh!
• Avatar: The Legend of Aang
• Shaman King
• G.I. Joe: Sigma 6

References

• CARRERA POR LOS ‘RATINGS’ Newspaper article in La Prensa (Spanish)
• TVMax official website (Spanish)