| TVN | |
|---|---|
| Launched | October 24, 1969 |
| Owned by | State of Chile |
| Audience share | 23.9% (May 2005, [1]) |
| Country | Chile |
| Broadcast area | Chile |
| Headquarters | Santiago, Chile |
| Website | http://www.tvn.cl |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Digital ISDB-Tb (Greater Santiago) | 33 |
| Analog (Greater Santiago) | 7 |
| Analog (Greater Concepción) | 4 |
| Analog (Greater Valparaiso) | 12 |
| Analog (Arica) | 5 |
| Analog (Antofagasta) | 6 |
| Analog (Chillán) | 6 |
| Analog (Temuco) | 7 |
| Analog (Punta Arenas) | 6 |
TVN (spanish Televisión Nacional de Chile, literally in english: National Broadcasting of Chile) is Chile's state-owned television station. Its inaugural transmission took place on 1969. TVN is owned, but not funded, by the state, and it functions independently from it; a very particular case of public television in South America. A board of directors, appointed by the President of the Republic and later ratified by the Senate, oversees control over the station. The distribution of the members of the board tend to coincide with the political composition of the current Congress.
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TVN sends its feed via a 200+ sender network spanning 98% of Chile. It airs in Santiago on digital frequency channel 33 (ISDB-Tb) for HDTV.
It also operates an international station (TV Chile), that is received via satellite around the world, and a news network station called "24 Horas".
TVN broadcasts outside metropolitan area using local repeaters called Redes (Spanish for Networks). Each of these repeat national TVN feed, plus, a local newscast, as well as local advertising. These TVN owned networks are:
TVN broadcasts from 07:00 CLT-02:00 CLT (24 hours a day in TV Chile) and offers a mix of news, variety shows and soap operas. Its primetime is dominated by local dramas, telenovelas and local adaptations of American sitcoms. The most important shows currently airing on the network are[1]:
TVN is available on satellite and digital cable in over 100 countries worldwide, esp. across Latin America and to other Hispanosphere countries like Spain. Many (US) American and European viewers find TVN to have good quality in graphics comparable with European-based networks known for bigger budgets for production.
Major satellite and cable providers have noted growing demand for TVN to be offered in Canada. TVN is available in Australia, New Zealand and Brazil, wherever there are Chilean expatriate communities.
TVN has an affiliation agreement with NBC based in the USA and its subsidiary Telemundo, a Spanish-language television network in the United States. TVN airs a small amount of programming from the two networks.
TVN competes well with international channels, esp. from the USA such as CNN, MTV and the "big four" networks like Fox, ABC and CBS (and all its Spanish-language versions) available on satellite in Chile.
TVN was the first Latin American channel to open a channel in YouTube. TVN and TVNMedia is the archive for a total of 40 years of their produced material: programs, logos and bumpers,and TVN official YouTube account downloads actual videos and TVNMedia old ones from 1970s, 1980s and 1990s programming,logos,bumpers,etc.
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