Once TV México

Once TV México, Spanish for Eleven TV Mexico is a Mexican 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 satellite. The network is also avaibale in the United States through Once Mexico Channel via satellite from DirecTV and also various cable outlets. Most of its programs are also webcast through the Internet, 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.^[1] 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, and Jaime Torres Bodet, Secretary of Public Education.^[1][2] Its first broadcast was a mathematics class transmitted from a small television studio located at the Casco de Santo Tomás, on the northern part of Mexico City.^[1]

Awards

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

• Promax World Gold Awards 2004 New York, 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)

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, Spain:

Jury's Special Mention for "Series del Once"

Affiliates

The following is a list of all full-time Once TV affiliates:^[3][4]

References

External links

• (Spanish) Official Site
• (Spanish)(English) International Site
• Once TV webcast