Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano

The Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano (SPR or SIPREM, English: Mexican State Public Broadcasting System), known as Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales (OPMA, English: Broadcast Media Promotion Organization) until 2014, is an independent Mexican government agency. Its mission is to support the development of public television in the country and increase its national reach; it carries this goal out through ownership of a nationwide network of transmitters and the operation of its own public television network. The agency was established by a decree published on March 31, 2010.

History

By 2010, three public television stations existed in Mexico: the Instituto Politécnico Nacional's Canal Once, Conaculta's Canal 22, and low-powered teveunam channel 20. However, not all of these stations, especially Canal 22 and teveunam, had national coverage outside of pay television services. XHUNAM's signal could not even be received in all of Mexico City, as that station broadcasts at low power. None of them had a general national reach above 30%. Even, there aren't signal of this channels in the another Metropolitan city of Mexico; being those Guadalajara and Monterrey.

OPMA was established with the mission of ensuring that more Mexicans could receive a wider range of public television signals. Indeed, when the first four OPMA transmitters took to the air on July 12, 2010, national coverage for Canal Once (then known as Once TV México) jumped from 28 to 42%; it is now at 66%.

The 2014 Mexican telecommunications reform transformed OPMA into SPR, being effective August 13, 2014. At the same time, the system became an independent agency no longer under the auspices of the Secretariat of the Interior (SEGOB).

Television network

SPR's flagship television network, Una Voz con Todos (A Voice for All), broadcasts documentaries and other programs.

In January 2014, Una Voz con Todos acquired the rights to broadcast the 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics through a contract made between SEGOB and América Móvil.^[1] Later that year SPR followed up by signing a deal with the same company to carry the 2014 Youth Summer Olympics.

Transmitter network

SPR's transmitter network currently covers 56% of the Mexican population. The flagship station is XHOPMA-TDT, channel 30 in Mexico City. Some stations broadcast in analog and digital, while the newest are digital-only:^[2]

Transmitters on the air

Transmitters under construction

Additional transmitters are under construction, bringing the overall total to 26:^[2]

Digital multiplex

Except for XHOPMA, all of these stations carry (or will carry) a multiplex of at least five channels. The established Canal Once, Canal 22 and teveunam are joined by Una Voz con Todos and also by Ingenio TV, an educational service of the Secretariat of Public Education:

XHOPOS multiplexed in March 2015 and features a different multiplex of eight channels:^[3]

As XEIPN, XEIMT and XHHCU have their own digital channels, XHOPMA's multiplex is different:

References

External links

• Official website