Television in Latin America


Television in Latin America currently includes more than 1,500 television stations and more than 60 million TV sets throughout the 20 countries that constitute Latin America. Due to economic and political problems television networks in some countries of this region have developed less than the North American and European networks, for instance. In other countries like Colombia or Chile, television broadcasting has historically been public-broadcast dominated until the 1990s. The largest commercial television groups are Mexico-based Televisa, Brazil-based Globo and Canada-based Canwest Latin American Group. Due to the shared language of Spanish by two thirds of Latin Americans a lot of programmes and broadcasters operate throughout the region, offering both United States television and Spanish-language television.

[Argentina]

[Dominican Republic]

[El Salvador]

VHF
UHF
Satellite
Guatemala doesn't have a digital terrestrial standard yet, but it seems that ISDB-T will be the standard.
Albavision broadcast in the ATSC format for about 4 years on channel 19 HDTV, but is now back to analog transmission on that same frequency.

[Honduras]

[Panama]

[Paraguay]

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National networks

Frequency numbers for Lima in analog TV.
National channels from Telefónica's Cable Mágico, the country's most popular operator.
Puerto Rico follows USA TV Code system
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