Canal 11 | |
Owner: | Chapin TV (Albavisión) |
Country: | Guatemala |
Language: | Spanish |
Headquarters: | Guatemala City |
Former Names: | Teleonce (1966-2022) |
Sister Channels: | Canal 3 Canal 7 Canal 11 |
Picture Format: | 480i SDTV |
Terr Serv 1: | Analog VHF |
Terr Chan 1: | Channel 11 |
Canal 11, formerly known as TeleOnce is a television station headquartered in Guatemala City, Guatemala,[1] with repeaters throughout the country. The network and stations broadcast in the NTSC format.
It is one of the five stations operated by Radio y Televisión de Guatemala, who also operate channels 3, 7, 13 and 23; all of which are linked to Remigio Ángel González through his Albavisión group. The channel specializes in animated series, TV shows and movies.
The Guatemalan government issued a license for channel 11 in 1960, announcing on December 27 that year as "Voz e Imagen de Centroamérica" on an advertisement at the El Imparcial newspaper, promising an 8,000-watt antenna and a budget of 25,000 quetzales. Before starting operations, the channel failed to begin operations, having failed its initial April 1961 target; the station faced legal problems on February 9, 1962, before the government suspended its license on March 6 the same year.
The current station was founded between October 1966 and February 1967 with mixed Guatemalan and Honduran capitals; financing came from Guatemalan businessmen and the channel was led by the Honduran Antonio Mourra.[2] Mourra later started channel 13, which later joined Asociación de Televisoras de Centroamérica y Panamá as a founding member.[3]