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Key facts
- Country
- Chile
- Broadcast area
- Chile, Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain
- Headquarters
- Santiago, Chile
- Language
- Spanish
- Picture format
- 1080i HDTV , (downscaled to 16:9 480i for the SDTV feed)
- Owner
- Canal 13 SpA , Grupo Luksic [ es ] (through TV Medios Investments Ltd.)
- Sister channels
- T13 en vivo [ es ] , 13 Internacional , 13C , 13Rec [ es ]
- Launched
- August 21, 1959 ( 1959-08-21 )
- Former names
- Canal 2 UC (1959–1961) , Canal 13 UC (1961–1970) , Corporación de Televisión de la Universidad Católica de Chile (1970–1982) , Universidad Católica de Chile Televisión (1982–1999) , Corporación de Televisión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (secondary, 2000–2002)
- Website
- www .13 .cl
- Digital vhf
- Listings may vary
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Canal 13 is a Chilean free-to-air television network. Informally known in Chile as El 13 (The Thirteen), it is the second oldest television station in the country. Launched on August 21, 1959, on VHF channel 2 in Santiago, it was founded by a group of engineers from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. The station later moved its frequency to VHF channel 13, which gave rise to its current name. One of its most significant milestones was broadcasting the 1962 FIFA World Cup, hosted in Chile.
It was originally named Corporación de Televisión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Television Corporation of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) until 2010, when the university sold most of its shares to Andrónico Luksic Craig's Grupo Luksic [es]. In 2017, Grupo Luksic acquired full ownership of the channel.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Canal 13” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.