TV Canaria
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Televisión Canaria is an autonomous television network
for the Canary Islands
. Although the registered office and principal place of TV Canaria is located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
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The creation of the channel arose in the 1980s with promulgation of the law 8/1984 of the autonomous region of Canaries relating to Broadcasting and Televisión Canaria. The first broadcast was made on the 21 August 1999 under the name Televisión Autonómica de Canarias (TVAC), in 2001 the company adopted the simpler name of Televisión Canaria and the slogan la nuestra.
The channel broadcasts on analogue and TDT throughout the Canary Islands, and on TDT in the rest of Spain
. TV Canaria also broadcasts two other channels, TV Canaria 2
and the international channel TVCi which broadcasts in North and South America
Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...
for the Canary Islands
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
. Although the registered office and principal place of TV Canaria is located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the capital , second-most populous city of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the 21st largest city in Spain, with a population of 222,417 in 2009...
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The creation of the channel arose in the 1980s with promulgation of the law 8/1984 of the autonomous region of Canaries relating to Broadcasting and Televisión Canaria. The first broadcast was made on the 21 August 1999 under the name Televisión Autonómica de Canarias (TVAC), in 2001 the company adopted the simpler name of Televisión Canaria and the slogan la nuestra.
The channel broadcasts on analogue and TDT throughout the Canary Islands, and on TDT in the rest of Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
. TV Canaria also broadcasts two other channels, TV Canaria 2
TV Canaria 2
TV Canaria 2 is an exclusive channel available on Digital Terrestrial Television in the Canary Islands.The channel is an autonomous television network owned by Televisión Canaria....
and the international channel TVCi which broadcasts in North and South America