Telecanal

Telecanal is a Chilean privately owned TV channel, launched on Monday, December 5, 2005, six years and four days after the end of the transmissions of Canal 2, whose broadcast hours required by law were covered by slots paid for by the evangelical ministry VidaVisión. Its offices and studios are located in the Sanhattan neighborhood of Las Condes and is owned by Canal Dos, S.A., a company with connections to Albavisión, owners of La Red. On May 4, 2026, the CNTV unanimously declared the total expiry of Canal Dos S.A.’s digital broadcasting concessions, citing repeated and serious breaches of technical, administrative, and legal requirements. In its last 2 days on air from May 12, Telecanal operated as a pirate television station without a valid broadcasting license. At its launch, Telecanal offered alternative programming for the local industry. However, during its first years of broadcasting it left behind its original offer, reducing its in-house programs and limiting itself to broadcasting foreign programming. Much of the output has already been broadcast by La Red since both channels belong to the Albavisión group; therefore, both are the only broadcast television channels in Chile that have the same owner, even though national legislation and regulatory entities have blocked this ownership situation in other similar cases, including the one that led to the bankruptcy of the previous owner of the channel 2 frequency in 1999. Its biggest competitors are its sister channel La Red and TV+, being the three channels with the lowest audience reception in the country. It currently airs in Santiago on VHF channel 2, and digital terrestrial television since 2021. Since the early morning of June 16, 2025, Telecanal has ceded almost its entire broadcast schedule to the foreign channel Russia Today in Spanish, as Canal Dos S.A. signed an agreement with...