Canal Siete. La TV Pública.
Launched	October 17, 1951
Owned by	Sistema Nacional de Medios Públicos, S.E.
Slogan	La Televisión Pública
Broadcast area	Argentina
Headquarters	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sister channel(s)	teleSUR
Website	Canal7.com.ar
Availability
Terrestrial
Local VHF Argentina	Channel 7 (Buenos Aires)
Local VHF Argentina	Channel 11 (Mendoza)
Satellite
Directv Latin America	121
Internet television
Canal7.com.ar	Canal 7 (free Windows Media stream)

Studios on Figueroa Alcorta Avenue.

Transmitters at the station.

Correspondent Marta Perín and cameramen.

News and commentary at Déjamelo Pensar ("Let Me Think About It").

Canal Siete or TV Pública is an Argentine television network founded on October 17, 1951. Between 1980 and 1999 the network was known as Argentina Televisora Color (ATC - Argentine Color Television).

Owned, financed and operated by the Argentine State, Canal 7 is one of Argentina's five nationwide television networks. The station specializes in cultural programming and educational documentaries, sometimes in cooperation with the Buenos Aires University, and coverage of news events, especially government activities.

ATC was the first Argentine television station, as well as the first to introduce color television, for the football 1978 FIFA World Cup that took place in Argentina. Of the five terrestrial networks, Canal 7 has the least ratings share. The network is often accused of presenting news with a pro-government bias.

LS82 TV Canal 7 operates from its studio and broadcasting complex on Figueroa Alcorta avenue in Buenos Aires. The building has an innovative design, as it was constructed mostly underground to spoil the skyline as little as possible . Building underground was made possible because the national government had started in the mid '70s work on the "Altar de la Patria": a monument-mausoleum that was expected to house the remains of Evita Perón and Juan Perón; the idea of a mausoleum was rejected when Isabel Martínez de Perón, 3rd wife of Juan Perón, was overthrown from the Presidency by a military revolt on March 24th, 1976.

[edit] External links

ATC logo, in use during the 1980s and '90s.

• Official Site (Spanish)
• ATA (Asociación de Teleradiodifusoras Argentinas)

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