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XEIPN-TV
	Mexico City
Branding	Once TV México
Slogan	Una Tele Más ...
Channels	Analog: 11 (VHF); Digital: 33 (UHF);
Owner	National Polytechnic Institute
Founded	March 2, 1959
Call letters’ meaning	XE; Instituto; Politécnico; Nacional
Transmitter Power	324 kW (analog)
Transmitter Coordinates	19°27′11″N 99°10′11″W / 19.45306°N 99.16972°WCoordinates: 19°27′11″N 99°10′11″W / 19.45306°N 99.16972°W
Website	oncetv-ipn.net

Once TV México, Spanish for Mexico Eleven TV, also known as Canal 11 (Channel 11), whose call sign is XEIPN-TV, is a Mexican university-owned educational television network in Mexico City, owned and operated by the National Polytechnic Institute. It broadcasts across Mexico and to the United States through Once Mexico Channel on DirecTV and SATMEX Maximo. Most of its programs are also webcast through the Internet, though its programming is not the same as the actual aerial or satellite signal. Its main local competitors are the commercial television channels owned by Televisa and TV Azteca.

[edit] History

It began broadcasting on March 2, 1959, thus becoming the first non-profit educational and cultural television station in Mexico, owned and operated by a Mexican institution of higher education.^[1] The television channel was conceived by Alejo Peralta y Díaz, Director of the National Polytechnic Institute (1956-1959), and supported by Eugenio Méndez Docurro, Director of the National Polytechnic Institute (1959-1962), Walter Cross Buchanan, Secretary of Communications and Transportation, and Jaime Torres Bodet, Secretary of Public Education.^[1]^[2] Its first broadcast was a mathematics class transmitted from a small television studio located at the Casco de Santo Tomás, on the northern part of Mexico City.^[1]

[edit] Awards

Once TV has won many national and international prizes, including the following:

Promax World Gold Awards 2004 New York, U.S.:

Golden Prize T 08 for Program Promotion: "Violencia Doméstica"

Golden Prize T 10 for Special Event Program Promotion: "Violencia Doméstica"

Silver Prize T 08 for Program Promotion: "Diálogos en confianza" (Talk show)

Silver Prize T 27 for Non-Promotional Animation: " Master of lounge music "

Promax BDA World Gold Awards 2004, New York, U.S.:

Gold 56 for Consumer Topical Advertising: "Pasión por la Naturaleza "

Silver 4 for Topical Print: "Tour de cine francés"

Silver 65 for Poster: "Tour de cine francés"

Silver 69 for Illustration for Print: "Pasión por la Naturaleza "

Bronze 13 for Open: "Violencia Familiar"

Bronze 16 for Art Direction & Design, Topical Promo: " Diálogos en Confianza "

I Festival Internacional de Documentales de Madrid 2004, Madrid, Spain:

Jury's Special Mention for "Series del Once"

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c "El Once y su historia". Once TV. http://oncetv-ipn.net/acercade/index.php?l=historia. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
^ "Cumple 50 años de vida el Canal Once de televisión". Yahoo! Noticias. http://espanol.news.yahoo.com/s/02032009/4/n-entertain-cumple-50-vida-canal-once.html. Retrieved 2009-03-02.

[edit] External links

(Spanish) Official Site
(Spanish)(English) International Site
Once TV webcast

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[1] "Cumple 50 años de vida el Canal Once de televisión". Yahoo! Noticias. http://espanol.news.yahoo.com/s/02032009/4/n-entertain-cumple-50-vida-canal-once.html. Retrieved 2009-03-02.

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[edit] History

[edit] Awards

[edit] References

[edit] External links