Television in Honduras consists of both local channels and foreign
television
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, normally distributed through
cable
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.
History
Honduras had initially adopted
ATSC Standards for digital terrestrial television broadcasting, but later decided to adopt the
ISDB-T International
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standard used in many other
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
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n nations.
The Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (CONATEL) decided on January 9, 2007 to adopt the ATSC standard, which went into effect on January 16, 2007, when it was published in the "Diario Oficial La Gaceta". The first Digital High Definition TV Station,
CampusTv, was founded by
Universidad de San Pedro Sula.
Honduran TV channels
The following are some of the tv channels produced in Honduras.
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gotv
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History
The terrestrial TV service was founded in October 2011 by MultiCho ...
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Canal 11
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Cholusat Sur Canal 36
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Maya TV Canal 66
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Teleceiba Canal 7
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Televicentro (Honduras)
Televicentro or TVC is a television corporation in Honduras, which as of 2004, is owned by Rafael Ferrari.
Televicentro was founded in 1987 with the aim of merging Canal 5, Canal 3/7 and Telecadena 7/4 under an umbrella organization, aiming at ...
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Televisión Nacional de Honduras
Canal 8 formerly known as Televisión Nacional de Honduras (Spanish for: ''National Television of Honduras'') or TNH is a state-owned television network based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a co ...
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MundoTV Canal 42
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Telecentro
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Enlace Honduras Canal 57
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Roatan Travel NetworkCANETTV (VOD)
See also
* Media of Honduras
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References
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