TV Azteca Guate is a Guatemalan

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television channel operated in a

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by Mexican media conglomerate

TV Azteca Televisión Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V., commonly known as TV Azteca, is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate owned by Grupo Salinas. It is the second-largest mass media company in Mexico after Televisa. It primarily competes with Televisa as well as so ...

and Guatemalan television company Latitud Televisión.

History

The channel began operations on March 5, 2006, under the television company ''Latitud Televisión'', operating channels 31 and 35 UHF in

Guatemala City Guatemala City (, also known colloquially by the nickname Guate), is the Capital city, national capital and largest city of the Guatemala, Republic of Guatemala. It is also the Municipalities of Guatemala, municipal capital of the Guatemala Depa ...

, they were owned by the Botrán family (owners of the liquor company

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), in March 2008 the 70% of the company was acquired by Mexico's TV Azteca to operate in Guatemala under the Azteca 31 and Azteca 35 channels. On September 6, 2013, the Azteca forums in

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's Zone 2, Guatemala Department, caught

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resulting in 14 injuries. The fire caused the destruction of all the forums which were very prone to incineration, because of this a chroma screen would be used to follow the transmissions. During the

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held in

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, an agreement was reached with the Paraguayan company ''Tigo Sports'' which broadcast the 64 matches on free-to-air television, being the most watched channel in Guatemala during June–July 2018. In 2019, it renewed its programming, including the transmission of the Guatemalan presidential elections, it also obtained the transmission rights of the friendly match between Guatemala and El Salvador. On March 6, the channel made a contract with Fedefut to broadcast the matches of the Guatemalan national team after annulling the contract with ''Chapín TV'' (Albavisión) media group. In 2021, a new agreement was reached with ''Tigo Sports'' to broadcast the matches of the Futsal World Cup held in

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, the Beach Soccer World Cup held in Russia and the 64 matches of the

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held in

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References

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* {{inlang, es TV Azteca Television channels and stations established in 2006 Television channels and stations established in 2008 Television stations in Guatemala Joint ventures