Canal N a
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
vian
pay television
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news channel news
channel. It was founded as a joint venture between
El Comercio and
Telefónica
, S.A. () is a Spanish multinational telecommunications company with registered office and headquarters located in two different places, both in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in the ...
. The channel is exclusively available through Movistar TV.
Although
CCN and
Cable Mágico Noticias were the first Peruvian news channels, Canal N established itself as the only permanent media outlet with local and national coverage in the 2000s, until the arrival of other competitors such as
ATV+ and
RPP TV.
History
The concept of Canal N was conceived in 1997 by journalist Bernardo Roca Rey during the
Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima. To bring this concept to fruition, a commercial partner was required. Over time, Gilberto Hume emerged as the suitable partner, whom Rey encountered at a beach.
"A whole afternoon making ceviche in a jar with plenty of pisco, and then we continued thinking about it and the idea matured," said Hume. The directives of ''
El Comercio'' (later formed as El Comercio Producciones),
after giving approval to the idea,
entered the television industry with the opening of a small store located on Madrid Street in the district of Miraflores. Inspired by
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news organization operating, most notably, a website and a TV channel headquartered in Atlanta. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable ne ...
, initially it competed against
Cable Canal de Noticias, owned by
''Expreso'', being until then the only news channel in Peru. El Comercio started advertising Canal N to the public for the first time in 1998 in ''
PC World
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It offers advice on various aspects of PCs and related items, the Internet, and other personal tec ...
'' magazine, an American magazine whose local version was produced by the newspaper. Later, advertisements for the channel appeared on
Cable Mágico's magazine for the subscribers of the cable operator. The advertisement included a photo of the studios of the channel and the phrase ''El Perú minuto a minuto''. After several months of technical and labor adjustments, Canal N was launched in test mode on Canal Mágico in April 1999, initially available only to subscribers of the adult channel package.
At the same time, on Cable Mágico's channel 8, which was previously occupied by the struggling Brazilian network
Rede Manchete in its final weeks before closure, Canal N's logo appeared. The logo featured a rotating 3D letter N on a black background accompanied by background music, signaling the channel's upcoming availability on that frequency. Canal N was officially launched at 8 am on 4 July 1999.
References
External links
Official Site
24-hour television news channels
Television stations in Peru
Spanish-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Peru
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