Tele 9 Corazón (

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: "Tele 9 Heart") was a Colombian local state-run television channel, whose signal only reached

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and was broadcast on Channel 9. It replaced privately owned

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. The Colombian state gave time slots for programming on Tele 9 Corazón to companies RTI, Punch,

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, Protón, Alberto Dangond Uribe, Eduardo Ruiz Martínez,

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, and Alberto Acosta, among others. In 1973, Tele 9 Corazón was replaced by Segunda Cadena, which would become Colombia's second national television network. Bogotá would have a local channel again in 1997 when

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signed on.

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