Canal Once (XEIPN)
The first public educational channel in the country. The channel of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) is one fo the six belonging to the Mexican Public Broadcast System. In 2015, as a result of the blackout of the analogue signals in the country, the channel transmits as open digital television. The first programme transmitted by the channel in 1959 was a mathematics lesson. Its current programme includes news, children's programmes and programmes for art, science and technology. Canal Once informs that its signal as free and public channel covers 70.12% of the national territory. However, the document about this coverage from the channel's website does not have an issuing date.
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National
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Free content
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Mexican Government
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Canal Once (XEIPN) is a government TV channel under the control of the Secretary of Public Education of the Mexican government.
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Founding Year
1959
Affiliated Interests Founder
Alejo Peralta - Director of the Mexican public university Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) from 1956 to 1958. He receives the credit for the original idea for creating Canal Once, afterwards approved by the Federal Telecommunication Authority. He had businesses with electrical and electronic products, as well as in the aviation and textile industries. Founder of the baseball team “Tigres de México”, now known as “Tigres de Quintana Roo".
Affiliated Interests Ceo
Jimena Saldaña Gutiérrez de Aja - Her candidacy for Federal Representative from the political party Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was approved in February 2015. She was appointed as Director of Canal Once at the end of the same year. She is former Associate Director of the Presidency and General Management of the Organización Editorial Mexicana (OEM). In 2017, her salary was around 33% lower than the one of the former Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto. The salary of her predecessor, Enriqueta Cabrera, spawned controversies in 2013 for being around 30% higher from the one of Peña Nieto.
Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief
Carolina Navarrete García - News Director of Canal Once. She signs bi-monthly contracts with the channel since around June 2017. The sum of her salaries during the second bimester of 2017 was superior than the anual salary of the channel's director and it reached 75% of the Mexican President's earnings for 2017.
Affiliated Interests other important people
Miguel Ángel Carrera Díaz - Deputy Director for News at Canal Once. He holds bachelor's degree in journalism. He worked as Social Communications Manager at the Federal Commission for Electricity; former Associate General Director for Information at the Federal Interior Ministry; former Director for Planning and Strategic Communication at the Secretary for Public Education and former Director of the National Newscasts System at the Mexican Institute of Radio.
Contact
Address: Prolongación Carpio 475, col. Casco de Sto. Tomás, C.P. 11340, Ciudad de México
Telephone: (+52) 55166 4000
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