List of television stations in Argentina

In Argentina, for most of the history of broadcasting, there were only five major commercial national terrestrial networks until 2018. These were Televisión Pública, El Nueve, El Trece, Telefe and América. Since 2018, Net TV became the sixth major commercial network,^[1] with Televisión Pública being the national public television service. Local media markets have their own television stations, which may either be affiliated with or owned and operated by a television network. Stations may sign affiliation agreements with one of the national networks for the local rights to carry their programming.^[2]

Transition to digital broadcasting began in 2009, when the Secretary of Communications recommended the adoption of the ISDB-T standard for digital television, with the "Argentine Digital Terrestrial Television System" being created.^[3][4] Digital television has reached 80 percent of Argentina as of December 2013.^[5] The country was expected to end all analogue broadcasts in 2019,^[6] but the date was later delayed to August 31, 2021.^[7]

As of 2019, household ownership of television sets in the country is 99%, with the majority of households usually having two sets.^[8]

Major broadcast networks

Network	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator
Televisión Pública	October 17, 1951 (1951-10-17)	Public	Government of Argentina	Radio y Televisión Argentina S.E.
El Nueve	June 9, 1960 (1960-06-09)	Private	Grupo Octubre	Telearte S.A.
El Trece	October 1, 1960 (1960-10-01)	Private	Clarín Group	Arte Radiotelevisivo Argentino S.A.
Telefe	July 21, 1961 (1961-07-21)	Private	Paramount Global	Televisión Federal S.A.
América	June 25, 1966 (1966-06-25)	Private	Grupo América & Claudio Belocopitt	América TV S.A.
Net TV	October 1, 2018 (2018-10-01)	Private	Perfil	Kuarzo Entertainment Argentina
Bravo TV	March 14, 2022 (2022-03-14)	Private	Perfil & Grupo Olmos	Estrellas Satelital S.A.

National over-the-air commercial television networks

The following are the television networks with a presence throughout the national territory, via the "Televisión Digital Abierta" service (Open Digital Television in English).

Digital channel	Network	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
22.1	Encuentro	March 5, 2007 (2007-03-05)	Public	Government of Argentina	Contenidos Públicos S.E.	Educational television	Encuentro
22.2	Pakapaka	September 17, 2010 (2010-09-17)				Children's programming
22.3	Aunar	October 17, 2022 (2022-10-17)				Public television
22.4	Cine.AR	December 28, 2010 (2010-12-28)				Argentinian movies
22.5	Tec TV	September 12, 2011 (2011-09-12)				Educational television
23.1	Televisión Pública	October 17, 1951 (1951-10-17)			Radio y Televisión Argentina S.E.	Public television	Televisión Pública
23.2	Construir TV	March 21, 2011 (2011-03-21)	Private	Fundación UOCRA	Fundación UOCRA	Construction/Lifestyle
24.1	DeporTV	February 21, 2013 (2013-02-21)	Public	Government of Argentina	Contenidos Públicos S.E.	Sports	DeporTV
24.2	Canal 26	March 4, 1996 (1996-03-04)	Private	Telecentro	Grupo Pierri	News programming
24.3	France 24	December 6, 2016 (2016-12-06)	Public	Government of France	France Médias Monde
24.4	Crónica Televisión	January 3, 1994 (1994-01-03)	Private	Grupo Olmos	Estrellas Satelital S.A.
24.5	Información Periodística	October 17, 2020 (2020-10-17)		Grupo Octubre	Telearte S.A.
24.6	El Destape TV	August 4, 2023 (2023-08-04)		Talar Producciones S.A.	Talar Producciones S.A.
25.1	Unife	November 25, 2019 (2019-11-25)		Universal Church	Universal Church	Religious	Unife
25.2	C5N	August 6, 2007 (2007-08-06)		Grupo Indalo	Grupo Indalo	News programming
25.3	La Nación +	November 7, 2016 (2016-11-07)		La Nación	La Nación
25.4	Telesur	July 24, 2005 (2005-07-24)	Public	Governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua	SiBCI
25.5	RT en Español	December 28, 2009 (2009-12-28)		Government of Russia	TV-Novosti
25.6	Canal E	June 1, 2023 (2023-06-01)	Private	Perfil	Perfil

Over-the-air stations by area

Greater Buenos Aires

Operating since April 21, 2010 from the Ministry of Public Works Building in Buenos Aires,^[9] since October 1, 2010 from La Plata^[10] and Luján,^[11] since March 29, 2012 from Villa Martelli^[9] and since April 4, 2012 from San Justo.^[9]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
16.1[b]	Five TV Digital	March 1, 2017 (2017-03-01)	Private	Santiago y Copla	Santiago y Copla	Community television	—
16.2[b]	SB Musical TV	March 22, 2024 (2024-03-22)
16.1[c]	Neo TV	September 16, 2020 (2020-09-16)		Neo TV S.A.	Neo TV S.A.	Local television	—
16.2[c]	La Poderosa TV	December 29, 2024 (2024-12-29)
16.3[c]	Quántica TV	December 1, 2023 (2023-12-01)		Quántica Medios	Quántica Medios	Community television
16.4[c]	Kairos TV	December 15, 2024 (2024-12-15)		Neo TV S.A.	Neo TV S.A.	Religious
19.1[d]	ATV Argentina	April 23, 2023 (2023-04-23)		Radio Metropolitana Argentina	Radio Metropolitana Argentina	Community television	—
21.1	Caras TV	March 4, 2024 (2024-03-04)		Perfil	Perfil	Lifestyle	—
21.2	Canal Orbe 21[12]	October 4, 2006 (2006-10-04)		Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Buenos Aires	Archdiocesan Television Center	Religious
26.1	Canal 26	March 4, 1996 (1996-03-04)		Telecentro	Grupo Pierri	News programming	—
26.2	Construir TV	March 21, 2011 (2011-03-21)		Fundación UOCRA[12]	Fundación UOCRA	Construction/Lifestyle
26.3	Telemax	June 1, 2006 (2006-06-01)		Telecentro	Grupo Pierri	Commercial network
27.1	Bravo TV[12]	March 14, 2022 (2022-03-14)		Perfil	Kuarzo Entertainment Argentina		Net TV
27.2	Net TV	October 1, 2018 (2018-10-01)				Major commercial network
32.1[e]	UNLP TV	October 23, 2016 (2016-10-23)	Public	National University of La Plata	National University of La Plata	Educational television	UNLP TV
32.1[f]	Barricada TV	June 1, 2017 (2017-06-01)	Private	Asociación Civil Trabajo, Educación y Cultura	Asociación Civil Trabajo, Educación y Cultura	Community television	—
32.2[f]	Urbana Tevé	June 1, 2017 (2017-06-01)		Asociación Civil Centro de Rehabilitación y Capacitación San Martin de Residentes Salteños	Asociación Civil Centro de Rehabilitación y Capacitación San Martin de Residentes Salteños
32.3[f]	Comarca TV	November 1, 2013 (2013-11-01)		Asociación Martín Castellucci (ACMC)	ACMC
32.1[g]	Pares TV	January 7, 2018 (2018-01-07)		Coop. de Trabajo Pares Ltda.	Pares TV	Local television	—
32.2[g]	Pares TV (SD simulcast)	2009 (2009)
33.1	El Trece[12]	October 1, 1960 (1960-10-01)		Clarín Group	Arte Radiotelevisivo Argentino S.A.	Major commercial network	El Trece
34.1	Telefe[12]	July 21, 1961 (1961-07-21)		Paramount Global	Televisión Federal S.A.		Telefe
35.1	El Nueve[12]	June 9, 1960 (1960-06-09)		Grupo Octubre	Telearte S.A.		El Nueve
35.2	KZO	May 22, 2017 (2017-05-22)		Perfil	Kuarzo Entertainment Argentina	Commercial network
35.3	Aspen	November 7, 1988 (1988-11-07)		Grupo Octubre	Grupo Octubre	FM commercial radio
36.1	América[12]	June 25, 1966 (1966-06-25)		Grupo América	América Multimedios	Major commercial network	América
36.3	A24	March 8, 2005 (2005-03-08)				News programming

Buenos Aires Province

Bahía Blanca

Operating with partial transmission from Bahía Blanca.^[13]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
28.1	Canal Siete	February 4, 1966 (1966-02-04)	Private	Clarín Group & Francisco Quiñonero	Arte Radiotelevisivo Argentino S.A.	Major commercial network	—

Mar del Plata

Operating since February 1, 2011 from Mar del Plata.^[14]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
20.1	Canal 8	December 18, 1960 (1960-12-18)	Private	Neomedia Group	Neomedia de Gestión S.A.	Major commercial network	—
27.1	Canal 10	November 22, 1965 (1965-11-22)		Grupo Olmos	TV Mar del Plata S.A.		—
28.1	Canal Universidad[15]	March 13, 2017 (2017-03-13)	Public	National University of Mar del Plata	National University of Mar del Plata	Public television	—

Trenque Lauquen

Operating since August 16, 2012 from Trenque Lauquen.^[16]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
24.4	Canal 12	May 22, 1970 (1970-05-22)	Public	Government of Argentina	Contenidos Públicos S.E.	Public television	—

Catamarca

San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca

Operating since April 16, 2012 from San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca.^[17]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
27.1	Catamarca TV	April 24, 2014 (2014-04-24)	Public	Government of Catamarca	Catamarca Radio y Televisión S.E.	Public television	—
30.1	TVeo	April 1, 2000 (2000-04-01)	Private	CVI Austral LLP	Super	Commercial network	—

Chaco

Greater Resistencia

Operating since September 1, 2010 from Puerto Tirol.^[18]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
26.1	Somos Uno	June 3, 2013 (2013-06-03)	Public	Government of Chaco	Government of Chaco	Public television	Somos Uno
27.2	Ciudad Televisión	October 2, 2017 (2017-10-02)	Private	Radio Ciudad S.R.L.	Radio Ciudad S.R.L.	Local television	—
28.1	Canal 9	August 17, 1966 (1966-08-17)	Private	Grupo Linke	TV Resistencia S.A.I.F.	Major commercial network	Canal 9

Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña

Operating since February 18, 2018 from Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña.^[19]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
29.1	UNCAus TV	August 22, 2022 (2022-08-22)	Public	National University of the Chaco Austral	National University of the Chaco Austral	Public television	—
29.2	El Destape TV	August 4, 2023 (2023-08-04)	Private	Talar Producciones S.A.	Talar Producciones S.A.	News programming
29.3	Canal 2	January 1, 2007 (2007-01-01)		La Verdad S.R.L.	La Verdad S.R.L.	Major commercial network
29.4	Crónica Televisión	September 17, 2010 (2010-09-17)		Grupo Olmos	Estrellas Satelital S.A.	News programming

Chubut

Rawson

Operating since March 29, 2012 from Rawson.^[20]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
27.1	Canal 7	September 15, 1975 (1975-09-15)	Public	Government of Chubut	Government of Chubut	Public television	—

Córdoba

Greater Córdoba

Operating since January 1, 2011 from Cerro Mogote^[21] and since February 14, 2012 from Córdoba.^[22]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
21.2[h]	Canal 7	May 1, 1990 (1990-05-01)	Private	Megared Argentina	Megared Argentina	Local television	—
27.1	El Doce	April 18, 1960 (1960-04-18)		Clarín Group & Francisco Quiñonero	Telecor S.A.C.I.	Major commercial network	El Doce
29.1	Telefe Córdoba	April 5, 1971 (1971-04-05)		Paramount Global	Televisión Federal S.A.		Telefe Córdoba
29.2	Radio María Argentina	December 8, 1996 (1996-12-08)		Asociación Radio María	Asociación Radio María	Religious
30.1	Canal 10	May 11, 1962 (1962-05-11)	Public	National University of Córdoba	Multimedio SRT	Public television	Canal 10
30.2	Canal U	June 1, 2011 (2011-06-01)				Educational television
41.2[h]	Latina TV	August 12, 2016 (2016-08-12)	Private	Latina TV Córdoba	Latina TV Córdoba	Local television	—

Río Cuarto

Operating since February 14, 2012 from Río Cuarto.^[23]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
29.1	Canal 13	August 15, 1964 (1964-08-15)	Private	Imperio Televisión S.A.	Imperio Televisión S.A.	Major commercial network	—
31.1	UniRío TV	June 30, 2011 (2011-06-30)	Public	National University of Río Cuarto	National University of Río Cuarto	Public television	—

Villa María

Operating since May 1, 2011 from Villa María.^[24]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
31.1	Uni Teve	June 23, 2016 (2016-06-23)	Public	National University of Villa María	National University of Villa María	Public television	—

Corrientes

Greater Corrientes

Operating since March 29, 2012 from Corrientes.^[25] Also available in Greater Resistencia.

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
31.1	13 Max	June 30, 1965 (1965-06-30)	Private	Jorge Félix Gómez & Carlos Antonio Smith	Río Paraná TV S.R.L.	Major commercial network	—
35.1	Corrientes TV	October 25, 2016 (2016-10-25)		Telemedia S.A.	Telemedia S.A.	Religious	—

Monte Caseros

Operating since November 19, 2022 from Monte Caseros.^[26]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
34.1	AVC HD	May 13, 2010 (2010-05-13)	Private	AVC Producciones	AVC Producciones	Local television	—

Entre Ríos

Paraná

Operating since June 1, 2011 from Paraná.^[27]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
18.1	Canal 6 Entre Ríos TV	July 1, 2010 (2010-07-01)	Private	Centro Radial Televisivo y Periodístico de Entre Ríos	Desde Entre Ríos	Commercial network	—
36.1	El Once	May 2, 1992 (1992-05-02)		Federal Comunicaciones S.A.	Federal Comunicaciones S.A.	Commercial network	—

Formosa

Clorinda–Laguna Blanca

Operating since February 8, 2013 from Clorinda^[28] and since January 29, 2014 from Laguna Blanca.^[29]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
33.1	Canal 11 Lapacho	April 8, 1978 (1978-04-08)	Public	Government of Formosa	Red Formoseña de Medios	Public television	Canal 11 Lapacho

Formosa

Operating since December 1, 2010 from Formosa.^[30]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
29.1	Canal 11 Lapacho	April 8, 1978 (1978-04-08)	Public	Government of Formosa	Red Formoseña de Medios	Public television	Canal 11 Lapacho

Jujuy

San Salvador de Jujuy

Operating since May 1, 2011 from San Salvador de Jujuy.^[31]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
36.1	Canal 7	April 30, 1966 (1966-04-30)	Private	Radio Visión Jujuy S.A.	Radio Visión Jujuy S.A.	Commercial network	Canal 7

La Pampa

Santa Rosa

Operating since October 6, 2011 from Santa Rosa.^[32]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
30.1	Canal 3	November 30, 1972 (1972-11-30)	Public	Government of La Pampa	Government of La Pampa	Public television	Canal 3

La Rioja

La Rioja

Operating since February 1, 2011 from La Rioja.^[33]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
29.1	Canal 9	December 24, 1965 (1965-12-24)	Public	Government of La Rioja	Radio y Televisión Riojana S.E.	Public television	Canal 9

Mendoza

Greater Mendoza

Operating since December 19, 2011 from Mendoza.^[34]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
28.1	Canal 9 Televida (Telefe)	May 27, 1965 (1965-05-27)	Private	Alonso Family & Los Andes	Cuyo Televisión S.A.	Major commercial network	Canal 9 Televida
29.1	Canal Acequia	Un­known	Public	Government of Mendoza	Government of Mendoza	Public television	Canal Acequia
30.1	Señal U	Un­known		National University of Cuyo	National University of Cuyo	Educational television	—
31.1	El Siete (América)	February 7, 1961 (1961-02-07)	Private	Grupo América	América Multimedios	Major commercial network	—
31.2	A24	March 8, 2005 (2005-03-08)				News programming

Misiones

Posadas

Operating since June 1, 2011 from Posadas.^[35]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
30.1	Canal Doce Misiones	November 18, 1972 (1972-11-18)	Public	Government of Misiones	Multimedios S.A.P.E.M.	Public television	Canal Doce Misiones

Río Negro

San Carlos de Bariloche

Operating since March 1, 2011 from Bariloche.^[36]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
27.1	El Seis (El Trece)	May 1, 1978 (1978-05-01)	Private	Grupo Televisión Litoral	Bariloche TV S.A.	Major commercial television	—

Salta

Salta

Operating since November 25, 2011 from Salta.^[37]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
35.1	Multivisión Federal	Un­known	Private	Multivision S.R.L.	Multivision S.R.L.	Commercial network	—
35.2	El 10 TV	2010 (2010)

San Juan

San Juan

Operating since February 1, 2011 from San Juan^[38] and since December 12, 2012 from San José de Jáchal.^[39]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
29.1	Blu HD	Un­known	Private	Blu Medios	Blu Medios	Commercial network	—
30.1	Canal 13 San Juan TV			Diario 13 San Juan	Diario 13 San Juan		—
30.2	CuidarTV	July 14, 2020 (2020-07-14)	Public	Government of San Juan	Government of San Juan	Lifestyle
31.1	Canal Ocho (América)	May 2, 1964 (1964-05-02)	Private	Grupo América	América Multimedios	Major commercial network	Canal Ocho
31.2	A24	March 8, 2005 (2005-03-08)				News programming
31.3	América	June 25, 1966 (1966-06-25)				Major commercial network
31.4	8 Sports	Un­known				Sports
32.2	Canal Cuatro	December 1, 2000 (2000-12-01)		Archdiocese of San Juan	Archdiocese of San Juan	Commercial network/Religious	—
33.1	Xama TV	October 25, 2017 (2017-10-25)	Public	National University of San Juan	National University of San Juan	Public television	—
33.2	Xama TV (SD simulcast)
35.1	Zonda TV	October 12, 2016 (2016-10-12)	Private	Grupo El Zonda	Grupo El Zonda	Commercial network	—
36.1	Telesol (Telefe)	December 10, 1996 (1996-12-10)		Andina S.A.	Andina S.A.	Major commercial network	Telesol
36.2	AM 1020	Un­known				FM commercial radio

San Luis

San Luis

Operating since December 14, 2011 from San Luis.^[40]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
28.1	San Luis +	December 24, 1972 (1972-12-24)	Public	Government of San Luis	Government of San Luis	Public television	—

Santa Fe

Greater Santa Fe

Operating since October 6, 2011 from Santo Tomé.^[41]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
28.1	Litus TV	December 24, 1972 (1972-12-24)	Public	National University of the Litoral	National University of the Litoral	Public television	—

Greater Rosario

Operating since October 6, 2011 from Rosario.^[42]

Digital channel	Station	Launch date	Type	Owner	Operator	Description	Mobile channel[a]
32.1	El Tres TV (El Trece)	June 20, 1965 (1965-06-20)	Private	Televisión Litoral S.A.	Grupo Televisión Litoral	Major commercial network	El Tres TV
33.1	Telefe Rosario (Telefe)	November 30, 2012 (2012-11-30)[i]		Paramount Global	Televisión Federal S.A.		Telefe Rosario
33.2	Telefe Rosario (SD simulcast)	November 18, 1964 (1964-11-18)

Notes

1. The subchannel .31 is assigned to signals available for mobile devices.
2. Broadcasting at medium power from Gregorio de Laferrere.
3. Broadcasting at low power from Florencio Varela.
4. Broadcasting at low power from Buenos Aires.
5. Broadcasting at high power from La Plata.
6. Broadcasting at medium power from Buenos Aires.
7. Broadcasting at low power from Luján.
8. Broadcasting at low power from Córdoba.
9. As HD broadcasting; November 18, 1964 as standard.

See also

• Television in Argentina
• Television in Latin America