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Canal 33

Country	El Salvador
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Technological University of El Salvador
History
Launched	20 January 1995; 29 years ago (1995-01-20)
Closed	1 March 2023; 22 months ago (2023-03-01)
Former names	Tecnovisión (1999-2007)
Links
Website	Canal 33
Availability
Terrestrial
Analog UHF	Channel 33

Canal 33 was a television channel in El Salvador created on January 20, 1995, by the Technological University of El Salvador after the clear response to Telecorporación Salvadoreña of being a television rival of El Salvador.

Due to a crisis it was facing at the beginning of 2023, the channel closed broadcasts on March 1.

History

It was born on January 20, 1995, with the objective of Teleprensa, the oldest news program in El Salvador, having its own signal, by breaking the partnership with Telecorporación Salvadoreña, after more than forty years in which said news program was broadcast by Canal 2 of TCS.

The De León family, owners of Teleprensa, obtained the frequency in 1996, and a year later they set up the Teleprensa channel.

Different problems led the De León family to sell the majority of their shares in 1998, these being acquired by the Technological University and the De León Foto company. From this moment on, José Mauricio Loucel, also the rector of the Technological University, assumes the presidency of the channel's board of directors.

With José Mauricio Loucel at the head of the board of directors and with Narciso Castillo as general director, the channel is renamed Tecnovisión, and with this begins a whole process that aims to turn Canal 33 into a channel with programming for the whole family. , maintaining information (Teleprensa) as the backbone of its programming.

Since January 1, 2023, Canal 33 entered an economic crisis, which caused some changes the next day, including the mass dismissal of employees, presenters and journalists and the cancellation of live programs (including its emblematic newscast Teleprensa). Shortly afterwards, according to close sources, the administrators decided to sell the channel for a sum of 5 million US dollars respectively.

However, the purchase was not completed, and in the end, on March 1, 2023, Channel 33 closed its broadcasts definitively without prior notice. In addition to being withdrawn from cable operators on April 20 of the same year.

Logos

• 1995-1999
• 1999-2007
• 2007-2010
• 2010-2016
• 2016-2019
• 2019-2023

References

1. "publicaciones/latina/". Archived from the original on 16 September 2008. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
2. canal33.tv/Nosotros.htm
3. Canal 33 hará cambios en 2023

• Television stations in El Salvador
• Television channels and stations established in 1995
• Television channels and stations disestablished in 2023
• Spanish-language television stations
• 1995 establishments in El Salvador