Canal 6 (Salvadoran TV channel)

Canal 6
Country	El Salvador
Headquarters	Alameda Dr. Manuel Araujo Km. 6½ San Salvador
Programming
Language(s)	Spanish
Picture format	1080i HDTV; (downscaled to 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Telecorporación Salvadoreña
Sister channels	Canal 2; Canal 4; TCS+
History
Launched	26 April 1956; 68 years ago
Former names	YSEB-TV 6 (1956–1966)
Links
Website	TCSGO.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Analog VHF; (El Salvador)	Channel 6
Streaming media
TCS GO	TCS GO

Canal Seis is the flagship television channel of Telecorporacion Salvadoreña. It broadcasts from channel 6 nationwide in El Salvador.

It is believed to be the country's first television station, having launched in 1956. Color broadcasts commenced in 1973.

The channel has a general schedule on weekdays and is focused on movies on weekends.

History

Early years

The first attempts to create television were made by Mexican inventor Rubén González on his own initiative on 7 September 1956, in black and white broadcast. In that same month Boris Eserski, Guillermo Pinto and Tono Alfaro, former owners of the radio station YSEB, collaborated in this creation. The first television channel launched was YSEB-TV. Its programming was based on national artistic presentations and films imported from Mexico and the United States Its programming was very short, it began at 4 in the afternoon and ended at 10 in the evening.

Days later, two other programs that Channel 6 had were included, one was a project of the Salvadoran writer Eugenio Martínez Orantes, who recited his poems live while a classical dance group interpreted them musically. The Teleperiódico program was hosted by Álvaro Menéndez Leal, a Salvadoran writer. A month later, Channel 6 implemented some new programming with Saturday Concerts, hosted by musician Nicolás Arene and Televariedades Pilsener.

In 1959, it took Channel 8 as a repeater, to cover a larger area nationwide. A year later, the television stations suffered a stagnation and a union was created between channels 4 and 6, which lasted until 1966, when Channel 6 interrupted its transmissions for the first time. In times, Channel 2 had been preferred by some audience. In July 1966, an agreement is signed to operate Canal 4.

On 6 April 1973, Canal Seis SA relaunched the company through YSLA-TV, which was the first to introduce color television. In 1986, together with Canal 2 and 4, Canal 6 was merged to form Telecorporación Salvadoreña.