Canal 2 Rock & Pop
| Country | Chile |
|---|---|
| Programming | |
| Language | Spanish |
| Picture format | 480i SDTV |
| Ownership | |
| Parent | Radio Cooperativa Televisión S.A. (1995-1997) Sociedad Rock & Pop S.A. (1997-1998) Canal 2 S.A. (1998-1999) |
| History | |
| Launched | 16 August 1995 |
| Closed | 1 December 1999 |
| Replaced by | VidaVisión (1999-2005) Telecanal (2005-present) |
| Former names | Rock & Pop (1995-1998) Canal 2 (1998-1999) |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Analog VHF | Channel 2 (Santiago) |
Canal 2, also known as Rock & Pop Televisión and Canal 2 Rock & Pop, was a Chilean over-the-air television channel launched on August 16, 1995. Its studios were located in warehouse 15 on Chucre Manzur Street at the foot of Cerro San Cristóbal, in the area corresponding to Providencia in the Bellavista neighborhood.
The channel was part of a multimedia holding company that brought together the radio and the magazine of the same name, all owned by Radio Cooperativa. It is considered an experiment in terms of programmatic formats, since it emerged during the democratic transition process in Chile, a time when young people began to express themselves more freely after the end of the military dictatorship. Its main objective was to transfer the success of the Rock & Pop brand to the local screen.
In 1998, after a series of administrative and programming decisions that caused the progressive decline of the project, 38 station officials were fired. On the early hours of December 1, 1999, after the broadcast of the primetime show Plaza Italia, the midnight edition of the news program El Pulso and an episode of Factor humano, the channel suddenly and definitively ceased broadcasting.