Telecanal

Telecanal is a Chilean privately-owned TV channel, launched on Monday, 5 December 2005, six years and four days after the end of the transmissions of Canal 2, whose broadcast hours required by law were covered by slots paid for by the evangelical ministry VidaVisión. Its offices and studios are located in the Sanhattan neighborhood of Las Condes.

At its launch, Telecanal offered alternative programming for the local industry. However, during its first years of broadcasting it left behind its original offer, reducing its in-house programs and limiting itself to broadcasting foreign programming. Much of the output has already been broadcast by La Red since both channels belong to the Albavisión group; therefore, both are the only broadcast television channels in Chile that have the same owner, even though national legislation and regulatory entities have blocked this ownership situation in other similar cases, including the one that led to the bankruptcy of the previous owner of the channel 2 frequency in 1999.

Its biggest competitors are its sister channel La Red and TV+, being the three channels with the lowest audience reception in the country. It currently airs in Santiago on VHF channel 2, and digital terrestrial television since 2021.

Since the early morning of June 16, 2025, Telecanal has ceded almost its entire broadcast schedule to the foreign channel Russia Today in Spanish, as Canal Dos S.A. signed an agreement with the Mexican company Unimedios. Through this agreement, it rebroadcasts up to 23.5 hours of RT content daily, limiting its own programming to only brief half-hour segments each day. The contract stipulates that Unimedios assumes responsibility for the content, indemnifies Canal Dos against any potential penalties, and can manage the RT rebroadcast without administrative access to the television slots, at least formally..

However, the CNTV considers that these events could constitute a de facto transfer of control and use of the television signal to a third party, which is prohibited by Article 16 of Law 18.838. It is noted that Canal Dos would be relinquishing its autonomy and individuality as a concessionaire, essentially acting as a repeater of foreign programming.

On February 5, 2026, the National Television Council of Chile announced the maximum administrative sanction for retransmitting and completely changing its programming to that of the Russian channel RT, this sanction consists of the suspension of broadcasting for 7 days, having a working period of 5 days, until February 12, to carry out the above indicated. Despite the above, Telecanal has not complied with the suspension, and has continued broadcasting continuously, even after the deadline for the interruption of broadcasting has expired.