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| Type | Broadcast television network |
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| Country |  Mexico |
| Availability | National; also distributed in Central America and certain regions of the United States |
| Owner | Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicación Educativa (ILCE) |
| Launch date | 1994 |
| Website http://edusat.ilce.edu.mx/ |
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Edusat, Sistema de Televisión Educativa is an Educational Television System implemented by the Ministry of Public Education of Mexico in 1994. Terrestrial television is a term which refers to modes of television broadcasting which do not involve satellite transmission A television network is a distribution network for Television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many Television stations The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) The Secretariat of Public Education ( Secretaría de Educación Pública) of Mexico is the governmental department responsible for education and culture The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar)
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History
The government of Mexico implemented Telesecundaria in 1968 to provide secondary education to students in rural areas through open television channel. The United Mexican States are a federal presidential representative democratic Republic whose government' is Telesecundaria is a system of Distance education programs for secondary and High school students created by the government of Mexico Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Australia See also Education With the launching of the Morelos II satellite, Telesecundaria began transmitting through one of its analog channels. In 1994, Telesecundaria began broadcasting in digital format with the advent of Solidariedad I satellite and since then and that is when Edusat was born and began transmitting on six channels. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar)
From December 1995 to 1998 Edusat services migrated to Satmex 5 and Digicipher II by this time signal power was five times what it was during the Morelos II era and the number of channels increased to 10 with a potential of six more and a larger area of coverage. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) DigiCipher 2, or simply DCII, is a digital signal compression standard used on many Communications satellite Television and audio signals Nowadays, Edusat is received by 35 000 set-top boxes located in Mexico and 1 000 and other areas of the continent. A set-top box (STB or set-top unit (STU is a device that connects to a Television and an external source of signal, turning the signal into The technology is responsibility of the Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT) and Telecomunicaciones de México (Telecom).
Services
Edusat transmit its own content as well as Discovery Kids and Canal Cl@se through its channels 21 and 22. Discovery Kids is an American Digital cable Television channel, owned by Discovery Communications with programming for Education of The content of four channels is provided by the Latin American Institute of Educational Communication. Although the signal is available in all of the Americas (except for the eastern part of Brazil) Edusat services are only offered in Mexico, Central America and certain regions of the United States. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
In addition, several state public television stations, including TV UNAM in Mexico City and similar university-run television stations, rebroadcast Edusat programming terrestrially. XHUNAM channel 60 also known as "Teveunam" is an educational television station owned and operated by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM Mexico City (in Spanish: Ciudad de México, México DF, México or simply Méjico) is the Capital city of Mexico
On November 21, 2000 the Videoteca Nacional Educativa (VNE, "National Educational Video Library"), the first collection and catalog of audio and visual educational media in Latin America with 100,000 titles. Events 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family restores the Temple in Jerusalem. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.
In 2005, Edusat partnered with California Distance Learning Health Network (CDLHN) to promote health education in the Americas. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
See also
External links
- (Spanish) Official site
- Learning through TV and Internet in Mexico at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- Partnership between Edusat and CDLHN