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LRL 456 TV
Buenos Aires; Argentina;
Channels	Digital: 21.2 (ISDB-T);
Branding	Canal Orbe 21
Ownership
Owner	Catholic Church in Argentina; (Iglesia Católica Apostólica Argentina);
History
First air date	2006; 18 years ago
Technical information
Licensing authority	Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones
Links
Website	canalorbe21.com

Canal Orbe 21 (call sign LRL 456 TV) is a television station on channel 21.2 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the television station Catholic of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires.

History

The Federal Broadcasting Committee (COMFER) authorized the award of a television station, originally on channel 66, in 2000 to the Franciscan order;^[1] the concession was modified to specify channel 21 in 2001.^[2] Previously, other archdioceses had received radio and television concessions after COMFER was empowered to award them to the church in 1990.^[2] Construction and operation of the station, however, was left to the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires pursuant to a 2004 agreement;^[2] the archdiocese had maintained a television production center since 1986.^[3] The archdiocese launched the station on a test basis in January 2006 from a transmitter located at the Inmaculada Concepción Seminary in Villa Devoto and studios located on the 10th floor of an archdiocesan building at Rivadavia 413.^[1] Full service began in July 2007.^[4]

In 2013, the Vatican Television Center reached a deal with Canal 21 to allow it access to the large archive of material it had pertaining to Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who was elected as Pope Francis earlier that year.^[5] It adopted its present name of Orbe 21 on December 12, 2014, and was added to the Movistar+ service in multiple Spanish-speaking countries, including Spain.^[6] The addition to the Movistar+ service came after the pope had a conversation with Telefónica president César Alierta.^[3]

Commercial network Telefe has provided significant support for Canal Orbe 21's operations. When Canal 21 moved into the former Argentina Sono Film studios, Telefe began paying its rent; additionally, Canal Orbe 21 was initially slated to share space with Telefe on its digital television multiplex.^[3] Ultimately, Canal Orbe TV was assigned 21.2, transmitting in 720p resolution at 6.5 Mbit/s on the channel 21 multiplex shared with Editorial Perfil [es] channel Alfa TV [es].^[7]

Programming

When then-Cardinal Bergoglio gave instructions to Julio Rimoldi, the first director general of Canal 21, he said the station should be positioned "between nude women and the Sunday Mass, in the middle",^[3] and Aleteia has described it as lacking "the odor of the sacristy".^[4] The channel airs a diversified schedule of programming, including public affairs, entertainment, and children's shows. It also airs Catholic masses, events of the pope, and extensive coverage of apostolic visits and important liturgical conferences.^[8] Two thirds of its output is produced in-house.^[8]

One of Bergoglio's programs prior to becoming pope—Biblia, diálogo vigente (Bible, Living Dialogue), which he co-hosted with a rabbi and a Protestant priest—was presented with an honorary Martín Fierro Award in 2013.^[9]

Local repeaters

In 2015, the Federal Authority for Audiovisual Communication Services awarded the Catholic Church twelve new TV stations, which will rebroadcast Orbe 21 programming with local insertions for those dioceses that can financially sustain it.^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b "Autorizado por el Comfer. La Iglesia estrenará en enero su propio canal de televisión" [Authorized by COMFER: The Church will debut its own TV channel in January]. La Nación (in Spanish). November 25, 2005. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Emisoras en manos católicas" [Stations in Catholic hands]. La Nación (in Spanish). November 25, 2005. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Crettaz, José (April 1, 2015). "Francisco TV: el canal del Papa llegará a 30 millones de casas" [Francis TV: the channel of the Pope will reach 30 million homes]. La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved June 22, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Pittaro, Esteban (April 29, 2015). "Canal Orbe 21, una señal de TV católica sin olor a sacristía" [Canal Orbe 21: a Catholic TV channel that doesn't smell like the sacristy]. Aleteia (in Spanish). Retrieved June 22, 2020.
^ Piqué, Elisabetta (June 27, 2013). "Con el aval del Papa, el Vaticano hizo un convenio con el canal de la arquidiócesis porteña" [With the approval of the Pope, the Vatican reached an agreement with the TV channel of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires]. La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved June 22, 2020.
^ "Canal 21 se llamará ahora "Canal Orbe 21"" [Canal 21 will now be known as "Canal Orbe 21"]. AICA (in Spanish). December 10, 2014. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
^ Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones (March 9, 2017). "Resolución 1631" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved June 22, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Alierta saluda al canal de TV del Papa "como lo mejor que he hecho"" [Alierta praises the Pope's TV channel as "the best thing that I've done"]. El País. April 27, 2015. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
^ "El Papa recibió un premio por su programa de televisión" [The Pope received an award for his TV program]. Infobae (in Spanish). August 6, 2013. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
^ "Asignaron a la Iglesia Católica 12 canales de TV" [12 TV channels assigned to the Catholic Church]. La Nación (in Spanish). April 9, 2015. Retrieved June 22, 2020.