Canal Nostalgia

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Canal Nostalgia

Country	Spain
Network	TVE
Programming
Language(s)	Spanish
Picture format	576i (4:3 SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	RTVE
History
Launched	1997; 25 years ago (1997)
Closed	2005; 17 years ago (2005)
Replaced by	TVE 50 Años

Canal Nostalgia was a Spanish television channel which belonged to TVE and was broadcast first through satellite television, then through cable TV. It featured archive shows from TVE's history in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. It was available from 1997 to 2005, when it was closed to launch months later TVE 50 Años.

Structure[]

Each day, 12 hours were scheduled to show programs of all kinds of genres, from 1964 (when TVE started recording its shows) to the 1980s. After the 12 hours concluded, in the night the same schedule was repeated. They only showed their own produced shows, since showing series or movies not belonging to them would require a payment to the copyright owners of them.

History[]

Canal Nostalgia started as a satellite channel inside , with TVE 24 Horas, and . In 1998, it was brought to , where it stayed until that satellite digital platform was merged with in 2002, becoming Digital Plus. It was then brought to cable TV through Ono, until it was discontinued in June 2005. Months later, in November 2005,^[1] a new channel named TVE 50 Años with similar structure was launched through Digital terrestrial television to celebrate TVE's 50th anniversary. In the last months, from February 2005, it was also available in the United States and Canada via Intelsat Americas 13.^[2]

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