33 Canal

About channel 33 Canal

Canal 33 Madrid is a local television belonging to the Association of Local Televisions of the Community of Madrid that began broadcasting in the city of Madrid, Spain in 1994, currently broadcasting in almost the entire Community of Madrid on TDT- 1 and DTT-2. The current president of Canal 33 Madrid is Enrique Riobóo De la Vega (director of Canal 33 and member of the Television Academy); Born in Ferrol (La Coruña), he has spent his entire professional life in Madrid.

It is the continuation of another television adventure of a lesser nature that was called Channel 47 (it began in September 1994), and that it broadcast mainly for the districts of Centro, Carabanchel, Villaverde and Latina. After the assignment (sale of rights) of part of the radioelectric space of Channel 47 to José Frade so that he could create Channel 7, Channel 33 began as such in 1996, broadcasting from channel 33 in the UHF band, where it remained until 24 December 2005, when the awarding of said frequency in Madrid for the analogue broadcast of La Sexta made it necessary to move to UHF channel 45, which is where it has broadcast analogue until March 2010, when it continues with DTT technology for Madrid capital and its area of ​​influence.

Channel 33 takes its name from its original broadcast frequency in Madrid and has no relationship with the second channel of Televisió de Catalunya.

Subsequently, in May 2012, the Community of Madrid expelled all existing TV stations from the Torre de Valencia. It was a decision of the government of Esperanza Aguirre. To alleviate this effect, Channel 33 installed its main transmitter on General Perón street (in front of the Santiago Bernabeu stadium), and put a repeater in the Axión tower in Vicálvaro (next to the La Almudena cemetery). With these two broadcasts, channel 45 and channel 57, coverage was given to the entire city of Madrid and a large part of its periphery.