Calle 13 (TV channel)
television network

Calle 13 is a Spanish pay television channel. Owned by Universal Studios Networks Spain, Calle 13 promotes itself as a channel of suspense and action.
Calle 13 (13th Street) was launched in 1999 and its schedule is made of TV series and movies of action, suspense, terror, mystery and science fiction, both Spanish and international, classic and modern. With the birth of sister channel Sci Fi Channel in June 2006, most of the science-fiction series Calle 13 used to show were moved to the new channel.
Programming
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Andromeda *
Blood Ties
Brimstone
Chicago P.D.
Chuck
Columbo
Departure
El Comisario
Grimm
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys *
Homicide: Life on the Street
Hudson & Rex
Jericho
Law & Order
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Los Angeles
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Law & Order True Crime
MacGyver
Magnum P.I.
Monk
Murder, She Wrote
Mutant X
Nip/Tuck
Numbers
Person of Interest
Policías, en el corazón de la calle
Profiler
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
Psych
Quantum Leap
Rizzoli & Isles
Rookie Blue
seaQuest DSV *
Serial Experiments Lain
Star Trek: Enterprise *
Starhunter
The 4400
The Closer
The Dead Zone *
The Event
The Equalizer
Third Watch
Xena: Warrior Princess *
Witchblade *
* Now on SYFY Universal
Sister channels
Syfy Universal (also known as Syfy, formerly Sci Fi Channel) is a Spanish pay television channel that was launched on 1 June 2006 and specialises in science fiction, fantasy, and horror shows and movies.
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