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Calle 13 (TV channel)

television network

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ614539 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Calle 13 (TV channel)” is television network. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Calle, channel and television, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999. For this dossier, Calle, channel and television is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “television network” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q614539. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Calle 13 (TV channel)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.