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Trece (Paraguayan TV network)

Paraguayan free-to-air television network

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ2935881 ↗
Source-derived summary

Trece is a Paraguayan free-to-air television network launched in 1981. It is the head station of the JBB Group, which as of 11 January 2016 adopted this name. Channel 13 was the second television station to start nationwide broadcasts, after SNT, the first to broadcast entirely in color and the fourth television station to be set up in Paraguay overall including SNT's two inland affiliates that started shortly before Channel 13's operations started (making it second in Asunción). In the 2010s, the channel changed owners twice eventually becoming a sister channel to Unicanal, and for a brief period between 2016 and 2019, it was known as RPC.

It also airs on the DTT service on UHF channel 27 since October 2017. The channel has been broadcasting from the city of Lambaré adjacent to the capital Asunción since the beginning.

History

Canal 13 Teledifusora Paraguaya

On 11 February 1981, on VHF channel 13 (where the station got its name) and under the aegis of Red Privada de Comunicación, the station is signed on by businessman Nicolás Bó Parodi, becoming the first television channel to broadcast entirely in color. Its launch gave a new dynamic to television in Paraguay. Bo Parodi had close relations to the family of dictator Alfredo Stroessner and the new channel had an officialist outline, as a propaganda outlet related to the regime. During the dictatorship, the channel didn't surpass government-sponsored channel SNT's audience.

The channel was the first to broadcast Brazilian telenovelas, the majority of which came from TV Globo.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Trece (Paraguayan TV network)” as paraguayan free-to-air television network. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 2016, 2019, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981-02-11. The account is most persuasive where Trece, Paraguayan and network can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Trece (Paraguayan TV network)” 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.