Canal 15 (formerly known as 100% Noticias) was a Nicaraguan cable TV channel broadcasting from the city of Managua and founded by the local journalist Miguel Mora Barberena and his wife Verónica Chavez.[1]
History edit
100% Noticias started in October 1995 as a news program on local channel 23. It later became a 24-hour news channel on the defunct Estesa cable TV system.[citation needed]
The channel was rebranded to Canal 15 in 2009.
On December 21, 2018, the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Postal Services revoked the operation license of Canal 15 and raided its offices. The director Miguel Mora and journalist Lucía Pineda Ubau were jailed and accused of inciting terrorism in the context of the 2018 Nicaragua protests.[2] The government confiscated the channel's facilities and continues to occupy them.[3]
In November 2019, Canal 6 started occupying the terrestrial signal with a secondary channel, Canal 15, carrying educational and cultural programming.[4]
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References edit
- ^ "100% Noticias - Archivo Noticias". Canal15.com.ni. Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
- ^ "Nicaraguan-Costa Rican journalist Lucía Pineda jailed and accused of inciting terrorism in Nicaragua". The Tico Times Costa Rica. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
- ^ "Recapturan a Miguel Mora, el quinto precandidato encarcelado durante escalada represiva de Ortega". Confidencial (in Spanish). 2021-06-21. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
- ^ "Gobierno empieza a usar la señal de canal 15 que pertenecía a 100% Noticias (Government starts using channel 15's signal that belonged to 100% Noticias)". 100% Noticias. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2021.