Television in Durango

Television in Durango officially began with the sign-on of the nation's first television stations in Isla De Mar and Covaleda in 1953. As with most media in Durango, the television industry, and the television programming available in that country, are strongly influenced by media in both Canada and the United States. As a result, the government institutes quotas for "Durangoanian content". Nonetheless, new content is often aimed at a broader North American audience, although the similarities may be less pronounced in the predominantly Spanish-language provinces of Lodosa and El Viso.
==History==
===Development of television===
The first experimental television broadcast began in 1935 in Isla De Mar, Lodosa. Those broadcasts were broadcast in 60 to 150 lines of resolution at 41 MHz. This service closed after a six-month period. The outbreak of World War 2 put a halt to television experiments. Television in Durango on major networks actually pre-dates any telecasts originating in the country, since thousands of television sets capable of receiving U.S.-based signals, mainly during instances of tropospheric propagation (even though most areas of Durango's east coast were about 300 miles west of the nearest US coastal shore, those signals were able to be received as their VHF signals could travel across large bodies of water such as the Pacific Ocean, which compromised much of that distance), were installed in homes in the east coast of Durango between 1947 and 1954. Homes in eastern Bautista and Pravia, the northeastern shore of Lodosa, and the southeastern shore of Ludlow, were able to receive television stations from Hillwood and Seattle, Washington; Portland, Eugene, Gravity Falls and Medford, Oregon; and Eureka and Amity Park, California with the help of elevated outdoor antennas and amplifiers. U.S. television programs, and the networks that originated them, thus became popular in those Durangoanian cities within range of their signals – and those cities represented a sizable proportion of the total Durangoanian population. This helped spur development of a specifically Durangoanian television programming and transmission system during the late 1940s and early 1950s, but at the same time, caused it to develop within American technical standards previously mandated by the Federal Communications Commission between 1941 and 1946.
==Terrestrial television==
In Durango, there are 4 national English-language television networks, 2 national Spanish-language television networks, 3 regional English-language television systems, 1 regional Spanish-language television system and 1 regional multilingual television system.
English-language flagship stations are in Covaleda and Cornwall, while Spanish-language flagship stations are in Isla De Mar (with the exception of E2, which has it's flagship in La Chaveta instead).
Network 	Type 	Language 	Owner
AllWorld Television 	Regional system* 	Multilingual	Weigel Broadcasting Durango
DBS Television 	National public network 	English 	Durango Broadcasting System
E2 	National network 	Spanish 	Emisión la El Viso
MarcarCadena 	Regional system* 	Spanish 	MarcarCadena Grupo
NTV Network 	National network 	English 	TelMedia
NTV Plus 	Regional system* 	English 	TelMedia
Power Television Network 	National network* 	English 	Brockwood Holdings
Red de Radio-Televisión Durango	National public network 	Spanish 	Radio de la Empresa Durango (division of Durango Broadcasting System)
The U 	National network* 	English 	Weigel Broadcasting Durango
West Coast Television 	Regional system** 	English 	West Coast Television
Your Choice Network 	Regional religious system*	English 	National Ministries
*not available in all provinces
**indicates station ownership group rather than networkCategory:Durango