LT92

The Channel 7 of Parana, commercially known as Argenvisión Paraná or Canal siete (formerly Canal 4 or canal cuatro), is an Argentine free-to-air television station that broadcasts from the city of Paraná for the province of Entre Ríos. It rebroadcasts the programming of Argenvisión, broadcasts its local, cultural, educational and journalistic programming as well as public content programming (TV Pública, Encuentro, Pakapaka and DeporTV). It was previously a repeater of América Televisión and Canal 13 until 2005. The channel was founded on September 1, 1972 and started broadcasting on April 23, 1975. It is majority-owned by Corporación Entrerriana de Televisión and Warner Bros. Discovery (Radio Televisora Argenvisión).
It has a potential reception of more than one million people in the provinces of Entre Ríos, Corrientes, Chaco, and east of the Province of Santa Fe (through cable television).
== History ==
On March 19, 1972, by means of Decree 2661, the National Executive Power awarded Corporación Televisora del Paraná S.A. (then in the process of formation and formed by 12 people) a license to operate the frequency of Channel 4 in the city of Paraná, capital of the province of Entre Ríos. Its first broadcasts were made from the government house in Paraná.
In May 1974, construction began on the channel's transmitter plant, which would be located in the town of La Paz, with the aim of achieving greater propagation towards the northern area of the province and Corrientes. When the experimental transmissions began on May 4, the tower was 50 meters high; however, by the start of regular transmissions, it would reach a height of 300 meters.
The license finally began regular transmissions on April 23, 1975 as LT 92 TV Channel 4 of Parana.
In February 1976, Channel 4 began to receive the programming of the Buenos Aires television channels live via coaxial cable. Previously, it received it with a delay of approximately one week.
On March 24, 1976, the National State (which at that time was governed by Juan Carlos Trimarco) declared the licenses of channels 4 of Paraná and 6 of Federación expired; both were intervened by the military dictatorship.
In October 1979, Channel 4 started broadcasting programs in color on an experimental basis at 3:51 a.m.
In 1980, Televisora del Paraná S.A. installed repeater antennas with contributions from the dictatorship of Carlos Aguirre (Governor of Entre Ríos) to cover the city of Gualeguaychú, Federación, Concepción del Uruguay, Salto (Uruguay) and Rosario del Tala to reach the east of the province and the west of Uruguay. On January 21, 1980, the station began to broadcast in color on a regular basis. In 1980, Channel 4 began to broadcast programs in color through the German PAL-N 576i encoding until January 2005. The first color broadcast was made in 1979 on a national network of Lt. Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla during the process of national reorganization. At that time, the channel already had a color telefilm, two-inch color video tape recorders and a color slide reader used for static advertising.
In 1982, the channel extensively covered the Malvinas War for the entire Argentine Littoral. Channel 4 was journalistic equipment that reached the continent, carrying a channel with a 16 km signal tower.
On September 21, 1989, President Carlos Menem ordered by decree the privatization of Channels 5, 11, 13 and 15 of the city of Buenos Aires. One of the companies that participated in those bids was Artear and Radio Televisora Argenvisión, which at that time had as one of its main shareholders Televisora del Paraná (of which Grupo Sigma, the licensee of Channel 4, was a shareholder).
In September 1992, Grupo UNO (today Grupo América) acquired 4 over-the-air television channels (among them, Canal 4) until 2005 (due to copyright issues, no further information is available).
In 1999, the channel acquired a modern outdoor broadcasting unit in Paysandú, Uruguay, whose first images were the inaugural parade of the Fiesta Nacional del Mate in Paraná.
In January 2000, by means of Resolution 1638, the Secretariat of Communications authorized Canal 4 to test Digital Terrestrial Television under ATSC regulations (regulations that were established by Resolution 2357 of 1998). For this purpose, it was assigned Channel 10 in the VHF band.
On January 1, 2005, Renato Rodrigues David, responsible for the programming grid of Channel 4 during most of its history, withdrew from Channel 4 and declared that there was no more material to program, since they broke contracts with Artear and Grupo UNO, while Argenvisión S.A. acquired Channel 4 and began to broadcast exclusively Argenvisión's programming, changing its standard from PAL-N to NTSC-J.
In 2009, the Federal Authority of Audiovisual Communication Services, through Resolution 1160, authorized Channel 4 to test Digital Terrestrial Television under the DVB-T2 standard (adopted in Argentina through Decree 14002 of 2007). For such purpose, it was assigned Channel 16 in the UHF band.
In 2010 it began to broadcast the programming of Channel 7 of Buenos Aires for half, having 50% of state control, due to the media law.
On August 30, 2011, the Federal Authority of Audiovisual Communication Services, through Resolution 1030, authorized Channel 4 to test Digital Terrestrial Television under the ISDB-T standard (adopted in Argentina through Decree 1148 of 2009). For such purpose, it was assigned Channel 35 in the UHF band.
On April 13, 2014, the Federal Authority of Audiovisual Communication Services, through Resolution 35, assigned Channel 4 Channel 19.1 to broadcast on a regular basis (in HD format) on Digital Terrestrial Television.
The digital over-the-air signal is broadcast in HD and SD formats, under the ISDB-T system on Digital Terrestrial Television channels 27.1 (Digital), 27.2 (Analog in NTSC-N 480i), 27.3 (Channel 20) and 27.31 (Mobile). Testing began in April 2012.
In June 2012, the signal started to be broadcasted for the first time in high definition under the name of Canal 4 HD, which is broadcasted throughout the provincial territory and in Paysandú, Uruguay (Except Rafaela, which has its own channel with repeaters in Santa Fe).
In March-April 2015, Canal 4 celebrated its 40th anniversary on the air.
On May 25, 2020, it was renamed Argenvisión Paraná due to the unification of the brand. 
During April 2021, the station broadcasts some programs of Channel 7 Rafaela (among them, the midday edition of ArgenNoticias Santa Fe, which replaced ArgenNoticias Buenos Aires in the grid) as a result of an agreement entered into between the state-owned company Santa Fe Televisora S.A. (operator of the Santa Fe-Rafaela station) and Canal 4 (Corporación Radiodifusora Entrerriana).
On December 31, 2021 at 9:00pm, after Canal 4 closed its broadcasts on frequency 4 after 45 years, due to the expiration of the license and the expropriation of Canal 6 ERTV, it restarted its channel on dial 7 on Monday, January 3, 2022, while the rafaelina signal is low power and broadcast exclusively for Santa Fe due to interference. 
On August 22, 2022, Argenvisión Paraná started broadcasting in 4K at 60fps due to the Qatar 2022 World Cup. 
On October 19, 2022, the channel was added to Argenplay's catalog grid. 
On March 23, 2023, Canal 7 announced the inclusion of a special signal of the station (with local programming and retransmissions of TV Pública) to the grid of the satellite TV operator ArgenSat from November 26, becoming the first channel from the city of Paraná to join this satellite TV platform. 
== Programming ==
Currently, part of the channel's programming consists of rebroadcasting part of Argenvisión's programming,
The signal also has local programming, including ArgenNoticias Paraná (which is the channel's news service), Entre Canción and Nuestro Canto (music programs), Gol en el 7 (sports program), Ciudades en Red (television program dedicated to information), Televisión constructiva (program dedicated to people with disabilities), Paraná hacia el mundo (program dedicated to tourism), Paraná hacia el mundo (program dedicated to tourism). Televisión constructiva (program dedicated to people with disabilities), Paraná hacia el mundo (program dedicated to tourism), Entre Noticias (AET program dedicated to the news of the province) among other local programs.
=== Channel transmissions in Santa Fe ===
Channel 4 can be broadcasted in Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz through a repeater as a result of an agreement signed with Rafaela's Channel 7 (which also rebroadcasts Argenvisión's programming and was acquired by Grupo República on June 3, 1997). On April 7, 2012, the general coordinator of the Argentine Digital Terrestrial Television System announced that a Channel 4 repeater antenna would be installed in the city (with intentions of broadcasting in Open Digital Television).
In April 2021, the Minister of AET told Diario DOS that the main problem that Channel 4 does not transmit over the air in Santa Fe is the technical limitation, and that first they will reconvert existing repeaters into digital ones before installing one in the mountain city. He also said that it is "a myth" that Grupo República will not allow the public channel to install a repeater in Santa Fe and surrounding areas, although he acknowledged that they would have to replace Argenvisión's programming in order not to compete with the station from Rafael.
On July 6, 2022, as part of an agreement between Corporación Entrerriana de Radiodifusión and Canal 7 of Rafaela, the station from Rafaela-Santa Fe started to broadcast some programs of Canal 4 on its screen (among them, the midday edition of the newscast). The president of CER described the agreement as a "plan B" to reach the city and assured that its cost "is lower than what it would cost to install our own signal".
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