Telecanal

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Telecanal

Country	Chile
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV
Ownership
Owner	Canal 2 SA (Albavisión)
Sister channels	La Red
History
Launched	December 5, 2005[1]
Former names	Rock&Pop and VidaVisión
Links
Website	telecanal.cl
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital UHF	Listings may vary

Telecanal is a privately-owned TV channel of Chile, launched on Monday, December 5, 2005, six years and four days after the end of the transmissions of Canal 2, whose broadcast hours required by law were covered by slots paid for by the evangelical ministry VidaVisión. Its offices and studios are located in the Sanhattan neighborhood of Las Condes.

At its launch, Telecanal offered alternative programming for the local industry. However, during its first years of broadcasting it left behind its original offer, reducing its in-house programs and limiting itself to broadcasting foreign programming. Much of the output has already been broadcast by La Red since both channels belong to the Albavisión group; therefore, both are the only broadcast television channels in Chile that have the same owner, even though national legislation and regulatory entities have blocked this ownership situation in other similar cases, including the one that led to the bankruptcy of the previous owner of the channel 2 frequency in 1999.

Its biggest competitors are its sister channel La Red and TV+, being the three channels with the lowest audience reception in the country. It currently airs in Santiago on VHF channel 2, and digital terrestrial television since 2021.