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Etc...TV

Etc...TV is a private owned cable TV channel of Chile that launched in 1996 and is owned by Telefilms Ltda. Starting with a low budget, the channel was originally focused as a "miscellaneous" channel on children's programming and some North American Sitcoms in their first year, however, when the channel aired Sailor Moon and Saint Seiya in the middle of 1997, the station experiment a considerable increase of rating and they realized that Japanese Anime were an interesting genre. After the success of the first seasons of Sailor Moon and Saint Seiya, the channel began to obtain new Anime series and starts to be a fully oriented Anime channel and the only cable channel on the country that shows Anime with the local channel Chilevision. Etc...TV is considered, along Chilevision, as one of the precursors of Anime in Chile after a long time of absence of programs of the genre in the country since the 80's, like the UCV TV program Pipiripao. Their actual slogan is "Todo pasa por Etc..." (All Happens on Etc...)

Anime aired on Etc...TV

Some of the following Anime were aired on Etc...TV, many of those series where also aired on some local Chilean channels, specially Chilevision on their program "El Club de los Tigritos" (now named Invasion) and some exceptions in TVN (Vision of Escaflowne and Lost Universe), Red Television and Megavision .

Ashita no Nadja (beginning March 26th 2007)

Bikkuriman (first season only)

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 (slightly North America edited version)

Captain Tsubasa

Irresponsible Captain Tylor (completed)

Card Captor Sakura

Crayon Shin Chan (North American edit)

Detective Conan (some seasons)

Digimon

Doraemon (known in Latin America as "El Gato Cosmico")

Dr.Slump (not completed)

Dragon Ball (all seasons)

Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro

Ghost Sweeper Mikami (completed)

Goal FH (known in Latin America as "Goleadores")

Gulliver Boy (completed)

Gundam Wing

Hajime no Ippo

Hamtaro (beginning March 26th 2007)

Hell Teacher Nube (completed)

Hunter x Hunter

Kinnikuman

Koni chan

Inuyasha (North American edittion)

Magic Knight Rayearth (North American edit)

Magical DoReMi

Sally The Witch

Marmalade Boy

One Piece (beginning March 26th 2007)

Patlabor

Prince of Tennis (only the two first seasons)

Pokemon

Ranma (completed)

Nintama Rantarou (know in Latin America as "Ninja Boy Rantaro")

Tantei Gakuen Q (know in Latin America as "Escuela de Detectives")

Tenchi Muyo

Sailor Moon (all seasons)

Saint Seiya

Sakura Wars

Shaman King

Slam Dunk

Slayers

Sorcerous Stabber Orphen (completed)

Taiho Shichauzo (known in Latin America as "Estan Arrestados")

The Secret Garden (animated Japanese version of the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett)

Vision of Escaflowne

Yaiba

Yamazaki

Yu-Gi-Oh

Zenki (completed)

Zoids

Programs

The following programs are exclusive to the stations. They are mostly oriented towards child and teenage viewers.

Troncal etc...

Sin Uniforme

Pega2 (2006)

Cazador de Suenos (2006)

En Escena (2006)

CDN Cosa de Ninos (2006)

Cuenta Regresiva

Criticism

Although Etc...TV is one of the few channels in Chile for Anime series, the channel has suffered a considerable amount of criticism for technical issues, such as low sound and video quality. Said issues became more notorious after Etc...TV was moved from their VTR signal to channel 13, who is shared in signal with the local channel Universidad Catolica de Chile Television causing a lot of interference between both channels.

In its first years, Etc...TV also took lots of criticism for its policy of censorship. This was very obvious during the early runs of Meitantei Conan, where the more bloody case scenes were heavily cut, to the point that some episodes were very hard to follow for the viewers.

See also

List of Chilean television channels

External links

Official Site

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