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Once TV
Type	Broadcast television network
Country	Mexico
Availability	National
Owner	National Polytechnic Institute
Launch date	March 2, 1959
Website	www.oncetv.ipn.mx

Once TV (pronounced "ON-seh teh veh", Spanish for "TV Eleven"), also known as "Canal 11" (XEIPN-TV) in Mexico City, is a Mexican educational television network. It began broadcasting on March 2, 1959 as the first such TV network in Latin America. Its first transmission was of a mathematics class from a small studio at El Casco de Santo Tomás on the northern rim of Mexico City.

The station is owned by the National Polytechnic Institute. It broadcasts across the Mexican territory and to the United States via the Once Mexico Channel on DirecTV and SATMEX Maximo. Most of its programs are also webcast via the Internet, though the programming is not the same as the "live" signal.

Once TV has won many national and international prizes, including the following:

• Promax World Gold Awards 2004 New York, U.S.:

Golden Prize T 08 for Program Promotion: "Violencia Doméstica"

Golden Prize T 10 for Special Event Program Promotion: "Violencia Doméstica"

Silver Prize T 08 for Program Promotion: "Diálogos en confianza" (Talk show)

Silver Prize T 27 for Non-Promotional Animation: " Master of lounge music "

• Promax BDA World Gold Awards 2004, New York, U.S.:

Gold 56 for Consumer Topical Advertising: "Pasión por la Naturaleza "

Silver 4 for Topical Print: "Tour de cine francés"

Silver 65 for Poster: "Tour de cine francés"

Silver 69 for Illustration for Print: "Pasión por la Naturaleza "

Bronze 13 for Open: "Violencia Familiar"

Bronze 16 for Art Direction & Design, Topical Promo: " Diálogos en Confianza "

• I Festival Internacional de Documentales de Madrid 2004, Madrid, Spain:

Jury's Special Mention for "Series del Once"

• (Spanish) Official Site
• (Spanish)(English) International Site
• Once TV webcast

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