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.

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, were installed in homes near the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean between 1946 and 1953. Homes in eastern Bautista and Pravia, the northeastern shore of Lodosa, and the southeastern shore of Ludlow, were able to receive television stations from Seattle, Washington; Portland, Eugene and Medford, Oregon; and Eureka, 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.