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| Television in Acapulco, Mexico |
Television in AcapulcoThese days, you can get pretty much everything when it comes to television in Acapulco and it pretty much works the way it does every place else. You buy a TV and you get a few lame channels free. You buy a cable package, you pay a deposit on your cable converter (which comes with a remote) and you have all sorts of channels. Here is a list of the channels (and prices as of Jan. 2005). I have basic cable, a couple premium movie channels, and a package that includes U.S. news channels for about $45 a month. A guy come to my building every month asking me if I want him to jimmy rig the service so I get all channels free, but I always refuse (though there seems to be no discernable consequences for pirating cable here).
Anyway, to get hooked up, you go to Cablemás, (formerly TeleCable) which is located at:
Gonzolo Gomez #14, Fraccionamiento Magallanes Tel: 469 32 00 and 469 32 25
It's located on the 2nd floor of a big blue building (with no signs) located on the Golden Zone end of Parque Papagayo near Hotel Jacqueline. It's easy to miss.
You can also get a CableGuía (TV Guide) that will tell you what's on.
It wasn't at all hard to hook up, I just went to the office, signed a few forms that I didn't bother to read, layout out some cash and the next thing I know there were two guys at my place running what seemed like a mile of cable everywhere.
I go to the main office every month to pay, but I guess you can even pay at the convenience stores or at the banks if you have your account number handy. That's just too convenient for me, I've never tried.
Alternatively, you can also hook up a satellite dish. I see lots of them, but don't have one myself. Most Acapulco Hotels have them. The weather is normally pretty good so I'm sure the reception is excellent.
The main satellite system in Latin America is SKY Television, which has some 1 million subscribers in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico alone. DirecTV Latin America was converted to SKY by News Corporation in 2004.
The major Mexican television networks are:
Televisa and TV Azteca
What do the Mexicans watch? Well, the men seem to prefer their fútbol, which means soccer if you're an American. The women love their telenovelas which are Latin American versions of Melrose Place that look like they were filmed with a camcorder. Read about them below:
Acapulco has a public access channel that plays the same terrible Acapulco highlights reel all day and all night. One of these days I'm going to shoot and edit a new one and send it to them free.
I find Mexico's TV shows sort of lame actually and, besides the local news, I end up watching the American channels (which are sort of lame themselves and a waste of time). ¡Praise Jesus for cable TV!
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