Cable Universal (Chile)

Cable Universal (officially Cable Universal SpA) is a Chilean telecommunications company of origin. It provides cable and satellite television services (HFC and DTH), IPTV, fixed and mobile telephony, fiber optics and Internet access nationwide. In addition to their main activities, they owned a long-distance carrier (765) that was discontinued in 2013, a video-on-demand service (Club VOD), a streaming platform with content from the channels on the platform (UniPlay), in addition to having exclusive channels such as UniSports (in addition to signals 2, Premium 1, 2 and 3), local channels such as TV Lagos and Temucovisión, and a future music channel called UniMusic.

Since June 2, 2011, its property has been 100% owned by the US group Postcom Enterprises, Inc.; until that date the company simply operated independently.

In June 2022, the company began offering an offer for new customers, which consists in the fact that if cable TV is contracted after this date, HFC (cable) and DTH (satellite) services are included, however, for customers old are offered a discount of 45% of the contracted plans.

Pre-history
It was originally born in 1997 as a small cable provider with about 15 channels (not counting national channels) under the name of La Caja Televisiva. However, it was not very successful, only lasting 10 months in operation.

Cable Universal and its beginnings
In mid-2001, the original founders of La Caja Televisiva decided to meet to launch a new cable television service under another name. Finally, Universal Cable was officially founded on October 3, 2001 as an analog cable operator that had 30 channels (not counting the national ones) and some premium channels.

On December 20, 2002, The Weather Channel Latin America ceased its broadcasts (obviously by decision of the channel itself), so on January 1, 2003 its space was taken over by the Venezuelan channel Globovisión (currently unavailable).

On May 24, 2006, Magic Kids ended its broadcasts by Pramer's decision, so since June 1, 2006 Disney Channel became a basic channel occupying the old space of Magic, while the VH1 Latino channel was integrated into the old Disney frequency.

In the middle of 2006 a new package of channels called digital expansion and the launch of a new product called Uni-Box (a digital decoder) began to be promoted. These novelties arrived on September 27, 2006, with new channels that at that time were new in Latin America (or more specifically in Chile).

In May 2007 Cable Universal announced the acquisition of the operations of the company Satellicom in Chile (which had already announced its cessation of operations in South America), so that in mid-2007 Satellicom was absorbed by Cable Universal, becoming the service DTH of the last.