License and pre-Telefe years

On October 10, 1963, by means of Decree 9088, the National Executive Chamber granted Dicor Difusión Córdoba S.A. (at the time being formed and with 10 shareholders) a license to operate VHF channel 8 in the city of Córdoba, capital of the province of the same name.^[1][2]

On December 9, 1963, with the publishing of Decree 1335, the Executive Chamber rejected the granting to Dicor, noting "abuse of illegitimacy" for the license;^[3] however, in 1968, it had been revoked by the Argentine justice.^[4]

The license finally started its regular broadcasts on April 5, 1971, as LV 85 TV Canal 8 de Córdoba.^[5]

On July 15, 1983, through Decree 1760, the National Executive Chamber renewed the station's license.^[6]

As a Telefe O&O

On September 21, 1989, following the announcement made by Carlos Menem to privatize channels 11 and 13, one of the interested companies, Televisora Federal, was one of the contenders, which had Televisoras Provinciales S.A. (of which licensee Dicor Difusión Córdoba S.A. was a shareholder).^[7][8] When Telefe gained the license to operate channel 11 in Buenos Aires, Canal 8 Córdoba became a charter affiliate.^[9]

During the 1990s, Dicor Difusión Córdoba acquired most of the shares in Neuquén TV (licensee of Canal 7 Neuquén). On September 2, 1998, Dicor was authorized by means of a national decree to enter Neuquén TV's financial structure.^[10]

In April 1998, it was known that Televisoras Provinciales sold its shares in Televisión Federal to Atlántida Comunicaciones and that seven of the ten companies (among them Dicor Difusión Córdoba and Neuquén TV) accepted the offer presented by AtCo to stay with their respective licenses.^[11][12] (the transaction completed in September 1998, with all of the acquired stations, among them Canal 7 Neuquén and Canal 8 Córdoba, were now in the hands of Grupo Telefe).^[13] Dicor and Neuquén TV were absorbed in 1999 and 2000 respectively by Compañía Surera de Inversiones S.A.^[14][15] (absorbed by Televisión Federal in 2002).^[16] The transfer of the two licenses to Telefe were approved on March 30, 2017, almost 19 years later.^[17]

In February 1999, by means of Resolution 3456, Secretaría de Comunicaciones granted Canal 8 tests to broadcast on digital terrestrial television,^[18] under the ATSC standard, the one which was initially adopted in 1998.^[19] The station used VHF channel 7 as its first digital channel.^[18]

In August 2007, Canal 8 started using satellite relays (through the Hispasat 1C satellite), which was also used by the relayers to receive the station. Also, from that month, it started broadcasting in stereo and started using closed captions in some of its programs.^[5][20]

On August 30, 2011, AFSCA, by means of Resolution 1027, authorized Canal 8 to hold digital terrestrial television tests using the ISDB-T standard. For this end, it used physical channel 38.^[21]

On August 4, 2014, Canal 8 started airing programming in HD en HD; the first edition of Telefe Noticias' local edition was the first to do so.^[22] A few days later on August 12, Canal 8 started its official DTT broadcasts (and in HD) through channel 29.2, becoming the first TV station in Córdoba to broadcast in this format.^[23]

On February 26, 2015, AFSCA, by means of Resolution 35, granted Teleocho channel 29.1 to broadcast regularly in HD on DTT.^[24]

Telefe Córdoba

On November 14, 2018, it became known that, from November 21, as part of a strategic change facing the analog shutdown, Telefe's O&Os outside Buenos Aires would replace their analog frequency-based channel names in favor of those of the Telefe network.^[25][26] As consequence of this change, Canal 8 took on the name Telefe Córdoba.^[25][27][28]