Canal 9 was a Chilean television channel operated by Televisión Nacional de Chile between June 1986 and August 1990 as its second signal, with coverage limited to the Santiago Metropolitan Region.
After University of Chile (today Chilevisión) moved to channel 11 of Santiago on April 21, 1980, frequency 9 remained vacant for 6 years.
[3] On June 3, 1986, days ahead of the start of the 1986 FIFA World Cup, TVN launched its second signal on an experimental basis, initially known as Frecuencia 9 and with alternative programming to the World Cup broadcast, which included telenovelas and the then main news program of the state channel, 60 minutos.
[3] Just one week after the start of broadcasts, on June 11, the programming was substantially modified, eliminating the telenovelas and giving way to documentaries, sports programs - such as Satélite del deporte with Jorge Hevia, which premiered in 1988—, cartoons and feature films, similar to the state-owned stations in Europe, and to not compete with the main TVN network.
[6] Aside from channel 9 in Santiago, TVN's second network had frequencies assigned in other cities of Chile, which were never operated and were trespassed to Sociedad Ernesto Pinto Claude y Compañía —which eventually became Megavisión— in January 1990.