Canal Orbe 21 (call sign LRL 456 TV) is a television station on channel 21.2 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[4] In 2013, the Vatican Television Center reached a deal with Canal 21 to allow it access to the large archive of material it had pertaining to Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who was elected as Pope Francis earlier that year.

[7] When then-Cardinal Bergoglio gave instructions to Julio Rimoldi, the first director general of Canal 21, he said the station should be positioned "between nude women and the Sunday Mass, in the middle",[3] and Aleteia has described it as lacking "the odor of the sacristy".

[8] One of Bergoglio's programs prior to becoming pope—Biblia, diálogo vigente (Bible, Living Dialogue), which he co-hosted with a rabbi and a Protestant priest—was presented with an honorary Martín Fierro Award in 2013.

[9] In 2015, the Federal Authority for Audiovisual Communication Services awarded the Catholic Church twelve new TV stations, which will rebroadcast Orbe 21 programming with local insertions for those dioceses that can financially sustain it.