What is Ecuador TV?
Ecuador TV is a television channel whose site describes its output as “Noticias, entrevistas y programación de Ecuador TV” with “cobertura nacional e internacional”.[1] It is operated by the Empresa Pública de Comunicación del Ecuador EP, which states on its own site that it was created by “Decreto Ejecutivo N.º 1160 el 26 de septiembre de 2020”, that its media outlets were integrated with effect from 9 April 2021, and that those outlets are Ecuador TV, Pública FM and El Telégrafo.[2] The company's site carries a Transparencia section with rendición de cuentas, LOTAIP filings, audited financial statements and board resolutions.[2]
The instrument is corroborated outside the company. El Comercio reported the creation by “decreto ejecutivo 1160” signed on 26 September 2020 of a public company assuming the public radio and television broadcasting services and “el Diario El Telégrafo” as an internet publication.[3] El Universo reported on 30 September 2020 the creation of the “Empresa Pública de Comunicación del Ecuador EP” to take over public radio broadcasting, public television and the outlets linked to El Telégrafo, by a corporate division from a predecessor company then in liquidation.[4]
What does Ecuador TV cover?
The channel's own site presents news, interviews and programming with national and international coverage.[1] No sports programme was named on the pages retrieved for this entry, and no sports-rights holding by the channel could be retrieved, so none is stated.[1]
What can be documented is the corporate position of the outlets around it. El Comercio reported that the earlier Medios Públicos company began the liquidation ordered in Decreto 1059, that the operations of Pública FM, Ecuador TV and Televisión Pública would continue “brindando el servicio de información y comunicación con el personal necesario”, and that El Telégrafo's operation “como se venía haciendo, ya no continuará”, with staff notified on 17 July 2020.[5] El Universo reported on 15 June 2025 that Decreto Ejecutivo 31, signed on 14 June 2025, extended to 12 July 2025 the liquidation of the Empresa Pública Medios Públicos de Comunicación del Ecuador, a process it dated from May 2020 and described as having been extended repeatedly.[6]
How large is Ecuador TV's audience?
No audited television audience measurement for Ecuador TV could be retrieved for this page, and none is given. Neither the channel's own site nor the operating company's public pages retrieved here publish a rating, a share or a reach figure.[1][2]
The company does publish audited financial statements and rendición de cuentas reports through its Transparencia section, which is an accountability record rather than an audience measurement.[2] Any figure for this channel would have to come from a recognised television measurement currency, and none could be retrieved for Ecuador.
Since when has Ecuador TV existed?
This entry separates the channel from its operator, because the two have different dates and only one of them is documented here. The operator states its own creation: “Decreto Ejecutivo N.º 1160 el 26 de septiembre de 2020”, with the outlets integrated from 9 April 2021.[2] El Comercio and El Universo both report the same 2020 instrument creating that company.[3][4]
The channel itself predates the company that now runs it, and no founding instrument or first-broadcast date for the channel could be retrieved for this page; none is stated here. What is documented is a chain of corporate bodies: a predecessor public media company, placed in liquidation under Decreto 1059 and still in liquidation under Decreto Ejecutivo 31 of 14 June 2025, and the Empresa Pública de Comunicación del Ecuador EP created in September 2020.[5][6] El Universo reported on 30 September 2020 that the new company was formed by a decision to “escindir (dividir) la Empresa de Medios Públicos, que está en fase de liquidación”, the predecessor keeping its liquidation and the new body taking the three retained outlets; the operating company's own site describes only its own creation.[2][4] El Universo's report of 15 June 2025 names the body still in liquidation as the “Empresa Pública Medios Públicos de Comunicación del Ecuador en Liquidación” and also calls it Comunica EP, which is the name the newer company uses; that naming overlap is not resolved by either source, and the Registro Oficial text of Decreto Ejecutivo 31 could not be retrieved for this page.[6]
Why does Ecuador TV matter in Ecuador's sport?
It is the state's own television outlet, and what it is doing is set by instrument rather than by commercial contract: the operating company was created by decree, it reports through LOTAIP filings and audited accounts, and its scope of outlets — television, radio and a newspaper — is stated in its own terms.[2] For a country page, that makes it the one outlet on this list whose existence and remit can be traced to a dated government instrument.[3][4]
Its position is also unsettled in a way that is documented. The liquidation of the predecessor public media company had run from May 2020 to at least the extension granted by Decreto Ejecutivo 31 of 14 June 2025, and the outlets affected included Ecuador TV.[5][6] Any statement about what this channel carries — in soccer or in any other sport — would need to be dated to a moment inside that process, and no current rights holding could be retrieved for this page.
References
- Ecuador TV — channel site (self-description of news, interviews and programming). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- Empresa Pública de Comunicación del Ecuador EP — comunica.ec (creation by Decreto Ejecutivo Nº 1160 of 26 September 2020; outlets integrated 9 April 2021; Transparencia section). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- El Comercio — Lenín Moreno decreta creación de la Empresa Pública Medios Públicos de Comunicación del Ecuador (decreto ejecutivo 1160, 26 September 2020). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- El Universo — Gobierno crea nueva empresa para manejar radio pública, Ecuador TV y El Telégrafo (30 September 2020). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- El Comercio — Medios Públicos anuncia que inició proceso de liquidación (Decreto 1059; staff notified 17 July 2020). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- El Universo — Gobierno da 30 días más de plazo para la liquidación de la Empresa de Medios Públicos (15 June 2025; Decreto Ejecutivo 31 of 14 June 2025). Accessed 2026-09-23.