Universal Church-Linked UNIFE Channel Begins Broadcasting on Free-to-Air TV in Mexico City

Mexico City received a new free-to-air television channel on signal 8.3 of Televisión Digital Terrestre on January 29. The channel, called UNIFE, is owned by the Iglesia Universal del Reino de Dios, according to the report. It originally broadcasts in Argentina.

The channel’s website, universal.org.mx/unife, describes it as offering content with reliable information, news, Bible novels, reality shows, magazine programs, series, movies, animations, and stories of transformed lives. The site presents UNIFE as a way to bring new content to families in Mexico City.

According to the report, the programming includes newscasts, magazine and entertainment shows, religious series, and novelas. The website names a series about Jesus as its flagship program. It says the series, described as a novela of “resounding international success,” will air in prime time at 10 p.m. The site also says the channel will carry a range of productions that have been popular worldwide.

The report notes that the UNIFE website does not describe who operates the channel. The Iglesia Universal, however, promotes the channel in Mexico City through its social media. One post from the account Iglesia Universal México was cited in the report.

Source: Read the original report (translated from Spanish)