XHCGA-TV 6 was established nearly three decades ago by the Mexican state of Aguascalientes

Aguascalientes

Aguascalientes is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 11 municipalities and its capital city is Aguascalientes....

 with the support of the Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes to serve as the public television and radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 broadcaster for the state.

It is operated by Radio y Televisión de Aguascalientes (Radio and Television of Aguascalientes) as an internationally-recognized cultural channel with an emphasis on Aguascalientes content and local television production. Its stated mission is to communicate, to inform, to educate, to entertain and promote human development.

The station provides eighty hours a week of educational and cultural programming, much of it via the Instituto Politécnico Nacional's Once TV

Once TV

Once TV México, Spanish for México Eleven TV is a Mexican educational broadcast television network owned by Instituto Politecnico Nacional. The network's flagship station is XEIPN channel 11 in Mexico, Distrito Federal. It broadcasts across Mexico through local television affiliates, cable...

national Mexican educational network.