El Trece  Channel 13 (known by its current brand name El trece, stylized as eltrece) is an Argentine free-to-air television network and the flagship station of the network of the same name, located in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires. It is owned by Grupo Clarín. As mentioned by its name, it broadcasts on VHF channel 13 in Buenos Aires, where the main station is located. Channel 13 was founded in 1960, and started broadcasting on 1 October 1960, at 8:30 p.m. The channel was tendered to the company Rio de la Plata S.A. TV, founded by Cuban businessman Goar Mestre and the US network CBS. In the mid-1960s, Editorial Atlántida and Mestre's wife bought the shares of the channel. Since then, Channel 13 began to compete strongly with the other two open private channels of the city of Buenos Aires, Channel 9 and Channel 11, which had gone through a similar process. In those years there were great successes in the Argentine television industry, with Channel 13 broadcasting "Viendo a Biondi" (""Seeing Biondi""), a comedy show centered on characters by Pepe Biondi; "The Falcón Family" starring Pedro Quartucci, and sketch comedy shows such as "Telecataplum", featuring an innovative group of Uruguayan comedians including Ricardo Espalter, Enrique Almada and Gabriela Acher, among others. In 1974, the government of Isabel Perón nationalised the station along with two other terrestrial private channels of Buenos Aires (Channel 9 and Channel 11), in order to bring a media policy based on the European way, where television was largely managed by the government. After 15 years as a government-owned station, on December 1989, Artear, a company with majority ownership by Artes Gráficas Editorial Argentino S.A (AGEA), publisher of the Clarín newspaper and part of its multimedia conglomerate, officially took over the station management. Since then, the channel is positioned as the second in TV ratings in Buenos Aires, competing against Telefe. In the 1990s, achieved great ratings, thanks to political comedy programs Tato Bores, programs of cultural and "La aventura del hombre", TV series La Banda del Golden Rocket, "Montaña Rusa" "Gasoleros" and the series "Campeones de la vida" and "Poliladron".