Cadenatres

CadenaTres had three daily newscasts, early morning, afternoon and nightly, as well as hourly recaps. The main newscasts were the afternoon (led by Yuriria Sierra) and nightly programs. The nightly newscast had various anchors throughout its run, being the most important Pedro Ferriz de Con, Pablo Hiriart, and toward the end of the channel's life, Francisco Zea. They were famous for their rather aggressive and opinionated editorials by the anchors for nearly every report.

Boxing and wrestling were the first major sports programming on CadenaTres (aired on Saturday evenings). After Grupo Imagen acquired Querétaro FC, Liga MX soccer also became part of its sports programming, although it never managed to carry as many games as Televisa or TV Azteca.

Thanks to several associations with Latin American networks such as Venevision, Televen, Telemundo and RCN (Colombia), CadenaTres aired several telenovelas and drama series. The last of these series was RCN's El Estilista, which was cut short on October 23, 2015.

On January 20, 2010, Argos and CadenaTres signed and agreement to create new and exclusive content for the network. Shows such as Las Aparicio (2010), El Sexo Débil (2011) and El octavo mandamiento (2011) enjoyed both critical and audience acclaim.

Arguably, CadenaTres's major success was the political satire show Mikorte Informativo, a newscast parody inspired by The Planet of the Apes that featured three news anchors with a simian appearance that came from the planet Mikón and criticized the news every week, mostly national news (similar to SNL's Weekend Update). It first aired on November 29, 2009.

The success of Mikorte Informativo spun-off the creation of a weekend programming block known as Barra Desinformativa (Misinformation Block) in 2014. It featured two new shows that were very similar to the format of Mikorte: El Incorrecto (hosted by Eduardo Videgaray and José Ramón San Cristóbal, originally aired on E! Latino) and Ya ni llorar es bueno (hosted by stand-up comedian Gon Curiel).

A short-lived venture with production company Adicta Films in 2012 led to the creation of two original sitcoms: El Albergue and La Clínica. These were generally panned by both critics and the audience.

An association with Sony Entertainment Television Latin America allowed CadenaTres to acquire shows such as The Shield and CSI: New York and the reality show Latin American Idol around 2010/2011.

Up to its final date, CadenaTres acquired several old American sitcoms to create a Retro programming block. The block featured the shows The Nanny, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, The Munsters, The Addams Family, The Lucy Show and The Beverly Hillbillies.

Daytime television was also produced. It featured morning variety-talk shows such as Bien familiar (hosted by Fernanda Familiar in 2008) and Nuestro Día (hosted by Martha Figueroa up to the shutdown of the network in 2015). It also featured the successful cooking show Cocinemos Juntos hosted by Many Muñoz that aired from 2011 to October 23, 2015.

Show business-related shows were led by Gustavo Adolfo Infante. Infante hosted the daily gossip show No lo cuentes and the weekly interview talk show En compañia de....

CadenaTres originally aired cartoons weekdays around 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Thanks to their alliance with Sony, vintage shows such as The Real Ghostbusters and Dinosaucers as well as modern shows like Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot and Extreme Ghostbusters were part of this block.
Later, as they lost the Sony agreement, the network adopted the old Saturday Morning Cartoons format for its weekend programming. Initially it featured minor modern shows such as Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes and Cosmic Quantum Ray. Later and up to its final date, retro children programming took over with success. Initially it featured anime shows such as Speed Racer, Mazinger Z, Gekko Kamen/Capitán Centella, and Heidi and the Japanese drama series Comet-san (known as Señorita Cometa in Mexico). The latter was dearly remembered by the Mexican audience and it was the first time in over 20 years that this series was broadcast after the loss of the original dubbing in the earthquake of 1985. In its final year and following their retro programming trend, American cartoons He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, and several Marvel Comics cartoons from the late 70s, 80s and 90s replaced most anime shows, although Señorita Cometa remained until September, 2015.

CadenaTres aired shows produced by Epic Network aimed at a younger audience. The featured shows were: Gamer#Tag and CTRLGAMER (videogames), Japantastic (Asian pop culture), TechCity (gadgets), LOL TV (social networks) and top diez (music). This programming block was enjoying a growing success up to the network's final date. After the network shutdown, these shows are still being produced and are available on-demand and were picked by former CadenaTres affiliate, Canal 44 of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.