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The following is a list of events affecting Mexican television in 2018. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about controversies and carriage disputes.
Date | Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Notes/References |
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12 February | Uruapan, Michoacán | XHJGMI-TDT | 15 (UHF) 12 (PSIP) | Commercial independent | |
2 May | Guadalajara, Jalisco | XHQMGU-TDT | 9 (VHF) 10 (PSIP) | ||
July | Chihuahua, Chihuahua | XHICCH-TDT | 30 (UHF) 44 (PSIP) | Commercial independent | Satellite station of XHIJ-TDT/Ciudad Juárez |
14 August | Mexico City | XHTDMX-TDT | 11 (VHF) 6 (PSIP) | Multimedios Televisión | |
October | Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua | XHMTCH-TDT | 28.1 (UHF)/6.1 (PSIP) 28.2 (UHF)/6.2 (PSIP) 28.3 (UHF)/6.3 (PSIP) 28.4 (UHF)/6.4 (PSIP) | Multimedios Televisión (primary) Milenio Television Teleritmo Independent (via XHABC-TDT) | |
3 December | Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco | XHCPPV-TDT | 27 (UHF) 10 (PSIP) | Commercial independent | |
17 December | Saltillo, Coahuila | XHTSCO-TDT | 36 (UHF) 10 (PSIP) | Independent | |
Date | Market | Station | Channel | Old Affiliation | New Affiliation | Notes/References |
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September | Tecate/Tijuana, Baja California (San Diego, California, United States) | XHDTV-TDT | 49.1 (PSIP) | MyNetworkTV | Milenio Televisión | |
Date | Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Sign-on date | Notes/References |
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Unknown date | Ensenada, Baja California | XHENB-TDT | 29 (UHF) | Pacific Spanish Network | 1 October 1994 | |
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KFMB-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 8, is a CBS/The CW/MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to San Diego, California, United States. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on Engineer Road in the Kearny Mesa section of San Diego, and its transmitter is located on Mount Soledad in La Jolla.
XETV-TDT, virtual channels 6 and 16, is a dual Canal 5/NU9VE television station located in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Its terrestrial signal also covers the San Diego, California area across the international border in the United States. The station is owned by Mexican media company Televisa, and its technical operations and transmitter facilities are located on Mount San Antonio in Tijuana.
XHDTV-TDT, virtual channel 49, is a Milenio Televisión-affiliated station located in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico and serving the Tijuana–San Diego international metropolitan area. The station's license and transmitter are owned by Mexican company Televisora Alco, which is 40% owned by station operator Entravision Communications; XHDTV is a sister station to Entravision-owned Univision affiliate KBNT-CD, UniMás affiliate KDTF-LD and Azteca América affiliate XHAS-TDT. All four stations share studios on Ruffin Road in the Kearny Mesa section of San Diego, California, United States; XHDTV's transmitter is located on Cerro Bola, within the municipality of Tecate. Despite no longer carrying American content, XHDTV continues to be carried on channel 13 by San Diego Cox systems on the U.S. side of the market; the station is also carried in Tijuana on Izzi channel 49.
XHAS-TDT, virtual channel 33, is an Azteca América-affiliated television station located in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico and serving the Tijuana–San Diego international metropolitan area. The station is 99.9%-owned by Mexican-based Televisora Alco, a 40%-owned subsidiary of station operator Entravision Communications; XHAS is a sister station to Milenio Televisión affiliate XHDTV-TDT, Univision affiliate KBNT-CD and UniMás affiliate KDTF-LD. All four stations share studios on Ruffin Road in the Kearny Mesa section of San Diego, California, United States; XHAS-TDT's transmitter is located on Mount San Antonio in Tijuana.
KVIA-TV, virtual channel 7, is a dual ABC/CW-affiliated television station licensed to El Paso, Texas, United States and also serving Las Cruces, New Mexico. The station is owned by the St. Joseph, Missouri-based News-Press & Gazette Company. KVIA-TV's studios are located on Rio Bravo Street in northwest El Paso, and its transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains within the El Paso city limits.
XHIJ-TDT, virtual channel 44, is a Spanish-language independent station located in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, and serving the Juárez–El Paso–Las Cruces metropolitan area. Owned by Grupo Intermedia and known on air as Canal 44, the station has had a variety of affiliations since signing on the air in 1980 and also produces programs such as local news.
XHRIO-TDT, virtual channel 15, was a CW-affiliated television station located in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico serving the Rio Grande Valley area in southern Texas, United States. The station was 98%-owned by Mexican-based Televisora Alco, a 40%-owned subsidiary of station operator Entravision Communications; XHRIO was a sister station to Entravision's duopoly of McAllen-licensed Univision affiliate KNVO and Harlingen-licensed Fox affiliate KFXV, as well as three low-powered stations, all licensed to McAllen: Class A UniMás affiliate KTFV-CD, KMBH-LD, and KCWT-CD. XHRIO-TDT maintained its basic concession-compliant studios in Matamoros, with a second studio facility across the border on North Jackson Road in McAllen housing master control and other internal operations. XHRIO-TDT's transmitter was located near El Control, Tamaulipas.
KZSD-LD is a low-power television station in San Diego, California, United States. It is a translator of ABC affiliate KGTV which is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. KZSD-LD's transmitter is located on San Miguel Mountain southeast of Spring Valley; its parent station maintains studios on Air Way in the Riverview-Webster section of San Diego.
XHILA-TDT is a full-service, Spanish-language, independent television station in Mexicali, Baja California. It broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 46, serving the Mexicali Valley and the southern Imperial Valley, including El Centro, California, and the Colorado River cities of San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora and Yuma, Arizona. The station is also carried on the cable television systems of each of the four principal communities it serves.
LATV is an American bilingual broadcast television network, digital publisher and media company owned by LATV Networks, LLC. The network primarily carries original inclusive programming including music, talk and variety series aimed at Hispanic and Latino American teenagers and young adults between the ages of 18 and 55. From early on, LATV has characterized itself for featuring Latin Alternative musicians such as La Ley, Zayra Alvarez, Jaguares, Julieta Venegas, Enrique Bunbury, Ely Guerra, and Aterciopelados on its shows.
XHDY-TDT is a television station broadcasting from its transmitter in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas and studios in the state capital of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. XHDY broadcasts on virtual channel 13 and is part of the Telsusa regional network.
Nueve is a Mexican free-to-air television network owned by Televisa. The primary station and network namesake is Channel 9 of Mexico City, though the network has nationwide coverage on Televisa stations and some affiliates. Nueve offers a range of general entertainment programs.
KCWT-CD, virtual channel 21, is a low-power, Class A CW+-affiliated television station licensed to McAllen, Texas, United States. The station also carries non-commercial PBS programming on its fourth subchannel. Owned by Santa Monica, California–based Entravision Communications, it is sister to McAllen-licensed Univision affiliate KNVO, as well as two other McAllen-licensed low-power stations: Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate KMBH-LD, channel 67 and Class A UniMás affiliate KTFV-CD. KCWT-CD, KNVO, KFXV, KMBH-LD, and KTFV-CD share studios on North Jackson Road in McAllen; KCWT-CD's transmitter is located in La Feria, Texas.
Imagen Televisión is a national broadcast television network in Mexico, owned by Grupo Imagen. It launched on October 17, 2016, at 8 p.m.
The House of Flowers is a Mexican black comedy-drama television series created by Manolo Caro for Netflix. It depicts a dysfunctional upper-class Mexican family that owns a prestigious floristry shop and a struggling cabaret, both called 'The House of Flowers'. The series, almost entirely written and directed by its creator, stars Verónica Castro, Cecilia Suárez, Aislinn Derbez, Darío Yazbek Bernal, Arturo Ríos, Paco León, Juan Pablo Medina, Luis de la Rosa, María León, and Isela Vega.
Canal 13 is a regional broadcasting network operating in parts of Mexico, a division of Albavisión. Its largest subsidiary, Telsusa Televisión México, S.A. de C.V., holds the concessions for 12 TV stations, primarily in southeastern Mexico, obtained in the IFT-6 television station auction of 2017. The Canal 13 network also includes full-fledged TV stations in Villahermosa, San Cristóbal de las Casas—Tuxtla Gutiérrez and Tapachula, as well as their repeaters, and an additional station in Michoacán. All Canal 13 stations are assigned virtual channel 13.
The following is a list of events affecting Mexican television in 2019. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about controversies and carriage disputes.
The following is a list of events affecting Mexican television in 2017. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about controversies and carriage disputes.