XHAJ-TDT

XHAJ-TDT

Las Lajas, Veracruz Mexico
Channels	Digital: 28 (UHF) Virtual: 5
Branding	Canal 5 (Channel 5)
Programming
Affiliations	5.1: Canal 5
Ownership
Owner	Grupo Televisa (Radio Televisión S.A. de C.V.)
History
Founded	1965
First air date	November 1968
Former call signs	XHAJ-TV (1968–2015)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 6 (VHF, 1968–2015
Call sign meaning	Las Lajas
Technical information
Licensing authority	IFT
Links
Website	Canal 5

XHAL-TDT (channel 5) is a television station in Las Lajas, Veracruz, Mexico, owned and operated by Grupo Televisa. The station carries the Canal 5 network since its inception.

History

Although XHAJ started regular broadcasting in November 1968, ^[1] the concession was likely already operational in April 1965, when Guillermo González Camarena, owner of XHGC-TDT (to which the station was an affiliate) inspected its transmitter and would eventually die in a car accident on April 18. ^[2] The initial concessionaire was Televisora Regional Veracruzana, which got its license awarded on Ocobet 22, 1964. ^[3]

In its early years, XHAJ carried classes from the Telesecundaria system, relayed directly from XHGC, which was conceived by Guillermo González Camarena shortly before his death (and started on the Canal 5 network in 1968). ^[4] From 1987 to 1995, it aired the TV Matutina (later Supercadena 8) programming block alongside most XHGC affiliates outside Mexico City. ^[5]

Technical information

XHAJ operates a relay station in San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz, sharing virtual channel 28 with the main station in Xalapa. ^[6]

References

1. TV Directory. Radio News Bureau, Washington, D.C. 1981. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
2. Carlos Chimal (2017). Fábrica de colores: La vida del inventor Guillermo González Camarena (in Mexican Spanish). FCE - Fondo de Cultura Económica. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
3. LISTA MAESTRA DE ESTACIONES TELEVISORAS COMERCIALES (VRF y UHF)
4. The Mexican Telesecundaria: A Cost-effectiveness Analysis. Information Center on Instructional Technology. 1973.
5. Canal 5, The Part-Time Network
6. RESOLUCIÓN MEDIANTE LA CUAL EL PLENO DEL INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE TELECOMUNICACIONES AUTORIZA EL ACCESO A LA MULTIPROGRAMACIÓN A TELEVIMEX, S.A. DE C.V., EN RELACIÓN CON LA ESTACIÓN DE TELEVISIÓN CON DISTINTIVO DE LLAMADA XHAH-TDT, EN JALAPA, VERACRUZ.