XHTX-TDT is a television station in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. The station is owned by Telemisión, S.A. de C.V., a business of the Partida Amador family.

XHTX-TDT
CityTuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas
Channels
Programming
AffiliationsMultimedios Televisión
XHGC
XHTV
XEW
XEQ
Televisa Regional
Ownership
Owner
  • Grupo PARAM COM
    Televisa
  • (Telemisión, S.A. de C.V.)
History
FoundedOctober 12, 1968
Former channel number(s)
8 (analog and digital virtual, 1968-2016)
5 (digital virtual, 2016-2018)
Call sign meaning
TuXtla Gutiérrez
Technical information
ERP45 kW
HAAT-81.6 m
Transmitter coordinates16°44′01.08″N 93°09′14.9″W / 16.7336333°N 93.154139°W / 16.7336333; -93.154139
Links
Websitegrupoparam.com

History edit

XHTX, on analog channel 8, was the first television station to sign on in Chiapas. Like a number of other old-line local stations, it was built in time for the 1968 Summer Olympics, receiving its concession on October 7 of that year and beginning transmissions October 12.[2] The station was owned by José de Jesús Partida Villanueva, who had been involved in the operations of several Chiapas radio stations (including XEWM and XEUI).

After the Games, XHTX began regular broadcasts, with local programming and national network programs from XHGC and XHTV. It broadcast from the tower used by radio station XEON and two additional transmitters in Ocozocoautla and San Cristóbal de las Casas.[2] By 1979, the station had switched to primarily repeating XEW and XEQ Canal 9 de Televisa.[3] The station was also known as Televisur.[4]

In 1994, Televisa obtained its own transmitter in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, XHTUA-TV, as part of a 62-station concession. XEW programs moved to XHTUA and XHTX became a Canal 5 repeater. On January 1, 2019, Canal 5—and virtual channel 5.1—moved to a subchannel of XHTUA, leaving XHTX without any programs, as a result of the disaffiliation of Telemisión from Televisa.[5] XHTX returned to virtual channel 8. When the station migrated to digital, it moved to Televisa's Cerro Mactumactza site from its original studio facility and analog tower, located at 14 Poniente and 13 Norte in the El Mirador neighborhood of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. That site was rebuilt and returned to service in 2021

References edit

  1. ^ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Listado de Canales Virtuales. Last modified December 21, 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  2. ^ a b Sarelly Martínez Mendoza (13 October 2018). "Hoy, a 50 años de la fiebre de la televisión en Chiapas". Chiapas Paralelo. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  3. ^ Efraín Pérez Espino, "El monopolio de la televisión comercial en México (El caso Televisa)". Revista Mexicana de Sociología 41.4 (Oct–Dec 1979): 1435–68.
  4. ^ Toussaint, Florence (2 January 1988). "Estaciones, hoteles, empacadoras, coches, alcohol". Proceso. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  5. ^ IFT: Acuerdo P/IFT/051218/883: Multiprogramming Authorization - XHTUA-TDT

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