XEDK-TDT
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Telsusa Televisión México, S.A. de C.V. |
| History | |
| Founded | September 22, 1960 |
Former call signs | XEHL-TV (1960–1980) |
Former channel number(s) |
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Call sign meaning | Taken from XEDK-AM |
| Technical information | |
| ERP | 140 kW[1] |
| Transmitter coordinates | 20°35′58″N 103°21′52″W / 20.59944°N 103.36444°W |
XEDK-TDT is a television station in
History
XEHL-TV, Televisión Tapatía: 1960–80
The history of XEDK-TV begins with the sign-on of XEHL-TV channel 6, which came to air on September 22, 1960.
In 1962, Walter Cross Buchanan, the Secretary of Communications and Transportation, declared that there was an opportunity to extend Mexican television's reach "from border to border and from coast to coast". Telesistema Mexicano quite clearly had the lead. It collaborated with the government on the development of a national microwave system, which proved key to the development of television in provincial Mexico. TSM brought its viewers the launch of Gordon Cooper into space and the funeral of John F. Kennedy. In 1963, TSM built a new microwave link on Cerro Gordo, near Tepatitlán, improving the quality of its Guadalajara–Mexico City connection. Advertisers flocked to the better TSM programming, and TSM even began ripping off program concepts from channel 6. In 1963 and 1964, the losses for Televisión Tapatía widened, and TT ultimately signed a contract under which Telesistema Mexicano would provide sales services and videotape equipment to XEHL. The move was crucial to channel 6's survival; its profits jumped 73.7 percent for 1965.[2]: 38
While TSM had provided critical aid to XEHL, channel 6 was still a competitor. November 9, 1967[3] saw channel 6 mount the first color transmissions by an interior Mexican television station;[2]: 40 its signal fanned out over a radius of 100 kilometres (62 mi). That same year, TSM presented a live program from Guadalajara to Mexico City for the first time. Meanwhile, the Mexican television panorama was changing, with the entrance of Televisión Independiente de México in the Mexico City market.
In 1974, Televisión Tapatía once more separated from what was now known as
The competitive landscape proved unfruitful for Televisión Tapatía, and in 1980, XEHL waved the white flag. Channel 6 was sold to a group headed by Clemente Serna Martínez and his Radio Programas de México, which owned the Grupo DK portfolio of radio stations headed by XEDK-AM 1250 as well as several Mexico City radio stations and was on generally good terms with the Azcárraga family. RPM folded the television station into Grupo DK, and on October 23, 1980, channel 6 took a new call sign: XEDK-TV.[2]: 62
XEDK under Serna: 1980–1997
Under the new ownership, XEDK-TV became "just another link in the television monopoly",
In the early 1990s, as the privatization of
Televisa repeater years: 1997–2020
In 1997, XEDK moved from channel 6 to 5, in order to avoid increasing interference from FM radio stations. It also became a repeater of most of XHTV's programming, with local news known as "Antena Cinco". In April 2001, XEDK became a full-time repeater of channel 9 in Mexico City, today known as
XEDK shut off its analog signal on December 16, 2015, along with other Guadalajara stations;[8] as a result of its carriage of Gala TV/Nu9ve, the station adopted virtual channel 9 in 2016.
Independence and owner changes
In 2020, Televisa opted to end its contract with Corporación Tapatía de Televisión and air Nu9ve programming on its own
As of March 7, 2022, XEDK stopped from retransmitting to
References
- ^ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de TDT. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved July 24, 2015. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.
- ^ a b c d e Aceves González, Francisco de Jesús (1987). "La televisión en Guadalajara: génesis y desarrollo". Universidad de Guadalajara.
- ^ "Corporación Tapatía de Televisión Annual Report 2015". 2015.
- ^ Pérez Espino, Efraín (October–December 1979). "El monopolio de la televisión comercial en México (El caso Televisa)". Revista Mexicana de Sociología. 41 (4): 1435–68.
- ^ History of XEDK: 1980s
- ^ Vidal Bonifaz, Francisco (June 15, 2009). "Arriba el Canal 5 de Guadalajara a la Bolsa". La Rueda de la Fortuna.
- ^ "Rating for Corporación Tapatía de Televisión" (PDF). HR Ratings. July 17, 2009.
- ^ "IFT Comunicado 98/2015: "El siguiente apagón analógico será el 16 de diciembre". Retrieved October 29, 2020.
- ^ "Juan Aguirre: Llega la señal de La Octava a la ciudad de Guadalajara". La Octava (in Spanish). October 29, 2020. Retrieved October 29, 2020.