XHDTV-TDT

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XHDTV-TDT
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HAAT801.1 m (2,628 ft)
Transmitter coordinates32°18′49″N 116°39′53″W / 32.31361°N 116.66472°W / 32.31361; -116.66472

XHDTV-TDT (channel 49) is a television station in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico, affiliated with Milenio Televisión 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;[3] XHDTV is a sister station to Entravision-owned Univision affiliate KBNT-CD (channel 17), UniMás affiliate KDTF-LD (channel 36) and Azteca América affiliate XHAS-TDT (channel 33). 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.

As it is licensed by the Mexican government, XHDTV is not covered under the

must carry
rules. This means that local cable providers in the San Diego market are not required to carry the station, even if it requests to be carried under this provision. However, the station must be carried by Mexican pay-TV providers in the Tijuana viewing area.

History

UPN affiliation

The station first signed on the air on 1 November 1999 as XHUPN-TV, more than a year after Alco received its concession on 2 July 1998. Operated as an English-language commercial station since its debut (the second such Baja California-licensed station in the San Diego–Tijuana market to operate in this manner, after

Secretariat of Communications and Transportation
(SCT), it used the fictional and abbreviated callsign "XUPN" on-air.

MyNetworkTV affiliation

Logo as "MyTV 13"

On 24 January 2006,

News Corporation[6] (the Telefutura affiliation instead went to KDTF-LP (channel 51)).[citation needed
]

The station dropped all UPN references on-air soon afterward and simply called itself "Channel 13" and later "TV 13" (this same practice of stations dropping UPN branding following the announcement of The CW's launch had become common on UPN affiliates owned by News Corporation's

WWE SmackDown, which aired on late Friday nights/early Saturday mornings after midnight for two weeks prior to The CW's launch. As a MyNetworkTV affiliate, the station branded as "XDTV MyTV 13", with "XDTV" serving as its new fictional and abbreviated callsign.[citation needed
]

Milenio Television affiliation

In September 2018, XHDTV-TDT dropped MyNetworkTV and all American syndicated programming from the schedule and joined

Multimedios Televisión (which has begun a nationwide expansion from their traditional Monterrey base) will eventually join this station's channel lineup to expand the network to Mexico's Pacific coast, either by purchase or affiliation. Grupo Cadena's XHBJ-TDT
(channel 45) affiliated with Multimedios on 1 November 2019.

Technical information

Subchannel of XHDTV-TDT[7]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
49.1 1080i
16:9
 XHDTV Milenio Televisión

XHDTV-TV became a charter affiliate of MundoFox, which launched on 13 August 2012 on digital subchannel 49.2. The subchannel was removed early on 1 December 2016 upon the end of operations for the network (which changed its name to MundoMax in its last year).

XHDTV-TDT added a subchannel carrying

KZSD-LP as the network's San Diego affiliate (that station became a MeTV affiliate on 1 May); the network then moved to sister station XHAS-TDT on 1 July.[8]
49.2 went dark and soon was removed again.

Analog-to-digital conversion

In the summer of 2011, XHDTV-TV began transmitting a digital signal on UHF channel 47; this signal remaps on

ATSC digital tuners in both countries as virtual channel 49.1 (reflecting its analog channel allocation) through PSIP. While the United States completed its transition to full-power digital television on 12 June 2009, Mexico is making the transition to digital-only television broadcasts over the course of several years in order from the largest population centers to the smallest; the country's digital television transition
expected to be completed by 31 December 2015. XHDTV was not required to shut down its analog signal on 16 April 2013 like other Tijuana stations, as it is licensed to Tecate; this switch took place on 14 July 2015, and was only accomplished after repeaters of several Tijuana stations were converted there.

In March 2018, in order to facilitate the repacking of TV services out of the 600 MHz band (channels 38–51), XHDTV was assigned channel 21 for continued digital operations.

See also

References

  1. ^ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Listado de Canales Virtuales. Last modified December 21, 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Facility Technical Data for XHDTV-TDT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ^ Entravision Communications Corp. 10-k
  4. U-T San Diego
    , 25 January 2006.
  5. ^ UPN and WB to Combine, Forming New TV Network, The New York Times, 24 January 2006.
  6. ^ Leap Wireless to delay report, U-T San Diego, 18 March 2006.
  7. ^ "RabbitEars.Info".
  8. ^ Lafayette, Jon (6 March 2017). "Azteca America Adds New Affiliate in San Diego Market". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
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