Excélsior TV is a Mexican FTA news channel owned by

Grupo Imagen Grupo Imagen is a Mexican media conglomerate, part of Grupo Empresarial Ángeles. History Grupo Imagen traces its roots to the foundation of XEDA-AM in June 1936. This station was acquired by José Luis Fernández Soto in 1962, and in the same y ...

. It is named for Imagen's ''

Excélsior ''Excélsior'' is a daily newspaper in Mexico City. It is the second oldest paper in the city after '' El Universal'', printing its first issue on March 18, 1917. History ''Excélsior'' was founded by Rafael Alducin and first published in Mexic ...

'' newspaper and also uses the resources of Grupo Imagen's radio stations and its

Imagen Televisión Imagen Televisión is a national broadcast television network in Mexico, owned by Grupo Imagen. It launched on October 17, 2016, at 8 p.m. History Imagen on television In 2006, Imagen's parent, Grupo Empresarial Ángeles, acquired XHRAE-T ...

national network.

History

Excélsior TV was launched on September 2, 2013. In addition to cable carriage, it was placed on the 27.2 subchannel of

XHTRES-TDT XHTRES-TDT was a full-power television station in Mexico City, Mexico, broadcasting in digital on UHF channel 27. From 2006 to 2015, it was the flagship station of the now defunct network cadenatres and from 2013 to 2020, it was the flagship stati ...

, Imagen's existing Mexico City TV station. When Imagen shut down

cadenatres Cadenatres was a Mexican free-to-air network owned by Grupo Empresarial Ángeles (GEA), a company headed by Olegario Vázquez Raña and directed by Olegario Vázquez Aldir. Originally started by its flagship XHTRES in Mexico City as an indepen ...

in October 2015, Excélsior TV moved from 27.2 to 27.1. Coinciding with the move was a general relaunch of the channel and the migration of the cadenatres news personalities to Excélsior TV. In October 2017, Imagen began transmission of Excélsior TV on 38 Imagen Televisión transmitters, as subchannel 3.4.IFT: List of Multiprogramming Authorizations for Cadena Tres I, S.A. de C.V. (Imagen Televisión)
/ref> In late January 2020, rumors began to swirl that Excélsior TV would be shuttered and that XHTRES would be rented out to El Heraldo de México newspaper to launch a TV channel. (The year before, Imagen had sold the newspaper two radio stations to launch a radio network.) On February 1, 2020, this agreement was confirmed, and Heraldo TV launched on February 10. 8At the same time, XHTRES moved to virtual channel 10. Outside of Mexico City, where Excélsior TV was a subchannel of Imagen TV transmitters, the programming was replaced with "Imagen Multicast", primarily featuring simulcasts of

XEDA-FM XEDA (branded as Imagen Radio) is a Spanish-language talk radio station in Mexico City owned by Grupo Imagen. XEDA is the flagship station of the Imagen Radio network which is available to other Mexican cities through Imagen's owned-and-operated s ...

programming, retaining the network ID.

Programming

Excelsior TV transmits news and debate programming and transmits content with the Imagen Radio platform.

Broadcast transmitters

Broadcast coverage is supplied through the Imagen Televisión transmitter network. Excélsior TV was carried on its own TV station,

, in the Mexico City area until that station was leased in 2019.

References

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External links

Excélsior TV
Television networks in Mexico Grupo Imagen Spanish-language television stations in Mexico 2013 establishments in Mexico Television channels and stations established in 2013