Canal 6 (alternately known as Multimedios Televisión) is a network of Spanish language
television stations
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primarily concentrated in northeastern Mexico and the southwestern United States. The system is part of
Grupo Multimedios
Grupo Multimedios is a Mexican media conglomerate with holdings in broadcast television, radio, publishing and entertainment.
The company is headquartered in Monterrey.
History
Multimedios was founded in 1940 when Jesús Dionisio González ac ...
. The flagship station of Multimedios is
XHAW-TDT
XHAW-TDT, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 25), is the flagship station of the Multimedios television network, licensed to Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. The station is owned by Grupo Multimedios.
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located in
Monterrey, Nuevo León
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. Programming features locally produced news, sports, children's shows and general mass appeal variety programming. On weekdays, the network produces around twenty hours of live daily programming, with lesser amounts during the weekends and holidays.
Throughout its broadcast week, the network produces 58 hours of news programming per week under the branding of ''Telediario'', including a Sunday night
public affairs program, ''Cambios''. It also produces pre-game, post-game and other programming involving Monterrey's two major soccer clubs,
Tigres UANL
Club de Fútbol Tigres de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, simply known as Tigres UANL or Tigres, is a Mexican professional football club based in San Nicolás de los Garza, a city in the Monterrey metropolitan area, Nuevo León. Foun ...
and
C.F. Monterrey
Club de Fútbol Monterrey, often known simply as Monterrey or their nickname Rayados, is a Mexican professional football club based in Monterrey, Nuevo León which currently plays in Liga MX, the top tier of Mexican football. Founded on 28 ...
, and through Groupo Multimedios' half-ownership of the team as of February 2017, a media partnership with the
Mexican League
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The league has 18 teams organized in two divisions, North and South. Teams play 114 games each season. Five te ...
's
Sultanes de Monterrey
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in baseball, including weekend home game coverage. The network also carries the home matches of
Chivas over-the-air exclusively in Guadalajara, Monterrey and Torreón.
The company also has network affiliates in many cities, some of which produce local content. The networks spans Northeast and North-Central Mexico, along with the
Southwestern United States
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through over-the-air availability, but is also available nationally in both countries via cable, satellite and IPTV services. As of May 2016, all of the network's programming is presented in a
16:9 widescreen
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optimized form in both standard and high definition.
Multimedios affiliates
Mexico
Multimedios owns and operates most of its Mexican stations by way of two concessionaires, Multimedios Televisión and Televisión Digital. After operating in Monterrey alone for more than 20 years over
XHAW-TV, Multimedios began its expansion in earnest in the late 1980s and early 1990s, building a rebroadcaster in
Saltillo
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and new stations in northeast Mexico and in
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. It further increased its broadcast reach with affiliate stations in the northeast. In the Monterrey area, Multimedios also owns and operates a second TV station,
XHSAW-TDT.
Multimedios participated in the IFT-6 television auction of 2017 and won six stations, including transmitters in
Mexico City
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,
Guadalajara
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and
Puebla
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. The Mexico City station began broadcasting Milenio TV and Teleritmo on July 4, 2018. XHMTCO-TDT in
Monclova, Coahuila
Monclova (), is a city and the seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. According to the 2015 census, the city had 231,107 inhabitants. Its metropolitan area has 381,432 inhabitants and a ...
, signed on July 7, 2018, and XHMTDU-TDT in Durango entered program service on August 6. XHTDMX-TDT began limited program service on August 14, 2018, and began a full schedule of programming originating from both Monterrey and Mexico City beginning August 27. The transmitter for XHTDJA was turned on September 13. However, it would be nearly another year before the last IFT-6 station went on the air, with the Puebla transmitter announced for an August 26, 2019 start-up date.
In 2019, two stations in the state of Chihuahua became Multimedios affiliates,
XHAUC-TDT
XHAUC-TDT (virtual channel 6) is a television station affiliated with Canal 6 (Mexico), Multimedios Televisión in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. The concession for the station is held by Telemisión, S.A. de C.V., a business of José de Jesús Partida Vi ...
in Chihuahua and
XHMH-TDT
XHMH-TDT is a television station in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. It broadcasts on virtual channel 13 and currently carries Multimedios Televisión programming.
History
XHMH-TV received its concession on June 16, 1977. It was owned by P ...
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The Multimedios network formerly used virtual channel 12 (XHAW's channel number from its 1968 launch), from the national standardization of virtual channels on October 27, 2016 until the change to 6 on February 24, 2018. This mapping was not exclusive throughout Mexico, as
Hidalgo
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* Hidalgo (nobility), members of the Spanish nobility
* Hidalgo (surname)
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Mexico
* Hidalgo (state), in central Mexico
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's state network
Radio y Televisión de Hidalgo
Radio y Televisión de Hidalgo is the state television and radio agency of the State of Hidalgo
Hidalgo may refer to:
People
* Hidalgo (nobility), members of the Spanish nobility
* Hidalgo (surname)
Places
Mexico
* Hidalgo (state), in centra ...
and six local stations elsewhere are also mapped to channel 12. On February 24, 2018 (timed to XHAW-TDT's
50th anniversary celebration of going on the air on that date), Multimedios changed the virtual channel of all of its owned and operated stations to channel 6. Towards the end of April 2018, Multimedios began to utilize a secondary black and yellow "6" logo to remind viewers of its new national channel position, though its trademark star logo (which was simplified and took a mirrored look from its former logo in mid-2015) will remain in wide use. "Canal Seis" has also become an alternate branding for the network.
In mid-March 2020, much of the network's daily live entertainment programming outside of news and sports programming and the newly launched Mexico City-based afternoon gossip program ''Chismorreo'' was temporarily and voluntarily suspended due to the nation's
coronavirus pandemic
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, which included a network campaign encouraging viewers to stay home; much of the entertainment programming eventually returned, though with only a few in-studio hosts practicing proper
social distancing
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who coordinate the rest of their casts appearing via
videotelephony
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, and a number of programs temporarily changing their time slots to accommodate expanded news programming (a reality competition involving expectant parents competing for prizes, ''Todo por el parto'', was completely suspended, with a finale to be filmed and aired when it is safe to do so). Several of the network's news anchors and reporters have also chosen to appear from home via video conferencing and self-isolate.
The network is also available nationwide through providers such as
SKY México
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/VeTV and
Izzi/Cablevisión.
United States and Canada
All American affiliates of the network are owned and operated by other broadcasters, due to FCC regulations regarding foreign ownership of radio and TV stations. The network leased stations from Mako Communications until early 2007.
The American version of the network feed features American direct response advertising and public service announcements laid over the main Monterrey feed, along with some programming substitutions (mainly Monterrey-specific local shows and paid programming for second runs of the network's main shows), along with KHLM-LD's
Houston
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-focused
public affairs program ''¿Que Pasa Houston?'' on Sunday afternoons. The main Monterrey feed is available to Mexican viewers, streaming through the network's website and its
iOS App Store
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and
Google Play
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apps, with all network feeds blocked in the United States in deference to its American cable partners.
The network, along with
Milenio Television
''Milenio'' is a major national newspaper in Mexico, owned by Grupo Multimedios.
It is published in 11 cities across Mexico, including Monterrey, Mexico City, Guadalajara, León, Pachuca, Puebla, Villahermosa, Tampico, Torreón, Toluca, and ...
, produces several
outsourced newscasts for two stations in
Los Angeles
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,
California
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from Monterrey during studio downtime, both due to station cutbacks in their news departments.
Independent station
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KWHY-TV
KWHY-TV (channel 22) is a Spanish language in the United States, Spanish-language Independent station (North America), independent television station in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. It is owned by Alex Meruelo, Meruelo Bro ...
began to air Multimedios-produced newscasts in 2017 after
MundoMax
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ceased operations in December 2016, while
Estrella TV
Estrella TV () is an American Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by the Estrella Media subsidiary of HPS Investment Partners, LLC. The network primarily features programs, the vast majority of which are produced by the network ...
's
KRCA
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folded its news department outside several retained multimedia journalists beaming reports back to Monterrey at the start of March 2022.
As of late August 2018, the American network features mainly the XHAW-TDT schedule of entertainment programming from Monterrey, but the noon and primetime ''Telediario'' blocks are now split, with the first hour originating from XHTDMX-TDT's Mexico City broadcast, and the second hour being the Monterrey broadcast, with the morning newscast block switching in and out from both the Monterrey and Mexico City editions. Overnights feature a special American edition newscast from Milenio Television, along with that network's 10 p.m. newscast. As of September 2020, with the cancellation of the tween-focused variety show ''Acabatelo'', Mexico City programming, including ''La Bola del Seis'', ''Chismorreo'', and ''¡Rapiditas!'', now predominates and airs live on the American feed. At the start of 2022, the Monterrey-based daytime series ''Vivalavi'' airs in late night, with the Mexico City version airing live, along with ''C6 Alerta'' in early prime, which highlights current crime news. Prime programming from Monterrey (considered 9:30 p.m. local time) on weeknights now airs on an hour delay in the United States.
The network is authorized to
be carried as a foreign television service in Canada by that
country's broadcasting authority, receiving that authorization on April 22, 2015; Milenio Television was also included in a separate application.
Pay TV availability
Multimedios is available across the United States on many cable, satellite and IPTV systems, including
DirecTV
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,
Dish/
Sling,
Comcast
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,
Spectrum
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,
AT&T U-Verse
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Verizon FiOS and
Grande Communications
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. It is carried in both
standard definition
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and
high definition versions. In 2016, the network also became available in
Costa Rica
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(the third largest
Mexican diaspora
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behind the United States and
Guatemala
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) through cable (several of the network's personalities are
Costa Rican-Mexicans); the American and Costa Rican feeds, along with the local "Plus" feed thus had a separate version of their morning lifestyle program, ''Vivalavi'', known as ''Vivalavi Internacional'' with different hosts carried over them. ''Vivalavi Internacional'' was cancelled on January 11, 2017. ''Vivalavi'' began to feature segments from Monterrey and Mexico City in mid-August 2018, and the Thursday evening program ''SNSerio'' often has their hosts record the series in Mexico City to access a larger base for possible program guests than available in Monterrey.
In addition to this, the audio streams of Multimedios, Milenio TV and Multimedios'
sports radio
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station
XERG-AM
XERG-AM is a sports radio station on 690 AM in Monterrey, Nuevo León. It is owned by Multimedios Radio and carries a sports format known as RG La Deportiva.
History
XEEO-AM received its concession on April 3, 1959, owned by Multimedios founder ...
are available via
telephone
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through a both a Mexican and American telephone number for the regular costs of airtime depending on provider.
Former Multimedios affiliates
References
External links
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