XET-TDT is a television station in

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is anc ...

, owned and operated by

Televisa Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...

. The station carries the Canal 5 network.

History

XET-TV analog channel 6 began broadcasting in 1960, as the first station of

Televisión Independiente de México Televisión Independiente de México (''Independent Mexican Television'', known on air as TIM or Cadena TIM) was a Mexican national television network founded in 1965 by Eugenio Garza Sada. It operated until 1973, when it merged with its primary ...

, founded by Bernardo Garza Sada. TIM, backed by Monterrey-area business interests, grew rapidly in the ensuing years, expanding to Mexico City in 1968 and merging with Telesistema Mexicano in 1972 to form

. It remained with the

Galavisión Galavisión is an American Spanish-language pay television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. The network is unrelated to the earlier Mexican channel of the same name, though both broadcast Televisa-produced programming. As of February 2015, a ...

/XEQ network, formed from TIM's Mexico City station until the 2000s, when it switched to Canal 5.

Digital television

On September 24, 2015, XET shut off its analog signal; its digital signal on UHF channel 31 remained.IFT: El 24 de septiembre concluirán las señales de televisión analógica en diferentes localidades de cuatro estados
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References

External links

Televisa Monterrey
Canal 5 (Mexico) transmitters Spanish-language television stations in Mexico Television stations in Monterrey {{Mexico-tv-station-stub