TV BUAP is the television station of the

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla The Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) (Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla) is the oldest and largest university in Puebla, Mexico. Founded on 15 April 1578 as Colegio del Espíritu Santo, the school was sponsored by the ...

(BUAP) in the state of

Puebla Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...

, Mexico. It broadcasts on two transmitters, XHBUAP-TDT in

Puebla City Puebla de Zaragoza (; nah, Cuetlaxcoapan), formally Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, formerly Puebla de los Ángeles during colonial times, or known in English simply as Puebla, is the seat of Puebla Municipality. It is the capital and largest city ...

and XHTEH-TDT in

Tehuacán "By faith and hope" , , image_map = , mapsize = 300 px , map_caption = Location of Tehuacán within the state of Puebla. , image_map1 = Puebla en México.svg , mapsize1 = 300 px , ma ...

, both on VHF channel 8 and using virtual channel 18.

History

Panorámica del Complejo Cultural Universitario, BUAP 02

BUAP, which has operated a radio station (

XHBUAP-FM XHBUAP-FM is a radio station serving Puebla, Puebla owned by the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. It is branded as Radio BUAP and broadcasts on 96.9 FM from its campus. History Efforts by the BUAP to build a radio station date to 1965 ...

) since August 1997, filed an application for a permit television station in Puebla on March 16, 2010, and another in Tehuacán on November 15, 2011. The applications languished until they were approved for public concessions by the Federal Telecommunications Institute on June 19, 2019. Construction took place in 2020 on facilities in the University Cultural Complex, which also houses Radio BUAP. TV BUAP began broadcasting March 14, 2021. The Tehuacán transmitter began broadcasting on June 17, 2022.

References

{{Puebla City TV XHBUAP Television channels and stations established in 2021 2021 establishments in Mexico Public television in Mexico