XHDY-TDT is a television station broadcasting from its transmitter in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas and studios in the state capital of

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. XHDY broadcasts on virtual channel 13 (physical channel 36) and is part of the

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regional network.

History

XHDY's concession was awarded on June 19, 1984, to José de Jesús Partida Villanueva, a businessman with connections to Televisa. In 1993, the station's concession was transferred to Comunicación del Sureste. XHDY maintained a partnership with

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and carried programming from its Channel 9 Network and

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, and as a Televisa partner, Comunicación del Sureste is defined as within the "preponderant economic agent" in broadcasting for regulatory purposes. In 2014, XHDY sourced 72 percent of its broadcast day from Televisa.IFT: Resolution P/IFT/EXT/060314/77, 6 March 2014
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and

on subchannels of its own TV stations in some areas of the country where said programming had been broadcast on a local station, including Tuxtla Gutiérrez and San Cristóbal de las Casas. Another was the successful participation of Telsusa Televisión México, S.A. de C.V., a company also controlled by Remigio Ángel González, in the IFT-6 television station auction, in which it acquired TV stations in twelve cities primarily in southern and eastern Mexico. On October 18, 2018, XHDY and its sister stations moved to virtual channel 13.

Programming

XHDY's local program output includes local newscasts, branded as ''13 Noticias Chiapas'' (previously ''Noticinco''), and a morning magazine and talk show, ''Giros'' (previously ''Día Tras Día''). Outside of local programming, XHDY, its Chiapas sister station XHGK, and its Tabasco sister station XHTVL/XHTOE air almost all of the same programming. Since disaffiliating from Televisa, most of XHDY's entertainment programming has come from Albavisión television channels in other countries, such as ' and the Argentina version of '' Combate'' (produced by Canal 9 in Argentina) or been acquired on the international market, such as the Colombian telenovela '. Weekends are taken up by older Mexican movies.

Repeaters

The primary transmitter for XHDY-TDT is located atop Cerro Pig in

San Cristóbal de las Casas San Cristóbal de las Casas (), also known by its native Tzotzil name, Jovel (), is a town and municipality located in the Central Highlands region of the Mexican state of Chiapas. It was the capital of the state until 1892, and is still consid ...

. XHDY has a second transmitter atop Cerro Huitepec, another mountain in the same municipality, as Cerro Huitepec blocks reception of the Cerro Pig transmitter in some portions of San Cristóbal. Two additional repeaters provide significant coverage extensions:

References

{{reflist Television stations in Chiapas Television channels and stations established in 1984 1984 establishments in Mexico