XHX-TDT is the
television call sign
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for the
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 ...
television station
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on virtual channel 2.1 in both
Monterrey, Nuevo León
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 anchor ...
and
Saltillo, Coahuila
Saltillo () is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Coahuila and is also the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. Mexico City, Monterrey, and Saltillo are all connected by a major railroad and hig ...
. The station carries the
Las Estrellas
Las Estrellas ("The Stars"; previously El Canal de las Estrellas, or "The Channel of the Stars") is one of the cornerstone networks of TelevisaUnivision, with affiliate stations all over Mexico, flagshipped at XEW-TDT in Mexico City. Many of the ...
network.
History
The first television station in Monterrey, XHNL-TV, came to air on channel 10 September 1, 1955, with a presidential report from President
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines.
XHNL broadcast from studios in two rooms of the Hotel El Mirador and a transmitter on
Cerro del Topo Chico
The Cerro del Topo Chico (Spanish, 'Small Mole Hill', from the Latin ''talpa'' 'mole') is a mountain and a protected area in the Escobedo, San Nicolás and Monterrey municipalities; state of Nuevo León, Mexico. The summit reaches 1,178 meters ...
and carried a wide variety of films and TV series on film. Not long after it started, it raised its power and its antenna height and changed its callsign to XHX-TV. In 1958, the opening of Televicentro de Monterrey allowed for local program production to begin.
The station became a
Las Estrellas
Las Estrellas ("The Stars"; previously El Canal de las Estrellas, or "The Channel of the Stars") is one of the cornerstone networks of TelevisaUnivision, with affiliate stations all over Mexico, flagshipped at XEW-TDT in Mexico City. Many of the ...
transmitter in 1985.
Digital television
On September 24, 2015, XHX shut off its analog signal on analog channel 10 (9 in Saltillo); its digital signal on UHF channel 23 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
Canal de las Estrellas
Las Estrellas transmitters
Spanish-language television stations in Mexico
Television channels and stations established in 1958
Television stations in Monterrey
1958 establishments in Mexico
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