XHAB-TDT,

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8 ( UHF digital channel 30), is a

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Matamoros, Tamaulipas Matamoros, officially known as Heroica Matamoros, is a city in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, and the municipal seat of the homonymous municipality. It is on the southern bank of the Rio Grande, directly across the border from ...

, Mexico. The channel can also be seen in Texas'

Rio Grande Valley The Lower Rio Grande Valley ( es, Valle del Río Grande), commonly known as the Rio Grande Valley or locally as the Valley or RGV, is a region spanning the border of Texas and Mexico located in a floodplain of the Rio Grande near its mouth. Th ...

market. In addition to local news and programming, XHAB also airs a selection of Nu9ve's programming. XHAB also shares a sales office with XERV-TV in

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, for sales of commercial time from American businesses. XHAB returned channel 7 to the air in Matamoros upon signing on in 1968; the channel had been occupied by

XELD-TV XELD-TV was a television station licensed to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, broadcasting in English and Spanish for the Río Grande Valley region. The station broadcast on channel 7 from September 15, 1951, to April 1954. History Opening The ...

in the early 1950s.

Grenade attacks

The television station has been attacked twice, once in July 2009 and again on August 15, 2010. No one was injured, but two automobiles were damaged.

References

External links

Televisa Tamaulipas website
Televisa Regional Mass media in Matamoros, Tamaulipas Television stations in the Lower Rio Grande Valley {{Mexico-tv-station-stub