XET-TDT is a television station in
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, 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 primar ...
, 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
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 ...
. 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 ...
/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
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