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Canal 5 is a Mexican free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It traces its origins to the foundation of Channel 5 in Mexico City in 1952 (also known by its identification code
XHGC-TDT XHGC-TDT (channel 5) is a television station owned by Grupo Televisa, broadcasting from Mexico City, and is the flagship of the Canal 5 network. History XHGC signed on May 10, 1952, broadcasting a Mother's Day event organized by the Excélsior ...
). Canal 5's program lineup is generally targeted at a younger audience and includes cartoons, foreign series and movies, along with a limited number of sporting events such as
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games, boxing, the FIFA World Cup and, historically, the Olympic Games. Canal 5 is mainly aimed at children and youth audiences, although in late hours it usually includes a more general concept with television series and reality shows. Over the decades among its programming, it includes many series purchased from networks such as Nickelodeon and
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, among others; while the series aimed at the general public often come from Paramount Network, Fox Broadcasting Company, Warner Bros., ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global),
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, NBCUniversal among others. The channel also broadcasts series produced by the company TelevisaUnivision, which owns the channel. In programming, its main national competitor in open television has historically been
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of TV Azteca.


History

On May 10, 1952,
XHGC-TV XHGC-TDT (channel 5) is a television station owned by Grupo Televisa, broadcasting from Mexico City, and is the flagship of the Canal 5 network. History XHGC signed on May 10, 1952, broadcasting a Mother's Day event organized by the Excélsior ...
came to air for the first time. It was Mexico City's third television station, owned by Guillermo González Camarena, an inventor who created the first color television system. In 1955, XHGC was one of three stations that formed Telesistema Mexicano. González Camarena remained the general manager of XHGC until his death in 1965. In 1963, XHGC became the first station in Mexico to broadcast in color. By request of Guillermo González Camarena, XHGC began targeting an audience of children and youth, with the first color telecast being ''Paraíso infantil'' (''Children's Paradise''). Over the years, Canal 5 has retained this programming focus, with a schedule incorporating foreign series and sports programs. At the end of the 1980s, the then-vice president of Televisa, Alejandro Burillo Azcárraga, spearheaded drastic changes in the branding of the company's television networks. XHGC had branded as Canal 5 for years, using various logos with the number 5. However, as the network's various repeaters were not all on channel 5, the network began branding by the XHGC callsign. The landmark ''Energía Visual'' (Visual Energy) campaign, designed by Agustín Corona and Pablo Jato, featured idents with wildly varied logos and designs—a first for Mexican television. The campaign was designed to back the channel's youthful image. In the 1990s, Canal 5 began branding with its channel number again. During this time period, Alejandro González Iñárritu, who had also been involved with Televisa's radio station
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(WFM), was involved in the creation of some of the network's promotional campaigns. Additionally, in 1994, Televisa obtained a concession for 62 additional television transmitters nationwide, most of which form a key link in the Canal 5 network today. 1999 saw the beginning of a shift in content providers for Canal 5, which had long been the exclusive Mexican rightsholder to Disney programs such as
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, DuckTales and a Mexican version of Disney Club. In 1999, these rights began to migrate to Televisión Azteca and
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. Instead, the network began relying more on Warner Bros., Cartoon Network,
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, Fox and Nickelodeon programs. Today, Canal 5 carries children's programs, films and international series, as well as sporting events including UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and FIFA World Cup matches, a limited number of
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fixtures and international matches involving the Mexico national team, and select NFL and NHL games. Canal 5 also features some of Televisa's own productions, such as '' El Chavo Animado'' and ''Mujeres Asesinas 3'' by Pedro Torres. In recent years, Canal 5's Twitter page started posting strange and disturbing posts typically between 3-7 am, only to be deleted after said date. Since then, the posts have been investigated and widely shared and talked about in the Mexican media. Infobae México, a Mexican news site, contacted one of the collaborators of Channel 5. However, they claimed they had no knowledge about the disturbing posts.


English infomercials

It is quite possible that the first modern
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series to run in North America was on San Diego-area television station
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, which during the 1970s ran a one-hour program every Sunday consisting of advertisements for local homes for sale. As the station was actually licensed by the Mexican government to the city of Tijuana, but broadcast all of its programs in English for the U.S. market until 2017 (when it became a pure Spanish-language outlet for Canal 5), the FCC limit at that time of a maximum of 18 minutes of commercials in an hour did not apply to the station.


Transmitters

Canal 5 is carried on 66 of its own transmitters plus another 32 transmitters shared with
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 ...
and one transmitter that carries a Televisa local service, Las Estrellas and Canal 5; these 31 transmitters do not carry Canal 5 in HD. It holds the rights to virtual channel 5 nationwide and broadcasts on it in almost all areas, with a handful of notable exceptions along the US-Mexico border. In 2018, the concessions of all primary Canal 5 repeaters wholly owned by Televisa were consolidated in the concessionaire Radio Televisión, S.A. de C.V. as part of a reorganization of Televisa's concessionaires. , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , - , -


Logos

File:Xhgc1952.png, 1952-1964 File:XHGC-TV 1981.png, 1980-1986 (similar to Channel 5 honduran logo and KSTP-TV in United States) File:XHGC 1988.png, 1988-1989 File:XHGC-TV 1993.png, 1993-1994 File:XHGC Canal 5 1994.svg, 1994-1996 File:XHGC Canal 5 1996.svg, 1996-1997 File:Canal 5 XHGC 1997-2000.png, 1997-1999 File:Canal 5 2000-2002.svg, 1999 (with slight variants until 2007) File:Canal 5 (MX) 2003-2006.svg, 2003-2007 File:XHGC.png, 2007 (with slight modifications until 2013) File:XHGC 2013.png, 2013 File:XHGC-TV5 (2013 Aug).svg, 2013-2014 File:Canal 5 Mexico logo 2014.svg, 2014-2016 File:Canal 5 2016.svg, 2016-present


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Official website
* {{Televisa Children's television networks Mass media in Mexico City Television networks in Mexico Televisa broadcast television networks Television channels and stations established in 1952 1951 establishments in Mexico