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XHDTV-TDT (channel 49) is a
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in
Tecate Tecate () is a city in Tecate Municipality, Baja California. It is across the Mexico-US border from Tecate, California. As of 2019, the city had a population of 108,860 inhabitants, while the metropolitan area has a population of 132,406 inha ...
,
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, Mexico, affiliated with
Milenio Televisión Milenio Televisión is a Mexican television cable news channel owned by Grupo Multimedios. The news programming uses the resources of the Milenio newspaper, one of the largest in the country. Programming is 24 hours a day, through news, analysis ...
and serving the Tijuana–San Diego international metropolitan area. The station's
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and
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are owned by Mexican company Televisora Alco, which is 40% owned by station operator
Entravision Communications Entravision Communications Corporation is an American media company based in Santa Monica, California. Entravision primarily caters to the Spanish-speaking Hispanic community and owns television and radio stations and outdoor media, in several of ...
; XHDTV is a
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to Entravision-owned
Univision Univision () is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes ...
affiliate
KBNT-CD KBNT-CD (channel 17) is a low-power, Class A television station in San Diego, California, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside UniMás affiliate KDTF-LD (cha ...
(channel 17),
UniMás UniMás (, stylized as ''UNIMÁS'', and originally known as TeleFutura from its launch on January 14, 2002, to January 6, 2013) is an American Spanish free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. The network's programming, which is ...
affiliate
KDTF-LD KDTF-LD (channel 36) is a low-power television station in San Diego, California, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language UniMás network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside Class A Univision affiliate KBNT-CD (cha ...
(channel 36) and
Azteca América Azteca América (, sometimes shortened to Azteca) is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by INNOVATE Corp., which acquired the network from the Azteca International Corporation subsidiary of TV Azteca. Headquartered ...
affiliate
XHAS-TDT XHAS-TDT (channel 33) is a television station in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, affiliated with LATV. It is owned by a Mexican company in which the largest single investor is Entravision Communications, a U.S.-based operator of radio and tel ...
(channel 33). All four stations share studios on Ruffin Road in the
Kearny Mesa Kearny Mesa is a community in the central part of San Diego, California. It is bounded by State Route 52 to the north, Interstate 805 to the west, Aero Drive to the south, and Interstate 15 to the east. Adjacent communities include Serra Mesa, C ...
section of
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, United States; XHDTV's transmitter is located on
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, within the municipality of Tecate. Despite no longer carrying American content, XHDTV continues to be carried on channel 13 by San Diego
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systems on the U.S. side of the market; the station is also carried in
Tijuana Tijuana ( ,"Tijuana"
(US) and
< ...
on Izzi channel 49. As it is licensed by the Mexican government, XHDTV is not covered under the
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(FCC)'s
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rules. This means that local cable providers in the San Diego market are not required to carry the station, even if it requests to be carried under this provision. However, the station must be carried by Mexican pay-TV providers in the Tijuana viewing area.


History


UPN affiliation

The station first signed on the air on 1 November 1999 as XHUPN-TV, more than a year after Alco received its concession on 2 July 1998. Operated as an English-language commercial station since its debut (the second such Baja California-licensed station in the San Diego–Tijuana market to operate in this manner, after
XETV XETV-TDT (channels 6 and 16) is a television station located in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, broadcasting programs from Canal 5 and NU9VE. Its terrestrial signal also covers the San Diego, California area across the international border in ...
(channel 6)), it originally served as the market's
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affiliate, which brought that network's programming back to the market just over a year after charter affiliate
KUSI-TV KUSI-TV (channel 51) is an independent television station in San Diego, California, United States. It is the sole property of locally based McKinnon Broadcasting Company. KUSI-TV's studios are located on Viewridge Avenue (near I-15) in the ...
(channel 51) dropped UPN due to the network's low viewership locally and reverted to being an
independent station An independent station is an independent radio or terrestrial television station which is independent in some way from broadcast networks. The definition of "independence" varies from country to country, reflecting governmental regulations, market ...
in 1998. In the interim, UPN programming was brought in out-of-market from
KCOP-TV KCOP-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of MyNetworkTV. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KTTV (channel 11). Both stations ...
, the network's owned-and-operated station in
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, on San Diego area cable providers. When XHUPN went on the air, the station asked those cable providers to drop KCOP from their lineups. Thereafter, XHUPN adopted the "UPN 13" moniker; while XHUPN was the station's official callsign as licensed by the
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(SCT), it used the fictional and abbreviated callsign "XUPN" on-air.


MyNetworkTV affiliation

On 24 January 2006,
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and
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announced that they would shut down
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and UPN. The two networks would then have some of their programming folded into a single service,
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. On that same date, The CW signed
KSWB-TV KSWB-TV (channel 69) is a television station in San Diego, California, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on Engineer Road in the city's Kearny Mesa section, and its tran ...
(channel 69) as the network's San Diego charter affiliate as part of a ten-year affiliation agreement between the network and KSWB owner
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's 14 WB-affiliated stations at the time. After the merger was announced, XHUPN was initially expected to become an affiliate of
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network Telefutura; however on 18 March 2006, it was announced that XHUPN would instead become a charter affiliate of
MyNetworkTV MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV, and sometimes referred to as My Network) is an American commercial broadcast television syndication service and former television network owned by Fox Corporation, operated by its ...
, another upstart network created by the
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subsidiary of
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Leap Wireless to delay report
''U-T San Diego'', 18 March 2006. (the Telefutura affiliation instead went to KDTF-LP (channel 51)). The station dropped all UPN references on-air soon afterward and simply called itself "Channel 13" and later "TV 13" (this same practice of stations dropping UPN branding following the announcement of The CW's launch had become common on UPN affiliates owned by News Corporation's
Fox Television Stations Fox Television Stations, LLC (FTS; alternately Fox Television Stations Group, LLC), is a group of television stations located within the United States, which are owned-and-operated by the Fox Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of the Fox Corp ...
unit). It also received SCT approval on 10 April 2006 to change its callsign to XHDTV-TV. UPN programming on XHDTV ended on 4 September, with the exception of ''
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'', which aired on late Friday nights/early Saturday mornings after midnight for two weeks prior to The CW's launch. As a MyNetworkTV affiliate, the station branded as "XDTV MyTV 13", with "XDTV" serving as its new fictional and abbreviated callsign.


Milenio Television affiliation

In September 2018, XHDTV-TDT dropped MyNetworkTV and all American syndicated programming from the schedule and joined
Milenio Televisión Milenio Televisión is a Mexican television cable news channel owned by Grupo Multimedios. The news programming uses the resources of the Milenio newspaper, one of the largest in the country. Programming is 24 hours a day, through news, analysis ...
; MyNetworkTV's programming moved to a secondary clearance on the CW-affiliated second
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of
KFMB-TV KFMB-TV (channel 8) is a television station in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, affiliated with CBS, The CW, and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Tegna Inc., it has studios on Engineer Road in the Kearny Mesa, San Diego, Kearny Mesa section ...
(channel 8), an increasingly common fate for the service. XHDTV was the final Mexican-licensed station carrying an English language schedule meant more for American audiences (following XETV-TDT's switch from The CW to Canal 5 in 2017); at the time of the switch, it was also the only
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commercial television station in the San Diego–Tijuana market without any form of news, either produced in-house or from another market station. It is unknown if Milenio's parent network
Multimedios Televisión Canal 6 (alternately known as Multimedios Televisión) is a network of Spanish language television stations primarily concentrated in northeastern Mexico and the southwestern United States. The system is part of Grupo Multimedios. The flagship sta ...
(which has begun a nationwide expansion from their traditional
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base) will eventually join this station's channel lineup to expand the network to Mexico's Pacific coast, either by purchase or affiliation.
Grupo Cadena Grupo Cadena, formerly known as Cadena Baja California, was a media company based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, with business offices in San Diego, California, United States. CBC had media properties located in Tijuana, Ensenada, Tecate an ...
's
XHBJ-TDT XHBJ-TDT channel 45 is a television station in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The station is currently affiliated with Multimedios Television since 2020. History XHBJ's concession history began in the late 1960s with the initial award of the ...
(channel 45) affiliated with Multimedios on 1 November 2019.


Digital television


Digital channel

XHDTV-TV became a charter affiliate of MundoFox, which launched on 13 August 2012 on digital subchannel 49.2. The subchannel was removed early on 1 December 2016 upon the end of operations for the network (which changed its name to
MundoMax MundoMax (; originally known as MundoFox from August 13, 2012 to July 28, 2015) was an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network that was owned by RCN Televisión. The network broadcast programs aimed at Hispanic and Latino America ...
in its last year). XHDTV-TDT added a subchannel carrying
Azteca América Azteca América (, sometimes shortened to Azteca) is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by INNOVATE Corp., which acquired the network from the Azteca International Corporation subsidiary of TV Azteca. Headquartered ...
on 15 March 2017, replacing
KZSD-LP KZSD-LP (channel 20) is a low-power television station in San Diego, California, United States. It is a translator of ABC affiliate KGTV (channel 10) which is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. KZSD-LP's transmitter is located on San Miguel Mo ...
as the network's San Diego affiliate (that station became a
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affiliate on 1 May); the network then moved to sister station XHAS-TDT on 1 July. 49.2 went dark and soon was removed again.


Analog-to-digital conversion

In the summer of 2011, XHDTV-TV began transmitting a digital signal on UHF channel 47; this signal remaps on
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digital tuners in both countries as
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49.1 (reflecting its analog channel allocation) through
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. While the United States completed its transition to full-power digital television on 12 June 2009, Mexico is making the transition to digital-only television broadcasts over the course of several years in order from the largest population centers to the smallest; the country's
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expected to be completed by 31 December 2015. XHDTV was not required to shut down its analog signal on 16 April 2013 like other Tijuana stations, as it is licensed to Tecate; this switch took place on 14 July 2015, and was only accomplished after repeaters of several Tijuana stations were converted there. In March 2018, in order to facilitate the repacking of TV services out of the 600 MHz band (channels 38–51), XHDTV was assigned channel 21 for continued digital operations.


See also

* Channel 13 branded TV stations in the United States


References

{{Entravision Communications Television stations in San Diego HDTV-TDT Television channels and stations established in 1999 Mexican companies established in 1999 Entravision Communications stations