Television station in San Cristobal de las Casas?Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas
XHDY-TDT
is a television station broadcasting from its transmitter in
San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas
and studios in the state capital of
Tuxtla Gutierrez
. XHDY broadcasts on virtual channel 13 (physical channel 36) and is part of the
Telsusa
regional network.
History
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XHDY's concession was awarded on June 19, 1984, to Jose de Jesus Partida Villanueva, a businessman with connections to Televisa. In 1993, the station's concession was transferred to Comunicacion del Sureste.
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XHDY maintained a partnership with
Televisa
and carried programming from its
Channel 9 Network
and
FOROtv
, and as a Televisa partner, Comunicacion del Sureste is defined as within the "preponderant economic agent" in broadcasting for regulatory purposes. In 2014, XHDY sourced 72 percent of its broadcast day from Televisa.
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In 2017, simultaneous events prompted XHDY to disaffiliate from Televisa. One was the unwinding of many local relationships as Televisa began to multiplex
Gala TV
and
FOROtv
on subchannels of its own TV stations in some areas of the country where said programming had been broadcast on a local station, including Tuxtla Gutierrez and San Cristobal de las Casas. Another was the successful participation of Telsusa Television Mexico, S.A. de C.V., a company also controlled by Remigio Angel Gonzalez, in the IFT-6 television station auction, in which it acquired TV stations in twelve cities primarily in southern and eastern Mexico.
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On October 18, 2018, XHDY and its sister stations moved to virtual channel 13.
Programming
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XHDY's local program output includes local newscasts, branded as
13 Noticias Chiapas
(previously
Noticinco
), and a morning magazine and talk show,
Giros
(previously
Dia Tras Dia
).
Outside of local programming, XHDY, its Chiapas sister station
XHGK
, and its Tabasco sister station
XHTVL/XHTOE
air almost all of the same programming. Since disaffiliating from Televisa, most of XHDY's entertainment programming has come from Albavision television channels in other countries, such as
El show del problema
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es
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and the Argentina version of
Combate
(produced by
elnueve
in Argentina) or been acquired on the international market, such as the Colombian telenovela
Lo que diga el corazon
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es
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. Weekends are taken up by older Mexican movies.
Repeaters
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The primary transmitter for XHDY-TDT is located atop Cerro Pig in
San Cristobal de las Casas
. XHDY has a second transmitter atop Cerro Huitepec, another mountain in the same municipality, as Cerro Huitepec blocks reception of the Cerro Pig transmitter in some portions of San Cristobal. Two additional repeaters provide significant coverage extensions:
References
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Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones
.
Infraestructura de Estaciones de TDT
. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2015-07-24. Technical information from the
IFT Coverage Viewer
.
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a
b
Sosa Plata, Gabriel (22 August 2017).
"
"El Fantasma" en la TV mexicana"
.
SinEmbargo
. Retrieved
8 October
2018
.
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IFT: Resolution P/IFT/EXT/060314/77, 6 March 2014
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"RPC: #056505 Shadow XHDY Bochil, Chiapas"
(PDF)
. IFT Public Concessions Registry. January 11, 2022
. Retrieved
March 12,
2022
.
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"RPC: #056547 Shadow XHDY Las Margaritas, Chiapas"
(PDF)
. IFT Public Concessions Registry. January 11, 2022
. Retrieved
March 12,
2022
.
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"RPC: #056549 Shadow XHDY Ocosingo, Chiapas"
(PDF)
. IFT Public Concessions Registry. January 11, 2022
. Retrieved
March 12,
2022
.
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"RPC: #056550 Shadow XHDY Tonala, Chiapas"
(PDF)
. IFT Public Concessions Registry. January 11, 2022
. Retrieved
March 12,
2022
.