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29-435: XEQ was founded in 1969, as XHTM-TV channel 8 operated by Televisión Independiente de México (TIM). TIM was headquartered at Estudios San Angel from the time it signed on. In January 1973, TIM merged with Telesistema Mexicano, becoming Televisión Vía Satélite, better known as Televisa . TIM's Mexico City headquarters and production center became Televisa San Angel , which along with Televisa's original Chapultepec facility,

58-621: A brief period, Salas Peyró decided to leave the business and sold his shares to Grupo Monterrey. With four stations in key markets, especially in the country's capital, thanks to its schedule, the new network becomes a real threat to Telesistema Mexicano which up until then had been in a hegemonical position in the country. Movie businessman Manuel Barbachano Ponce founds Telecadena Mexicana, establishing its first channel in Monterrey on February 24, 1968, expanding later to 15 television stations across Mexico's territory. The central characteristic

87-484: A company with Peruvian capitals, Panamericana Televisión de México, TIM's productions are exported to other countries in the region and, in an exclusive manner, broadcast the Peruvian adaptation of Simplemente María , which became a standard for the genre. Telesistema Mexicano began to lose, not only in ratings and money, but also strong advertisers such as Procter & Gamble and even key figures who were vital to

116-581: A corporate reorganization of Televisa's concessionaires. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: XEQ-TV and other television stations in Mexico City and Toluca discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 9 (8 in Toluca), on December 17, 2015 at 12:00 a.m., as part of the IFT federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. In 2016, in order to facilitate

145-524: Is known as Nu9ve Estado de México. Local programming in Toluca began in 2002. Televisi%C3%B3n Independiente de M%C3%A9xico 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 primary competitor, Telesistema Mexicano , owned by Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta , to form

174-463: Is one of the network's two primary Mexico City studios. In 1985, Imevisión desired to add a VHF station in Mexico City, which became XHIMT-TV channel 7. In order to accomplish this, a complex channel swap was conducted involving XHTM and Televisa's relay stations at Altzomoni in the State of Mexico. XEX-TV, then on channel 7, was moved to 8, and XEQ-TV, then on 9, was moved to channel 10. As part of

203-488: The 1968 Summer Olympics . In Mexico City, TIM received a concession for channel 8, which was given the callsign XHTM-TV . It built new facilities in the San Ángel neighborhood. TIM's entry into Mexico City put it into direct competition with Telesistema Mexicano, which had just been formed between Azcárraga, XHTV owner Romulo O'Farrill Jr., and the shares of the deceased Guillermo González Camarena (owner of XHGC), for viewers in

232-529: The Televisa conglomerate. Televisa absorbed all of TIM's assets, including its television transmitters and its series, including pioneering programs such as El Chavo del Ocho . Grupo Monterrey, a prolific regional conglomerate owned by the Garza Sada family, decideed to enter the television business. In 1963, its subsidiary Televisión del Norte, S.A. obtained the concession to opeate XET-TV , channel 6 in

261-413: The 15 Telecadena Mexicana stations to Canal 8, thus forming Televisión Independiente de México or Cadena TIM, achieving coverage in 50% of Mexican territory. With this, an intense war between the two giants of Mexican television, TIM and Telesistema Mexicano, broke out. TIM presented its new, groundbreaking formats and new faces such as Roberto Gómez Bolaños "Chespirito", who had been a scriptwriter for

290-554: The Azcárraga company, like Luis de Llano Palmer , who produced the successful gameshow Juan Pirulero for Canal 8. Nevertheless, the program was criticized from its beginning, as the opinion of some viewers denigrated the public in the nature of its games that had as a prize, most of the time, small appliances such as blenders or irons. Por otro lado, On the other side, Telesistema Mexicano managed to obtain Raúl Velasco, taking

319-420: The advantage that the presenter parted from TIM when the network decided to change the format of his show. His new show, Siempre en domingo , continued in the same format as Domingos Espectaculares . Even with the growing success of TIM, losses began to increase at both television companies, due to taxes and government fees on the television stations and other business factors. Emilio Azcárraga Milmo , son of

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348-616: The channel 6 allocation, which it built as XET-TV . It then sought to enter other major Mexican markets before eventually targeting Mexico City, a task that had TIM building stations elsewhere. In Veracruz it built and signed on XHFM-TV channel 2, and in Puebla it created XHP-TV channel 3, placed midway between Veracruz and Mexico City. It was in Puebla that José Ramón Fernández , one of Mexico's pioneering sports journalists, got his start. TIM finally entered Mexico City in 1967, in time for

377-496: The city of Monterrey on April 5, 1963, signing on in 1965. This was the first step towards an expansion to a national scale, obtaining the license of XHFM-TV , channel 2 en the port of Veracruz , and later, XHP-TV , channel 3 in Puebla . As part of the strategy, Teleproductora Independiente de México was created, which started hiring Cuban creatives who fled the country after the Cuban Revolution (producing with them

406-469: The comic pair " Viruta y Capulina ", and was now presenting himself performing characters that later became true Latin American television icons, such as El Chapulín Colorado and El Chavo ; from this last one, it's been told that viewers coloquially called him as "El Chavo del 8" for the channel in which it aired. Room was given to other comic artists such as Los Polivoces . Following the concept of

435-411: The country, TIM was founded in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey , where Garza Sada already owned a brewery (Cervecería Cuauhtémoc, now part of Heineken ) and a glass factory, among other assets. The goal of TIM was to provide an alternative to the television stations located in Mexico City, chiefly XEW-TV on channel 2, XHTV-TV on channel 4, and XHGC-TV on channel 5. In Monterrey TIM received

464-503: The federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. In 2016, in order to facilitate the repacking of TV services out of the 600 MHz band (channels 38-51), XEW was allowed to move from channel 48 to channel 32. The change occurred in April 2017, including a brief period in which both facilities operated at the same time. XEW-TDT maintains two of its own repeaters that account for terrain masking and gaps in coverage within

493-452: The founder of Telesistema Mexicano, began secret talks with Bernardo Garza Sada to create a conglomerate that benefitted both companies to avoid more losses. On the other hand, and despite the company's economic situation, Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta refused to have a partnership with its biggest competitor. On September 23, 1972, Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta died. The merger process of TIM and Telesistema Mexicano finally began. After convincing

522-483: The government of Luis Echeverría, the merger of the two television companies was approved, signing on November 28, 1972 the agreement that gave rise to the new television company, which would be 75% integrated by Telesistema Mexicano and 25% by Independent Television of Mexico. Thus, on January 8, 1973, the new company called 'Televisión Vía Satélite, S.A.' was formally initiated. de C.V. , a business later and better known as Televisa . The XHTM-based television network

551-502: The move, Televisa moved the XEQ-TV callsign to Mexico City, so the two repeaters on Puebla became XEX-TV and XHTM-TV . For much of the 1980s, Televisa devoted channel 9 to noncommercial cultural and educational programming. This ended in 1992 with XEQ-TV returning to commercial programming. In 2018, the concessions of all Televisa-owned Nu9ve stations were consolidated in the concessionaire Teleimagen del Noroeste, S.A. de C.V., as part of

580-419: The nation's capital. Its regular broadcasts started on January 25, 1969. Per petition of President Díaz Ordaz, Salas Peyró associated with Grupo Monterrey to form a network with Grupo Monterrey's stations, with Channel 8 as its basis. The new network established itself at the studios of the former "San Ángel Inn" movie theatre and used the facilities to create telenovelas and other groundbreaking programs. After

609-577: The privatization of Imevisión into a new company, Televisión Azteca , which inherited Imevisión's channels 7 and 13. XEW-TV XEW-TDT (channel 2) is a television station in Mexico City , Mexico . The station is owned by Grupo Televisa and is the flagship station to the Las Estrellas network. XEW is the second-oldest Televisa station and Mexico City's second-oldest station, founded in 1951. XEW-TV came on air March 21, 1951. It

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638-424: The railroad programs, presenter Raúl Velasco , in his Domingos Espectaculares program, became one of Mexico's most famous television presenters with his programs running for several hours, where national and international artists were presented and new artists were revealed, such as comedian María Elena Velasco , La India María. Using its film studios, iconic productions were created, and thanks to an agreement with

667-453: The repacking of TV services out of the 600 MHz band (channels 38-51), XEQ was allowed to move from channel 44 to channel 22. The change occurred in April 2017, including a brief period in which both facilities operated at the same time. The Toluca transmitter repacked in July 2018 at the same time as the other Televisa stations in Toluca. The Toluca station carries certain local programs and

696-418: The television version of the classic radio format, La Tremenda Corte ), and with other local talents, started to form a schedule with new innovative concepts, such as the so-called "railroad shows" (programas-ferrocarril) on weekends, called that way due to their variety, connected and directed by a main presenter. Unlike other stations which were founded in Mexico City , which was the largest media market in

725-568: Was an improvement over XHTV's amateur output. It was not until 1982 that XEW, now the keystone of a national network, took on the name Canal de las Estrellas (Channel of the Stars). In 2016, the name was shortened to Las Estrellas as part of a branding refresh. The station's digital channel carries one program stream: XEW-TV, alongside other television stations in Mexico City, discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, at 12:00 a.m. on December 17, 2015, as part of

754-478: Was slowly dismantled, with the transmitters being used to broadcast Televisa's other national networks. In 1985, the Mexican government sought to build a channel 7 in Mexico City under the auspices of Imevisión , which was given the callsign XHIMT-TV . In order to facilitate the additional station, a frequency and callsign change was conducted involving XHTM and Televisa's XEQ-TV channel 9 in Puebla. The end result

783-470: Was that the Mexico City station became XEQ-TV , channel 9. Meanwhile, XEX-TV channel 7 moved to channel 8, while the Puebla XEQ became XHTM-TV , a rebroadcaster of XEW-TV located on channel 10. XEQ was primarily available in Mexico City until Televisa received approval in 1993 to extend its reach with 62 new transmitters. Significant competition in Mexican television would not return until the 1990s and

812-411: Was the privilege of feature films in its schedule, in place of being "filler" like the other television companies. Out of the stations that made up Telecadena, three stations in the north of the country, were owned to a concessionaire other than Barbachano, being licensed to José Manuel Acosta Castañeda. In January 1970, Manuel Barbachano Ponce, due to financial problems, decided to affiliate 11 out of

841-473: Was the second television station to come to air in Mexico and built on the tradition of the successful and influential XEW-AM 900. The concession was and remains held by Televimex, S.A. de C.V. The first transmission was a baseball game from Delta Park. The station came on air with its studios, known as Televicentro, still under development; these did not open formally until January 1952. XEW's initial programming

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