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108-575: (Redirected from Xetra ) XETRA may refer to: XEWW-AM , formerly XETRA, a commercial AM radio station in Baja California, Mexico XETRA-FM , an English-language radio station in Baja California, Mexico Xetra (trading system) , a trading venue operated by the Frankfurt Stock Exchange See also [ edit ] Extra (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

216-405: A CW affiliate (until KMAX-TV launched its own 11 p.m. broadcast in 2013); the 11 p.m. newscast was discontinued on January 14, 2013. The following year on April 6, 2009, the 10 p.m. newscast was reduced from one hour to 33 minutes, with the second half-hour being replaced by reruns of Seinfeld ; it was later reduced to a half-hour by 2011 (the length of the 11 p.m. newscast and

324-626: A Fox affiliate, and it also played the national anthem of the United States, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", prior to the disclaimer until around March 2015. XETV's production operations were based in the United States from the mid-1990s until Bay City Television's closure. The station's production, news and sales operations were owned by Bay City; Televisa controls the master control and transmitter facility on Mount San Antonio in Tijuana. Local programming between San Diego and Mount San Antonio

432-643: A Mexican-licensed station, even though XETV had been with the network since Fox's inception and had broadcast its programming almost entirely in English for over half a century. This caught XETV station management off guard as officials were unaware about the pending affiliation switch until the announcement was made public. This affiliation switch came six years after its sister stations in the McAllen and Laredo areas of Texas were stripped of their Fox affiliations due to similar concerns. The fate of both XETV and

540-474: A Section 325 permit to supply 30 percent of XETV's programming via microwave relay from San Diego. This permit was granted soon afterwards. Both this permit and further requests from NBC and DuMont to transmit their programming to XETV were then opposed by TBC Television, Inc. and KFSD radio, the applicants for San Diego's remaining channel 10 allocation. By late 1953, the FCC had failed to take further action on

648-623: A complaint with the FCC to block the permit. McKinnon cited the same arguments about inadequate local programming as KCST had. However, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which had entered into force at the beginning of the year, contained language that prohibited the FCC from favoring U.S. stations over foreign stations in Section 325 proceedings, as it had with KCST. The commission also changed its stance on XETV's local programming, ruling that serving

756-453: A consequence of the closure of Bay City Television's operations following the loss of XETV's CW affiliation, the station announced that it would shut down its news operation on March 31, 2017. Rather than discontinue its weekday newscasts on the date of the news department's cessation and its weekend newscasts on the Sunday prior, XETV opted to phase out some of its news programmings in advance;

864-492: A digital signal on UHF channel 23, becoming the first San Diego area station to begin digital television transmissions. It was also the first television station in Mexico to operate a digital signal; no other Mexican television station had begun digital operations at that time, and a digital television standard was not formally selected until 2004. It maps on digital tuners in both countries as virtual channel 6.1. In January 2006,

972-547: A five- tower array directional antenna , decreasing power to 50,000 watts to protect CBU Vancouver, British Columbia , and CKGM Montreal . Both are the dominant Class A stations on AM 690. Despite the directional antenna pattern, the signal can be heard in most of the Southwestern United States at night. While AM 690 is programmed for the U.S. side of the border, the present Rosarito transmitter facility strongly favors service to Baja California, with

1080-613: A local marketing agreement, took over the management of XETV and consolidated XHUPN's operations into XETV's facilities. The agreement expired in 2006; by 2007, Televisa, through Bay City Television, had retaken full control of XETV's operations. During a seminar by Sam Zell on March 25, 2008, it was announced that Tribune Broadcasting (which Zell had acquired the previous year as part of his takeover of corporate parent Tribune Company ) had signed an affiliation agreement with Fox for its San Diego CW affiliate KSWB-TV (channel 69). Fox cited concerns with having its programming airing on

1188-424: A local newscast from the station's sign-on in 1953 until its news department was shut down in 1967 ( Lionel Van Deerlin , later a congressman representing San Diego in the U.S. House of Representatives , served as news director during XETV's early years). In 1980, during its tenure as an independent station, XETV began running local news updates throughout the day; these continued to air until several months prior to

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1296-713: A local newscast on weekend mornings (along with KTLA in Los Angeles, KMAX-TV in Sacramento , WISH-TV in Indianapolis and WPIX in New York City ). Upon switching to The CW on August 1, 2008, XETV debuted the 11-minute 11@11 newscast on weeknights, becoming the only evening newscast in the traditional late news timeslot (11 p.m. Pacific time on the California side of the market) to air on

1404-472: A moniker that its XETRA-AM successor used in later years. The Mighty 690 was a Top 40 station, playing the biggest hits in the U.S. In 1961, radio maverick Gordon McLendon obtained enough financial control of the U.S. subsidiary to assert control over the station's programming. McLendon, working with the concessionaire, had the transmitter moved closer to the beach at its present Rosarito site, improving its conductivity in Los Angeles. He also installed one of

1512-410: A more traditional style mixed with faster story pacing and investigative reports. The station also hired older and more experienced journalists to its on-air staff, including main co-anchor Brian Christie , assignment reporter Terry Burhans and entertainment reporter Fred Saxon, all of whom previously worked at rival KUSI. In addition, the flagship prime time newscast was expanded to one hour, and Fox in

1620-407: A political party in power in a foreign country". The station had been operating under a special temporary authority to originate from studios in the United States, pending a formal approval by the FCC. On June 23, 2020, the FCC dismissed the application for XEWW to be operated from the United States by H&H, as the application failed to properly attribute the involvement of Phoenix Television in

1728-479: A potential antitrust lawsuit. Listeners, however, didn't care. McLendon boasted in 1965 that it had more listeners than KNX ; by 1966, X-TRA boasted a staff of 50. On March 11, 1968, KFWB (980 AM) switched to all-news, pushing X-TRA right out of the format. McLendon knew he could not compete with KFWB; soon after, X-TRA News closed, and the station changed to an automated beautiful music format, known as "X-TRA Music". After this, McLendon divested his interest to

1836-576: A signal that extends further south than north, due to protections to avoid interference with Canadian stations on 690. XEAC began broadcasting from the Agua Caliente resort in Tijuana on January 7, 1934. It broadcast at 820 or 815 kilohertz. By 1936, the station was owned by Jorge Rivera. In 1938, it was listed as transmitting on 980 kHz with 5,000 watts. NARBA prompted a major shuffling of radio station frequencies, and XEAC wound up on 690 kHz. More than 15 years later, this would play

1944-883: A significant enough problem that the two cities must share the VHF band. By 1952, San Diego (assigned channels 8 and 10) and Los Angeles (assigned channels 2 , 4 , 5 , 7 , 9 , 11 and 13 ) already had all but three channels on the VHF band covered. Channel 3 initially had been deemed unusable as a signal because KEYT-TV in Santa Barbara would travel in a straight line across the Pacific Ocean (it would ultimately be allocated to Tijuana Canal Once outlet XHCPDE-TDT ). San Diego's first two television stations, KFMB-TV (channel 8) and KFSD-TV (channel 10, now KGTV ), which were respectively affiliated with CBS and NBC , were among

2052-468: A studio and newsroom, in San Diego. The station's American operations were managed by Bay City Television, a California-based corporation owned by Televisa. It was most recently an affiliate of The CW . XETV ceased its San Diego operations on May 31, 2017; The CW moved its San Diego affiliation from XETV's main channel to a subchannel of KFMB-TV (channel 8.2) the following day; XETV's cable channel 6

2160-588: A very stern hard news format, it slowly broadened its focus in its time on air and added more local news features from Los Angeles. As a border blaster competing with U.S. radio stations, the Southern California Broadcasters Association challenged the operation of X-TRA News as deceptive because it created association with Los Angeles though it was not a station licensed there. It threatened Federal Communications Commission action, to which McLendon responded by floating

2268-593: A vital role in changes at the station. In the early 1950s, XEAC spawned a television station, which was initially assigned the call letters XEAC-TV but changed to XETV before signing on. In 1957, a new group known as California Broadcasters, Inc., with headquarters in the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood, was formed by Rivera to manage U.S. sales and programming rights to the station, which changed its call letters that year from XEAC to XEAK. In 1958,

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2376-793: Is also heard on XHPRS-FM 105.7 and XHBJ-TDT 45.1. XETV-TDT 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–Tijuana region across the Mexico–United States border . The station is owned by Grupo Televisa , and its technical operations and transmitter facilities are located at Mount San Antonio in Tijuana. From its initial sign-on in 1953 until 2017, XETV broadcast English-language programming and operated business offices, and later

2484-473: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages XEWW-AM XEWW is a high-powered Class A station, with its 77,000- watt daytime signal sometimes reaching as far as the middle of the San Joaquin Valley . It covers nearly all of Southern California and most of Baja California . XEWW operates with 50,000 watts at night as is required by

2592-403: Is not covered under the FCC's must carry rules. This means that local cable providers are not required to carry XETV-TDT, even if the television station requests to be carried under this provision. As an English-language station XETV had been carried by Cox Communications , Charter Spectrum and AT&T U-verse in San Diego, all on channel 6. KFMB-TV's "The CW San Diego" has replaced XETV on

2700-518: Is owned by Phoenix Radio — a subsidiary of the Chinese partially state-owned media company Phoenix Television — who produces the programming aired by XEWW, and holds a minority share in H&;H USA. In 2020, concerns were raised over the station by senator Ted Cruz , who alleged that the station was broadcasting Chinese government propaganda targeting Chinese Americans . A factor in the allegations

2808-480: Is the San Diego area's second-oldest television station after KFMB-TV, which began operations on May 16, 1949. At its launch, XETV was an independent station , broadcasting programs in both English and Spanish from its studio facilities in Tijuana. Channel 6 also established a business office on Park Boulevard in the University Heights section of San Diego, which handled sales accounts from north of

2916-491: The San Diego Union-Tribune that the reason for The CW's departure from his station was a failure of the two sides to reach a new affiliation agreement to replace the deal that was to expire that September; that lack of resolution prompted The CW to explore other options in the San Diego market. The announcement of The CW's move to KFMB left XETV's future in question, with a station spokesperson stating on

3024-649: The Cartoon Network original series La CQ . Other programming includes a prime time program block called PM , as well as mostly Spanish-dubbed versions of current and recent American shows (such as Malcolm in the Middle and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ) and the boxing program Sabados de BOX . Most programs from Canal 5 that air on XETV have an audio simulcast in their original English language, and are accessible to those TVs with SAP (Second Audio Program) capability. XETV had originally carried

3132-726: The Communications Act of 1934 , sometimes known as the Brinkley Act , prohibits any transmissions by any means to a foreign station that can be received in the United States without approval from the FCC. This provision closes a potential loophole to circumvent the Communications Act and other regulations of broadcast stations. In January 1953, former ABC programming executive Alvin George Flanagan, who had become general manager of XETV, applied for

3240-579: The Federal Communications Commission 's Sixth Report and Order lifted a four-year-long freeze on awarding television construction permits in 1952, signing on a third television station in the San Diego market proved difficult. While San Diego and Los Angeles are not close enough that one city's stations can be seen clearly over the air in the other, the unique geography of Southern California results in tropospheric propagation . This phenomenon makes co-channel interference

3348-509: The Kearny Mesa neighborhood of San Diego; the station's broadcast operations, meanwhile, remained in Tijuana. Channel 6's Tijuana-based production and technical operations eventually moved from Mexico into an expanded wing of this facility. In the early 1980s, XETV produced a popular comedy program, Disasterpiece Theatre , which parodied campy low-budget horror and science fiction films by making fun of them as they aired, similar to

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3456-620: The Secretariat of Communications and Transportation , which at the time still regulated broadcasting in Mexico, gave formal authorization for XETV's digital signal, with the full callsign XETV-TDT (a suffix standing for Televisión digital terrestre , or Digital terrestrial television ) and an effective radiated power of 402.8 kilowatts. As the original American digital television transition date of February 17, 2009, approached, XETV had expressed intentions to follow other San Diego-area stations in ceasing transmission of its analog signal. While

3564-477: The Sixth Report and Order . Although San Diego was large enough to support three television stations, it soon became obvious that the only way to get a third VHF station on the air would be to use one of Tijuana's allocations. The Azcárraga family , owners of Telesistema Mexicano (the forerunner of Televisa), quickly snapped up the concession for channel 6, and signed XETV on the air on April 29, 1953. It

3672-418: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit . In the court case, Channel 51 of San Diego, Inc. vs. FCC and Fox Television Stations, Inc. ( 79 F.3d 1187 ), the permit was vacated and the decision remanded to the FCC, with the court ruling the commission had wrongly decided the issue of local programming was irrelevant. On November 1, 1996, the permit grant was definitively upheld. The commission ruled there

3780-549: The " Rio Treaty ". This same treaty would normally allow XEWW to operate with a daytime signal of 100,000 watts. However, 77,000 watts was apparently selected as this power sends the equivalent of the station's former 50,000-watt daytime signal (from its original Tijuana site, since demolished) towards Los Angeles without also increasing its prohibited overlap with KIRN (670 AM) in Simi Valley and KSPN (710 AM) in Los Angeles (from its present Rosarito site). At night it uses

3888-628: The American cable systems, as well as satellite television providers DirecTV and Dish Network . XETV is carried by all Mexican cable systems in its coverage area, as carriage of local broadcast stations is mandated by the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT). While XETV's primary programming feed had been almost entirely in English from the 1950s until 2017, XETV also complied with Mexican broadcasting laws, which include clauses that are different from those in

3996-509: The American public interest was irrelevant for a foreign station. In any case, San Diego did not miss any of the inaugural season of the NFL on Fox , as Fox received special temporary authority to transmit the games to XETV live until the end of the season or when the FCC made its ruling. The FCC granted the Section 325 permit outright on October 28, 1994; NAFTA also extended the term for these permits from one to five years. McKinnon appealed to

4104-752: The CW affiliation for the San Diego market remained unclear, with Bay City Television/Grupo Televisa even reportedly considering filing a lawsuit to prevent the switch on the grounds that it would violate XETV's affiliation contract with Fox, which was not set to expire until 2010. This uncertainty was resolved on July 2, 2008, when channel 6 announced that it had signed an affiliation agreement with The CW. The station began dropping on-air references to Fox just over two weeks later on July 19, 2008, rebranding itself as San Diego 6 . The affiliation swap officially took place two weeks afterward on August 1, ending XETV's 22-year association with Fox – with channel 6 joining The CW, while

4212-615: The FCC explained that while the university had an expired permit to transmit the programs directly, it found the programs were being bicycled and took no action. ABC was required to apply for its Section 325 permit annually, with the FCC reserving the right to determine whether the continued affiliation was in the public interest. XETV also received criticism from its American-based competitors for censoring programming that might have been seen as objectionable in Mexico. A regulatory lawyer representing KCST told The New York Times that XETV dropped network news coverage of drug trafficking across

4320-458: The Fox affiliation moved over to KSWB. XETV, upon switching networks, replaced KSWB-TV on DirecTV as a default affiliate in the few areas of the western United States where a CW-affiliated station is not receivable over-the-air or through cable television . The CW branding was minimized to a small CW logo in the San Diego 6 logo for news programs and displayed full size otherwise; additionally, it

4428-458: The Mexican authorities had allocated two VHF channels to neighboring Tijuana – channels 6 and 12. Since these were the last two VHF channels left in the area, the FCC did not accept any new construction permits from San Diego as a courtesy to Mexican authorities. One of the frequencies, channel 6, had originally been assigned to San Diego before the freeze; it was reassigned to Mexico as a result of

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4536-625: The Morning (later renamed San Diego 6 News in the Morning in August 2008, Wake Up San Diego in November 2014 and finally CW6 News in the Morning in January 2016) – from 6 to 9 a.m., and a half-hour newscast at noon. After the station appointed Richard Doutre Jones as its vice president and general manager in the fall of 2001, XETV overhauled its news presentation in January 2002, adopting

4644-406: The Morning was restructured from a traditional newscast to an infotainment format; the noon was also cancelled and replaced with syndicated programming. For most of its existence, the station's news department usually placed last among the San Diego market's English language television news operations. As a Fox affiliate, the 10 p.m. newscast typically rotated with KSWB's prime time newscast as

4752-534: The San Diego affiliate of The CW, XETV-TDT cleared the network's entire programming schedule on digital channel 6.1 until May 30, 2017, when some of these shows carried over to KFMB's The CW San Diego subchannel. Prior to the cancellation of its weekend morning newscasts in March 2017, the station aired The CW's children's program blocks – The CW4Kids/Toonzai , Vortexx and, from September 2014 onward, One Magnificent Morning – in two blocks on Saturday mornings:

4860-406: The San Diego audience. In May 1972, the FCC, siding with KCST, revoked ABC's permit to transmit its programming to XETV. The commission concluded that the primary factor in the 1956 decision – that allowing XETV to carry ABC served the public interest since there were no other available U.S.-based television stations – no longer applied with KCST being "ready, willing and desirous" to affiliate with

4968-606: The San Diego market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition . Two days later on January 16, XETV expanded the weeknight editions of the 10 p.m. newscast back to one hour on weeknights; the weekend editions would not follow suit until January 17, 2015. The station would not program news outside its established morning and 10 p.m. slots again until January 12, 2015, when it premiered an hour-long late afternoon newscast at 4 p.m., which competed against existing newscasts aired at that hour on NBC owned-and-operated station KNSD and Fox affiliate KSWB-TV. As

5076-600: The San Diego market until just over a year later in September 2018, when it was replaced with Milenio Televisión . After XHDTV switched to Spanish-language programming, XHRIO-TDT in the Rio Grande Valley was the only Mexican-licensed outlet airing English-language programming, before the station shut down four years later in December 2021. Because XETV-TDT is licensed to Tijuana by the Mexican government, it

5184-462: The Televisa subsidiary which operated XETV from San Diego, concurrently ceased operations on May 31; unusually, the same repeat episode of The King of Queens that ended XETV's run as an English-language station near midnight local time, launched KFMB-DT2's run as a CW affiliate three minutes later. By Dunning's estimate, about 150 full-time, part-time, and freelance staffers were laid off between

5292-511: The Tijuana market's 2013 transition to digital television. The affiliation switch coincided with the commencement of digital multicasting on Televisa's Tijuana stations. Canal 5 moved to its primary channel on May 31, 2017, at which point, the 6.2 subchannel was decommissioned. Cofetel , the Federal Telecommunications Commission, chose Tijuana as the first city to switch over to digital as a pilot program for

5400-553: The U.S. switchover deadline of February 17 was later pushed back to June 12, 2009, and only applied to American-licensed stations in any case, plans were announced to voluntarily make the station's English-language programming digital-only. The analog signal would be repurposed to retransmit the Mexican Galavisión network (not to be confused with the American cable channel of the same name ). Claims on XETV's website that

5508-491: The United States. It identified every 30 minutes; started its legal broadcast day with the Mexican national anthem " El Himno Nacional Mexicano " at 5 a.m. six days a week and 6 a.m. on Sundays; and it aired public service announcements and political advertising required of all Mexican stations. At sign-on, it featured a technical disclaimer which had been read in Spanish and English dating back to channel 6's days as

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5616-439: The block's first three hours ran from 5 to 8 a.m. (two hours earlier than the timeslot recommended for the programs in that portion of the block to air in all time zones) and the final two hours airing after the newscast from 10 a.m. to noon (which air in pattern with the rest of the country); XETV began airing One Magnificent Morning in its network-recommended time period (7 a.m. to noon) on March 11, 2017, following

5724-597: The border, a practice known as "bicycling" which does not require FCC permission. This deal became effective April 5, 1956. The original decision was stayed by the United States Court of Appeals due to the decision having been made in the absence of hearings by the FCC; after hearings were held, the FCC upheld the grant in October 1956. KFMB-TV again appealed the grant and the Appeals Court remanded

5832-562: The border. The Azcárragas chose to focus XETV toward San Diego and its English-speaking audience because there were more households in that side of the market that had television sets at the time than there were in Tijuana, which did not get its own all-Spanish station until 1960 when the Azcárragas signed on sister station XEWT-TV (channel 12). Owing to its initial bilingual, bi-national audience, XETV billed itself as " The International Station " during its early years. Section 325(b) of

5940-457: The border. The station also refused clearance of a 1969 episode of Marcus Welby, M.D. , "Don't Ignore the Miracles", as it depicted an abortion in a Mexican border town at a time when abortion in Mexico was still illegal. In 1968, as it had every year since 1956, the FCC renewed its permit allowing ABC to transmit its programming to XETV. Only this time, Western Telecasters, which owned

6048-424: The closure of the news department on March 31 and the corporate shutdown. In addition to ending channel 6's affiliation with The CW three months earlier than scheduled, the closure of Bay City Television concluded XETV's 64-year history of serving San Diego with English-language programming; the move left MyNetworkTV affiliate XHDTV-TDT as the sole Mexican-licensed station providing English-language programming to

6156-466: The concession for XEAC was sold to Radiodifusora del Pacífico, S.A. While XEAC had continued to operate at 5,000 watts, it was easy to upgrade it to 50,000, as protection of Canadian Class I-A CBF Montreal would be relatively straightforward—as happened in the change from XEAC to XEAK. Ultimately, the Tijuana-based AM 690 was assigned Class I-B status. XEAK was known as "The Mighty 690",

6264-454: The concessionaire. AM stereo was first demonstrated on XETRA in the 1960s using the Kahn independent sideband system. These early attempts actually required the listener to tune in with two radios, one off-tuned to the left of the frequency for the left channel and the second radio off-tuned to the right, as AM stereo radios capable of decoding the Kahn signal were never licensed or built at

6372-477: The day of the announcement that the station was evaluating its options. The station would reveal its plans on January 26; on that date, it announced that news programming on XETV would be discontinued following the conclusion of the 10 p.m. newscast on March 31, 2017. Then, at midnight on May 31 and at the network's request, the CW affiliation moved to KFMB-TV's 8.2 subchannel. KFMB-TV also purchased substantially all of XETV's syndicated program inventory to run on

6480-461: The decision to the FCC. The Commission again upheld the grant on April 22, 1958; in November of that year, KFMB-TV again asked for revocation, based on an ad in Broadcasting which XETV identified itself as a San Diego station. In 1959, KFMB-TV once again complained about educational programming that it alleged was being transmitted to XETV from California Western University without a permit;

6588-547: The first all-news radio formats in the United States. On May 6, 1961, XEAK yielded to XETRA (always written XTRA in the United States press and only announced as such in Spanish during station IDs), known as "X-TRA News" and describing itself as "everywhere over Los Angeles". X-TRA News was a primarily "rip-and-read" operation in which two anchors traded off fifteen-minute shifts reading the Associated Press and United Press International news wires. Originally with

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6696-435: The fledgling independent UHF station KCST (channel 39, now KNSD ) at the time, contested it and began a lengthy battle to take San Diego's ABC affiliation from XETV. KCST claimed that it was no longer appropriate for a Mexican-licensed station to be affiliated with an American television network when there now was a viable American station available, and also asserted that XETV had lacked local programming that effectively served

6804-411: The format of Mystery Science Theater 3000 a decade later. On October 9, 1986, XETV became one of the first stations outside of the original group of six television stations formerly owned by Metromedia (which had been purchased by Fox's parent company affiliate, News Corporation , earlier that year) to sign deals to join the newly launched Fox Broadcasting Company , becoming a charter affiliate of

6912-575: The last construction permits issued before the FCC's freeze on new television station licenses went into effect. The UHF band, introduced by the FCC after the freeze, was not seen as a viable option; television set makers were not required to include UHF tuners until 1964 as a result of the passage of the All-Channel Receiver Act . Additionally, several portions of San Diego County are very mountainous, and UHF signals do not carry very well across rugged terrain. Complicating matters,

7020-528: The matter, but it was rendered partially moot as KFSD-TV took the NBC affiliation when it signed on that September. XETV was finally granted special temporary authority to carry live coverage of an air show from Naval Air Station Miramar on November 22, which station management hoped was a good omen; two previous requests to carry one-off coverage of special events that year were denied. However, Flanagan moved on to manage KCOP-TV in Los Angeles in January 1954, and

7128-458: The move, then-vice president and general manager Richard Doutre Jones (who left the station in June 2010 and was replaced by veteran sales manager Chuck Dunning) announced the firings of sports anchors C.S. Keys (who returned to XETV as a weather and traffic anchor from October 2011 to 2013) and Andrea Nakano and sports producer Mike Lamar. On April 23, 2011, XETV became the sixth television station in

7236-452: The music was cover versions or remixes of popular songs. XEWW did not air commercials but continued to air Mexican PSAs. On October 14, 2023, XEWW returned to Spanish-language talk as "La Voz del Pueblo" ("The Voice of the People"), leased by Primer Sistema de Noticias, the media company of former Baja California governor Jaime Bonilla Valdez . Several AM stations air PSN's programming, which

7344-526: The network when it launched on October 6. Fox had little in the way of live programming at the time, so channel 6 recorded Fox programs in San Diego and then "bicycled" the recordings across the U.S.–Mexico border to Tijuana. From 1993 to 1997, XETV also aired programming from the Prime Time Entertainment Network (most notably Babylon 5 ) on weekend afternoons, instead of the weeknight prime time slots that were recommended by

7452-705: The network. The commission could not go as far as to force ABC to affiliate with KCST, but acknowledged that the network was unlikely to dislodge the existing affiliations of KFMB-TV or KFSD-TV. XETV and ABC then went to the U.S. Court of Appeals, who upheld the FCC ruling; the station later sought relief at the U.S. Supreme Court , and was also denied. XETV surrendered the ABC affiliation to KCST in two stages: daytime programming moved to KCST in June 1973, followed by prime time programs and all other shows (including children's programming and sports) by July 1, 1973. In spite of seeing ratings gains both nationally and locally, ABC

7560-485: The new facility was completed) was not large enough to house a fully staffed news department; the offices for XETV's production, promotions, and engineering departments were also relocated to the new building. In October 2001, Grupo Televisa entered into a joint sales and programming agreement with Entravision Communications . Under this agreement, Entravision, which already operated UPN affiliate XHUPN-TV (channel 49, now Milenio Televisión affiliate XHDTV-TDT ) under

7668-592: The new subchannel, which it branded as The CW San Diego . XETV then moved Canal 5 programming (which moved from XHBJ-TDT (channel 45) in 2012) from its 6.2 subchannel to its main 6.1 subchannel, making the station a full-time Spanish-language outlet for the first time in its history. XETV had initially indicated it would transmit the Gala TV network, already seen in the Tijuana/San Diego area on XHBJ, but later retracted that statement. Bay City Television,

7776-434: The news department's original on-air staff consisted of younger anchors and reporters (most of whom were in their early 30s, with a median staff age of 32) and its story content incorporated more sensationalistic feature reporting designed to appeal to Fox's young-skewing demographic. In September 2000, the station expanded its news programming with the debut of a three-hour weekday morning newscast – originally titled Fox in

7884-670: The newscast that was dedicated to the anniversary was broadcast in black-and-white (the standard for broadcast television in 1953) with news anchors dressed in clothing and hairstyles from that period reporting on the major news and entertainment stories of 1953 and giving a contemporary weather forecast with paper graphics pasted on a hand-drawn weather map. On January 1, 2016, XETV changed its branding to fit The CW's station branding standardizations, identifying itself as "CW 6". On January 18, 2017, KFMB-TV announced that it would begin to carry CW programming on one of its digital subchannels. XETV general manager Chuck Dunning would later admit to

7992-842: The phaseout of the station's weekend newscasts in preparation for its disaffiliation from The CW. Though the station met the educational programming guidelines of the United States with the One Magnificent Morning blocks, XETV, being a Mexican-licensed station, is not required to meet the United States' broadcasting regulations. As the Tijuana transmitter of Canal 5, XETV-TDT clears the entire network schedule on channel 6.1 and formerly on digital subchannel 6.2. Children's programming includes Spanish- dubbed versions of Nickelodeon 's The Loud House , iCarly , SpongeBob SquarePants , The Fairly OddParents and The Penguins of Madagascar , as well as original Televisa programs such as its animated version of El Chavo along with

8100-552: The possibility of launching a news department. The station would not resume news programming until the establishment of an in-house news department – based out of the satellite facility at the Ronson Road studios – on December 27, 1999, when it debuted a 35-minute newscast at 10 p.m.; the program competed against an established prime time newscast on KUSI-TV and another newly launched 10 p.m. newscast on KSWB-TV that launched three months earlier in September 1999. Much of

8208-534: The programming service due to the Fox programs that aired during the evening hours on the station. When Fox acquired its first substantial live programming in the form of broadcast rights to the NFL 's National Football Conference starting with the 1994 season , the network applied for a Section 325 permit as ABC had done to transmit its programming via microwave across the border. In the spring of 1994, McKinnon Broadcasting , then-owner of KUSI-TV (channel 51), filed

8316-508: The programming. The station's best-known sportscaster on XETRA was Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton , who hosted a nightly sports talk program from 1987 until 2005, and was also the play-by-play voice of the Chargers from 1987 to 1996. Hacksaw is famous (and infamous) for his "best 15 minutes in radio" with "Hacksaw's Headlines" and using such phrases as "I am bleeping brilliant!" Nationally syndicated sports talk host Jim Rome also got his start on

8424-458: The reduction of the 10 p.m. program resulted in an odd-numbered amount of news programming hours, making XETV the largest news-producing minor network station serving the United States whose evening newscast did not run for 30, 35 or 60 minutes, as well as having the only half-hour San Diego-targeted television newscast at 10 p.m., due to KUSI and KSWB having hour-long newscasts). On March 9, 2009, XETV shut down its sports department; with

8532-527: The request for a full-time Section 325 permit was dismissed for good on April 26. ABC, in the meantime, was still relegated to part-time clearances on KFMB-TV and KFSD-TV. It intended to add XETV as an affiliate and applied for its own Section 325 permit to relay its programming, which was approved in November 1955. Pending the outcome of an appeal by KFMB-TV and KFSD-TV, ABC signed a stopgap affiliation deal with XETV which allowed it to carry network programming via film and kinescope physically transported over

8640-407: The rest of Mexico. Unlike with the U.S. digital switchover, which took place nationwide, Mexico switched to digital television in stages by geographic area, completing the process on December 31, 2015. The original Tijuana switchover date of April 16, 2013, was delayed by Cofetel because the local population had not yet attained the required 90% readiness for free over-the-air digital service to trigger

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8856-454: The station after the Federal Communications Commission ruled that the stations licensed to Mexico had to be counted against the U.S. ownership caps (three AM stations and five FM stations). Since Clear Channel managed several Mexican-licensed stations aimed at the San Diego market, this was counted against the company's ownership limit under this ruling. Management interest of some of these outlets, including XETRA-FM , XHRM-FM , and XHITZ-FM ,

8964-555: The station began multicasting on its digital signal with the addition of Televisa's youth-oriented Canal 5 network on subchannel 6.2 and on its analog feed, while digital channel 6.1 retained the newscasts, CW network and syndicated programs in English. On the same date, XHBJ-TV channel 45 dropped Canal 5 for Galavisión. Canal 5 replaced XETV's English-language programming on its analog signal, in order to serve Spanish-speaking viewers in Tijuana that did not have television sets with built-in digital tuners or digital converter boxes prior to

9072-402: The station constructed a new 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m ), three-story facility at the Ronson Road studio grounds to house a newsroom and production studios for a planned news operation that launched in December of that year. The one-story building that was located adjacent to the new facility, where the station's offices were based (which continued to house sales and management offices after

9180-438: The station discontinued its 4 p.m. newscast after the edition of February 24, 2017; this was followed by the cancellation of the weekend editions of CW 6 News in the Morning and the 10 p.m. newscast after March 12 broadcasts of both programs. The weekday editions of CW 6 News in the Morning and the 10 p.m. newscast (as well as the hour-long weekday morning lifestyle program, San Diego Living , which debuted on

9288-428: The station in 2008) continued to air in the interim, until XETV's news operation officially folded following the edition of March 31, 2017, of the prime time newscast. All-time periods formerly occupied by local newscasts were replaced with other programs that would air until the closure of Bay City Television: the weekday morning and 4 p.m. and nightly 10 p.m. newscasts were replaced by syndicated programs, while

9396-645: The station switched to an oldies format, calling itself "69 XTRA Gold" . Shortly after, XETRA had a brief stint as a news/talk station, carrying syndicated programs such as Rush Limbaugh , before becoming one of the U.S.'s first all-sports stations, billing as "XTRA Sports" . It became an ESPN Radio Network affiliate . For a number of years, the station was the broadcast home of the San Diego Chargers National Football League team. The station also briefly carried Stanford University football. The out-of-market team

9504-408: The station was indeed going to transmit a digitally-exclusive signal were rescinded on February 17, 2009, as the station decided to delay cutting off its analog signal until after it secured approval from the Mexican government. XETV management later stated that it had decided to maintain its analog signal to benefit Mexican viewers. XETV's analog signal was eventually repurposed on March 2, 2012, when

9612-488: The station's affiliation with Fox in October 1986. Although then-general manager Martin Colby originally stated that XETV would not offer a newscast, in response to then-Fox President Barry Diller 's comments during the 1991 Television Critics Association Convention in pushing for Fox's affiliates to produce local newscasts that the network "won't tolerate any affiliate that is not in the news business", XETV began reconsidering

9720-448: The station's operation. The FCC ruling stated that "Phoenix Radio's known activities at this broadcast programming studio are such that, without reviewing its role as an applicant, the FCC could not evaluate the proposed service." The station then began airing a loop of programming which lasted three years. In May 2023, H&H began supplying English-language programming to XEWW in partnership with syndicator Radio Resources, Inc. Some of

9828-565: The station. He sometimes referred to this station as the "Nifty 650" on his show despite the fact that it is not on 650 kHz. Jeanne Zelasko also started at the station, broadcasting during breaks with traffic, weather and sports highlights. In 2005, Clear Channel Communications , which managed the station, chose to drop the all-sports format and replace it with adult standards , in a format and branding swap with Clear Channel-owned 570 KLAC in Los Angeles. KLAC now calls itself "AM 570 LA Sports". In 2006, Clear Channel ceased management of

9936-574: The time) – every Sunday, the station – in a forerunner to future changes in the U.S. – in effect, became the first station in North America to carry an infomercial , which consisted of a one-hour advertisement of listings of local houses for sale. As FCC regulations at that time limited television stations to 18 minutes of commercials in an hour, such a program could not have been run on U.S. television at that time. In 1976, XETV moved its business operations to an office facility on Ronson Road in

10044-632: The time. Later tests were run via US and Canadian-based stations. AM 690 is no longer operating in AM stereo. In succeeding decades, XETRA switched formats numerous times. During most of the 1970s, XETRA continued as a beautiful music station, competing for San Diego listeners with KJQY on the FM dial. As the easy listening format began to decline in the late 1970s, on September 19, 1980, XETRA switched back to Top 40, once again billing itself as "the Mighty 690". Later,

10152-462: The top-rated local newscast during the 10 p.m. half-hour, though both programs were usually beaten by the longer-established KUSI News at Ten for the full one-hour time period. On September 5, 2006, XETV's news team gained national attention, when investigative reporter John Mattes was badly beaten by Sam Suleiman and Rosa Barraza, a husband-and-wife team accused of perpetrating a real estate scam who were being investigated by Mattes. The incident

10260-623: The transition. On May 28, 2013, XETV and all other Tijuana television stations ceased transmitting their analog signals, only to turn them back on a few days later after complaints from residents and political leaders that more viewers were left without over-the-air television service than Cofetel reported, including many poor residents outside of Tijuana proper that were not included in Cofetel's outreach program to allow residents to receive free digital-to-analog converter boxes. In addition, there were concerns that viewers would be left uninformed during

10368-559: The weekend morning newscast was replaced by The CW's One Magnificent Morning block (which was relegated two hours earlier to its network-recommended time slot following the cancellation of the newscast) on Saturdays and infomercials on Sundays. In October 2019, XETV was authorized to add a second subchannel with programming from Televisa's Nu9ve network, displacing affiliated XHBJ-TDT (channel 45). Nu9ve moved to XETV on November 1, 2019, occupying virtual channel 16—the lowest number available in Tijuana. In 2000, XETV began transmitting

10476-491: Was February 6, 2006. Much of the programming was supplied by XEW-AM in Mexico City, which also syndicates its talk shows to other co-owned stations around Mexico. Effective December 19, 2007, AM 690's call letters were changed to XEWW to reflect the "W Radio" programming. The change retired the "XETRA" call letters on AM radio after nearly a half-century, though XETRA-FM continued to use them. On November 24, 2012, XEWW

10584-470: Was Phoenix's ownership of H&H, as the company itself is partially owned by entities connected to the Government of China . Cruz proposed an amendment to the Communications Act of 1934 , that would prohibit the sale of FCC -licensed stations to owners who intend to change the language in which they broadcast, unless they certify that they are not "subject to undue influence by a foreign government or

10692-689: Was also the overflow station for English-language Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball games when there was a conflict with another game that aired on KSPN. USC Trojans football and men's basketball games moved over to KABC at the start of the 2019–20 season. In July 2018, the station's lease was sold to H&H USA; the station flipped to a Chinese-language format as URadio 690 , broadcasting programming news, talk, and music programming in Mandarin and Cantonese . The station's programming originated from studios in Irwindale, California . The studio

10800-430: Was captured on videotape and aired on many news programs throughout the nation. On January 20, 2007, XETV debuted a two-hour edition of its morning newscast on Saturday and Sundays; the programs originally aired at 7 a.m., but were moved to 8 a.m. after the CW affiliation switch. From the station's August 2008 switch until the March 2017 closure of their news department, XETV was one of only five CW affiliates with

10908-419: Was carried because the son of station manager John Lynch was on scholarship with the team. The younger John Lynch would go on to star on various NFL teams. In 1996, the concession for XETRA was transferred to XETRA Comunicaciones, S.A. de C.V. In the latter part of the 1990s and most of the 2000s, XETRA simulcast with Los Angeles station KXTA to give listeners in the Los Angeles area two frequencies to hear

11016-463: Was dissatisfied with having been forced onto a UHF station and stayed with KCST for only four years before moving to KGTV in 1977; KCST subsequently signed up with NBC at that time. XETV once again became an independent station, with a standard program schedule composed of syndicated offerings, off-network programs, movies , and children's shows. In addition, because Mexican broadcast regulations did not limit commercial time (as FCC regulations did at

11124-401: Was fed by way of microwave link , and network and syndicated shows were disseminated via satellite. By Bay City's closure, XETV had no local programs which originated from Tijuana. Prior to the CW disaffiliation, syndicated programs broadcast by XETV (as of September 2016 ) included Maury , Seinfeld , The Insider , Rules of Engagement , The Doctors and 2 Broke Girls . As

11232-477: Was no evidence that XETV's local and public-affairs programming was inadequate. It also acknowledged the aforementioned provision of NAFTA which now prohibited it from considering whether requiring Fox to affiliate with a U.S.-based station was "possible or desirable". That same year, the station became a Grupo Televisa -owned property outright after the Azcárragas transferred the ownership of XETV to their family-run, Mexico City -based multimedia company. In 1999,

11340-592: Was rendered a bright blue (matching the station logo's color scheme) instead of its customary green. On April 29, 2013, XETV celebrated its 60th anniversary of broadcasting. The station's morning newscast provided special coverage of the festivities, including separate proclamations of "XETV Channel 6 Day" by the San Diego City Council and San Diego County Board of Supervisors (the latter made on April 30 to general manager Chuck Dunning and chief financial officer Rodrigo Salazar). A special segment of

11448-419: Was spun off into Finest City Broadcasting, owned by a former Clear Channel executive. However, management rights for XETRA-AM were sold to a firm called Grupo Latino de Radio—an American subsidiary of Grupo PRISA , which is also the 50 percent owner of Televisa Radio and which would hold a 49 percent stake in the concessionaire —which returned XETRA's previous format. The first day of broadcasts of "W Radio"

11556-464: Was transitioned to KFMB-DT2 on the same date. Tijuana was the first city outside of Mexico City to receive a television license. A license to broadcast on channel 6 was granted to Jorge I. Rivera for XEAC-TV. Broadcasts were initially scheduled to start in November 1952, becoming the second cross-border television station, after XELD-TV . XETV came into existence because of a technical quirk affecting stations in San Diego and Los Angeles . Even after

11664-493: Was used as an overflow station for an English-language broadcast of a USC Trojans football game against Notre Dame . Normal flagship station KSPN could not air the game due to conflicts with a Los Angeles Lakers basketball game, while KLAA was, as part of a separate contract, carrying the same game from Notre Dame 's radio network. XEWW had carried C.D. Guadalajara soccer team broadcasts. CD Chivas USA of Major League Soccer aired its games on XEWW until 2014. XEWW

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