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DeutschXHLL-TDT
| Channels | |
|---|---|
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | Multimedios Television |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| History | |
| Founded | October 12, 1968 |
Former channel number(s) | 13 (analog and digital virtual, to 2016) 5 (digital virtual, 2016–2019) 8 (virtual, 2020–2021) |
| El Canal de las Estrellas (1972-1995) Canal 5 (1995-2019) | |
Call sign meaning | ViLLahermosa |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | IFT |
| ERP | 12 kW[2] |
| Transmitter coordinates | 17°59′00″N 92°57′00″W / 17.98333°N 92.95000°W |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
XHLL-TDT is a television station in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico. XHLL broadcasts on virtual channel 6 (physical channel 33). The transmitter site is co-located with the studios of radio stations XHVA and XHTAB in Col. Gil y Sáenz in Villahermosa.
History
[edit]XHLL began broadcasting on October 12, 1968, with coverage of the opening ceremony of the 1968 Summer Olympics from Mexico City. The station was owned by Televisión de Tabasco, S.A., a joint venture of Fernando and Baltasar Pazos de la Torre (owners of XEVA radio) and Clemente Serna Alvear, owner of Radio Programas de México, with which XEVA was affiliated.[3] During the course of the Olympics, the station carried the games from 9am to 7pm, after which the station shut down for the day; when the Olympics ended, it started airing local programming recorded using 16-milimiter reels (which was a cheaper option than videotaping). Among the live programs, there were La Hora de Hilda, with Hilda del Rosario de Gómez, Telehogar, with Araceli Rojas Tenorio, Imagen del Mundo, with Rafael Vila Escalante and Sergio Morales Macías and Telepanorama, with Rafael Vila Escalante y Sergio Morales Macías. The rest of the line-up consisted of programs produced by the networks in the capital or imported series: Noches tapatías, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Laurel and Hardy films, The Twilight Zone, The Green Hornet, The Untouchables, cartoons, youth music and vintage Mexican movies.[3]
XHLL operated as a local station until early 1972, when the local operation was closed for financial reasons, as well as the lack of a specific local project. For more than 47 years, XHLL operated in national network service, airing the XEW network beginning with the fight between Rafael Herrera and Enrique "Maravilla" Pinder, at 10pm on July 29, 1972. This was possible because Televicentro (of the XEW network) started renting its facilities to convert it into a mere relay.[3]
It then switched to Canal 5 when Televisa built its own XEW repeater in Villahermosa, XHVIZ-TV, in 1995.
In November 2019, Televisa received authorization to multiplex Canal 5 on the XHVIZ-TDT transmitter beginning January 1, 2020; in its application, it noted that Televisa's affiliation with XHLL-TDT would end on December 31, 2019.[4] The IFT assigned XHLL virtual channel 8 to use when Canal 5 moved to XHVIZ.[1] As a result of the lost program source, the station began broadcasting a time lapse loop of the Pazos studio and transmitter building on January 1.
Shortly after, XHLL affiliated with Multimedios Televisión. The virtual channel changed to channel 6 to match the programming in 2021.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Listado de Canales Virtuales. Last modified December 21, 2021. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
- ^ RPC: #012492 Digital Television Authorization — XHLL-TDT
- ^ a b c Televisión en Tabasco
- ^ "Resolución mediante la cual el Pleno del Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones autoriza a Televimex, S.A. de C.V., la inclusión de un nuevo canal de programación en multiprogramación en las transmisiones de la estación de televisión con distintivo de llamada XHVIZ-TDT, en Villahermosa, Tabasco" (PDF). Federal Telecommunications Institute (in Spanish). November 13, 2019. Retrieved December 20, 2019.