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List of television stations in Mexico

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List of television stations in Mexico
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Mexico has 872 separately licensed television stations authorized by the Federal Telecommunications Institute.[1][2][3]

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Cerro del Cuatro in Guadalajara. Most Mexican television stations transmit from mountains like this one, to increase signal coverage.

Commercial stations are primarily operated by Televisa, TV Azteca, Grupo Imagen, Grupo Multimedios and their affiliate partners. There are seven major national commercial channels, two of which are almost exclusively available over-the-air as subchannels:[4]

There are also local stations with independent programs, stations and subchannels carrying Televisa's Nu9ve network which commonly shares time with local programming, and Televisa Regional stations, which incorporate programming from various Televisa networks alongside local news and magazine programs. Multimedios Televisión operates a regional network concentrated in northeastern Mexico, and a handful of independent stations operate primarily in regions along the border.

Noncommercial stations are divided into public and social concessions. Public concessions are predominantly owned by federal and state governments and public institutions of higher education. The two largest public networks are Canal Once, owned by the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, and the multiplexed transmitter network of the Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano (SPR), which offers multiple public television services. 27 of the 32 states also operate their own state networks, some of which have dozens of low-power transmitters. Social concessions are held by private universities, civil associations, and some individuals.

In addition, due to Mexico's rugged terrain, many stations operate low-powered, mostly co-channel translators (legally known as equipos complementarios de zona de sombra) to serve areas shielded by terrain, to improve signal reception in fringe areas, or (in some cases) to serve completely different television markets. Translators may be in different states from their parent stations; a handful even operate as local stations in their own right with their own local programs.

The list demonstrates the legacy of large television station concessions awarded in the 1980s and early 1990s. The two most notable of these were awarded to Televisa; the 1982 concession of 95 television stations in small communities is responsible for the bulk of the Canal de las Estrellas network, while the concession of 62 stations to Radiotelevisora de México Norte, a subsidiary of Televisa, was awarded in the early 1990s and expanded the Canal 5 and Gala TV networks. Since the conversion to digital, Televisa and Azteca have multiplexed transmitters in rural areas, bringing full national network service to smaller communities for the first time.

In March 2015, Grupo Imagen (under the name Cadena Tres I, S.A. de C.V.) and Grupo Radio Centro won concessions for 123 new television stations each, forming two new national television networks. The new networks must meet a minimum coverage standard set by the IFT for 2018 and reach full national coverage by 2020.[6] However, Grupo Radio Centro refused to pay its winning bid of 3.058 billion pesos and thus had its concession revoked.[7] Imagen's network, Imagen Televisión, launched on October 17, 2016, with a presence in nearly every state.

Analog stations were shut off beginning on July 18, 2013, with a pilot transition in Tijuana. In 2015, stations went digital-only throughout the country on 10 dates. Some 129 analog television stations owned by noncommercial entities, such as state governments, and another 368 repeaters of primarily Televisa stations, received exemptions to delay their transition until December 31, 2016.

Virtual channels were assigned by the IFT in 2016, unifying most transmitters of national networks under one number and ending decades of old analog channel numbers. In some cases, local stations were required to find new virtual channels.

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Aguascalientes

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Baja California

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Baja California Sur

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Campeche

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Chiapas

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Chihuahua

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Coahuila

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Colima

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Mexico City

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Cerro del Chiquihuite in Mexico City, the location for transmitters of most of Mexico City's TV and FM stations.
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Durango

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Guanajuato

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Defunct stations

  • XHGSM-TDT RF 23, virtual 8 (formerly analog 4) (2000–2021)
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Guerrero

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Hidalgo

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Jalisco

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State of Mexico

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Almost all Toluca stations transmit from Jocotitlán
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Michoacán

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Morelos

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Nayarit

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Nuevo León

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Most of Televisa's stations in Monterrey broadcast from Cerro de la Silla
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Oaxaca

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Puebla

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Querétaro

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Quintana Roo

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San Luis Potosí

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Sinaloa

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Sonora

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Tabasco

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Tamaulipas

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Tlaxcala

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Veracruz

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Yucatán

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Zacatecas

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Notes

  1. The XHSPO transmitter is co-sited with Canal Once in Gómez Palacio, Durango.
  2. Primary transmitter at Atenquique on Nevado de Colima. Shadow transmitter in Colima.
  3. This transmitter location is within the State of Mexico, but the station is licensed to Mexico City.
  4. Same concession as XEIPN-TDT (3), Jocotitlán, Mex.
  5. The primary localities to serve for this station, owned by the government of the State of Mexico, are Atizapán, Coacalco, Cuautitlán Izcalli, Tlalnepantla, and Villa de las Flores, but the station covers the entirety of Mexico City as well.
  6. This site is on the Jalisco-Guanajuato state line to the north of León.
  7. This station, while licensed as a repeater of XEQ in Mexico City, airs its own locally-targeted programming under the name Nu9ve Estado de México. Repeaters may air up to 25 percent different programming from their parent stations.
  8. While XHI Los Mochis is licensed as a repeater of its Ciudad Obregón station, XHI Los Mochis features significant local content and often has a different schedule compared to Ciudad Obregón.
  9. This is a temporary facility on the Multimedios tower due to the collapse of the TV Azteca tower in Nuevo Laredo in May 2021.
  10. This is a temporary facility on the Multimedios tower due to the collapse of the TV Azteca tower in Nuevo Laredo in May 2021.

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