XEQ-TDT

XEQ-TDT (channel 9) is a television station in Mexico City, serving as the flagship of the Nu9ve network. Unlike the other major networks in Mexico, Nu9ve is broadcast by a mix of full-time repeaters as well as local stations, operated by Televisa and its local partners, that also produce and air local programs.

XEQ-TDT

Mexico City Mexico
Channels	Digital: 22 (UHF)[1] Virtual: 9
Programming
Affiliations	Nu9ve
Ownership
Owner	Grupo Televisa (Teleimagen del Noroeste, S.A. de C.V.)
Sister stations	XEW-TDT, XHTV-TDT, XHGC-TDT
History
Founded	June 23, 1967 (1967-06-23)
First air date	January 25, 1969; 56 years ago (1969-01-25)
Former call signs	XHTM-TV (1968–1985) XEQ-TV (1985–2015)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 8 (VHF, 1968-1985 in Mexico City; in Toluca, until 2016) 9 (VHF, 1985–2015) Digital: 44 (2005–2017)
Call sign meaning	comes from radio station XEQ-AM
Technical information
Licensing authority	IFT
ERP	270 kW

History

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.^[2] 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, 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 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 a corporate reorganization of Televisa's concessionaires.

Technical information

Subchannels

Subchannel of XEQ-TDT

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
9.1	1080i	16:9	XEQ	Nu9ve

Analog-to-digital conversion

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 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.

Repeaters

RF	Location	ERP
22	Toluca, State of Mexico	200 kW[3]
22	Ixtapaluca, State of Mexico	0.822 kW[4]

The Toluca station carries certain local programs and is known as Nu9ve Estado de México. Local programming in Toluca began in 2002.

External links

• Official web page
• Gala TV Estado de México Archived December 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine