XHDTV-TDT
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XHDTV-TV, commonly identified on the air as "XDTV", is the My Network TV-affiliated television station, licensed to Tecate, Baja California, Mexico. However, the station's studios and offices are located across the border in San Diego, California, United States. The station is operated by Entravision Communications Corporation. XHDTV is referred to as "MyTV 13", as it is located on channel 13 on all San Diego area cable systems, although it is broadcast on channel 49 over the air and on satellite. The station does not carry any news and mostly carries cartoons, off network sitcoms, movies, talk shows and first run programming.
XHDTV, as a licensed broadcaster in Mexico, is not covered under the US Federal Communications Commission must-carry regulations. XHDTV is therefore the only full-power analog MyNetworkTV affiliate that local cable providers are not required to carry even if the station requests to be carried under this provision.
Despite the distinctive callsign, XHDTV does not have a high definition TV signal and is not yet on-air with any form of terrestrial DTV. Currently, no area cable or satellite provider has access to any high-definition version of XHDTV's signal.
XHDTV is currently in the process of adding a digital signal, and has obtained an allocation on channel 47.
History
XHDTV-TV went on the air on November 1, 1999 as XHUPN-TV (or "XUPN"), taking over the UPN programming that was removed from previous area affiliate, KUSI-TV (Channel 51). In the interim, UPN programming was provided to San Diego via cable by Los Angeles' KCOP-TV. When XHUPN went on the air, KCOP asked the San Diego area cable providers to drop it from their lineups, and XHUPN adopted the "UPN 13" moniker.
When the merger of UPN and The WB was announced and with Tribune-owned KSWB 5/69 becoming a charter affiliate of The CW Television Network, XHUPN was expected to become an affiliate of Spanish-language network Telefutura, but on March 22, 2006, it was announced in Broadcasting & Cable Magazine that XHUPN would instead be a new affiliate of My Network TV. The station's UPN 13 logo had been dropped and the station simply called itself "Channel 13"; then later, "TV 13". This same practice of dropping UPN brandings from logos had become common on stations owned by News Corporation, due to the pending demise of UPN. Not long after XHUPN received the MyNetworkTV affiliation, it changed its calls to the present XHDTV. UPN programming on XHDTV ended on September 4, with the exception of WWE Friday Night SmackDown, which aired on late Friday/early Saturday after midnight, for the two weeks prior to the launch of The CW.
Digital television
XHDTV is currently in the process of adding a digital signal on channel 47.
XHDTV, as a Mexican broadcaster, does not follow the US timetable for analog television shutdown and digital conversion. While the largest markets will have a complete set of digital signals by the end of 2009, the Tijuana, Baja California market (with over a million inhabitants) is required to turn on digital signals before the end of 2012. Smaller communities are to follow later, with the conversion expected to be completed nationally by 2021.
The station was previously assigned digital channel 53, but a conflict with co-channel KABC-DT and XHDTV's proximity to the US (where channel 53 will be removed after the 2009 US shutdown of analog signals and re-purposed for non-television use) resulted in the change.
Mexican-licensed stations such as XHDTV are not part of the US transition. Mexico has a different timetable for its own transition to digital, in which digital signals are now being turned on in a market-by-market basis with digital simulcasts for the largest stations and markets deployed first. Mexican analog broadcasts are expected to end soon after the smallest digital stations sign on in 2021.[1]
XHDTV-TV has plans to keep analog channel 49 after US full-power analog broadcasts have ended. XHDTV-DT 47 will sign on no later than February 17, 2009. However, through the use of PSIP so that digital television receivers will display XHDTV-DT's virtual channel as 49.1
References
- ^ SCT: Transicion a TDT (Transition to DTV) (Spanish)