XEQ-TDT

Nueve station in Mexico City and Toluca

XEQ TDT (channel 22, virtual channel 9) is a Televisa TV station, based in Mexico City. XEQ is the flagship television station of the Nu9ve network. The Nu9ve network, unlike the other major networks in Mexico, 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 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. 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.

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.