Мексикалық Multimedios телеарнасы

Mexican television network

Canal 6 (alternately known as Multimedios Televisión) is a network of Spanish language television stations primarily concentrated in northeastern Mexico and the southwestern United States. The system is part of Grupo Multimedios. The flagship station of Multimedios is XHAW TDT located in Monterrey, Nuevo León. Programming features locally produced news, sports, children's shows and general mass appeal variety programming. On weekdays, the network produces around twenty hours of live daily programming, with lesser amounts during the weekends and holidays. Throughout its broadcast week, the network produces 58 hours of news programming per week under the branding of Telediario, including a Sunday night public affairs program, Cambios. It also produces pre game, post game and other programming involving Monterrey's two major soccer clubs, Tigres UANL and C. F. Monterrey, and through Groupo Multimedios' half ownership of the team as of February 2017, a media partnership with the Mexican League's Sultanes de Monterrey in baseball, including weekend home game coverage. The network also carries the home matches of Chivas over the air exclusively in Guadalajara, Monterrey and Torreón. The company also has network affiliates in many cities, some of which produce local content. The networks spans Northeast and North Central Mexico, along with the Southwestern United States through over the air availability, but is also available nationally in both countries via cable, satellite and IPTV services. As of May 2016, all of the network's programming is presented in a 16:9 widescreen optimized form in both standard and high definition.

Multimedios was founded in 1933 when Jesús Dionisio González acquired Monterrey radio station XEX, where he had formerly worked, for 12,500 pesos. In the 1950s, the group became known as Organización Estrellas de Oro (Gold Stars Organization), and entered the television business in 31 October 1964, when it received a television allocation in Monterrey, which later started on 24 February 1968 when it launched Canal 12 (Channel 12, XHAW TV) in Monterrey. Channel 12 gave birth to iconic shows in the city of Monterrey, such as Telediario hosted for more than five decades by Héctor Benavides and Fútbol al día, hosted by Roberto Hernández Jr.

Further expansion would come in the 1980s and 1990s when the federal government licensed new television stations, leading to Multimedios establishing a broadcast presence in cities such as Tijuana, Chihuahua, and Tampico.

All American affiliates of the network are owned and operated by other broadcasters, due to FCC regulations regarding foreign ownership of radio and TV stations. The network leased stations from Mako Communications until early 2007. The American version of the network feed features American direct response advertising and public service announcements laid over the main Monterrey feed, along with some programming substitutions (mainly Monterrey specific local shows and paid programming for second runs of the network's main shows), along with KHLM LD's Houston focused public affairs program ¿Que Pasa Houston? on Sunday afternoons. The main Monterrey feed is available to Mexican viewers, streaming through the network's website and its iOS App Store and Google Play apps, with all network feeds blocked in the United States in deference to its American cable partners. The network, along with Milenio Television, produces several outsourced newscasts for two stations in Los Angeles, California from Monterrey during studio downtime, both due to station cutbacks in their news departments. Independent station KWHY TV began to air Multimedios produced newscasts in 2017 after MundoMax ceased operations in December 2016, while Estrella TV's KRCA folded its news department outside several retained multimedia journalists beaming reports back to Monterrey at the start of March 2022. As of late August 2018, the American network features mainly the XHAW TDT schedule of entertainment programming from Monterrey, but the noon and primetime Telediario blocks are now split, with the first hour originating from XHTDMX TDT's Mexico City broadcast, and the second hour being the Monterrey broadcast, with the morning newscast block switching in and out from both the Monterrey and Mexico City editions. Overnights feature a special American edition newscast from Milenio Television, along with that network's 10 p. m. newscast. As of September 2020, with the cancellation of the tween focused variety show Acabatelo, Mexico City programming, including La Bola del Seis, Chismorreo, and Vivalavi, now predominates and airs live on the American feed. At the start of 2022, the original Monterrey based version of Vivalavi airs in late night, with the Mexico City version airing live, along with C6 Alerta in early prime, which highlights current crime news. Prime programming from Monterrey (considered 9:30 p. m. local time) on weeknights now airs on an hour delay in the United States, though due to Mexico's suspension of Daylight Savings Time in 2023 and the American feed continuing to air programming live, the time it airs is actually two hours ahead in the United States from March until November. The network is authorized to be carried as a foreign television service in Canada by that country's broadcasting authority, receiving that authorization on April 22, 2015; Milenio Television was also included in a separate application. Market/City of license Station/Channel No. (DT) Licensee Additional notes Houston KHLM LD 43.1 Lotus Communications Corporation KHLM is effectively marketed as the American flagship of the network, including their channel positions being called out in some programs, and hosts road tours of Multimedios's variety programming and hosts, which take place at Houston area venues. Phoenix KPHE LD 44.1 (16) Lotus Communications Corporation Part time affiliate; shared with Telemax. Salt Lake City KTMW 20.4 Alpha & Omega Communications, LLC El Paso/Juarez K27OJ D 25.1 (27) BGM License LLC Formerly K40FW. Sister station to XHIJ TDT.

Multimedios is available across the United States on many cable, satellite and IPTV systems, including DirecTV, Dish/Sling, Comcast, Spectrum, AT&T U Verse, Verizon FiOS and Grande Communications. It is carried in both standard definition and high definition versions. In 2016, the network also became available in Costa Rica (the third largest Mexican diaspora behind the United States and Guatemala) through cable (several of the network's personalities are Costa Rican Mexicans); the American and Costa Rican feeds, along with the local "Plus" feed thus had a separate version of their morning lifestyle program, Vivalavi, known as Vivalavi Internacional with different hosts carried over them. Vivalavi Internacional was cancelled on January 11, 2017. Vivalavi began to feature segments from Monterrey and Mexico City in mid August 2018, and the Thursday evening program SNSerio often has their hosts record the series in Mexico City to access a larger base for possible program guests than available in Monterrey. In addition to this, the audio streams of Multimedios, Milenio TV and Multimedios' sports radio station XERG AM are available via telephone through a both a Mexican and American telephone number for the regular costs of airtime depending on provider.

Market/City of license Station/Channel No. (DT) Licensee Additional Notes Dallas/Fort Worth (Mesquite) KATA CD 50 (N/A) Mako Communications Station closed 2017 Las Vegas KVPX LD 28 (N/A) Mako Communications Las Vegas (Laughlin) KMCC 34.1 (32) Beam Tilt, LLC Bakersfield K18HD D N/A (18) Valley Public Television VPT acquired station from Mintz Broadcasting in 2007; has since flash cut to digital and currently rebroadcasts KVPT Amarillo K64GK 64 (N/A) Mintz Broadcasting Corpus Christi K20JT D 54 (20) Mintz Broadcasting Lubbock K24GP 24 (N/A) Mako Communications Midland K69IT 69 (N/A) Mintz Broadcasting San Angelo K45HW 45 (N/A) Mintz Broadcasting San Antonio K17MJ D 51 (17) Mintz Broadcasting Tampa WTAM LD 28 (N/A) Lotus Communications Corporation Branded as TV Visión Rio Grande City KTLM 40.4 NBCUniversal Had Milenio Televisión on 40.2. Was the only Telemundo O&O affiliated with either network. Both were dropped after NBC bought KTLM.