FOROtv

FOROtv
Type	Cable/broadcast network
Country	Mexico
Broadcast area	Mexico; United States
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV
Ownership
Owner	Televisa
History
Launched	February 15, 2010
Replaced	4-TV (Free-to-air frequencies)
Links
Website	noticieros.televisa.com/foro-tv/
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television (Mexico City)	Channel 4.1
Digital terrestrial television (Rest of the country)	Listings may vary

FOROtv (English: "Forum TV") is a broadcast news television channel owned by Televisa. It is seen on most Mexican cable systems and full-time on two stations in Mexico, including XHTV-TDT in Mexico City, with selected programs airing on Televisa Regional and Televisa local stations. FOROtv is available on most Mexican cable and fiber-optic systems and the SKY Mexico satellite service, as well as on several national cable systems in the United States, which is distributed by TelevisaUnivision.

History[]

FOROtv launched on cable and satellite on February 15, 2010, and marked Televisa's return to the cable news business after operating the Noticias ECO service between 1988 and 2001. On August 30 of that year, it made its broadcast television debut when XHTV ditched its programming lineup aimed at Mexico City to carry FOROtv's programs.

Current programs[]

Some of the programs on FOROtv currently include the following:

Las Noticias con Erik Camacho (The News with Erik Camacho, 5 am morning newscast)
Expresso de la mañana (Morning Express, hosted by Esteban Arce)
Paralelo 23 (23rd Parallel, hosted by Ana Lucía Ordoñana)
Noticias MX (News MX, anchored by Enrique Campos)
A las Tres (At 3:00, anchored by Ana Paula Ordorica)
Fractal (Factual, anchored by Ana Francisca Vega)
Agenda Pública (Public Agenda with Mario Campos)
En la mira (In an Hour with Eduardo Salazar)
Hora 21 (The 21st Hour, anchored by Julio Patan)
Es La Hora De Opinar (It's Time to Discuss with Leo Zuckermann)
Oppenheimer Presenta (Oppenheimer Presents with Andres Oppenheimer)

Sports[]

FOROtv also carries some sports programs; its coverage has included Formula 1, MLB, NHL, NBA, Sunday afternoon NFL games, and NASCAR.

Stations[]

Full-time[]

FOROtv's programming is carried full-time on Mexico City's XHTV-TDT.

In January 2018, Televisa was approved to put FOROtv as a digital subchannel of six of its regional stations, primarily in northern Mexico.^[1] Another 18 stations (Guadalajara, Monterrey, San Luis Potosí, Morelia and Puebla, followed by Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Cuernavaca, León, Torreón, Toluca and Durango, then Acapulco, Coatzacoalcos, Culiacán, Mérida, Oaxaca, Querétaro, Saltillo and Xalapa) were added in early 2018.^[2]

Part-time[]

FOROtv's lack of full-time stations, however, was traditionally supplemented by its use by TelevisaUnivision Mexico's local partners and most Televisa Regional stations. Most of these stations only took selected newscasts in key dayparts. With TelevisaUnivision Mexico shedding many of its local affiliate partners, these relationships have come to an end.

The American version of the network departs from the main FOROtv schedule in late night to air domestically originated paid programming. This received voluminous criticism from American viewers, especially during breaking news situations when it overlays overnight breaking news coverage (in the past, paid programming also aired during the daytime, but this has since been discontinued). There are occasionally some technical issues during network programming, as TU must air other content over the Mexican ad breaks, usually with looping promotional advertisements for FOROtv itself.

Repeaters[]

The following stations, all but two Las Estrellas repeaters, carry FOROtv. As mentioned above, the network's flagship is XHTV-TDT in Mexico City, and in Ciudad Juárez, it is carried on the second subchannel of the Televisa local station, as that city's Las Estrellas repeater carries a secondary feed for viewers and pay-TV providers in El Paso, Texas with American-centric advertising and blackouts of programming claimed by American-side stations.

RF	VC	Call sign	Location	ERP	Concessionaire
34	2.2	XHBM-TDT	Mexicali	180 kW	Televimex
22	19.2	XHUAA-TDT	Tijuana	200 kW	Televimex
28	2.2	XHLPT-TDT	La Paz	26 kW	Televimex
34	2.2	XHCPA-TDT	Campeche	28 kW	Televimex
16	2.2	XHSCC-TDT	San Cristobal de las Casas	30 kW	Televimex
21	8.2	XHJCI-TDT	Cd. Juárez	50 kW	Televisora de Occidente
26	2.2	XHFI-TDT	Chihuahua	47 kW	Televimex
15	4.1	XHTV-TDT	Mexico City	270 kW	Televimex
20	2.2	XHO-TDT	Torreón	150 kW	Televimex
16	2.2	XHBZ-TDT	Colima Manzanillo Cd. Guzmán, Jal	54 kW 30 kW 15 kW	Televimex
21	2.2	XHDI-TDT	Durango Santiago Papasquiaro, Dgo. (RF 17)	94 kW	Televimex
27	2.2	XHLGT-TDT	León Guanajuato	180 kW 20 kW^[3]	Televimex
22	2.2	XHAP-TDT	Acapulco	55 kW	Televimex
20	2.2	XHCK-TDT	Chilpancingo	50 kW	Televimex
32	2.2	XHANT-TDT	Autlán de Navarro	43 kW	Televimex
24	2.2	XHGA-TDT	Guadalajara	150 kW	Televimex
36	2.2	XHTM-TDT	Altzomoni Tejupilco de Hidalgo Taxco, Gro. Pachuca, Hgo. (RF 39) Cuernavaca, Mor. San Martín Texmelucan, Pue. Tlaxcala, Tlax.	236 kW 20 kW^[4] 21 kW^[5] 8 kW^[6] 45 kW^[7] 20 kW^[8] 30 kW^[9]	Televimex
19	2.2	XHTOL-TDT	Toluca/Jocotitlán	45 kW	Televimex
30	2.2	XHURT-TDT	Cerro Burro, Mich.	338 kW	Televimex
29	2.2	XHZMT-TDT	Zamora	32 kW	Televimex
28	2.2	XHTEN-TDT	Tepic	55 kW	Televimex
23	2.2	XHX-TDT	Monterrey Saltillo, Coah. Sabinas Hidalgo	200 kW 45 kW^[10] 4.8 kW	Televimex
31	2.2	XHHLO-TDT	Huajuapan de León Tehuacán, Pue	76 kW 36 kW	Televimex
29	2.2	XHBN-TDT	Oaxaca	97 kW	Televimex
32	2.2	XHZ-TDT	Querétaro (Cerro El Zamorano) Cerro El Cimatario Guanajuato, Gto. Irapuato-Celaya, Gto. San Miguel de Allende, Gto.	180 kW 10 kW 20 kW 50 kW 65 kW	Televimex
30	2.2	XHCDV-TDT	Ciudad Valles	18 kW	Televimex
31	2.2	XHSLA-TDT	San Luis Potosí	210 kW	Televimex
23	2.2	XHBT-TDT	Culiacán	155 kW	Televimex
25	2.2	XHBS-TDT	Los Mochis Cd. Obregón, Son (RF 30)	110 kW 200 kW	Televimex
25	2.2	XHOW-TDT	Mazatlán	118 kW	Televimex
23	2.2	XHHES-TDT	Hermosillo	100 kW	Televimex
17	2.2	XHGO-TDT	Tampico	180 kW	Televimex
24	2.2	XHCV-TDT	Coatzacoalcos	60 kW	Televimex
17	2.2	XHAH-TDT	Las Lajas Nogales Orizaba	430 kW 25 kW^[11] 60 kW^[12]	Televimex
30	2.2	XHTP-TDT	Mérida	125 kW	Televisora Peninsular
16	2.2	XHBD-TDT	Zacatecas Aguascalientes, Ags.	130 kW 10 kW^[13]	Televimex

References[]

^ Lucas, Nicolás (23 January 2018). "TV digital desata el boom de los canales de noticias en México". El Economista. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
^ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Listado de Autorizaciones de Acceso a Multiprogramación. Last modified December 21, 2021. Retrieved .
^ RPC: Shadow XHLGT-TDT Guanajuato
^ RPC: Shadow XHTM Tejupilco
^ RPC: Shadow XHTM Taxco
^ RPC: Shadow XHTM Pachuca
^ RPC: Shadow XHTM Cuernavaca
^ RPC: Shadow XHTM San Martín Texmelucan
^ RPC: Shadow XHTM Tlaxcala
^ RPC: Shadow XHX
^ RPC: Shadow XHAH Nogales
^ RPC: Shadow XHAH Orizaba^{[permanent dead link]}
^ RPC: Shadow XHBD Aguascalientes

External links[]

FOROtv (in Spanish)

[1] Lucas, Nicolás (23 January 2018). "TV digital desata el boom de los canales de noticias en México". El Economista. Retrieved 3 February 2018.

[mexico-MP-2] Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Listado de Autorizaciones de Acceso a Multiprogramación. Last modified December 21, 2021. Retrieved .

[3] RPC: Shadow XHLGT-TDT Guanajuato

[4] RPC: Shadow XHTM Tejupilco

[5] RPC: Shadow XHTM Taxco

[6] RPC: Shadow XHTM Pachuca

[7] RPC: Shadow XHTM Cuernavaca

[8] RPC: Shadow XHTM San Martín Texmelucan

[9] RPC: Shadow XHTM Tlaxcala

[XHX-10] RPC: Shadow XHX

[11] RPC: Shadow XHAH Nogales

[12] RPC: Shadow XHAH Orizaba^{[permanent dead link]}

[13] RPC: Shadow XHBD Aguascalientes

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