XHGK-TDT
| Tapachula, Chiapas | |
|---|---|
| Channels | Digital: 26 (UHF) Virtual: 13 |
| Branding | Canal 13 |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | Telsusa |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Albavisión Televisa (Comunicación del Sureste, S.A. de C.V.) |
| History | |
| Founded | 1984 |
Former channel number(s) | 4 (analog and digital virtual, 1984-2018) |
| Technical information | |
| ERP | 80 kW[1] |
| HAAT | -179.8 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 14°53′15″N 92°17′03″W / 14.88750°N 92.28417°W |
| Links | |
| Website | comsureste |
XHGK-TDT is a television station in Tapachula, Chiapas. XHGK broadcasts on virtual channel 13 (physical channel 26) and is part of the Telsusa regional network.
History[]
XHGK's concession was awarded on June 19, 1984, to José de Jesús Partida Villanueva, a businessman with connections to Televisa; it originally specified channel 10 in Comitán de Domínguez, but XHGK would be quickly relocated to Tapachula on analog channel 4. In 1993, the station's concession was transferred to Comunicación del Sureste.[2]
XHGK maintained a partnership with Televisa and carried programming from its Gala TV and Foro TV, and as a Televisa partner, Comunicación del Sureste was defined as within the "preponderant economic agent" in broadcasting for regulatory purposes. In 2014, XHGK sourced 82 percent of its broadcast day from Televisa.[3] In 2017, simultaneous events prompted XHGK to disaffiliate from Televisa. One was the unwinding of many local relationships as Televisa began to multiplex Gala TV and Foro TV on subchannels of its own TV stations in some areas of the country where said programming had been broadcast on a local station, including Tapachula. Another was the successful participation of Telsusa Televisión México, S.A. de C.V., a company also controlled by Remigio Ángel González, in the IFT-6 television station auction, in which it acquired TV stations in twelve cities primarily in southern and eastern Mexico.[2]
On October 18, 2018, XHGK and its sister stations moved to virtual channel 13.
Programming[]
XHGK's local program output includes local newscasts, branded as 13 Noticias del Soconusco (previously Noti-4), and a morning magazine and talk show, Giros (previously Chismoleando).
Outside of local programming, XHGK, its Chiapas sister station XHDY, and its Tabasco sister station XHTVL/XHTOE air almost all of the same programming. Since disaffiliating from Televisa, most of XHGK's entertainment programming has come from Albavisión television channels in other countries, such as and the Argentine version of Combate from El Nueve and , which was commissioned for ATV and La Red, or been acquired on the international market, such as the Colombian telenovela . Weekends are taken up by older Mexican movies.
References[]
- ^ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de TDT. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2015-07-24. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.
- ^ a b Sosa Plata, Gabriel (22 August 2017). ""El Fantasma" en la TV mexicana". SinEmbargo. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ IFT: Resolution P/IFT/EXT/060314/77, 6 March 2014
- Television stations in Chiapas
- Television channels and stations established in 1984
- 1984 establishments in Mexico