The following is a list of events affecting

Mexican television Television is a popular form of entertainment in Mexico, with mass entertainment playing an important role in creating a national unified culture. ''Telenovelas'' are very traditional in Mexico, translated into many languages, and watched all ove ...

in 2018. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about controversies and

carriage dispute A carriage dispute is a disagreement over the right to "carry", that is, retransmit, a broadcaster's signal. Carriage disputes first occurred between broadcasters and cable companies and now include direct broadcast satellite and other multichan ...

Events

*Most television stations in Mexico were required to change frequencies to repurpose the 600 MHz band for use by mobile services. *September -

Tecate Tecate () is a city in Tecate Municipality, Baja California. It is across the Mexico–United States border, Mexico–US border from Tecate, California. As of 2019, the city had a population of 108,860 inhabitants, while the metropolitan area ha ...

Baja California Baja California, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California, is a state in Mexico. It is the northwesternmost of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1952, the area was known as the North Territory of B ...

-licensed

XHDTV-TDT XHDTV-TDT (channel 49) is a television station in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico, affiliated with Milenio Televisión and serving the Tijuana–San Diego international metropolitan area. The station's license and transmitter are owned by Mex ...

in the

Tijuana Tijuana is the most populous city of the Mexican state of Baja California, located on the northwestern Pacific Coast of Mexico. Tijuana is the municipal seat of the Tijuana Municipality, the hub of the Tijuana metropolitan area and the most popu ...

market, the final English-language television station in western Mexico, disaffiliates from the

American American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, p ...

-based

MyNetworkTV MyNetworkTV (stylized as mynetworkTV; unofficially abbreviated MNT or MNTV) is an American commercial broadcast television syndication service and former television network owned by Fox Corporation, operated by its Fox Television Stations ...

programming service in favor of the

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Monterrey (, , abbreviated as MtY) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. It is the ninth-largest city and the second largest metropolitan area, after Greater Mexico City. Located at the foothills of th ...

-based

Milenio Televisión Milenio Televisión is a Mexican television cable news channel owned by Grupo Multimedios. The news programming uses the resources of the Milenio newspaper, one of the largest in the country. Programming is 24 hours a day, through news, analysis a ...

network. MyNetworkTV was moved to

The CW The CW Network, LLC (commonly referred to as The CW or simply CW) is an American commercial broadcast television network which is controlled by Nexstar Media Group through a 75% ownership interest. The network's name is derived from the firs ...

-affiliated

KFMB-DT2 KFMB-TV (channel 8) is a television station in San Diego, California, United States, affiliated with CBS, The CW, and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Tegna Inc., it has studios on Engineer Road in the Kearny Mesa section of San Diego, and its transmitter i ...

San Diego San Diego ( , ) is a city on the Pacific coast of Southern California, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a population of over 1.4 million, it is the List of United States cities by population, eighth-most populous city in t ...

as a secondary affiliation. This left CW affiliate

XHRIO-TDT XHRIO-TDT (channel 15) was a television station in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, which served the Rio Grande Valley area in southern Texas, United States. The station was 98% owned by Mexican-based Televisora Alco, which was 40% owned by stati ...

in Matamoros,

Tamaulipas Tamaulipas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas, is a state in Mexico; one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 43 municipalities. It is located in nor ...

as the only English-language television station licensed in Mexico until that station ceased operation on December 31, 2021.

Television shows

Debuts

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Casa de las Flores The Casa de las Flores is a block of flats in the Chamberí district of Madrid, designed by Secundino Zuazo in 1931. The distribution of spaces with its central landscaped corridor has provided a model for architecture students studying the fift ...

'' (2018–present)Kahn, Carrie (December 2, 2019)
“How Netflix Is Upending The TV industry In Mexico”

Boise State Public Radio Boise State Public Radio is a broadcast service of Boise State University, which operates four programming services on several radio stations throughout central and southern Idaho and northern Nevada. Stations and services KBSU in Boise, Idah ...

via

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. Retrieved December 10, 2019. *'' LOL: Last One Laughing'' (2018–2019)

Programs on-air

1970s

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Plaza Sesamo A town square (or public square, urban square, city square or simply square), also called a plaza or piazza, is an open public space commonly found in the heart of a traditional town or city, and which is used for community gatherings. Relat ...

'' (1972–present)

1990s

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Acapulco Bay Acapulco de Juárez (), commonly called Acapulco ( , ; ), is a city and major seaport in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City. Located on a deep, semicircular bay, Acapulco has been a port since the ear ...

'' (1995–present) *'' Corazon salvaje'' (1993–present) *'' Esmeralda'' (1997–present) *'' La usurpadora'' (1998–present)

2000s

*'' Alma de hierro'' (2008–present) *''

Big Brother México ''Big Brother México'' is a reality television series based on the international '' Big Brother'' format produced in the Netherlands by Endemol. ''Big Brother México'' was launched by Televisa in 2002. Before its debut, the idea of being watched ...

'' (2002–2005, 2015–present) *''

Hotel Erotica Cabo ''Hotel Erotica Cabo'' is a 2004 late-night Cinemax softcore television series which first aired in 2006 and was directed by Gary Dean Orona and starring actresses Kimberly Fisher and Divini Rae. Plot line The episodes of this anthology series ...

'' (2006–present) *''

Lo Que Callamos Las Mujeres ''Lo que callamos las mujeres'' (English: ''What We Women Keep Silent''), is a Mexican anthology television series which deals with the social problems of Mexican society. The show started airing on the Mexican television network Azteca 13 as a w ...

'' (2001–present)

2010s

*'' 40 y 20'' (2016–present) *'' Atrapada'' (2018–present) *''

'' (2018–present) *''

Como dice el dicho ''Como dice el dicho'' (translation: As the saying goes) is a Mexican anthology drama series produced by Genoveva Martínez for Televisa. The series premiered on 1 February 2011, on Las Estrellas. The series covers a variety of stories in whi ...

'' (2011–present) *''El Chiapo'' (2017–present) *''

La Voz… México LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second most populous city in the United States of America. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music *La (musical note), or A, the sixth note *"L.A.", a song by Elliott Smit ...

'' (2011–present) *''

Por amar sin ley ''Por amar sin ley'' (English title: ''Laws of love'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro that premiered on Las Estrellas on 12 February 2018. It is a remake of a 2016 Colombian telenovela '' La ley del corazón''. The telen ...

'' (2018–present) *'' México Tiene Talento'' (2014–present) *'' Rubirosa'' (2018–present) *''

Sin tu mirads In religious context, sin is a transgression against divine law or a law of the deities. Each culture has its own interpretation of what it means to commit a sin. While sins are generally considered actions, any thought, word, or act considered ...

'' (2017–present) *''

Valiant Love Valiant may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Film * ''The Valiant'' (1929 film), starring Paul Muni * ''The Valiant'' (1962 film), directed by Roy Ward Baker * ''Valiant'' (film), a 2005 film about British homing pigeons Television ...

Events

Television shows

Debuts

Programs on-air

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1990s

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Television stations

Station launches

Network affiliation changes

Station closures

Deaths

See also

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