SICOM Televisión (virtual channel 16) is the statewide
public television network of the Mexican state of
Puebla
Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...
, with transmitters in
Puebla City
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and
Zacatlán. It is part of the (State Telecommunications System), which also provides
public radio service
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in the state. Covering a little over 40% of the state (by population), it offers educational, cultural and alternative programming, much of which is locally generated content intended to address the needs, expectations and lives of Pueblan society. It also airs programming from
Canal 22,
TV UNAM,
DW and
Canal 44 de Guadalajara
The network has transmitters in
Puebla City
Puebla de Zaragoza (; nah, Cuetlaxcoapan), formally Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, formerly Puebla de los Ángeles during colonial times, or known in English simply as Puebla, is the seat of Puebla Municipality. It is the capital and largest city ...
and
Zacatlán.
History
XHPUE-TV channel 26 received its permit in 2003, preceded by four years by the Zacatlán transmitter, originally permitted in 1999 as XHPZL-TV on channel 4. The original five-year permit for the Zacatlán transmitter expired in 2004, but XHPBZC-TDT 11 was not authorized as its replacement until 2017.
XHPUE was licensed for digital and analog transmissions on the same channel 26 in 2014; this made it one of the first two stations with such intermittent authorization, alongside
XHMNL-TV in Monterrey. After several tests, it flash-cut to digital in March 2015.
On August 18, 2021, due to the impending expiration of the XHPUE-TDT concession at the end of the year, the
Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) authorized the modification of XHPBZC-TDT's statutory coverage area to include the entire state of Puebla, conditioned on the surrender of the Puebla City concession, which took effect December 3, 2021. At the same time, the recently renamed SET Televisión began using virtual channel 16.
In 2023, the original SICOM name was restored after a state government study found that eight out of ten residents surveyed across 21 municipalities continued to call the state network SICOM despite being out of use for twelve years.
Transmitters
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References
{{Mexican broadcast television
Public television in Mexico
Television channels and stations established in 2003
Mass media in Puebla (city)
2003 establishments in Mexico
Television stations in Puebla