XHBO-TDT is a television station in

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. XHBO broadcasts on virtual channel 4 (physical channel 32). The main transmitter is located on Cerro El Fortín.

History

Radio Oaxaca, S.A., the owner of XEOA (570 AM), received the concession for XHBO-TV on channel 3 on October 21, 1988. XHBO aired limited local programming and programming from

XHTV XHTV-TDT (channel 4) is a Mexican television station, serving Mexico City as the flagship relay of the N+ Foro channel. The station is owned-and-operated by locally based Grupo Televisa alongside XEW-TDT, XHGC-TDT and XEQ-TDT carrying Las Estrel ...

Mexico City. XHBO moved to channel 4 in 2001—which enabled an

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transmitter to start up in 2010—and removed almost all local program production.

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output, which later came from the Gala TV/Nu9ve network, made up 87 percent of the station's broadcast day, resulting in the station being defined as within the "preponderant economic agent" in broadcasting for regulatory purposes; 80 percent of its programming in 2014 was sourced from the company.IFT: Resolution P/IFT/EXT/060314/77, 6 March 2014
/ref> Televisa programming was removed from XHBO in 2018 after the company multiplexed Nu9ve on its own transmitter in Oaxaca. XHBO airs no local programming. At disaffiliation, it switched to output from La Octava in Mexico City. In October 2021, it changed from La Octava to Canal 6. In 2022, Albavision acquired XHBO to switch into a

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station, switching to virtual channel 13. In December 24th, 2023, Grupo Albavision sold XHBO to

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and the channel's network affiliation switched to HBO, broadcasting HBO 24 hours a day.

Repeaters

Three repeaters of XHBO-TDT have been authorized to operate by the

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References

Television stations in Oaxaca Television channels and stations established in 1988 HBO 1988 establishments in Mexico