XHIT-TDT is a

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, Mexico. XHIT carries TV Azteca's

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with a one-hour delay.

History

XHIT was founded in 1968 on channel 4 as a station of Tele-Cadena Mexicana, which also owned XHCH-TV channel 2; original concessionaire Televisora de Chihuahua merged with the concessionaire for XHCH in 1970. However, the station went off the air in December 1972. On August 8, 1973, a decree was published in the ''

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'' ordering the station to be put out for bid again, stating that XHIT going off the air "deprives a sector of the population of the right it has to receive the station's cultural, civic and entertainment programming". The concession wound up in the hands of Corporación Mexicana de Radio y Televisión — the government's Canal 13 — when it was quickly put out for bid again the following month. Four other bidders attempted to acquire the station, including Francisco Galindo Romero, the founder of Televisa-affiliated XHL-TV in

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. During the Canal 13 and

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era, XHIT was the only Canal 13 rebroadcaster in the market, as XHCH was tied to the XHGC network for years, and Imevisión operated XHCH as a separate local station. Upon taking control, Azteca changed both XHCH and XHIT to rebroadcast Azteca Uno, though XHIT broadcasts it with a one-hour delay.

Digital television

XHIT-TDT broadcasts on RF channel 23 (virtual channel 1). Two channel 1 stations appear for viewers of XHIT and XHCH. Until standardization of virtual channels in October 2016, XHIT broadcast on virtual channel 4.

Digital subchannels

Repeaters

XHIT has three repeaters: , - , -

References

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