XHRCG-TDT, also known as RCG Televisión Saltillo, is a television station located in

Saltillo, Coahuila Saltillo () is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican State, Mexican state of Coahuila and is also the municipal seat of the Saltillo Municipality, municipality of the same name. Mexico City, Monterrey, and Saltillo are all con ...

, Mexico. The station was previously a Televisa local station, with programming from

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. It currently airs as its own local productions and news, and is owned by Grupo RCG.

History

XHRCG came to air as XHAD-TV, owned by Alberto Jaubert and receiving its concession in 1968. Broadcasts started on September 7 that year as an affiliate of

Televisión Independiente de México Televisión Independiente de México (; known on air as TIM or Cadena TIM) was a Television in Mexico, Mexican national television network founded in 1965 by Eugenio Garza Sada. It operated until 1973, when it merged with its primary competitor, Te ...

, led by XHTM-TV. In the 1980s, after Jaubert's death, the station was sold to Roberto Casimiro González Treviño, and in 1991 it was rechristened XHRCG-TV. The station has a repeater, XHCAW-TDT channel 36 (virtual channel 58) in

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. XHCAW produces its own local news but is tightly integrated into XHRCG's programming. RCG Televisión gained international attention during its coverage of the

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, where the station accidentally broadcast footage of a man's testicles being "eclipsed". The video was sent by Twitter user Rhevolver who claims copyright over the video, but said video had been circulating since at least the Chilean eclipse of 2019.

Digital television

XHRCG and XHCAW applied for and built digital facilities in 2015. XHRCG was the last station to come to air in Saltillo; it went off air along with other stations there on December 11.IFT Comunicado 94/2015: "El 11 de diciembre será el siguiente apagón analógico: IFT", November 6, 2015
/ref> XHCAW went off the air with stations in Acuña on the 22nd.

External links

RCG HomepageRCG online feed

References

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