XHX-TDT is the television call sign for the

TelevisaUnivision TelevisaUnivision (formerly known as Univision Communications) is a Mexican-American media company headquartered in Miami and Mexico City that owns American Spanish language broadcast network Univision and free-to-air channels in Mexico such as ...

television station A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's s ...

on virtual channel 2.1 in both

Monterrey, Nuevo León 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 ...

and

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 ...

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. The station carries the

Las Estrellas Las Estrellas () is a Mexican television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. Its first official broadcast took place on 21 March 1951. It airs free-to-air through affiliate stations throughout Mexico, based on XEW-TDT in Mexico City. It is con ...

network.

History

The first television station in Monterrey, XHNL-TV, came to air on channel 10 on September 1, 1955, with a presidential report from President

Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Adolfo Tomás Ruiz Cortines ( 30 December 1889 – 3 December 1973) was a Mexican politician who served as President of Mexico from 1952 to 1958. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he previously served as Governor of Vera ...

. XHNL broadcast from studios in two rooms of the Hotel El Mirador and a transmitter on

Cerro del Topo Chico The Cerro del Topo Chico (Spanish, 'Small Mole Hill', from the Latin ''talpa'' 'mole') is a mountain and a protected area in the Escobedo, San Nicolás and Monterrey municipalities; state of Nuevo León, Mexico. The summit reaches 1,178 meters ...

and carried a wide variety of films and TV series on film. Not long after it started, it raised its power and its antenna height and changed its callsign to XHX-TV. In 1958, the opening of Televicentro de Monterrey allowed for local program production to begin. The station became a

transmitter in 1985.

Digital television

On September 24, 2015, XHX shut off its analog signal on analog channel 10 (9 in Saltillo); its digital signal on UHF channel 23 remained.IFT: El 24 de septiembre concluirán las señales de televisión analógica en diferentes localidades de cuatro estados
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References

External links

Canal de las Estrellas
Las Estrellas transmitters Television channels and stations established in 1958 Television stations in Monterrey 1958 establishments in Mexico {{Mexico-tv-station-stub