Azteca 13
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| Type | Terrestrial television network |
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| Country | Mexico |
| Owner | Azteca |
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Launch date
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September 1, 1968 (XHDF) |
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Official website
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Azteca 13 |
September 1, 1968 (XHDF)
1985 (as Red Nacional 13 Imevisión)
Azteca Trece (or Azteca 13), is a Mexican national broadcast television network owned by Azteca, with more than 100 transmitters across the country. Azteca Trece is named for its flagship, XHDF (formerly channel 13; the network now broadcasts on channel 1.1 nationwide). Azteca Trece programming is available in Mexico through SKY México and Dish México, as well as all Mexican cable systems, and some Azteca Trece programming can be seen in Azteca America and Azteca Mexico on channel 442 on DirecTV in the United States.
Azteca Trece takes its historic channel number (13) from XHDF-TV, which signed on in 1968 on channel 13. It was owned by Francisco Aguirre's Organización Radio Centro through concessionaire Corporación Mexicana de Radio y Televisión, S.A. de C.V. The station had fewer resources compared to its Mexico City competitors, Telesistema Mexicano and Televisión Independiente de México, and relied on foreign films and series, supplied primarily by Eurovision, to fill out its broadcast day.
In 1972, due to debts owed to the state-owned Sociedad Mexicana de Crédito Industrial (Mexican Industrial Credit Society or SOMEX), XHDF and concessionaire Corporación Mexicana de Radio y Televisión were nationalized.
The first director of the government-owned Canal 13 was Antonio Menéndez González, and after his death, he was succeeded by Enrique González Pedrero, senator of the state of Tabasco from the PRI. Corporación Mexicana de Radio y Televisión, along with another state-owned enterprise, Tele-Radio Nacional, began receiving new television concessions as part of a national expansion of the Mexico City station into a national television network.
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