XHDF-TV
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| Mexico City, Mexico | |
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| Branding | Azteca Trece |
| Channels |
Digital: 25 (UHF) Virtual: 1 () |
| Affiliations | Azteca Trece |
| Owner |
TV Azteca (Televisión Azteca, S.A. de C.V.) |
| Founded | September 1, 1968 |
| Call letters' meaning | XH Distrito Federal |
| Sister station(s) | XHIMT-TDT, XHTVM-TDT, Az Noticias |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 13 (VHF, 1968-2015) Virtual: 13 (, 2005-2016) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1968-1983) Imevisión (1983-1993) |
| Transmitter power | 468.030 kW (digital) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 19°31′57.50″N 99°07′49.70″W / 19.5326389°N 99.1304722°W |
| Licensing authority | IFT |
| Website | www |
XHDF-TDT (physical channel 25 and virtual channel 1) is the over the air Azteca 13 network flagship station in Mexico City. Azteca 13 can be seen in most major cities in Mexico through TV Azteca's owned-and-operated transmitter network. XHDF provides HD programming to affiliates and cable and satellite viewers. Azteca 13 can also be seen on DirecTV in both Latin America and the United States. Azteca 13 also provides the United States Azteca America network with programming which sometimes can be seen simultaneously.
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
XHDF was among the first stations in the country to obtain approval to build a digital television station, doing so in May 2005. The initial digital facility broadcast with just 37.6 kW, though its power was significantly raised ahead of the end of analog television. At midnight on December 17, 2015, XHDF analog on VHF channel 13 was shut off part of the IFT mandated transition from analog to digital television. In October 2016, the Azteca 13 network nationwide moved from virtual channel 13 to 1, with even the Mexico City station abandoning its longtime channel 13.
The concession for XHDF-TV was awarded in 1968 alongside that of XHTM-TV channel 8. The two stations were intended to come on in time for the 1968 Summer Olympics. While the first programs were broadcast on September 1 with the transmission of the fourth government report of President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, full programs began with the opening of the Olympic Games on October 12. XHDF was owned by Organización Radio Centro through concessionaire Corporación Mexicana de Radio y Televisión, S.A. de C.V. The station had studios and a transmitter at the Torre Latinoamericana along with a second facility on Calle Mina in the historic center of Mexico City, but XHDF primarily broadcast filmed series with fewer resources than its Mexico City competitors.
In 1972, due to debts owed to the state-owned Sociedad Mexicana de Crédito Industrial (Mexican Industrial Credit Society or SOMEX), XHDF and Corporación Mexicana de Radio y Televisión was nationalized.
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