XHGC
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| Mexico City, Mexico | |
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| Branding | Canal 5 |
| Slogan | Porque Sí (Just Because) |
| Channels |
Digital: 31 (UHF) Virtual: 5 () |
| Affiliations | Canal 5 |
| Owner |
Grupo Televisa (Televimex, S.A. de C.V.) |
| Founded | May 10, 1952 |
| Call letters' meaning | Guillermo González Camarena (founder) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 5 (VHF, 1952–2015) Digital: 50 (to 2017) |
| Transmitter power | 270 kW |
| Transmitter coordinates | 19°35′22.50″N 99°06′55.54″W / 19.5895833°N 99.1154278°W |
| Licensing authority | IFT |
| Website | http://www.televisa.com/canal5 |
XHGC-TDT is a TV station owned by Televisa, broadcasting from Mexico City, and is the flagship of the Canal 5 network.
XHGC signed on May 10, 1952, broadcasting a Mother's Day event organized by the Excélsior newspaper, but regular programming began on August 18, 1952. The station was established by Guillermo González Camarena, a Mexican engineer who was one of the inventors of modern color television; the station's calls reflect his surnames. González Camarena was director and general manager of XHGC until his death in 1965, and XHGC's concessionaire remained Televisión González Camarena, S.A., until November 30, 1994.
In 1954, XHGC was one of the first stations in the world to broadcast an early version of 3D television, in which two of the same picture appear side-by-side on the screen, combined into a single 3-dimensional image using special glasses. This version of 3D television was developed by an American inventor, James Butterfield, and tested in Mexico on XHGC.
In 1962, XHGC became the first station in Mexico to broadcast in color. By request of Guillermo González Camarena, XHGC became oriented at an audience of children and youth. The first color program broadcast was Paraíso infantil (Children's Paradise). Mexico was also likely the third country in North America and the fourth in the world, behind the United States, Cuba and Japan, to introduce color television.
During its early years, XHGC also brought educational television to Mexico City viewers, with Telesecundaria, a pioneering educational program operated by the Secretary of Public Education.
At the end of the 1980s, the then-vice president of Televisa, Alejandro Burillo Azcárraga, spearheaded drastic changes in the branding of the company's television networks. While XHGC had branded as Canal 5 for years, using various logos with the number 5. However, as the network's various repeaters were not all on channel 5, the network began branding by the XHGC callsign. The landmark Energía Visual (Visual Energy) campaign, designed by Agustín Corona and Pablo Jato, featured idents with wildly varied logos and designs—a first for Mexican television. The campaign was designed to back the channel's youthful image.
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