XHILA-TV
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Mexicali, Baja California San Luis, Sonora Yuma, Arizona El Centro, California Mexico/United States |
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| City | Mexicali, Baja California |
| Branding | El Canal de las Noticias (The News Channel) |
| Slogan | Television sin fronteras (Television without borders) |
| Channels | Digital: |
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| Translators | K07ZF/K42KZ-D (Calexico, California) K28FM/K33MD-D (Yuma, Arizona) (owned by Broadcast Group, Ltd.) |
| Affiliations | Canal 66 (2015-present) |
| Owner |
Intermedia de Mexicali (Arnoldo Cabada de la O) |
| Founded | 1997 |
| First air date | October 1998 |
| Sister station(s) | XHIJ-TV |
| Former callsigns | XHILA-TV (1998-2013) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 66 (UHF, 1998-2013) |
| Former affiliations |
CNI (to 2005) cadenatres (to 2015) |
| Transmitter power | 107.490 kW (digital) |
| Website | http://www.canal66.tv |
XHILA-TDT is a full-service, Spanish-language, independent television station in Mexicali, Baja California. It broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 46, serving the Mexicali Valley and the southern Imperial Valley, including El Centro, California, and the Colorado River cities of San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora and Yuma, Arizona. The station is also carried on the cable television systems of each of the four principal communities it serves.
Taking to air in October 1998, the station is owned by Intermedia de Mexicali, a subsidiary of the Ciudad Juárez-based Grupo Intermedia and is licensed to its President, Arnoldo Cabada de la O.
The station's digital signal is multiplexed.
Under Mexican law, XHILA would have been required to turn off its analog signal on November 26, 2013 (a date that has since been postponed), but XHILA opted to switch early, seeking and winning approval from Cofetel to shut down early.
On March 6, 2013 at 11:30 p.m., XHILA turned off its analog signal. It was the first television station in Mexicali to do so and the second in Mexico, after XHUNAM-TDT went digital-only in 2005.
XHILA-TV began with experimental broadcasts in 1997, then began broadcasting commercially in October 1998. It has been owned since its inception by Intermedia de Mexicali, airing independent programming during the day, and (originally) news from CNI at night.
In 2008, XHILA became affiliated with Mexico's newest broadcast network, cadenatres.
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