XHTRES-TV
| Mexico City, Mexico | |
|---|---|
| Branding | Excélsior TV |
| Slogan | Noticias que dicen más (News that Says More) |
| Channels |
Digital: 27 (UHF) Virtual: 28 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 28.1 Excelsior TV 28.2 Imagen Radio |
| Affiliations | Excelsior TV |
| Owner |
Grupo Imagen (Compañía Internacional de Radio y Televisión, S.A.) |
| Founded | November 21, 1964 (concession) |
| First air date | November 1999 |
| Call letters' meaning | Former: XH Raúl Aréchiga Espinosa Current: XH CadenaTRES |
| Former callsigns | XHTC-TV, XHRAE-TV |
| Former channel number(s) | 16 (unbuilt) 28 (analog, 1999-2015) 27 (digital virtual, to 2016) |
| Former affiliations | cadenatres (2006-2015) |
| Transmitter power | 71.4 kW |
| Website | www.cadenatres.com.mx |
XHTRES-TDT is a full-power television station in Mexico City, Mexico, broadcasting in digital on UHF channel 27. From 2006 to 2015, it was the flagship station of the now defunct network cadenatres. It is licensed to Compañía Internacional de Radio y Televisión, S.A. (CIRT), which is owned by Grupo Empresarial Ángeles (GEA), a company headed by Olegario Vázquez Raña and directed by Olegario Vázquez Aldir, through its Grupo Imagen communications unit.
The current programming of XHTRES, as of October 26, 2015, is the Excélsior TV news network.
On November 21, 1964, the office of the Secretary of Communications and Transportation (SCT) granted a 25-year concession to CIRT (unrelated to the Cámara Nacional de la Industria de Radio y Televisión, the Mexican broadcasters' association, which is also abbreviated CIRT) and to its controlling shareholder, Roberto Nájera Martínez, for a television station UHF channel 16, to be designated XHTC-TV. As of July 1989, the station had not been built, mainly due to lack of funds, and Nájera transferred his shares to Raúl Aréchiga Espinoza, with the intent that Aréchiga would “manage the bond and/or funding for the installation and operation of the channel.” Aréchiga, from Baja California Sur, had interests in radio and a concession to operate a cable TV system in Baja California Sur, and was also owner of the airline Aero California; from 1994 to 1996, he would become director of the Cámara Nacional de la Industria de Radio y Televisión (CIRT), Mexico's association of broadcasters. Although the station was still not on air, in 1989, the SCT granted a ten-year renewal at the end of the initial concession period. With this renewal of the concession, the station was moved from channel 16 to 28 due to a reallocation of television spectrum; it also took on the callsign XHRAE-TV, giving it his initials.
The concession renewal was scheduled to expire on November 21, 1999, and as the date approached, the station had not yet begun transmitting. Needing to go on the air to avoid having the concession reclaimed, Aréchiga hastily put together a schedule of music videos and put XHRAE on the air in November 1999, sparking a five-year controversy. Roberto Nájera Martínez, who had transferred his shares ten years earlier, claimed that he had merely rented the award of the concession to Aréchiga. Nájera insisted that he was the rightful owner of the station and accused Aréchiga of plundering it. Further adding to the station’s troubles, Carlos Ruiz Sacristán, the head of the SCT, claimed that Aréchiga failed to live up to the terms of the original concession, refused to endorse a renewal, and instead, sought to revoke the concession. Aréchiga sued, and in a September 2002, letter to Mexican president Vicente Fox, accused current and former members of the SCT of plundering the station. Meanwhile, the SCT became embroiled in a conflict between TV Azteca and CNI involving XHTVM-TV channel 40, and had considered plans to reclaim and reassign channel 28 to help settle the dispute. Bidders began to size up both channels 28 and 40, such as General Electric Mexico.
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