XHTVM-TDT
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| Mexico City, Mexico | |
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| Branding | adn40 |
| Slogan | Información de Ida y Vuelta (Back and Forth Information) |
| Channels |
Digital: 26 (UHF) Virtual: 40 |
| Owner |
TV Azteca (Televisora del Valle de México, S.A.P.I. de C.V.) |
| Founded | March 19, 1993 |
| First air date | June 19, 1995 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Televisora del Valle de México (concessionaire) |
| Former callsigns | XHTVM-TV (1993-2015) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Digital: 41 (UHF, (December 2006-May 10, 2007) Analog: 40 (UHF, (1993-2015) |
| Former affiliations | CNI (1995-2002, 2003-2005) TV Azteca (1998-2000 (shared) and December 2002-January 2003) silent (2005-2006) |
| Transmitter power | 513.05 kW |
| Transmitter coordinates | 19°32′06″N 99°07′46″W / 19.53500°N 99.12944°W |
| Licensing authority | IFT |
| Website | www |
XHTVM-TDT (virtual channel 40) is a television station in Mexico City, owned by Televisora del Valle de México and operated by TV Azteca. It is branded as adn40. Programming generally consists of news and informational shows.
On June 28, 1991, the Diario Oficial de la Federación announced that channel 40 in Mexico City was open to be an independent commercial television station. The new station would have its transmitter located on Cerro del Chiquihuite, and it would have an effective radiated power of 5,000 kW; a callsign of XHEXI-TV, never to be used on air, was also assigned at this time. The availability of a new television station in Mexico City, for the first time in decades, attracted high-powered media companies aspiring to enter the television business. Of 18 total applicants, 10 qualified for the concession for the new television station. Among the competitors were Francisco Aguirre Gómez of Grupo Radio Centro, Rafael Cutberto Navarro of Radio Cadena Nacional, Grupo Siete Comunicación, and other owners of radio stations.
On September 23 of that year, Televisora del Valle de México, S.A. (Broadcaster of the Valley of Mexico), a company 95% owned by Javier Moreno Valle and 5% by Hernán Cabalceta, was selected to receive the concession to operate the television station on channel 40. While it was stated at the time that channel 40 would go on the air in the first half of 1992, the start of regular operations would not occur for another three years. By the time the concession was formally issued on April 19, 1993, the effective radiated power had changed to 3,190 kilowatts, and the station had a new callsign: XHTVM-TV.
XHTVM signed on for good on June 19, 1995, with landscape videos set to classical music. It was the first new television station in Mexico City since XHIMT-TV took to the air a decade earlier, its second UHF, and the first new commercial station since XHTM-TV and XHDF-TV signed on in 1968. Soon after, actual programming began under the name CNI Canal 40, "CNI" being an acronym for Corporación de Noticias e Información (News and Information Corporation). As CNI, XHTVM concentrated on news and discussion programming, along with some general entertainment shows and infomercials. Its association with the new Telenoticias network gave it access to Telenoticias's 123 correspondents and 400 reporters around the world.
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