XEWT-TV

XEWT-TV

San Diego, California Tijuana, Baja California
City of license	Tijuana, Baja California
Slogan	Tu Canal (Your Channel)
Channels	Analog: 12 (VHF) Digital: 32 (UHF) Virtual: 12.1 (PSIP)
Affiliations	Televisa Regional
Owner	Televisa (Televisora de Calimex, S.A. de C.V.)
First air date	July 18, 1960 [1]
Sister station(s)	XETV, XHBJ-TV, XHUAA-TV
Transmitter power	325 kW (analog)
Height	251 m (analog)
Transmitter coordinates	32°30′7.9″N 117°2′26.8″W / 32.502194°N 117.040778°W / 32.502194; -117.040778
Website	www.xewt12.com

XEWT-TV is the television call sign for the Televisa television station in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Informally called "Tu Canal" (Your Channel), the channel can also be seen in most parts of the San Diego market. It is also available on K_u band via the SatMex 5 satellite at 116.8°W.^[1] Its studios and transmitter are located on Mount San Antonio in Tijuana.

Though its callsign seems to indicate that it is a repeater of XEW-TV in Mexico City, XEWT airs a selection of programming from all four Televisa networks. It also airs local news and programming aimed towards Hispanics on both sides of the border.

Some of XEWT's resources and news reports are shared with sister stations XHBC-TV in Mexicali, and XHS-TV in Ensenada; this is especially evident during the evening Notivisa newscasts.

XEWT was the first Spanish-language station for San Diego and Tijuana. It signed on July 18, 1960. It was actually Tijuana's second TV station, with English-language sister station XETV signing on in 1953.

There are several interesting schedule overlaps between XEWT and San Diego's Univision affiliate, KBNT-CD. Although both are competitors in the San Diego/Tijuana market, they both carry some of the same programming. Univision carries some Televisa programming in its lineup and this is thus reflected in KBNT's lineup.

Digital television [edit]

Digital subchannels [edit]

The ststion's digital channel is multiplexed.

Analog-to-digital conversion [edit]

Due to the Mexican government Analog-to-Digital conversion mandate, XEWT-TV will discontinue its analog signal on April 16, 2013.^[2] Tijuana is the first city in Mexico where analog-to digital conversion takes place.

Newscasts [edit]

• Notivisa a las 7 Weekdays 7-8:20am

with Cristina Covarrubias and Luis Eduardo Cantua

• Notivisa a las 6 Weekdays 6-7pm

with Guillermo Martínez and Karina Muñoz

• Notivisa a las 10 Weekdays 10-11pm

with Alfredo Alvarez and Alejandra Gaxiola

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• XEWT (English, from Energy Communications, XEWT's US advertising representative)
• Telesistema Mexicano (Spanish)