XEW-TDT

XEW-TDT

Mexico City, Mexico
Branding	Las Estrellas (The Stars)
Slogan	"Yo con las Estrellas" (Me with the Stars)
Channels	Digital: 48 (UHF) Virtual: 2.1 (PSIP)
Affiliations	Las Estrellas
Owner	Televisa (Televimex, S.A. de C.V.)
First air date	21 March 1951 (1951-03-21)
Call letters' meaning	XE '"W"' (The W Comes from the Radio Station XEW-AM and its variant FM, at the same time inspired by the Signal Indicative used for east the of United States).
Sister station(s)	XHTV-TDT, XHGC-TDT, XEQ-TDT, Televisa Regional
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 2 (VHF, 1951-2015) Digital: 48 (UHF, 2008-2015)
Transmitter power	270 kW[1]
Transmitter coordinates	19°35′22.5″N 99°06′55.54″W / 19.589583°N 99.1154278°W / 19.589583; -99.1154278
Licensing authority	IFT
Website	Las Estrellas

XEW-TDT (UHF physical channel 48, PSIP virtual channel 2) is a television station in Mexico City, Mexico. The station is owned by Televisa and is the flagship station to the Las Estrellas network. XEW is the second-oldest Televisa station and Mexico City's second-oldest station, founded in 1951.

History

XEW-TV emerges as a by-product of successful radio broadcaster XEW (which continues to broadcast on AM and FM), emulating what US broadcasters, NBC and CBS did with the advent of television.

He began his broadcasts on March 21 1951, being just the second television award in Mexico, only preceded by XHTV-TDT. The concession was for the company Televimex, property of Marco Aurelio Toledo.

The first transmission was a baseball game from the Delta Park, later known as the Social Security Park, in the United States. Mexico City. In that transmission was: Roberto De la Rosa (Cameraman), Robert Kenny (Producer), German Adalid (Assistant) and Pedro Septien 'The Magician' (narration).

The channel is initially housed in Televisa, very close to the Historic Center of Mexico City. Although the Televicentro building was inaugurated until January 12 of 1952, the "channel 2" initiated transmissions with the still developing works. The company GE contributed the technicians that initially put in operation the television channel.

In 1982 its name "The Channel of the Stars" was born by the repertoire of actors, actresses and celebrities that appeared in the channel. In 1997, after the death of Emilio Azcarrága Milmo, several restructuring was carried out, and with these, the change of the channel image.

For the month of August 2016, Televisa would announce that a re-structuring will take place in the channel, including a change in its name, where the channel would now be called "Las Estrellas", and with it a change of image And logo.

These changes come along with previous announcements about a change in the news bar. The restructuring was completed on August 22 of the same year at 02:20 a.m. of Mexico at the beginning of the final Verdict program, for that same day there would be several changes, among them, new presenters, new programs and new schedule, all this along with New logo and channel name.

Digital television

Digital subchannels

The station's digital channel is not multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

XEW-TV other television stations in Mexico City was discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, at 12:00 a.m. on December 17, 2015, as part of the IFT federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 48, using PSIP to display XEW's virtual channel as 2 on digital television receivers.

External links

• Official site (Spanish)

References