XHKG-TDT

XHKG-TDT is a television station in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico. XHKG broadcasts on virtual channel 4.1 (physical channel 36) and is currently an independent station.

XHKG-TDT

Tepic, Nayarit
Channels	Digital: 36 (UHF) Virtual: 4[1]
Branding	XHKG TV Nayarit
Ownership
Owner	XHKG TV Nayarit, S.A. de C.V.[2]
History
Founded	October 12, 1968
Former channel number(s)	10 (analog) 2 (analog and digital virtual, to 2016)
Former affiliations	Televisa (to 2018)
Technical information
Licensing authority	IFT
ERP	20.04 kW[3]
HAAT	444.4 m
Transmitter coordinates	21°31′48″N 104°54′55″W
Links
Website	xhkg.tv

History

XHKG signed on the air, initially on channel 10,^[4] on October 12, 1968. It was the first television station in Nayarit, signing on in time to provide television coverage of the 1968 Summer Olympics. The station, which later moved from channel 10 to 2, was owned by Roberto Mondragón González. Originally serving as a full-time repeater of Televisa national programming, it began broadcasting local programming in 1984.^[5] Roberto Mondragón and his son died in the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, while staying in the Hotel Regis;^[6] as a result, the concession was transferred to his wife, Lucía Pérez Medina.

In 2016, XHKG was forced to move to virtual channel 4.1 as the result of channel 2 nationally being reserved for the Las Estrellas network.^[1] XHKG maintained a partnership with Televisa and carried programming from its Gala TV network and FOROtv, even though it was listed as carrying no Televisa programming in 2014, sparing the station from being defined as within the "preponderant economic agent" in broadcasting for regulatory purposes.^[7] Televisa programming was removed from XHKG in 2017 and 2018 after Televisa multiplexed Gala TV on its own transmitter in Tepic.

Programming

Since the first edition on May 27, 1989, XHKG has presented Al Momento local newscasts.^[8] The station also produces a variety of non-news local programs.

References

1. Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Listado de Canales Virtuales. Last modified December 21, 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
2. RPC: #048898 Transfer — XHKG-TDT
3. Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de TDT. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2015-07-24. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.
4. "NOTIFICACIÓN relativa a la solicitud de Roberto Mondragón González, para operar y explotar comercialmente el canal 10 de televisión en Tepic y Compostela, Nayarit, con el distintivo de llamada XHKG". Diario Oficial de la Federación. 30 April 1970. p. 4.
5. "Hoy celebramos 50 años de ser Tu Canal Consentido". XHKG TV. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
6. "Hoy se cumplen 33 años del fallecimiento de Roberto Mondragón, fundador de XHKG". XHKG TV. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
7. IFT: Resolution P/IFT/EXT/060314/77, 6 March 2014
8. "Efemérides" (PDF). Secretaría de Educación Pública del Estado de Nayarit. Retrieved 14 October 2018.