XHLL-TDT

XHLL-TDT is a television station in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico. XHLL broadcasts on virtual channel 6 (physical channel 33). The transmitter site is co-located with the studios of radio stations XHVA and XHTAB in Col. Gil y Sáenz in Villahermosa.

XHLL-TDT

Villahermosa, Tabasco
Channels	Digital: 33 (UHF) Virtual: 6[1]
Programming
Affiliations	Multimedios Television
Ownership
Owner	Grupo Pazos (Televisión de Tabasco, S.A. de C.V.)
History
Founded	October 12, 1968
Former channel number(s)	13 (analog and digital virtual, to 2016) 5 (digital virtual, 2016–2019) 8 (virtual, 2020–2021)
Former affiliations	El Canal de las Estrellas (1972-1995) Canal 5 (1995-2019)
Call sign meaning	ViLLahermosa
Technical information
Licensing authority	IFT
ERP	12 kW[2]
Transmitter coordinates	17°59′00″N 92°57′00″W
Links
Website	www.rnco.com.mx

History

XHLL began broadcasting on October 12, 1968, with coverage of the opening ceremony of the 1968 Summer Olympics from Mexico City. The station was owned by Televisión de Tabasco, S.A., a joint venture of Fernando and Baltasar Pazos de la Torre (owners of XEVA radio) and Clemente Serna Alvear, owner of Radio Programas de México, with which XEVA was affiliated.

XHLL operated as a local station until July 29, 1972, when the local operation was closed for financial reasons. For more than 47 years, XHLL operated in national network service, airing the XEW network and switching to Canal 5 when Televisa built its own XEW repeater in Villahermosa, XHVIZ-TV, in 1995.

In November 2019, Televisa received authorization to multiplex Canal 5 on the XHVIZ-TDT transmitter beginning January 1, 2020; in its application, it noted that Televisa's affiliation with XHLL-TDT would end on December 31, 2019.^[3] The IFT assigned XHLL virtual channel 8 to use when Canal 5 moved to XHVIZ.^[1] As a result of the lost program source, the station began broadcasting a time lapse loop of the Pazos studio and transmitter building on January 1.

Shortly after, XHLL affiliated with Multimedios Televisión. The virtual channel changed to channel 6 to match the programming in 2021.

References

1. Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Listado de Canales Virtuales. Last modified December 21, 2021. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
2. RPC: #012492 Digital Television Authorization — XHLL-TDT
3. "Resolución mediante la cual el Pleno del Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones autoriza a Televimex, S.A. de C.V., la inclusión de un nuevo canal de programación en multiprogramación en las transmisiones de la estación de televisión con distintivo de llamada XHVIZ-TDT, en Villahermosa, Tabasco" (PDF). Federal Telecommunications Institute (in Spanish). November 13, 2019. Retrieved December 20, 2019.