XHCGA-TDT

XHCGA-TDT Channel 26 is a television station in Aguascalientes City, Mexico. Was established on October 12, 1976, with the support of the Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes. It is part of Radio y Televisión de Aguascalientes, the public television and radio broadcaster for the state.

XHCGA-TDT

Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
Channels	Digital: 26 (UHF) Virtual: 26[1]
Branding	Canal 26: Radio y Televisión de Aguascalientes
Slogan	Tu Canal (Your Station)
Ownership
Owner	Dirección General de Radio y Televisión de Aguascalientes (RyTA) (Gobierno del Estado de Aguascalientes)
Sister stations	XHNM-FM, XHRTA-FM
History
Founded	October 12, 1976
First air date	November 17, 1976
Former channel number(s)	Channel 10 (Analog, 1970s-1986) Channel 6 (Analog, 1987-2015)
Call sign meaning	XH Cerro de los GAllos (transmitter location)
Technical information
ERP	150 kW[2]
Transmitter coordinates	21°39′38″N 102°13′38″W
Links
Website	www.aguascalientes.gob.mx/RyTA Canal 26 Livestream

History

Aguascalientes first began operating a state-run television service on October 12, 1976. The first broadcast aired was on November 17, 1976. The local transmitter for the Televisión de la República Mexicana network (later reorganized into Imevisión), on channel 10, was used to broadcast Televisión Cultural de Aguascalientes[3] for two hours a day.[4] The original studios were located in the Teatro Morelos and used equipment originally purchased to broadcast the 1968 Summer Olympics. This made it one of the first such regional production facilities integrated into TRM/Imevisión; the others, which launched in the late 1970s and early 1980s, served as the base for the creation of state networks across the country. On October 4, 1986,[5] the state government made its final broadcasts on channel 10, and the next year, it received the permit for XHCGA-TV on channel 6, which also began operating from new studios alongside state-owned radio station XENM-AM 1320.

It is operated by Radio y Televisión de Aguascalientes (Radio and Television of Aguascalientes) as an internationally recognized cultural channel with an emphasis on Aguascalientes content and local television production. Its stated mission is to communicate, to inform, to educate, to entertain and promote human development.[6]

The station provides eighty hours a week of educational and cultural programming, much of it via the Instituto Politécnico Nacional's Canal Once national educational network.

In 2015, XHCGA applied for authorization to build a digital television station, XHCGA-TDT channel 26, which came to air on May 4, 2015. XHCGA began branding as channel 26 in December 2015. During parts of 2015, 2016 and 2017, XHCGA programming was heard on the radio on XHNM-FM 98.1 "Teleradio", which signed on in August 2015.

Digital television

XHCGA is authorized to broadcast a television service known as "AGS TV" on digital subchannel 26.2. In actuality, this station is UAA TV, the television service of the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, which began broadcasting over XHCGA on August 7, 2017.[7]

See also

• Television stations in Aguascalientes

References

1. Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Listado de Canales Virtuales. Last modified 20 November 2020. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
2. Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de TDT. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2015-05-04. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.
3. de Ávila Amador, Mario (24 October 2016). "TV en Aguascalientes: 40 y 60 años". Página 24. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
4. "Nota Informativa: Se cumplen 35 años de la Televisión Estatal en Ags". Canal 6 Noticias. 17 November 2011.
5. de Ávila Amador, Mario (12 December 2016). "TV en Aguascalientes: 40 y 60 años". Página 24. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
6. "Gobierno del Estado de Aguascalientes". Aguascalientes.gob.mx. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
7. "UAATV, nuevo canal de televisión abierta". La Jornada Aguascalientes. 5 August 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2017.