XHTV-TDT


XHTV-TDT, founded in 1950 by Romulo O'Farril, is a flagship TV station of Televisa and carries its FOROtv news network. FOROtv is available on various cable television companies and SKY México satellite service, along with several providers in the United States as part of Televisa and Univision's partnership. It is the oldest TV station in Mexico and Latin America.

History

XHTV was Mexico's first television station and one of the building blocks of Telesistema Mexicano, which became Televisa in 1972.
In 2001, XHTV began using the name 4TV with a program lineup targeted at the Mexico City area and the slogan "El Canal de la Ciudad".
On August 30, 2010, the channel's name was changed to FOROtv, with most of Televisa's news programs moved here, such as Las Noticias por Adela, and with new news and talk programs being created. Prior to this, the channel, under the name of "Canal de la Ciudad", broadcast programs targeted at Mexico City's metro area, as well as reruns of American series and blocks of Mexican movies.
Under this format, the channel seeks to emulate the success achieved by its predecessor ECO. It competes in a crowded cable news space with such channels as TV Azteca's adn40 and Azteca Noticias, Telefórmula, Efekto TV, CNN en Español, Excélsior TV, and Milenio Televisión, among others.

Digital television

Digital subchannels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
ChannelVideoAspectPSIP Short NameNetworkProgramming
4.11080iXHTVTelevisa
Main XHTV-TDT programming
4.2480iXHTVCV ShoppingShopping channel

Analog-to-digital conversion

XHTV, along with other Mexico City TV stations, shut off its analog signal on VHF channel 4, on December 17, 2015 at 12:00 a.m., as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 49, using PSIP to display XHTV's virtual channel as 4 on digital television receivers.
In October 2016, XHTV added shopping channel CJ Grand Shopping as subchannel 4.2; this channel was deleted in March 2019 and replaced in June with a new CV Shopping channel wholly owned by Televisa.
On November 3, 2018, XHTV relocated from channel 49 to 15 to allow the 600 MHz band to be used for mobile services. It was the last station to repack in Mexico City.

Current programs

Original productions

Some of the programs on XHTV as Foro TV currently include the following: