XHIMT-TDT

XHIMT-TDT

Mexico City, Mexico
Branding	Azteca 7
Slogan	Menos Bla Bla (Less Bla Bla).
Channels	Digital: 24 (UHF) Virtual: 7 (PSIP)
Affiliations	Azteca 7
Owner	TV Azteca (Televisión Azteca, S.A. de C.V.)
Founded	May 15, 1985 (1985-05-15)
Call letters' meaning	XH Instituto Mexicano de la Television (full name of Imevisión)
Sister station(s)	XHDF-TDT, XHTVM-TDT, Az Noticias
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 7 (VHF, 1985-2015) Digital: 24 (UHF, 2007-2015)
Transmitter power	464.42 kW (digital)[1]
Transmitter coordinates	19°31′57.50″N 99°07′49.70″W / 19.5326389°N 99.1304722°W / 19.5326389; -99.1304722
Licensing authority	IFT
Website	http://azteca7.com/

XHIMT-TDT VHF channel 7, is a the over the air Azteca 7 network flagship station owned-and-operated television station located in Mexico City, Mexico. The station is owned by TV Azteca. (Channel 7 virtual and Channel 24 digital). XHIMT provides some HD programming to cable and satellite viewers.

Digital television

Digital subchannels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

In 2007, TV Azteca began a test stage on its HD channel, inserting a totally different programming to its counterpart in analog; As if it were a fourth channel. However, this was unlawful since the bidding for radio-television spectrum is only for the commercial transmission of the same content and programming as its analogue counterpart, while analogue television services are withdrawn in 2022 (in the IV Government, The President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, proclaimed a decree to anticipate the blackout in 2015). Its content was totally in high definition with films, documentaries and some series, acquired in format Blu-ray by the Department of High Definition, in charge by Benjamín Acosta and Gilberto de los Santos. The programming of this channel broke the agreement of HD transmissions that had with the Secretariat of Communications and Transports, that is to say, in theory it should be the same programming in both transmissions. He also broadcast the one-hour news piece simultaneously with his analog counterpart. It broadcast a series simultaneously in 16: 9 made by TV Azteca and some soccer games, although some simultaneous programs were in 4:3 scaled to "fill" the format 16:9 of HDTV.

Since 2010, the digital transmission of the channel no longer has a different programming, but the programs that are in its analog counterpart. Until 2013, when a horizontal two-bar background was inserted with the channel name, retaining the original format, the SDTV image was stretched to fill the HDTV aspect ratio.

XHIMT-TV and other television stations in Mexico City was discontinued regular programming on its analog signals, over UHF channel 7, 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 24, using PSIP to display XHIMT's virtual channel as 7 on digital television receivers.

History

Imevisión's channel 7

To bring a channel 7 to Mexico City, which had channels 2, 4, 5, 8, 11 and 13, a channel shuffle had to be made. This channel shuffle converted Televisa's station XHTM-TV channel 8 to channel 9. Two Puebla stations, XEX-TV channel 7 and XEQ-TV channel 9, moved to channels 8 and 10; XEQ took on the XHTM callsign that was discontinued in Mexico City. In Toluca, channel 7 (XHGEM-TV) was moved to channel 12, and XHTOL-TV moved from channel 9 to 10. XHIMT-TV took to the air on May 15, 1985, as the third of three Mexico City stations operated by public broadcaster Imevisión, sister to XHDF-TV channel 13 and XEIMT-TV channel 22, and the flagship station of a second Imevisión national network which featured 99 repeater stations serving 72% of the population.^[2] The new Red Nacional 7 (7 National Network) was positioned as targeting the working class and rural areas, while Red Nacional 13, based from XHDF, targeted a more middle- and upper-class audience.

TV Azteca's channel 7

However, financial mismanagement, economic troubles and other issues quickly signaled trouble for Imevisión. In 1990, XEIMT and XHIMT were converted into relays of XHDF, and the next year, the government of Mexico announced it was selling XHIMT and XHDF to the private sector. The sale of these two networks in 1993 formed the new TV Azteca network.

As of October 1993, it began to produce an independent program, already as part of Televisión Azteca. The first name he was known to was Your Vision. From that time, it adopts a youthful profile when transmitting sports events, series and movies of great reputation. Along with its programming, its logo has also undergone different modifications.

Nowadays, Azteca 7 transmits in open signal for the Mexican territory by means of repeating stations of continuous form the 24 hours on Central Time in Mexico. In the same way it is distributed by the cable companies, and in Satellite television through the system SKY Mexico, and from September 2013, in Dish Mexico at September 12, 2013 Azteca 7 is available in high definition in several cities of the country.

As of 1998 its programs begin to present/display in logo, and since 2007 the logo is more dynamic and informative; Even giving more information of the programming and to be more dynamic with its programs. It has also changed the times for its programming: in 2013, presented / displayed a block of caricatures from the 9 hours and lasts one hour; From 10 in the morning, presented some magazine programs. In 2015, the morning schedule was canceled due to austerity measures in Television Azteca, returning to broadcast infomercials until 12 noon, followed by the program To whom it may concern and the sports magazine Hot sport. A combination of films, series and TV Azteca's own productions were broadcast from 3 pm, ending at 1 am the following day. On weekends, much of their programming is international films. They also have a sports program like the spaces Box Azteca and Lucha Azteca and soccer games of the Mexican league.

Among the genres that have been transmitted by Azteca 7 have highlighted the international cartoons, films and series. In sports, he has broadcast football matches, including the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League and the FIFA World Cup (including friendly matches of the Mexican Soccer Selection); In its beginnings, emitted the basketball of the NBA and today, on Sundays, has summaries of the NFL.

The October 17 of 2016, radically changes its daily schedule, with a somewhat experimental own production with young drivers, most of them being "new faces", and premiering its first stellar series produced by TV Azteca And Eureka TV, Between Running and Living. At present, its programming is no longer precisely juvenile court exclusively, it is aimed at a wider audience with variety series, news, drama, entertainment and sports, among others.

Programming

Prime time

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