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Canal 5

Country	Mexico
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Headquarters	Av Chapultepec 28, Doctores, Cuauhtémoc, 0672 Mexico City
Programming
Language(s)	Spanish (English/original audio by SAP)
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	TelevisaUnivision
Sister channels	Las Estrellas Nu9ve Foro
History
Launched	10 May 1952; 71 years ago
Links
Website	televisa.com/canal5
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television (Except Tijuana and Matamoros)	Channel 5.1 (HD)
Digital terrestrial television (Matamoros)	Channel 2.2 (HD)
Digital terrestrial television (Tijuana)	Channel 6.1 (HD)

Canal 5 is a Mexican free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It traces its origins to the foundation of Channel 5 in Mexico City in 1952 (also known by its identification code XHGC-TDT). Canal 5's program lineup is generally targeted at a younger audience and includes cartoons, foreign series and movies, along with a limited number of sporting events such as NFL games, boxing, the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games.

Canal 5 is mainly aimed at children and youth audiences, although in late hours it usually includes a more general concept with television series and reality shows. Over the decades among its programming, it includes many series purchased from networks such as Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, among others; while the series aimed at the general public often come from Paramount Network, Fox Broadcasting Company, Warner Bros. (now known as Warner Bros. Discovery), Sony Group Corporation, ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global), MTV, NBCUniversal, Lionsgate, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer among others. The channel also broadcasts series produced by the company TelevisaUnivision, which owns the channel. In programming, its main national competitor in open television has historically been Azteca 7 of TV Azteca.

History

On May 10, 1952, XHGC-TV came to the air for the first time. It was Mexico City's third television station, owned by Guillermo González Camarena, an inventor who created the first color television system. In 1955, XHGC was one of three stations that formed Telesistema Mexicano. González Camarena remained the general manager of XHGC until his death in 1965.

In 1963, XHGC became the first station in Mexico to broadcast in color. By request of Guillermo González Camarena, XHGC began targeting an audience of children and youth, with the first color telecast being Paraíso infantil (Children's Paradise). Over the years, Canal 5 has retained this programming focus, with a schedule incorporating foreign series and sports programs.

At the end of the 1980s, the then-vice president of Televisa, Alejandro Burillo Azcárraga, spearheaded drastic changes in the branding of the company's television networks. XHGC had branded as Canal 5 for years, using various logos with the number 5. However, as the network's various repeaters were not all on channel 5, the network began branding by the XHGC callsign. The landmark Energía Visual (Visual Energy) campaign, designed by Agustín Corona and Pablo Jato, featured idents with wildly varied logos and designs—a first for Mexican television. The campaign was designed to back the channel's youthful image.

In the 1990s, Canal 5 began branding with its channel number again. During this period, Alejandro González Iñárritu, who had also been involved with Televisa's radio station XEW-FM (WFM), was involved in the creation of some of the network's promotional campaigns. Additionally, in 1994, Televisa obtained a concession for 62 additional television transmitters nationwide, most of which form a key link in the Canal 5 network today.

1999 saw the beginning of a shift in content providers for Canal 5, which had long been the exclusive Mexican rightsholder to Disney programs such as Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, DuckTales and a Mexican version of Disney Club. In 1999, these rights began to migrate to Televisión Azteca and Azteca 7. Instead, the network began relying more on WarnerMedia (including Warner Bros. and Cartoon Network), PBS Kids, Universal, Sony, Fox, and Viacom (including Paramount and Nickelodeon) programs.

Today, Canal 5 carries children's programs, films and international series, as well as sporting events including UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and FIFA World Cup matches, a limited number of Liga MX fixtures and international matches involving the Mexico national team, and select NFL and NHL games. Canal 5 also features some of Televisa's productions, such as El Chavo Animado and Mujeres Asesinas 3 by Pedro Torres.

In recent years, Canal 5's Twitter page started posting strange and disturbing posts typically between 3-7 am including the Michael Rosen's Lunchtime song, only to be deleted after said date. Since then, the posts have been investigated and widely shared and talked about in the Mexican media. Infobae México, a Mexican news site, contacted one of the collaborators of Channel 5. However, they claimed they did not know the disturbing posts.

English infomercials

It is quite possible that the first modern infomercial series to run in North America was on San Diego-area television station XETV, which during the 1970s ran a one-hour program every Sunday consisting of advertisements for local homes for sale. As the station was licensed by the Mexican government to the city of Tijuana, but broadcast all of its programs in English for the U.S. market until 2017 (when it became a pure Spanish-language outlet for Canal 5), the FCC limit at that time of a maximum of 18 minutes of commercials in an hour did not apply to the station.

Transmitters

Canal 5 is carried on 66 of its own transmitters plus another 32 transmitters shared with Las Estrellas and one transmitter that carries a Televisa local service, Las Estrellas and Canal 5; these 31 transmitters do not carry Canal 5 in HD. It holds the rights to virtual channel 5 nationwide and broadcasts on it in almost all areas, with a handful of notable exceptions along the US-Mexico border.

In 2018, the concessions of all primary Canal 5 repeaters wholly owned by Televisa were consolidated in the concessionaire Radio Televisión, S.A. de C.V. as part of a reorganization of Televisa's concessionaires.

Network logos

• 1952-1964
• 1980-1986 (similar to Channel 5 honduran logo and KSTP-TV in United States)
• 1988-1989
• 1993-1994
• 1994-1996
• 1996-1997
• 1997-1999
• 1999 (with slight variants until 2007)
• 2003-2007
• 2007 (with slight modifications until 2013)
• 2013
• 2013-2014
• 2014-2016
• 2016-present

Notes

References

1. "Mexico's Channel 5 bizarre videos on Twitter draw attention". The Mazatlán Post. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
2. Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de TDT. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2017-01-29. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.
3. Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Listado de Canales Virtuales. Last modified December 21, 2021. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
4. "RPC: Shadow XHAG Calvillo" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
5. RPC: Shadow XHAG Jalpa
6. "RPC: Shadow XHAG Nochistlán" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
7. "RPC: Shadow XHCC Manzanillo on RF 14" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
8. "RPC: Shadow XHCC Cd. Guzmán" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
9. "RPC: Shadow XEX Tejupilco" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
10. "RPC: Shadow XEX Tenancingo" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
11. "RPC: Shadow XEX Taxco" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
12. "RPC: Shadow XEX Cuernavaca" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
13. "RPC: Shadow XEX San Martín Texmelucan" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
14. "RPC: Shadow XEX Tlaxcala" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
15. "RPC: Shadow XHHHN Tehuacán, Pue" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
16. "RPC: Shadow XHQRO Playa del Carmen" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
17. "RPC: Change of frequency for XHCDO-TDT" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
18. "RPC: Shadow XHAJ Nogales" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
19. "RPC: Shadow XHAJ Orizaba" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
20. "RPC: Shadow XHAJ San Andrés Tuxtla (RF 39)" (PDF). ift.org.mx. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
21. "RPC: Change of frequency for XHBQ-TDT" (PDF). IFT. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 February 2020.

External links

• Official website
• Canal 5 at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

v t e Broadcast television networks in Mexico
TelevisaUnivision	Las Estrellas Canal 5 Foro Nu9ve
TV Azteca	Azteca Uno Azteca 7 ADN 40 a más
Grupo Imagen	Imagen Televisión Excélsior TV/Imagen Multicast
Grupo Multimedios	Canal 6 Milenio Televisión CGTN Español Teleritmo
MVS Comunicaciones	MVStv
Public and educational	National Canal Once (Once Niñas y Niños) SPR (Canal Catorce) Canal 22 tv•unam Ingenio TV Canal del Congreso State Canal 26 (Ags.) Canal 8 (BCS) TRC (Campeche) Canal 10 Chiapas (Chiapas) Capital 21 (Ciudad de México) Coahuila Televisión (Coahuila) Canal 12 (Colima) TV4 (Guanajuato) RTG (Guerrero) RTVH (Hidalgo) Jalisco TV (Jalisco) Mexiquense Televisión (México) SMRTV (Michoacán) IMRyT (Morelos) 10 TV Nayarit (Nayarit) RTVNL (Nuevo León) CORTV (Oaxaca) SICOM Televisión (Puebla) RTQ (Querétaro) SQCS (Quintana Roo) Nueve TV (SLP) Telemax (Sonora) TVT (Tabasco) Tlaxcala Televisión (Tlaxcala) TVMÁS (Veracruz) Tele Yucatán (Yucatán) Canal 24/SIZART (Zacatecas) State Universities TV UJED (Durango) Canal 44 (UdeG, Jalisco) Canal 53 (UANL, Nuevo Leon) TV BUAP (Puebla) TV UAQ (Querétaro) Unison TV (Sonora) TV UJAT (Tabasco)
See also list of television stations in Mexico and list of Mexican television networks.

v t e TelevisaUnivision
Corporate directors	Daniel Alegre
U.S. television networks	Broadcast Univision UniMás Cable Galavisión TUDN Univision Tlnovelas TeleHit TeleHit Música Bandamax
Mexican television networks	Las Estrellas Canal 5 Nu9ve TUDN N+ Foro (operated by Tritón Comunicaciones)
International networks	Las Estrellas Europe Latin America Univision Canada (licensed) Latin America TUDN Tlnovelas TeleHit TeleHit Música TLN Network bitMe Bandamax De Película De Película Clásico Golden Golden Edge Golden Premier
Uforia Audio Network	Stations KAMA-FM KBBT KBRG KDXX KESS-FM KHOT-FM KHOV-FM KLJA KLNO KLNV KLQB KLQV KLTN KLVE KMYO KOMR KOVE-FM KQBU-FM KQMR KRCD KRCV KROM KSCA KSOL KSQL KVBH KVVF KVVZ WAMR-FM WOJO WPPN WRTO-FM WVIV-FM WXNY-FM Radio networks TUDN Radio
Univision Television Group	Univision owned and/or operated stations KABE-CD KAKW-DT KCEC KDTV-DT KEZT-CD KFTV-DT KLUZ-TV KMEX-DT KTVW-DT KUTH-DT KUVE-DT KUVN-DT KUVS-DT KWEX-DT KXLN-DT WFDC-DT WGBO-DT WLTV-DT WQHS-DT WUNI WUVC-DT WUVG-DT WUVP-DT WVEA-TV WVEN-TV WXTV-DT UniMás owned and/or operated stations KBTF-CD KFPH-DT KFSF-DT KTFF-DT KFTH-DT KTFK-DT KTFO-CD KFTR-DT KFTU-DT KNIC-DT KCOR-CD KSTR-DT WAMI-DT WFPA-CD WFUT-DT WRCF-CD WTNC-LD WXFT-DT Quest, True Crime Network, and/or Ion Mystery affiliated stations KUVI-DT KXLK-CD WFTY-DT WMGM-TV WWJE-DT Other television stations WSTE-DT (Spanish Independent)
Studios	Televisa Studios Videocine W Studios Pantelion Films
Univision Online	Noticias Univision Fusion Media Group
Other holdings	ViX Entravision Communications (10%)
Defunct/former assets	Blim TV Prende TV El Rey Network Fusion TV Gizmodo Media Group Gawker Media Univision Music Group
TelevisaUnivision owns these stations, which are licensed to and operated by Entravision Communications under local marketing agreements.

• Canal 5 (Mexico)
• Children's television networks
• Mass media in Mexico City
• Television networks in Mexico
• Televisa broadcast television networks
• Television channels and stations established in 1952
• 1951 establishments in Mexico