There would be no need for this page if it were easy to identify TV stations from Mexico. The tips here are based on what I have personally received via E-skip and tropo and what other DXers have reported. DXers face such problems as UNIDing stations, unofficial stations not on any lists, multi-transmitter stations, and network switches not on official lists. Read more... IMPORTANT TIP FOR 2011: Televisa independents and Galavision/Local stations carry some programs from the various Televisa networks. Most are at different times than the network feeds. For example, XHBC-3 runs XEW soap operas with the XEW logo upper right and XELN-4 runs XEW and XHGC programs with the network logos upper right. NEW TIP FOR 2011: The Azteca-13 network now uses the TV Azteca logo as the network's logo. "AZTECA TRECE" is written below the logo. NEW TIP FOR 2011: New logo used by Azteca-7 network.

ID upper right reads:
XHGZP-TV CANAL 6
TORREON COAH

The above small, difficult-to-read superimposed text ID is now the most common type of local ID used by network relayers in Mexico. (Jeff Kruszka received this signal in south Louisiana, and he is believed to be the first DXer to ID XHGZP-6 Torreon.)

This kind of ID generally comes up for a few seconds at thirty minute intervals, but not always on the TOH or half-hour. Watch for these IDs in the corners of the screen, as well as the top and bottom of the screen. The IDs can be as simple as "XHMEN-TV" or as long as four short lines of text listing calls, location, and time/date. These IDs are used by network relayers and some non-network independent stations. In addition to text IDs, independent stations use names (such as "Teleactiva" and "tucanal"), and they air fancy animated IDs, local ads, and local news.

Unfortunately, there are only a handful of independent stations on the low-band (channels 2-6) in Mexico. Therefore, most IDs on TV in Mexico are for networks. Read more...


COMPREHENSIVE STATION LISTS

• W9WI's excellent station list
  
• Fred Cantu's Mexico radio/TV list
  
• Mexico government TV list in pdf format (Suffers from omissions and shows city of service vs transmitter sites.)
  
• Televisa's 2001 station list (No calls are listed, and there have been many network changes since this list was posted; but I think this is an accurate list of Televisa transmitter sites.)
  

Updating is in progress. Thanks to information and graphics provided by Christopher S. Dunne and Jeff Kadet, the Cuba and Costa Rica pages were updated in the spring of 2011.Thanks to Jeff Kruszka for providing a logo for Haiti's Tele Eclair channel 4.

Many thanks to the DXers and reporters who provided information and graphics: Christopher S. Dunne, Jeff Kruszka, Jesus Perez (and associates), Mike Bugaj (and the WTFDA), Humberto Molina, and Jeff Kadet.

• Central America, Caribbean, northern South America
• North America TV channels 2-6 (54MHz-88MHz)
• NTSC, M
• Country of origin

• Download PDF files of UKW/TV lists
  

• WTFDAer William Hepburn's Excellent Central America/Caribbean TV station lists
  
• TVRadioWorld (Good basic information, but many errors, omissions, and outdated station links.)
  
• Lyng Sat Logo (Many network and station logos)