Affiliations Las Estrellas | ||
Branding Las Estrellas
(The Stars) Slogan "Yo con las Estrellas"
(Me with the Stars) Channels Digital: 48 (UHF) (to move to 32)
Virtual: 2 (PSIP) Owner Televisa
(Televimex, S.A. de C.V.) First air date 21 March 1951; 66 years ago (1951-03-21) | ||
XEW-TDT (UHF physical channel 48, PSIP virtual channel 2) is a television station in Mexico City, Mexico. The station is owned by Televisa and is the flagship station to the Las Estrellas network. XEW is the second-oldest Televisa station and Mexico City's second-oldest station, founded in 1951.
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History
XEW-TV came on air March 21, 1951. It was the second television station to come to air in Mexico and built on the tradition of the successful and influential XEW-AM 900. The concession was and remains held by Televimex, S.A. de C.V. The first transmission was a baseball game from Delta Park. The station came on air with its studios, known as Televicentro, still under development; these did not open formally until January 1952.
It was not until 1982 that XEW, now the keystone of a national network, took on the name Canal de las Estrellas (Channel of the Stars). In 2016, the name was shortened to Las Estrellas as part of a branding refresh.
Digital subchannels
The station's digital channel carries one program stream:
Analog-to-digital conversion
XEW-TV, alongside other television stations in Mexico City, discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, at 12:00 a.m. on December 17, 2015, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.
In 2016, in order to facilitate the repacking of TV services out of the 600 MHz band (channels 38-51), XEW was allowed to move from channel 48 to channel 32.