Branding Canal 45 Gala TV | Call letters' meaning BaJa California | |
Channels Digital: 44 (UHF)
Virtual: 45 (PSIP) Affiliations Gala TV (1990-2006, 2012-present) Owner Cadena Baja California
(Mario Enrique Mayans Concha) Founded November 30, 1988 (concession)
1990 | ||
XHBJ-TDT channel 45 is a television station in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Owned by Cadena Baja California, the station rebroadcasts Televisa's Gala TV network, with a 2-hour delay and local ads.
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History
XHBJ's concession history began in the late 1960s with the initial award of the television station to Canales de Televisión Populares, a subsidiary of Telesistema Mexicano (today's Televisa). However, two parties objected to the concession award, which was announced in the summer of 1969. Tijuana FM, S.A., headed by Clemente Serna Alvear, and Mario Enrique Mayans Concha, founder of Cadena Baja California. In June 1971, the case was heard by the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation, and in January 1988, the SCT finally selected one of the objecting parties to become the concessionaire: Mayans Concha. The concession was awarded on November 30, 1988, and Mayans set out to build Tijuana's third TV station and second UHF, after XHAS came to air in 1981. Transmitter tests began in the summer of 1989 and the station was on air by 1990, with a schedule of music videos and some local programs including, in 1991, 25 San Diego Padres road games in Spanish and adding Spanish play-by-play to ESPN and TNT telecasts of NFL preseason contests. It later changed to Galavisión, becoming a Televisa local partner. From 2006 to early 2012, it carried the Canal 5 network, but in early 2012, Galavisión programming returned to XHBJ-TV, with Canal 5 moving to XETV, where it was broadcast on analog channel 6 and digital channel 6.2.
XHBJ added a digital signal in the late 2000s on channel 44, where it remained after Tijuana's first-in-Mexico digital conversion in 2013. However, due to the use of PSIP, DTV receivers show XHBJ-TDT as 45.1.
Digital subchannels
The station's digital channel is multiplexed.
Analog to digital conversion
Due to the Mexican analog to digital conversion mandate, XHBJ-TV discontinued its analog signal on May 28, 2013. Tijuana was the first city where the analog to digital conversion begins in Mexico. However, due to penetration problems and impending local elections the other television stations restored their analog signals again two days after (to turn them off again in August), with the exception of XHBJ.