TV DX from South Florida 4: Mexico to Panama 

Me encanta _Locura de Amor_ ❤

I’LL say!

​@@christopherdunne7848 ggg

They still use the "circle 2 logo" for branding purposes on XEFE-TDT channel 17.1.

"It's Turbo time!" - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Which one?

i think xefe

Luis, I first saw it one year earlier (1992), and saw that same logo. Without WWW at the time, I wrote a letter to them (unsure if it was Honduras), and told them I also saw the words "¡Porque Nos Importa!" I received a letter from one of the ladies who worked on that program. A TV QSL letter!

en el minuto 0:30 se muestra una canción del grupo de música pop 'pandora' la cual data del año 2010

I live in los cabos. Its like fighting with enemy’s base and allys just for catching an UHF signal. I have an DTV VHF Antenna for my LG Smart TV ._. I only picked up 2.1, 10.1 and 10.3 of DTV(XHSJC and XHCPCS).

What shows?

@@JasonDelarosa2000 - it’s a soap opera or “telenovela,” but I don’t know the name.

@@JasonDelarosa2000 Its name is Locura de Amor

@@gwailou5 Crazy Love?

El mismo día, WPIX en Nueva York debutó con su noticiero matutino de WB.

Which means: _Wish_

The clips were recorded during different openings on different days.

mullet That, and XEFE was easier to ID than most Mexican TV stations. They usually kept their unique "bug" on the screen, and had a lot of local commercials.

mullet That, and XEFE was easier to ID than most Mexican TV stations. They usually kept their unique "bug" on the screen, and had a lot of local commercials.

Yep this is stereo and not mono like the rest of the tvdx

¡La Pantera Rosa!

A program called GIMP, which is similar to Photoshop. www.gimp.org/ The maps in this video were taken from Wikipedia.

Hourly automated call-sign? Now i know why in channel 2 everytime a program starts it has a call sign ID.

As I am the one who originally recorded these, the answer is a resounding "yes". Indeed it's better when aimed at the station.

The reason I asked was because a few years ago I was able to get west Texas stations in crystal clear, even though my large outdoor Radio Shack FM antenna was pointed to NW. There was a very strong opening that day here in North Atlanta area. Once I recognized where the stations were coming from, I immediately ran outside and aimed the antenna to the W-SW and was able to get the stations in all day long, with occasional fade outs to other stations within 500 mile radius of there. I recorded the entire several hour event directly to mp3 through my computer's sound card via my good old 80s Pioneer receiver which has a really sensitive tuner. That was the last time I have gotten anything of that magnitude here, signals from west Texas/NM/OK/Mexico were just booming all day long, even taking over the local stations.

I believe that XEFE-TV "cherry picks" from any and all Televisa networks. This was a common practice even in USA in the early days of TV, when many markets had two or less TV network affiliates.

That's correct. Nuevo Laredo is an odd case because almost all cities have channels for every Televisa Network.

No, it wasn't an odd case. Televisa doesn't have stations for each of their networks in every corner of the country. Certain markets had only one or two Televisa-owned stations and independent stations would become part or full-time affiliates of networks without a proper station. This, however, is being phased out due to digital sub channels, Televisa is multiplexing their programming so networks can have a wider coverage using their own stations. Just this year, a station in Chihuahua and another in Chiapas lost their NU9VE and 5 affiliations, respectively. This is due to how Televisa acquired their stations and how restricted they are to get new ones nowadays. TV Azteca, on the other hand, got their stations from the government that built a huge infrastructure of two networks over several years that nearly covered the whole country as a plan to get a state-owned commercial television (which crumbled and got auctioned in 1993 to its current owners). That's why they have the biggest coverage for both their networks nationwide without too much use of subchannels. Imagen got the bulk license of about 120 stations to ensure the creation of a new privately-owned nationwide network, this, however, didn't include an existing infrastructure, so now they are struggling to build it. Another network was also auctioned along Imagen with the same number of stations, but the bidder refused to pay the license and had to pay a fine and lost the license. Some of those "lost" stations were auctioned individually to several bidders in 2017.

@@OM19_MO79 yeah because with multiplex, televisa regional stations almost dissapear in baja california. Only ones are XEWT-12, XHS-26 and XHBC-4 and i had one but it was far away to La Paz in BCS. It closed jan 1, 2016 on analog channel 10 due to not having money to buy dtv transmitters.

I own this video. What we call “channel 4” or “CBS4 Miami” doesn’t really use the channel 4 (66-72 MHz) frequency anymore, after 2009. It really uses UHF channel 22 digital now. However…..since 2021 or so, a low power digital TV station in downtown Miami uses the 66-72 MHz frequency. It maps on screen as “channel 3”-WMDF-LD.

But it's in Spanish

And it's closed

Where a Guatemala can be a guatemala

Tal vez "¿Quién es la jefa?"

​@@FernandoMartinez-tr6nf Looks like "Diff'rent Strokes" or "Silver Spoons"

​@@FernandoMartinez-tr6nf By the way, Judith Light is HOT! ❤

QEPD, 80s Judith Light. ❤ (pero Judith Light es muy hermosa) 🎉

Mis estaciones funcionan en modo maníaco en Navidad. 😂

Mexico has gone digital just like the USA. They currently are not using low VHF (RF channels 2-6, 54 to 88 MHz)---however that may change come 2020. There may be an allocation for RF 4 Puebla & RF 2 Mexico City.

@@christopherdunne7848 thanks for your reply about Dx Mexican TV. I'm wondering if it's actually really possible to dx a South Korean Hong Kong & Taiwanese Radio station from the Philippines Manila area?

If you live in Manila, which still uses NTSC color, I am not sure of any countries in a 1000-mile distance (prime for E skip like my catch of XEFE) that are still using NTSC analog. Taiwan maybe---I don't know. China uses a different system; you might get audio only on a radio that uses Chinese analog TV frequencies.

@@christopherdunne7848 might be able to reach Hong Kong if I were to do this from Manila because its only 711 miles away.

@DRPSBN (Networked) Sad to say that ABS-CBN, with all of its transmitters ended their programming due to a cease and desist order made by the Telecommunications Commission prior to its franchise expiration. And to continue watching this station, you need cable ir satellite, before they would go back to the airwaves.

The dates of each recording (if known) are in the upper-left corner of the screen.

0:33 this had to be recorded sometime in the early 2010s

As of this year, Mexico no longer. Canada still has a few analog TV stations.

It's definitely going away.

Digital looks to be our future. While some people keep their old CRT TVs and attach converters to them, other people unload their old CRT TVs and decide to buy new flat panel TVs. Goodbye Analog Age. Hello Digital Age.

They're still be retro gamers for 'em.

I refuse to get a flat TV; still using converter box. Once ATSC 3.0 is on the horizon, the current flat TV's will be useless and will need its own converter for 3.0, as would my current TV's. Why waste money?

When did you see XHGC LOGO

“Canal Cinco” (5*) is a Mexican network with XHGC as the flagship; my video with that logo here was on channel 4; the Cinco affiliate in Tampico was assumed by me (I think I had other TV & FM from that area that day).

@@christopherdunne7848 you are right. In tampico, before analogue shut down, the Canal 5 was aired trought XHD. Now, on digital tv, all the repeaters have the same number 5.1 and the channel 4 is for Televisa del Golfo with local content. Aired on RU-vid, too.

2:59

Are they standing and/or covering their hearts in respect?

@@JasonDelarosa2000 from what I can see, yes.

That had to be the extremely rare occasion of my getting E skip after 1:00 am local time. I remember the TV monitor being off, but my converter box on channel 2 with speaker on. I was hearing Spanish, then checked the TV. I couldn’t believe E-skip DX so late in the night…and in January of all months!

They varied over the years....Archer V190, Archer VU90XR, VU75XR....cannot remember all of them.

Yes and YNFA-304 It is Michael Jackson in 9:09

Not me. Sounds like a love song in what I think is Spanish.

Pandora - Ojala

​@@damson498 Ojalá means Wish ❤😊

When people were still baggin' on Canal 5 😂

Is it in Spanish?

Pandora - Ojala

​@@damson498 Which means _I Wish_

El Chavo

El Chavo Del 8

eso eso eso eso!

Chevez el dictador venezolano 😂

Mexican sitcom

These videos are from my collection, and Ryan G had good equipment to transfer. Click on my name, and there are one or two “Canal 2” videos that are more recent. One of them (“¡Sonría!”) was actually recorded while I was away from home (I was at my church on a Sunday morning).

@@christopherdunne7848 Sorry Chris, couldn't find the video. And the joke was my personal opinion on the quality of YSWR-TV.