XHGC-TDT

XHGC-TDT

Mexico City, Mexico
Slogan	Canal 5: Lo traes (Channel 5: You have it)
Channels	Digital: 50 (UHF) Virtual: 5 (PSIP)
Affiliations	Canal 5
Owner	Grupo Televisa (Televimex, S.A. de C.V.)
Founded	May 10, 1952 (1952-05-10)
Call letters' meaning	XH González Camarena (founder)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 5 (VHF, 1952–2015) Digital: 50 (UHF, (2006–2015)
Transmitter power	300 kW[1][2]
Transmitter coordinates	19°35′22.50″N 99°06′55.54″W / 19.5895833°N 99.1154278°W / 19.5895833; -99.1154278
Licensing authority	IFT
Website	http://www.televisa.com/canal5

XHGC-TDT is a TV station owned by Televisa, broadcasting from Mexico City, and is the flagship of the Canal 5 network.

History

Logo used from 1999 to 2007

XHGC signed on May 10, 1952, broadcasting a Mother's Day event organized by the Excélsior newspaper; but the regular programming began on August 18, 1952.

The station was established by Guillermo González Camarena, a Mexican engineer who was one of the inventors of modern color television; the station's calls reflect his surnames. González Camarena was director and general manager of XHGC until his death in 1965.

Logo used from 2007 to 2013

In 1962, XHGC became the first station in Mexico to broadcast in color. By request of the same Guillermo González Camarena, the channel became space of children and youth. The first color program broadcast was Paraíso infantil (Children's Paradise). Mexico was also likely the third country in North America and the fourth in the world, behind the United States, Cuba and Japan, to introduce color television.

During its early years, XHGC also brought educational television to Mexican viewers, with Telesecundaria, a pioneering educational program in Mexico.

In 1954, XHGC was one of the first stations in the world to broadcast an early version of 3D television, in which two of the same picture appear side-by-side on the screen, combined into a single 3-dimensional image using special glasses. This version of 3D television was developed by an American inventor, James Butterfield, and tested in Mexico on XHGC.^[3]

At the end of the 1980s, the then vice president of Televisa Alejandro Burillo Azcárraga, drove drastic changes in the corporate image of all channels of the company. Until that time, the Televisa channels used the logo and above, the channel number. They stopped calling them by the number, and they were called by their identification, since in many parts of the country the channel was assigned in other cities in channels and signal indicatives other than 5. Channel five became the XHGC channel. The promos stopped putting the number and released the aesthetics of the logos. Each spot had a different logo and design, something never done on Mexican television. Canal 5 was presented as a young and innovative space thanks to the collaboration of the creative Agustín Corona, who invented the slogan "Energy Visual" and the director-designer Pablo Jato who used the first techniques of digital video.

During the last years of the 1980s, XHGC Channel 5 began its transmissions at 7 am in Mexico City and at 4 pm in the rest of the republic, so from 1987 to 1993, the letter Of XHGC in the mornings was filled by a proprietary transmission from Altzomoni, which was XEX-TV "TV Matutina", which later became known as "Super-Channel 8", which relayed Channel 5 programming as well as the other channels Of Televisa. The signal went from Altzomoni, Puebla to XHAJ-TV as a retransmitter of Channel 5 in Las Lajas, Veracruz (now Telever's retransmitter) and other retransmitters. It was until 1993 that the CVC sales channel was created, when Channel 8 was busy and Channel 5 repeaters were linked 24 hours to the source channel. Currently the channel continues transmitting like repeater of Channel 5 without including own programming and placing publicity directed to the Puebla City. Due to the different channels used by the signal, Televisa decided to delete the number 5 and leave the channel as XHGC. At the initiative of Alejandro Burillo Azcárraga, the creative and director Pablo Jato was in charge of this unique campaign, which used for the first time in Mexico and digital video to create totally different identifications. It stopped using an institutional metallic color and switched to colors, design and digital production. The young people adopted this style that was copied in publicity (example: FUROR campaign) and television programs. From that moment the image of the channel became something new, young and innovative and the 5 became the spearhead for the image of young people in Mexico. This image lasted from 1987 to 1990.

In the decade of the 90, the logo and the number 5 were returned. Some promotional ones of the 90 were created by Alejandro González Iñárritu using the personal style that he had already introduced in the radio station W F.M. (Televisa). The promos had advertising aesthetics, with varied actors and themes. They lasted until 1999.

For a long time Televisa maintained the exclusivity of transmission of audiovisual content of Disney; This action was more notorious in the years 80 and part of the 90, when diverse animated series like Patoaventuras, Adventurers of the air, Chip and Dale to the rescue, among others, as well as films of its affiliates like Touchstone Pictures, Miramax and others formed part of the Chanel; Even had the presence of Disney Club as a block sabatino from 1995 to 1997. However, as a result of a restructuring, the exclusivity agreement with the American company was terminated and the series of the aforementioned began to be withdrawn from Channel 5 Gradually.

In 1999, Azteca 7 acquires exclusive agreement with Disney, reason why Channel 5 begins to withdraw the programs transmitted by the channel. The last show with Disney series by Televisa was the Saturday segment called "The Zap Zone of Disney Channel", which already contained the little programming of Disney cartoons in a relatively small space; Finalizing broadcasts in 1999. In addition, at that time it strengthens agreement with Warner Bros. (and its creators of content Turner Broadcasting System and Cartoon Network); FOX and Nickelodeon; So its contents begin to show series for the first time. In the same way Videovisa (later converted to Televisa Home Entertainment) stops distributing content also of Disney and related to focus on own content as series and telenovelas.

Among the genres that are transmitted by Channel 5 are children's programs, films and international series, football matches; Either of UEFA Champions League (except the final, being transmitted by the Channel of the stars); The UEFA Europa League; The FIFA World Cup; Friendly matches and Official Matches eliminating the Mexican Soccer Team (except selected weekends, when broadcast by Channel 2); And occasionally, of the Liga MX (the matches of double day realized during week) and parties of end of American football (occasionally the end); As well as Televisa's own productions such as El Chavo Animado and Mujeres Asesinas 3 by Pedro Torres.

Nowadays, Channel 5 transmits in open signal for the Mexican territory by means of stations repetidoras and affiliates of partially uninterrupted form from the five of the morning until the midnight (time of the Center of Mexico). In the same way it is distributed by the cable companies, and on satellite television through the SKY Mexico system, and since September 2013 on Dish México. Channel 5 is available in high definition in several cities of the country; Where the national version of the signal is transmitted, used in the satellite TV system SKY Mexico.

The channel has changed its form of transmission, without changing its original orientation: although the channel already used the logo since the 50, from 2000 its programs begin to present logo on the screen, and since 2007 the logo is more dynamic and informative ; Even giving more information of the programming and to be more dynamic with its programs. It has also changed the times for its programming: since 2007, preschool programming starts from 6 hours and lasts two hours; Children's programming for over 7 starts from 8 in the morning and continues until 4 pm. The juvenile series are presented at 5:00 p.m. and the series starting at 8:00 p.m., concluding until midnight. Since September 2, 2013, began a night bar of Televisa's own programs, known as "Channel 5 PM".

Usually at midnight he shows films and current series of all kinds that for some reason does not broadcast during business hours (from 6:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m., for example). At other times, when it does not have programming, it transmits infomercials. Unlike other channels in Mexico, Channel 5, like all other Televisa channels, does not "cut" the signal or show adjustment charts, even though they execute the Mexican National Anthem, instead it issues an indicative signal 15 Seconds between each program.

Digital television

Digital channel

Analog-to-digital conversion

XHGC-TV and other television stations in Mexico City was discontinued regular programming on its analog signals, over VHF channel 5, on December 17, 2015 at 12:00 a.m., as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 50, using PSIP to display XHGC's virtual channel as 5 on digital television receivers.

References

External links

• Official Website
• XHGC-TDT at Anime News Network's encyclopedia