XHMAP-TV

XHMAP-TV
Monclova, Coahuila
Channels Analog: 7 (UHF)
Digital: 36 (assigned)
Affiliations Independent
Owner Comité Pro-Antena Parabólica de Monclova, A.C.
Founded 1987
Call letters' meaning Monclova Antena Parabólica
Transmitter power Analog: .300 kW[1]
Transmitter coordinates 26°51′43″N 101°25′11″W / 26.86194°N 101.41972°W / 26.86194; -101.41972

XHMAP-TV is a local television station in Monclova, Coahuila, broadcasting on channel 7 from Loma de La Bartola.

History

The Comité Pro-Antena Parabólica de Monclova, A.C., which was owned by the local chapter of a miners' union, received two television station permits at the same time on October 23, 1987: one for XHMAP-TV on channel 7, and the other for XHOPA-TV on channel 13. XHMAP and XHOPA were primarily intended to improve the available local television service in town, though they each broadcast at a power of 300 watts. XHOPA eventually disappeared.

XHMAP, meanwhile, cycled through various programming sources over the years. It carried Galavisión, Telemundo and both Imevisión networks at various times.[2] Ultimately, the station began rebroadcasting XHRCG-TV from Saltillo.

On August 18, 2009, miners from the union seized XHMAP-TV and shut the station down.[3] They sought to regain control of the station and hoped to modernize its antiquated transmission equipment. The miners also alleged that the president and secretary of the Comité Pro-Antena Parabólica had made a deal to allow the station to rebroadcast XHRCG.[4]


After 2009, the station's programming source changed again, to channel 4 on the local cable system operated by Núcleo Radio Televisión, a company of Rolando González Treviño. NRT owned the cable system, the channel and local FM stations XHWGR-FM and XHEMF-FM. In 2014, after the arrest of González Treviño in the United States on money laundering charges, XHMAP went off the air.[5] It would later return with unknown programming.


References

  1. ↑ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de TV. Last modified 2015-08-14. Retrieved 2014-08-25.
  2. ↑ "No tiene dueño señal del Canal 7". Zócalo. 2009-08-26. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  3. ↑ "Toman mineros Canal 7; exigen se les regrese instalación y concesión". Zócalo. 2009-08-18. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  4. ↑ García Rivera, Francisco (2011-02-22). "Resguarda 147 equipo de imagen libre de televisión". El Tiempo.
  5. ↑ "Deja de transmitir canal 7 en Monclova". 2014-11-11. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
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