Multimedios Television
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Multimedios Television is a network of Spanish language
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 television stations found throughout Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

. The system is part of Grupo Multimedios
Grupo Multimedios
Grupo Multimedios is the largest media conglomerate in Northeastern Mexico. In Monterrey they also operate 15 radio stations, a cable TV system, a newspaper, outdoor billboard advertising and cinemas. Multimedios also produces cable TV programs drawing from the talent in its radio station group...

. The flagship station of Multimedios Television is XHAW-TV
XHAW-TV
XHAW-TV is the television call sign for the flagship station of the Multimedios Television international network. XHAW is located in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.-Digital services:...

 located in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. Programming features locally produced news, sports, children's shows and general mass appeal programming. Multimedios produces more than 20 hours of programming daily.

The company also has network affiliates in many cities, some of which produce local content. The networks spans most of northeastern Mexico, and the southern United States.

Mexico

All of these stations are owned and operated by Grupo Multimedios unless noted otherwise.
City Of License Station/Channel No. (DT)
Monterrey
Monterrey
Monterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...

XHAW-TV
XHAW-TV
XHAW-TV is the television call sign for the flagship station of the Multimedios Television international network. XHAW is located in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.-Digital services:...

 12 (25) (flagship station)
Tampico
Tampico
Tampico is a city and port in the state of Tamaulipas, in the country of Mexico. It is located in the southeastern part of the state, directly north across the border from Veracruz. Tampico is the third largest city in Tamaulipas, and counts with a population of 309,003. The Metropolitan area of...

XHTAO-TV 6 (47)
León, Guanajuato
León, Guanajuato
The city of León, formally León de los Aldama is the sixth most populous city in Mexico and the first in the state of Guanajuato. It is also the seat of the municipality of León...

XHLGG-TV 6 (N/A)
Ciudad Victoria
Ciudad Victoria
Ciudad Victoria , is the capital city of the Mexican state ofTamaulipas. It is located in the western-central region of the state. Ciudad Victoria is also the municipal seat of the surrounding Victoria Municipality, which covers an area of 1,638 km²...

XHVTU-TV 7 (50)
Torreón
Torreón
Torreón is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the Mexican state of Coahuila. As of 2010, the city's population was 608,836 with 639,629 in the municipality. The metropolitan population, including Matamoros, Coahuila, and Gómez Palacio and Lerdo in adjacent Durango,...

XHOAH-TV
XHOAH-TV
XHOAH channel 9 is a Grupo Multimedios owned and operated station in Torreon, Coahuila. The station is affiliated to Multimedios Television....

 9 (N/A)
Nuevo Laredo
Nuevo Laredo
Nuevo Laredo is a city located in the Municipality of Nuevo Laredo in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The city lies on the banks of the Río Grande, across from the United States city of Laredo, Texas. The 2010 census population of the city was 373,725. Nuevo Laredo is part of the Laredo-Nuevo...

XHNAT-TV
XHNAT-TV
XHNAT-TV channel 45 is a Grupo Multimedios owned and operated station in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. The station is affiliated to Multimedios Television It serves the Laredo, Texas / Nuevo Laredo areas. When XHNAT first went on the air it was a Galavisión affiliate before it was purchased by Grupo...

 45 (32)
Matamoros
Matamoros, Tamaulipas
Matamoros, officially known as Heroica Matamoros, is a city in the northeastern part of Tamaulipas, in the country of Mexico. It is located on the southern bank of the Rio Grande, directly across the border from Brownsville, Texas, in the United States. Matamoros is the second largest and second...

XHVTV-TV 54 (51)
Saltillo
Saltillo
Saltillo is the capital city of the northeastern Mexican state of Coahuila and the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. The city is located about 400 km south of the U.S. state of Texas, and 90 km west of Monterrey, Nuevo León....

XHAW-TV
XHAW-TV
XHAW-TV is the television call sign for the flagship station of the Multimedios Television international network. XHAW is located in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.-Digital services:...

 11 (N/A)
Reynosa
Reynosa
Reynosa is a border city in the northern part of Tamaulipas, in the country of Mexico. It is located on the southern bank of the Rio Grande, directly across the border from McAllen, Texas in the United States. As of 2010, the city of Reynosa counts with a population of 607,532...

XHVTV-TV 54 (51)

United States

All American Multimedios affiliates are owned and operated by other broadcasters, due to FCC regulations regarding foreign ownership of radio and TV stations. As of early 2007, Multimedios is no longer leasing stations from MAKO Communications.
Market/City Of License Station/Channel No. (DT) Current owner
Houston KHLM-LD 43 Lotus Communications Corporation
Lotus Communications Corporation
Lotus Communications Corp. is a media company that owns numerous radio stations and a few TV stations, and is one of the largest privately owned radio station groups in the United States. Headquarters are located in Los Angeles, and the company's President and CEO is Howard Kalmenson.-Radio:Lotus...

San Diego K09YL-D
K09YL-D
K09YL-D was a low-powered television station owned and operated by International Communications Network Inc. It broadcasts on channel 9 and licensed to San Diego, California. It was the digital test broadcast of K61GH and was broadcast from its offices at 4645 Ruffner Road suite C...

 9.1 (shared with Tr3s)
International Communications Network Inc.
Salt Lake City KTMW
KTMW
KTMW is a full-service television station in Salt Lake City, Utah. KTMW broadcast locally in analog on UHF channel 20 until the official conversion to digital date on June 12, 2009, when they "flash cut" to digital on the same channel. KTMW is predominately a religious broadcaster with an...

 20.4
Alpha & Omega Communications, LLC
El Paso/Juarez
El Paso, Texas
El Paso, is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, and lies in far West Texas. In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 649,121. It is the sixth largest city in Texas and the 19th largest city in the United States...

K40FW
K40FW
K26KJ is a low-power Spanish-language Multimedios outlet in El Paso, Texas. They are owned by Broadcast Group, Ltd.-External links:...

 40 (26) Application
Broadcast Group Ltd.

Cable availability

Multimedios is also seen on selected Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

, Comcast
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...

, Charter Communications
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...

, AT&T U-Verse and Grande Communications
Grande Communications
Grande Communications is a United States telecommunications firm, based in San Marcos, Texas, that uses a fiber optic network for broadband services. In 1999, the company was established when the largest single round of venture capital funding in Texas was raised, in turn starting the first-ever...

 cable systems.

Former Multimedios Affiliates

Market/City Of License Station/Channel No. (DT) Current Owner Additional Notes
Dallas/Fort Worth
Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington Metropolitan Statistical Area, a title designated by the U.S. Census as of 2003, encompasses 12 counties within the U.S. state of Texas. The area is divided into two metropolitan divisions: Dallas–Plano–Irving and Fort Worth–Arlington. Residents of the area...

 (Mesquite
Mesquite, Texas
Mesquite is a city located within the Dallas/Ft.Worth area of Texas. As of the 2010 US Census, the population was 139,824.-History:The city was founded May 22, 1873, by a Texas & Pacific Railway engineer who purchased land along the Texas & Pacific line outside of Dallas...

)
KATA
KATA-CA
KATA-CA is a low-power digital television station affiliated with Tr3́s, owned and operated by Mako Communications. It broadcasts on Channel 50 and licensed to Mesquite, Texas...

 50 (N/A)
Mako Communications Now affiliated with MTV Tr3́s.
Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

KVPX
KVPX-LP
KVPX is a low power Almavisión affiliated television station in Las Vegas, Nevada, owned by Mako Communications LLC. It broadcasts in analog on UHF channel 28 from its transmitter located in Henderson, Nevada....

 28 (N/A)
Mako Communications Now affiliated with Almavision
Almavision
Almavision is an American television network broadcasting Christian programming in Spanish with affiliates across North and Central America. The network is carried via satellite on Echostar and SatMex 5, their slogan is "Television Cristiana...a la manera de Dios. " Almavision is an American...

.
Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

KMCC
KMCC
KMCC is a full-power television station in Laughlin, Nevada, broadcasting locally in digital on UHF channel 32 as a VasalloVision affiliate. The station is owned by Cranston II LLC .-History:...

 34 (32)
Cranston II, LLC Now affiliated with Mega TV.
Bakersfield
Bakersfield, California
Bakersfield is a city near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley in Kern County, California. It is roughly equidistant between Fresno and Los Angeles, to the north and south respectively....

K18HD-D N/A (18) Valley Public Television
KVPT
KVPT virtual channel 18, known on-air as Valley PBS, is the sole source of public television broadcasting in California’s Central San Joaquin Valley. Based in Fresno, California, Valley PBS is licensed to Digital Channel 40, but continues to use its historic analog channel 18 as its virtual channel...

VPT acquired station from Mintz Broadcasting in 2007;
has since flash-cut
Flash-cut
A flash-cut, also called flash-cutover, is an immediate change in a complex system, with no phase-in period.Some telephone area codes were split immediately, rather than being phased in with a permissive dialing period. An example is telephone area code 213, which was split into 213 and 714 all at...

 to digital and currently rebroadcasts KVPT
KVPT
KVPT virtual channel 18, known on-air as Valley PBS, is the sole source of public television broadcasting in California’s Central San Joaquin Valley. Based in Fresno, California, Valley PBS is licensed to Digital Channel 40, but continues to use its historic analog channel 18 as its virtual channel...

Amarillo
Amarillo, Texas
Amarillo is the 14th-largest city, by population, in the state of Texas, the largest in the Texas Panhandle, and the seat of Potter County. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The population was 190,695 at the 2010 census...

K64GK
K64GK
K64GK is a low-powered television station affiliated with the Home Shopping Network , a mostly 24-hour shopping network that is seen on cable, satellite, and some terrestrial channels in the United States. The station was formerly associated with the Mexico-based Multimedios Television, owned and...

 64 (N/A)
Mintz Broadcasting
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas. The county seat of Nueces County, it also extends into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio counties. The MSA population in 2008 was 416,376. The population was 305,215 at the 2010 census making it the...

K54JS
K54JS
K54JS is a low-powered television station affiliated with the Mexico-based Multimedios Television, owned and operated by Mintz Broadcasting. It broadcasts on channel 54 and licensed to Corpus Christi, Texas. It is not yet available on Time Warner Cable....

 54 (N/A)
Mintz Broadcasting
Lubbock
Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, and the home of Texas Tech University and Lubbock Christian University...

K24GP
K24GP
K24GP is a low-powered television station affiliated with the Mexico-based Multimedios Television, owned and operated by Mako Communications. It broadcasts on channel 24 and licensed to Lubbock, Texas....

 24 (N/A)
Mako Communications
Midland
Midland, Texas
Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States, on the Southern Plains of the state's western area. A small portion of the city extends into Martin County. As of 2010, the population of Midland was 111,147. It is the principal city of the Midland, Texas...

K69IT
K69IT
K69IT is a low-powered television station affiliated with the Mexico-based Multimedios Television, owned and operated by Mintz Broadcasting. It broadcasts on channel 69 and licensed to Midland, Texas; the station has applied for FCC permission to move to digital channel 25 or 29....

 69 (N/A)
Mintz Broadcasting
San Angelo
San Angelo, Texas
San Angelo is a city in the state of Texas. Located in West Central Texas it is the county seat of Tom Green County. As of 2010 according to the United States Census Bureau, the city had a total population of 93,200...

K45HW
K45HW
K45HW is a low-powered television station affiliated with the Mexico-based Multimedios Television, owned and operated by Mintz Broadcasting. It broadcasts on channel 45 and licensed to San Angelo, Texas....

 45 (N/A)
Mintz Broadcasting
San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...

K51JF
K51JF
K51JF is a low-powered television station affiliated with the Mexico-based Multimedios Television, owned and operated by Mintz Broadcasting. It broadcasts on channel 51 and licensed to San Antonio, Texas. It is not yet available on Time Warner Cable....

 51 (N/A)
Mintz Broadcasting
Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

KPHE
KPHE-LP
KPHE-LD is a low-power television station in Phoenix, Arizona, broadcasting locally in digital on UHF channel 16 from its transmitter on South Mountain...

 44 (N/A)
Lotus Communications Corporation
Tampa
Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....

WTAM
WTAM-LP
WTAM-LD is a low-power television station in Tampa, Florida. It provides over-the-air service to the Tampa - St. Petersburg area on analog channel 30 from its transmitter in Riverview and studios on Franklin Street in Tampa Heights. WTAM-LD broadcasts Spanish-language under the TV Visión name...

30 (N/A)
(Branded as TV Visión)
Lotus Communications Corporation

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