Okay, in order for you guys to understand what I'm talking about I must explain what is going on.
In 1968, the PRI-led Mexican government decided to launch a new television network to compete with the privately-owned Televisa network, owned by the Azcarraga family. This was known as the Instituto Mexicano del Television, or Imevision for short. Part of this deal including the "Telesecundaria" distance secondary education programme, which now thanks to satellite technology is now used not just only in México, but also throughout Central America and the US. However, in México City itself Imevision had some public competition - from the National Polytechnic Institute's Once TV (XEIPN-TV, established in 1959), among others. Imevision itself had three television channels: XHIMT-TV, ch7 in México City; the flagship XHDF-TV, ch13 in México City; and the cultural/educational XEIMT-TV, ch22 in México City.
Imevision remained in the hands of the Mexican government until 1993, when two of Imevision's three channels were sold off (thus allowing the Mexican government to dissolve Imevision). Grupo Salinas runs these two stations as "TV Azteca": ch7 known as Azteca 7, which is youth-oriented and competition to Televisa's Canal 5; and ch13 known as Azteca 13 (Azteca America in the US and Azteca 13 International elsewhere), which remains a flagship station and thus a competitor to Televisa's Canal de las Estrellas. In interesting events that followed, Imevision's former ch22 is now in the hands of a group called Conaculta, which now broadcasts exclusively within México City, and in 1994 Edusat replaced Imevision, now under the Education Ministry's control and now concentrates exclusively on educational programming, including the "Telesecundaria" service.
Now comes my WI. Since most of my knowledge of this comes from Wiki, let's begin to examine what we have here, at least regarding what Imevision could have been. In México City itself, there are three public television stations: two which have Edusat affiliations (Conaculta on ch22 and Teveunam (XHUNAM-TV), run by the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM), on ch60), and one (XEIPN-TV) which is the flagship station of the Once TV network. Outside of México City, there are some stations which have Edusat affiliations which could have been part of Imevision. Among them are:
In 1968, the PRI-led Mexican government decided to launch a new television network to compete with the privately-owned Televisa network, owned by the Azcarraga family. This was known as the Instituto Mexicano del Television, or Imevision for short. Part of this deal including the "Telesecundaria" distance secondary education programme, which now thanks to satellite technology is now used not just only in México, but also throughout Central America and the US. However, in México City itself Imevision had some public competition - from the National Polytechnic Institute's Once TV (XEIPN-TV, established in 1959), among others. Imevision itself had three television channels: XHIMT-TV, ch7 in México City; the flagship XHDF-TV, ch13 in México City; and the cultural/educational XEIMT-TV, ch22 in México City.
Imevision remained in the hands of the Mexican government until 1993, when two of Imevision's three channels were sold off (thus allowing the Mexican government to dissolve Imevision). Grupo Salinas runs these two stations as "TV Azteca": ch7 known as Azteca 7, which is youth-oriented and competition to Televisa's Canal 5; and ch13 known as Azteca 13 (Azteca America in the US and Azteca 13 International elsewhere), which remains a flagship station and thus a competitor to Televisa's Canal de las Estrellas. In interesting events that followed, Imevision's former ch22 is now in the hands of a group called Conaculta, which now broadcasts exclusively within México City, and in 1994 Edusat replaced Imevision, now under the Education Ministry's control and now concentrates exclusively on educational programming, including the "Telesecundaria" service.
Now comes my WI. Since most of my knowledge of this comes from Wiki, let's begin to examine what we have here, at least regarding what Imevision could have been. In México City itself, there are three public television stations: two which have Edusat affiliations (Conaculta on ch22 and Teveunam (XHUNAM-TV), run by the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM), on ch60), and one (XEIPN-TV) which is the flagship station of the Once TV network. Outside of México City, there are some stations which have Edusat affiliations which could have been part of Imevision. Among them are:
- XHMNL-TV (ch28), owned by the Government of the State of Nuevo Leon
- XHMNU-TV (ch53), owned by the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon
- XHUS (ch8), owned by the University of Sonora
- Teveméxico-1 (ch7 in México City), which would be modelled on the BBC Television Service, later BBC1
- Teveméxico-2 (ch13 in México City), which would be an educational and cultural television service, as well as airing children's/family-oriented programming and programming for minorities and concerned citizens
- Teveméxico-3 (ch22 in México City), which would be modelled on the German Third Programmes and thus provide regional programming