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{{Infobox television channel
| name = Canal 6
| logo = Multimedios
| logo_caption =
| launch_date = {{start date and age|February 24, 1968}}
| country = [[Mexico]]<br>[[United States]]
| headquarters = [[Monterrey, Nuevo León]], Mexico
| area = Northeast & North-Central Mexico, [[Greater Mexico City]], [[Southwestern United States]] over-the-air,<br />nationally throughout Mexico, Costa Rica and the United States via cable, satellite and IPTV
| owner = [[Grupo Multimedios]]
| picture_format = [[1080i]] [[HDTV]]
| key_people = Francisco González
| terr_serv_1 =
| terr_chan_1 = Channel 6 (most of Mexico)
| former_names = Canal 12, 12-AW, Multimedios Televisión
| website = {{url|http://www.multimedios.com}}
}}
[[File:Multimedios Television.png|thumbnail]][[File:Grupo Multimedios Logo.jpg|thumbnail]]
'''Canal 6''' (alternately known as '''Multimedios Televisión''') is a network of Spanish language [[television stations]] primarily concentrated in northeastern Mexico and the southwestern United States. The system is part of [[Grupo Multimedios]]. The flagship station of Multimedios is [[XHAW-TDT]] located in [[Monterrey|Monterrey, Nuevo León]]. Programming features locally produced news, sports, children's shows and general mass appeal variety programming. On weekdays, the network produces around twenty hours of live daily programming, with lesser amounts during the weekends and holidays.
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The company also has network affiliates in many cities, some of which produce local content. The networks spans Northeast and North-Central Mexico, along with the [[Southwestern United States]] through over-the-air availability, but is also available nationally in both countries via cable, satellite and IPTV services. As of May 2016, all of the network's programming is presented in a [[16:9]] [[widescreen]] optimized form in both standard and high definition.
== History==
Multimedios was founded in 1933 when Jesús Dionisio González acquired Monterrey radio station '''XEX''', where he had formerly worked, for 12,500 pesos.<ref>{{cite news |title=Un medio poderoso para la humanidad, conmemoran Día Mundial de la Radio este 13 de febrero |url=https://www.telediario.mx/local/poderoso-humanidad-conmemoran-mundial-radio-13-febrero |access-date=15 November 2023 |publisher=Telediario |date=2021-02-13 |language=es}}</ref> In the 1950s, the group became known as {{lang|es|'''Organización Estrellas de Oro'''}} ({{lang|en|Gold Stars Organization}}), and entered the television business in 31 October 1964, when it received a television allocation in Monterrey,<ref name=tvfactbook1976>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1976-TV-Factbook/1976-TV-Factbook.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1976 |accessdate=19 October 2023 |page=1101-b }}</ref> which later started on 24 February 1968 when it launched {{lang|es|'''Canal 12'''}} (Channel 12, XHAW-TV) in Monterrey.<ref name="Gonzalez_2023_2">{{cite news |last1=González |first1=Manuel |title=Hoy hace 55 años nace el canal 12 en Monterrey |url=https://www.milenio.com/politica/canal-12-senal-nacieron-55-anos |access-date=15 November 2023 |publisher=Milenio |date=2023-02-24 |language=es}}</ref>
Channel 12 gave birth to iconic shows in the city of Monterrey, such as {{lang|es|Telediario}} hosted for more than five decades by [[Héctor Benavides]]<ref name="Gonzalez_2023">{{cite news |last1=González |first1=Manuel |title=Arquitecto Héctor Benavides, una trayectoria de 63 años en radio y televisión|trans-title=Architect Héctor Benavides, a 63-year career in radio and television |url=https://www.milenio.com/politica/comunidad/quien-era-el-arquitecto-benavides-periodista-de-telediario-que-murio |access-date=2023-11-15 |publisher=Milenio |date=2023-11-13 |language=es}}</ref> and {{lang|es|Fútbol al día}}, hosted by [[Roberto Hernández Jr.]]<ref name="Alonso_2017">{{cite news |last1=Alonso |first1=Javier |title=Dan último adiós al cronista Roberto Hernández Jr|trans-title=Last farewell to sports commentator Roberto Hernández Jr|url=https://espndeportes.espn.com/futbol/mexico/nota/_/id/3513332/dan-ultimo-adios-al-cronista-roberto-hernandez-junior |access-date=2023-11-15 |publisher=ESPN |date=2017-09-03 |language=es}}</ref>
Further expansion would come in the 1980s and 1990s when the federal government licensed new television stations, leading to Multimedios establishing a broadcast presence in cities such as Tijuana, Chihuahua, and Tampico.
==Multimedios affiliates==
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{{Mexico TV station table/entry|RF=25|callsign=[[XHAW-TDT]]|network=Multimedios Televisión|muxnet1=Multimedios 5|location=[[Monterrey]], NL<br />[[Guadalupe, Nuevo León|Guadalupe]] (RF 26)<br />[[Saltillo|Saltillo, Coah.]]|d_erp=120 kW<br />19 kW<ref>[https://rpc.ift.org.mx/vrpc/pdfs/221215-TECNICA-011637.pdf RPC: Shadow XHAW Guadalupe, NL - modified December 22, 2015]</ref><br />37.5 kW|conc=Televisión Digital|VC=6}}
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{{Mexico TV station table/entry|RF=21|callsign=[[XHSAW-TDT]]|network=Teleritmo|muxnet1=Milenio Televisión|muxnet2=CV Shopping|muxnet3=MVStv|location=[[Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León|Sabinas Hidalgo]], NL. <br /> Monterrey.
|d_erp=6.675 kW<br />52.5 kW|conc=Televisión Digital|VC=12}}
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{{Mexico TV station table/entry|RF=23|callsign=[[XHOAH-TDT]]|network=Multimedios Televisión|muxnet1=Milenio Televisión|muxnet2=Teleritmo||location=[[Torreón]], Coah.|d_erp=47.5 kW|conc=Multimedios Televisión|VC=6}}
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{{Mexico TV station table/entry|RF=15|VC=6|callsign=[[XHMTPU-TDT]]|network=Multimedios Televisión|location=[[Puebla City|Puebla]], Pue.|conc=Multimedios Televisión|d_erp=122.5 kW}}
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{{Mexico TV station table/entry|RF=
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{{Mexico TV station table/entry|RF=34|VC=6|callsign=[[XHTDJA-TDT]]|network=Multimedios Televisión|muxnet1=Milenio Televisión|muxnet2=Teleritmo|muxnet3=MVStv|location=[[Guadalajara, Jalisco|Guadalajara]], Jal.|conc=Televisión Digital|d_erp=200.009 kW}}
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The Multimedios network formerly used virtual channel 12 (XHAW's channel number from its 1968 launch), from the national standardization of virtual channels on October 27, 2016 until the change to 6 on February 24, 2018. This mapping was not exclusive throughout Mexico, as [[Hidalgo (state)|Hidalgo]]'s state network [[Radio y Televisión de Hidalgo]] and six local stations elsewhere are also mapped to channel 12.<ref>{{cite press release|title=LISTADO CANALES VIRTUALES|publisher=[[Federal Telecommunications Institute]]|language=es|url=http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/contenidogeneral/comunicacion-y-medios/01listadodecanalesvirtualesactualizacion05diciembre2016.pdf|access-date=24 January 2017}}</ref> On February 24, 2018 (timed to XHAW-TDT's [[Golden jubilee|50th anniversary]] celebration of going on the air on that date), Multimedios changed the virtual channel of all of its owned and operated stations to channel 6.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.multimedios.com/programas/cantadisimo/canal-12-convierte-1.html|work=Multimedios|date=8 February 2018|title=Canal 12 se convierte en el 6|access-date=8 February 2018}}</ref> Towards the end of April 2018, Multimedios began to utilize a secondary black and yellow "6" logo to remind viewers of its new national channel position,
In mid-March 2020, much of the network's daily live entertainment programming outside of news and sports programming and the newly launched Mexico City-based afternoon gossip program ''Chismorreo'' was temporarily and voluntarily suspended due to the nation's [[COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico|coronavirus pandemic]], which included a network campaign encouraging viewers to stay home; much of the entertainment programming eventually returned, though with only a few in-studio hosts practicing proper [[social distancing]] who coordinate the rest of their casts appearing via [[videotelephony]], and a number of programs temporarily changing their time slots to accommodate expanded news programming (a reality competition involving expectant parents competing for prizes, ''Todo por el parto'', was completely suspended, with a compressed finale
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The American version of the network feed features American direct response advertising and public service announcements laid over the main Monterrey feed, along with some programming substitutions (mainly Monterrey-specific local shows and paid programming for second runs of the network's main shows), along with KHLM-LD's [[Houston]]-focused [[public affairs (broadcasting)|public affairs]] program ''¿Que Pasa Houston?'' on Sunday afternoons. The main Monterrey feed is available to Mexican viewers, streaming through the network's website and its [[App Store (iOS)|iOS App Store]] and [[Google Play]] apps, with all network feeds blocked in the United States in deference to its American cable partners.
The network, along with [[Milenio Television]], produces several [[Outsourcing|outsourced]] newscasts for two stations in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]] from Monterrey during studio downtime, both due to station cutbacks in their news departments. [[Independent station (North America)|Independent station]] [[KWHY-TV]] began to air Multimedios-produced newscasts in 2017 after [[MundoMax]] ceased operations in December 2016, while [[Estrella TV]]'s [[KRCA]] folded its news department outside several retained multimedia journalists beaming reports back to Monterrey at the start of March 2022.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.mediamoves.com/2022/03/estrella-tv-lays-off-staff-outsources-local-newscasts-to-mexico.html|title=Estrella TV lays off staff, outsources local newscasts to Mexico|last=Villafañe|first=Veronica|date=1 March 2022|publisher=Media Moves|access-date=14 April 2022}}</ref>
As of late August 2018, the American network features mainly the XHAW-TDT schedule of entertainment programming from Monterrey, but the noon and primetime ''Telediario'' blocks are now split, with the first hour originating from XHTDMX-TDT's Mexico City broadcast, and the second hour being the Monterrey broadcast, with the morning newscast block switching in and out from both the Monterrey and Mexico City editions.
The network is authorized to [[List of foreign television channels available in Canada|be carried as a foreign television service]] in Canada by that [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|country's broadcasting authority]], receiving that authorization on April 22, 2015; Milenio Television was also included in a separate application.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2015/2015-157.pdf|title=Addition of Multimedios Television to the List of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution|date=22 April 2015|publisher=[[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]]|access-date=31 December 2016}}</ref>
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