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Cuaderno En Frecuencia: June 8

IPN’s Tlaxcala exit clears state network picture; Durango station preaches renewal patience; GDL’s Radio Ranchito put out to pasture and pastors; May a busy month for IFT-8 AM authorizations

Raymie Humbert
En Frecuencia
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4 min readJun 8, 2024

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On Second Thought, No Thanks, Tlaxcala

In a letter dated May 20 and uploaded to the RPC on Friday, the Instituto Politécnico Nacional informed the IFT it was giving up on XHCPFL-TDT 23 Tlaxcala in order to focus on the construction of new stations to build Canal Once coverage.

This surrender is good news if you work for the state of Tlaxcala or love its state network. The IPN received this concession as part of a larger package in 2022, but channel 23 in Tlaxcala wasn’t really meant for them when the IFT made it available. It was intended to continue Tlaxcala Televisión, the state network which at one point had lost almost all of its concessions due to the infamous final fifth rule. XHTLX-TDT, the state network transmitter that had been using channel 23, left the air in March 2024, 18 months later, owing to the legal issues. This caused Tlaxcala Televisión to disappear not only from local broadcast homes but even on many cable systems.

CORACYT has pending at the IFT an application to go common-concession with the Tlaxcala state network. This will take one of the existing or recently reawarded concessions and turn it into the sole concession (and call sign) for all five transmitters. Now that XHCPFL-TDT is no longer on the books, the state government will be able to file for the former XHTLX facility as a shadow once the IFT Pleno approves the common-concession conversion. That should allow them to restore service at some point.

TV UJED: Sorry, Gonna Have to Wait

The Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango has a message for its television viewers: be patient with our concession problems. They have taken XHUJED-TDT off the air “temporarily” as of Wednesday for “habitual” concession renewal-related reasons.

Oh-so-coincidentally, June 5, 2024, is also the date when XHUJED-TDT’s original concession expired. There is good news: the application for XHCPGP-TDT 28, included in the 2023 PABF, is on the books and uncontested. But the IFT has to award this concession — and, possibly, approve the technical parameters even though they will be the exact same — before the station can go back on the air.

From Ranch to Church

Did Guadalajara need another Catholic radio station? Apparently, the Archdiocese of Guadalajara thought so, because they’ve taken to the air in a partnership with Radiorama, wiping out XEPJ-AM 1370 “Radio Ranchito” after decades to start a new Catholic talk station known as Apostolicus.

Apostolicus launched this week with a variety of Archdiocese-sponsored programs.

IFT-8 AM Bonanza

May was maybe the biggest month (on paper) for new AM radio stations in Mexico in a long, long time. The IFT released a suite of technical authorizations, some a year old, for these stations. All are for daytime service only, as the practice is to authorize daytime service before beginning the longer international coordination process for nighttime service. None are known to be on the air as of yet.

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Raymie Humbert
En Frecuencia

Written by Raymie Humbert

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