XETV San Diego FOX6 Sign-on 2007.08.20

latest (full) version...req'd.

more info on why the sign-on is both in english and spanish -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XETV-TV

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[ercjncpr]

Yeah before all the anti-illegals go crazy, XETV IS a MEXICAN station brodcasting to the USA. Yes that has been legal for over 70 years. Goes back to the radio days of the 1930s

[TimothyOnline]

XETV has already gone digital; it transmits on channel 23.

To answer your question, XETV is NOT required to shut down its analog transmitters in February of 2009, as it is licensed in Mexico, not the United States.

[lostalex77]

that is this? Anthem Idol?? America wins.

[BobWXXI]

Dual national anthems are common for a lot of border stations. All five full-power Buffalo TV channels and all seven in Detroit sign on with back-to-back plays of the Star Spangled Banner and O Canada. (They used to sign off the same way--but they don't sign off at all any more, just run the anthems at 5 every morning to mark the start of the day.).

[rendezvous65]

@rendezvous65 Now XHDTV has a digital signal on RF 47 out of Cerro Bola, with the assigned channel number being 49.1. This new signal is HD as well, but don't count on cable carrying it anytime soon.

[JonLeibow]

@bloggerrick It was flying forward when they first showed it. They showed the Mexican flag both forward and backward, too.

[CapPicard]

I can receive the CBC 990AM from Winnipeg, Manitoba in central Kansas.

[intoodeep7106]

- Cont'd

So many of them, especially now in the digital age, respond by setting up large towers with outdoor antennas that can catch signals from border American local stations. This is true for not only Windsor but the Golden Horseshoe up to Oshawa, such as that Buffalo stations could be considered semi-local in Mississauga.

I got way off-topic so I'll end there.

[intoodeep7106]

-Cont'd

What happened instead, is that Industry Canada would buy rights to certain American TV programs to air them simultaneously with the American network airing them the same nights. During commercial breaks, they "substitute" the commercials that the respective American network has scheduled for commercials targeted at Canadian audiences. Hence, the simsub rule. Many Candians don't like the rule because, for example, the Super Bowl commercials won't be seen if they have cable/sat.

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[intoodeep7106]

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For example: Montreal is within reach of many Burlington, Vermont stations but many have trouble getting the ABC and FOX stations. Theoretically, a station could be started if there were no laws prohibiting it that would essentially be affiliate of an American network and make it easier for folks in urban areas to get programs over the air.

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[intoodeep7106]

@sygo7g I think Art7220's question was concerning why the Canadian stations did not (I'm not so sure of it myself) affiliate directly with American over-the-air networks. One has to point to the direction of CanCon rules and simsubbing for the answers. If not for them, I think many Canadian OTA stations in major urban areas would not resisted the temptation to affiliate.

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[Art7220]

@intoodeep7106 Why don't Canadian stations do this?