Nueve (Mexican TV network)

{{short description|Mexican television network}} {{hatnote|"Galavisión (Mexico)" redirects here. It is not to be confused with the American network, Galavisión.}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Use American English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox television channel| | name = Nueve | logo = NU9VE 2018.svg | logo_size = 220px | type = Terrestrial television network | launch_date = {{start date and age|1968|9|1|df=y}} | country = Mexico | tv_transmitters = ''see below'' | picture_format = 1080i HDTV | owner = TelevisaUnivision | key_people = | former_names = Canal 8 (1968–1985) Canal 9 (1985–2001) Galavisión (2001–2013) Gala TV (2013–2018) | terr_serv_1 = Digital terrestrial television (Except Tijuana, Mexicali and Matamoros) | terr_chan_1 = Channel 9.1 | terr_serv_2 = Digital terrestrial television (Tijuana) | terr_chan_2 = Channel 16.1 | terr_serv_3 = Digital terrestrial television (Mexicali/Matamoros and Ciudad Juarez) | terr_chan_3 = Channel 10.1 | terr_serv_4 = Digital terrestrial television (San Luis Potosí) | terr_chan_4 = Channel 8.1 | terr_serv_5 = Digital terrestrial television (Durango) | terr_chan_5 = Channel 13.1 | website = {{url|https://www.televisa.com/el-nueve/}} }}

'''Nueve''' (English: Nine) (stylized '''Nu9ve''') is a Mexican free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. The primary station and network namesake is Channel 9 of Mexico City (also known by its call sign XEQ-TDT), though the network has nationwide coverage on Televisa stations and some affiliates. Nueve offers a range of general entertainment programs.

==History== {{see also|Televisión Independiente de México|XEQ-TDT}} Logo utilized from 2003 until 14 April 2013, when Galavisión was re-branded as "Gala TV"|thumb|left|150px

The roots of Nueve go back to the foundation of Televisión Independiente de México, the first serious contender to Telesistema Mexicano. In 1973, the two companies merged to form Televisión Vía Satélite, better known as Televisa (now known as TelevisaUnivision Mexico).{{fact|date=August 2025}}

In 1993, when Carlos Salinas de Gortari was president of Mexico, Televisa, through its subsidiary Radio Televisora de México Norte, S.A. de C.V., obtained the concession for 62 new stations,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.jornada.unam.mx/2002/11/05/014n1pol.php?printver=1 |title=El impuesto de 12.5 por ciento a radio y televisión nunca se cumplirá plenamente |access-date= April 15, 2013 |last=Villamil |first=Jenaro |date=November 5, 2002 |newspaper=La Jornada}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://mercadeoypublicidad.com/Secciones/Biblioteca/DetalleBiblioteca.php?recordID=6606&pageNum_Biblioteca=2&totalRows_Biblioteca=65&Tema=3&list=Ok |title=Copia archivada |access-date=December 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028201036/http://mercadeoypublicidad.com/Secciones/Biblioteca/DetalleBiblioteca.php?recordID=6606&pageNum_Biblioteca=2&totalRows_Biblioteca=65&Tema=3&list=Ok |archive-date=28 October 2017 }}</ref> at the same time Televisión Azteca did the same. However, it was denounced at the time that the concessions weren't awarded in a transparent manner, without prior public bidding.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.proceso.com.mx/342377/tributo-multimillonario-del-gobierno-a-televisa |title=Copia archivada |access-date=December 26, 2017 |archive-date=October 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028150248/http://www.proceso.com.mx/342377/tributo-multimillonario-del-gobierno-a-televisa }}</ref> Although, at the beginning, this 62-station network would be used to increase Canal 9's coverage, most of the stations were used to increase the coverage of Canal 5, and others, for El Canal de Las Estrellas.

After years of broadcasting primarily cultural programs, channel 9 in Mexico City returned to commercial programming in the mid-1990s, under the name Galavisión. This Galavisión was unrelated to the American cable channel of the same name, also owned by TelevisaUnivision.{{fact|date=August 2025}}

On 15 April 2013, Galavisión changed its name to Gala TV.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/2013/galavision-se-transformara-en-gala-tv.html|title=Galavisión se transformará en Gala TV|agency=Notimex|date=10 April 2023|language=es|work=El Siglo de Torreón|access-date=21 January 2025}}</ref>

Gala TV programs were traditionally carried out at a number of Televisa-affiliated local stations. In 2017, Televisa ended a significant number of these partnerships and began multiplexing Gala TV on various Canal 5 transmitters in larger markets.

On 9 July 2018, the network relaunched as Nueve, with a new programming lineup. The branding reflects the fact that its Mexico City station XEQ-TDT and most of its retransmitters broadcast on virtual channel 9.

==Programming== left|thumb|150px|Logo used as Gala TV, between 2013 and 2018 The Nueve schedule features mainly reruns of major Mexican telenovelas, reruns of TelevisaUnivision Mexico series, as well as soccer and lucha libre and old Mexican movies.<ref name="lav">{{cite news|url=https://laverdadnoticias.com/espectaculos/Gala-TV-se-transforma-y-cambia-su-nombre-por-esta-razon-20180706-0081.html|work=La Verdad Noticias|date=6 July 2018|access-date=7 July 2018|language=es|title=¡Gala TV se transforma y cambia su nombre por esta razón!}}</ref> On 18 March 2008, it was announced that an agreement was made between Televisa and NBCUniversal that Galavisión would broadcast Telemundo programs on Galavisión as well as on selected channels of SKY México and Cablevision beginning in April 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?NS=1&idx=93197&cat1=news |title=hispanicbusiness.com News |access-date=2011-06-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522073631/http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?NS=1&idx=93197&cat1=news |archive-date=2011-05-22 }}</ref>

As part of the Nueve relaunch, Televisa signed deals with Discovery and National Geographic to air their content.<ref>{{cite news|work=PRODU|url=http://www1.produ.com/television/noticias/gerardo-lopez-gallo-de-televisa-transformamos-galavision-en-Nueve-con-programacion-nue|date=4 July 2018|language=es|title=Gerardo López Gallo de Televisa: Transformamos Galavisión en Nueve con programación nueva de Discovery y NatGeo|access-date=7 July 2018}}</ref> The relaunch also included a new entertainment program, ''Intrusos'', hosted by entertainment journalist Juan José Origel.{{r|lav}}

===Movies=== *'''Cine Sensacional''' (Weekends) *'''GalaCinema''' (Weekdays 6:00PM–8:00PM) *'''La Nueva Era''' (Weekends)

==Stations== Nueve is not nominally a national network; unlike Las Estrellas or Canal 5, it does not meet the national coverage threshold necessary to be considered one by the Federal Telecommunications Institute.

There is significant variance in the programming schedules of Nueve and its stations, not seen with Las Estrellas or Canal 5.

Some stations are full-time repeaters, usually broadcasting on channel 9.1, clearing all Nueve programming while only inserting local advertising. Others also carry FOROtv, Televisa Regional, and/or local programs.

There are also several Nueve feeds multiplexed on (primarily) Canal 5 transmitters, which carry Nueve programming full-time. Some of these subchannels may also have local programming.{{mexico-MP|access-date=2018-07-07}}

Not all Mexican stations using virtual channel 9 are part of the Nueve network. In some cases, these stations block Nu9ve from using channel 9 in those areas. Most notably, the list includes CORTV in Oaxaca, XHUJED-TDT in Durango and XHSLS-TDT in San Luis Potosí. Televisa also owns Las Estrellas transmitter XERV-TDT in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, which has assigned channel 9. The stations in Tijuana, Mexicali and Ciudad Juárez cannot use virtual channel 9 because of signal overlap to stations in the United States using it.

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Cuauhtémoc|d_erp=47 kW 26 kW|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=22|9|callsign=XEQ-TDT|location=Mexico City|325 kW|d_erp=270 kW|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=20|3|callsign=XHPN-TDT|location=Piedras Negras, Coah.|Televisa Regional|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|d_erp=43 kW|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=24|5|callsign=XHAE-TDT|location=Saltillo, Coah.|70 kW|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|d_erp=45 kW|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=26|4|callsign=XHTOB-TDT|location=Torreón, Coah.|d_erp=150 kW|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=26|13|callsign=XHCKW-TDT|location=Colima, Col.|d_erp=54 kW|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=36|13|callsign=XHMAW-TDT|location=Manzanillo, Col.|21.71 kW|d_erp=35 kW|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=17|callsign=XHDUH-TDT|location=Durango, Dgo.|d_erp=94 kW|conc=Radio Televisión|VC=13}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|2|RF=23|callsign=XHL-TDT|network=Televisa Regional|muxnet1=Nueve|conc=Televisora de Occidente|location=León, Gto. Celaya-Irapuato Lagos de Moreno, Jal.|d_erp=180 kW 19 kW<ref>[https://rpc.ift.org.mx/vrpc/pdfs/010915-EQ_COMPLEMENTARIO-010620.pdf RPC: Shadow XHL-TDT Lagos de Moreno]</ref>|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=22|VC=9|callsign=XHACZ-TDT|d_erp=15 kW|location=Acapulco, Gro.|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=34|d_erp=50 kW|VC=9|2|callsign=XHCHN-TDT|network=Canal 5|location=Chilpancingo, Gro.|conc=Radio Televisión|Radiotelevisora de México Norte}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=26|VC=9|callsign=XEWO-TDT|location=Guadalajara, Jal.|d_erp=150 kW|conc=Televisora de Occidente}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=16|32|callsign=XHATZ-TDT|location=Altzomoni, Mex.|d_erp=236 kW|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=22|8|callsign=XEQ-TDT<ref group="note">This station, while licensed as a repeater of XEQ in Mexico City, airs its own locally-targeted programming under the name ''Nu9ve Estado de México''.</ref>|location=Toluca/Jocotitlán, Mex.|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|150 kW|d_erp=200 kW<ref>[https://rpc.ift.org.mx/vrpc/pdfs/250215-EQ_COMPLEMENTARIO-009577.pdf RPC: Shadow XEQ Toluca]</ref>|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=25|27|callsign=XHZAM-TDT|Gala TV/Televisa local|location=Zamora, Mich.|conc=Radio Televisión|d_erp=32 kW|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=29|27|callsign=XHMOW-TDT|Gala TV/Televisa local|location=Morelia, Mich.|conc=Radio Televisión|d_erp=338 kW|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=28|11|callsign=XHCUM-TDT|location=Cuernavaca, Mor.|d_erp=45 kW<ref>[https://rpc.ift.org.mx/vrpc/pdfs/090715-TECNICA-010253.pdf RPC: Technical Modification for XHCUM-TDT]</ref>|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=33|5|callsign=XHTFL-TDT|network=Canal 5|muxnet1=Nueve|location=Tepic, Nay.|conc=Radio Televisión|d_erp=55 kW|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=32|22|callsign=XHMOY-TDT|location=Monterrey, NL|d_erp=200 kW|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=32|callsign=XHOXO-TDT|location=Oaxaca, Oax.|d_erp=97.033 kW|conc=Radio Televisión|VC=8}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=18|21|callsign=XHQCZ-TDT|location=Querétaro, Qro. (Cerro El Zamorano) Cerro El Cimatario Irapuato-Celaya, Gto.|445 kW|d_erp=190 kW 9 kW 10 kW|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=27|2|callsign=XHQRO-TDT|network=Canal 5|muxnet1=Gala TV<ref>[http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/conocenos/pleno/sesiones/acuerdoliga/pift080316121.pdf IFT Multiprogramming Authorization - XHQRO-TDT]</ref>|location=Cancún, Q. Roo Playa del Carmen|d_erp=60 kW 20 kW<ref>[https://rpc.ift.org.mx/vrpc/pdfs/091015-EQ_COMPLEMENTARIO-011343.pdf RPC: Shadow XHQRO Playa del Carmen]</ref>|conc=Radio Televisión|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=29|d_erp=28 kW|4|callsign=XHCQR-TDT|network=Canal 5|muxnet1=Gala TV|location=Chetumal, Q. Roo|conc=Televimex|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|2|RF=34|callsign=XHSLT-TDT|network=Canal 5|muxnet1=Gala TV|muxnet2=FOROtv|location=San Luis Potosí|100 kW|d_erp=210 kW|conc=Televimex|VC=8}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=24|22|callsign=XHCUI-TDT|network=Canal 5|location=Culiacán, Sin.|2580.62 kW|d_erp=155 kW|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=29|28|callsign=XHLMI-TDT|network=Canal 5|muxnet1=Nueve|location=Los Mochis, Sin.|d_erp=110 kW|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=28|4|callsign=XHMAF-TDT|network=Canal 5|location=Mazatlán, Sin.|conc=Radio Televisión|d_erp=118 kW|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=36|callsign=XHCDO-TDT|network=Canal 5|location=Ciudad Obregón, Son.|d_erp=200 kW|conc=Radio Televisión|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=31|d_erp=100 kW|2|callsign=XHHMA-TDT|location=Hermosillo, Son.|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=32|3|callsign=XHVIZ-TDT|network=Las Estrellas|location=Villahermosa, Tab.|d_erp=125 kW|conc=Televimex|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=26|26|callsign=XHCVI-TDT|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|location=Ciudad Victoria, Tamps.|d_erp=80 kW|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=16|16|180 kW|d_erp=180 kW|conc=Televisora de Occidente|callsign=XHTPZ-TDT|location=Tampico, Tamps.|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=27|4|callsign=XHCOV-TDT|network=Canal 5|muxnet1=Nueve|muxnet2=FOROtv|location=Coatzacoalcos, Ver.|d_erp=60 kW|conc=Radio Televisión|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=34|22|callsign=XHCLV-TDT|location=Las Lajas, Ver. Nogales, Ver.|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|d_erp=430 kW 25 kW<ref>[https://rpc.ift.org.mx/vrpc/pdfs/081015-EQ_COMPLEMENTARIO-011313.pdf RPC: Shadow XHCLV Nogales]</ref>|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=35|4|callsign=XHMEN-TDT|network=Canal 5|location=Mérida, Yuc.|69 kW|d_erp=125 kW|conc=Radio Televisión|VC=9}} |- {{Mexico TV station table/entry1|RF=19|13|callsign=XHZAT-TDT|location=Zacatecas, Zac.|d_erp=130 kW|conc=Teleimagen del Noroeste|VC=9}} {{Mexico TV station table/bottom}}

==Notes== {{reflist|group=note}}

== External links == * [https://www.televisa.com/el-nueve/ Nu9ve official website] {{in lang|es}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

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