XEFE-TDT

{{Short description|Television station in Nuevo Laredo}} {{More citations needed|date=April 2026}} {{Update|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox television station | callsign = XEFE-TDT | city = | logo = | logo_size = | branding = XEFE | former_channel_numbers = 2 (analog [[VHF]], 1962–2015; digital, 2014–2016) | digital = 17 ([[UHF]]) | virtual = 17 | affiliations = [[Canal Once (Mexico)|Canal Once]] | network = | founded = | airdate = {{Start date|1962|10|1}} | location = {{ubl|[[Nuevo Laredo]], Tamaulipas|[[Laredo, Texas]]}} | country = Mexico–United States | callsign_meaning = "Jefe", Spanish word for chief, from [[XEFE-AM]] radio | former_callsigns = XEFE-TV (1962–2015) | owner = Ramona Esparza González | licensee = | sister_stations = | former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[Univision|SIN]] (1960s)|[[Televisa]] (to 2020)}} | erp = 100 kW{{Mexico-inf|TV|accessdate=2014-07-01}} | coordinates = {{coord|27.4569951|-99.5218769|type:landmark_scale:2000}}<ref name="mexico-inf-TV"/> | website = {{url|xefetv.com}} }}

'''XEFE-TDT''' (channel 17) is a [[television station]] in [[Nuevo Laredo]], Tamaulipas, Mexico, serving the [[Laredo, Texas]] area in the United States, known as XEFE, La Imagen Familiar. XEFE primarily carries programming from the public [[Canal Once (Mexico)|Canal Once]] network as well as local news, information and entertainment programming. XEFE was the last television station in the [[Laredo – Nuevo Laredo]] area to broadcast digitally, doing so for the first time in March 2014.

==History== XEFE-TV signed on channel 2 on October 1, 1962, making it the first television station in Nuevo Laredo and second in the [[Laredo – Nuevo Laredo]] area after [[KGNS-TV|KGNS]], which first went on the air January 7, 1956. In February 2013, XEFE received authorization from [[COFETEL]] to broadcast in digital on RF channel 17.<ref>[http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/903115.html El Universal: Cofetel autoriza transmisión digital en Nuevo Laredo]</ref> XEFE began broadcasting in digital in March 2014, ten months ahead of the market's analog shutoff in January 2015.

In October 2016, changes to allotment of virtual channels required XEFE to vacate channel 2 and begin using virtual channel 17, as channel 2 was nationally allocated for [[Las Estrellas]].

Previously carrying national Televisa programming from [[Nueve (Mexican TV network)|Gala TV/NU9VE]] and [[FOROtv]], XEFE dropped Televisa programs on July 1, 2020, and picked up national news and some programs from public [[Canal Once (Mexico)|Canal Once]], which does not have a transmitter in the market.

==Technical information== XEFE began broadcasting in digital in March 2014, making it the last television station in the Laredo–Nuevo Laredo area to broadcast in digital, just ten months before analog shutoff in the Nuevo Laredo area in January 2015. It has one subchannel, 17.1, carrying its main programming.

===Subchannel=== {| class="wikitable" |+Subchannel of XEFE-TDT<ref>{{Cite web |title=Digital TV Market Listing for XEFE-TDT |url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=7270217 |access-date=April 29, 2026 |website=RabbitEars}}</ref> ! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#Mexico|Channel]] ! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]] ! scope = "col" | Short name ! scope = "col" | Programming |- ! scope = "row" | 17.1 | [[1080i]] || XEFE || Main XEFE programming |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[https://www.facebook.com/xefelaimagenfamiliar Official Facebook page]

{{Coord|27.4569951|-99.5218769|type:city_region:MX|display=title}}

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