XHTAM-TDT

XHTAM-TDT is a television station located in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, whose over-the-air signal also covers the Lower [Rio Grande Valley|Rio Grande Valley] across the international border in the United States. The station is owned by Grupo Televisa and carries its Las Estrellas and Canal 5 networks. It is one of two Las Estrellas stations in the Rio Grande Valley, XERV-TDT being the other.

History

The station signed on for the first time on September 4, 1994, as XHFOX-TV, broadcasting programming from the Fox network for Texas' Rio Grande Valley; prior to XHFOX's sign-on and after its switch to Las Estrellas in 2002, viewers in the valley received their Fox programs on cable via the national Foxnet service. In 2001, its final year as a Fox affiliate, XHFOX broadcast a local newscast at 9:00 p.m. produced by KRGV-TV.
In 2002, XHFOX disaffiliated from Fox and became XHTAM-TV, largely rebroadcasting programming from Las Estrellas. The Fox affiliation was carried over to XHRIO-TV from 2005 to 2012; Fox programming today can be seen on KFXV.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
2.1	1080i	16:9	XHTAM	Las Estrellas
2.2	480i	16:9	XHTAM	Canal 5

XHTAM is one of two Canal 5 transmitters not using virtual channel 5 because the number is used by a nearby U.S. station, in this case KRGV-TV.