Channel 35 of Guadalajara, one of the first to broadcast in color in the West of the country and historical repeater of the channels of the Televisa Group for that region until the year 2020, it was sold by its concessionaire Corporación Tapatía de Televisión SA de CV (CTT) to the television station Telsusa Televisión México SA de CV, which in turn already operates another 17 open television channels in the South-Southeast of the Republic through different subsidiaries.
Channel 35, with the acronym XEDK-TDT, is authorized to cover the city of Guadalajara and the towns of Chapala, Tlajomulco, Zapopan, Tlaquepaque, Arandas and Atotonilco, where viewers watch it as virtual channel 8.1 and 8.2 on television. Channel 35 radiates over eleven million people in the West, according to the IFT radio coverage map.
The Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) validated the sale of Channel 35, in favor of Telsusa on April 20, through resolution P/IFT/200422/240.
The amount of the transaction has not been disclosed by the regulator, but the renewal of the concession of that spectrum in 2018 and valid until January 1, 2042, cost the company Corporación Tapatía de Televisión a total of 154 million with 155,422 pesos.
With this movement, Telsusa’s coverage grows from 27 to 31 million Mexicans served by its television channels that broadcast over 17 cities in ten states of the Republic.
In February 2022, Channel 35 and its then still concessionaire Tapatia Television Corporation ceased to be considered an integral part of the preponderant economic agent in the broadcasting sector (Televisa), so that since then the asymmetric regulation that forced them to share their passive infrastructure with third companies and to make an accounting separation, among other responsibilities, was no longer applied to them.
The company was considered since March 2014 as an affiliate of the Televisa Groupfor the retransmissions that it carried out then on channel 9 of Mexico City.
In December 2021, the IFT resolved that there was no longer a substantial commercial relationship of contracts between Televisa and CTTnor that this company received income derived from the retransmission of content or advertising originating from Televisa, and the regulator did not identify elements to warn of a coordinated behavior that could impact the Guadalajara television market.
For October 2020, Corporación Tapatia de Televisión negotiated with Grupo Radio Centro broadcasting the channel “La Octava” on 8.1 digital and by 8.2 he also placed The Herald from April 2021. It is still unknown if Telsusa will maintain those transmissions after acquiring the channel.
Telsusa is the trade name of the television station with the commercial brand Albavisión and it ensures its own reach of 27 million viewers in the country. Albavision It also has an arm that also serves the television markets of Central and South America.
Businessman Remigio Ángel González, known in the broadcasting industry as “El Fantasma”, is the main shareholder of Telsusa-Albavisión.
Remigio Ángel González is a very discreet businessman, but his name causes controversy: In 2018, the House of Representatives requested the White House investigate its operations in Guatemala.
González is present in 11 Latin American countries and already owned 35 television channels, including La Red, in Chile; ATV, in Peru; SNT, in Paraguay, and Channel 9 in Argentina. It also has 114 radio stations, two newspaper companies and several movie theaters.
In Mexico, it made a combined offer of 262 million pesos for 12 open television signals and those frequencies today cover various places in Campeche, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Quintana Roo, Veracruz and Yucatán.
