# 2018 in Mexican television

The following is a list of events affecting Mexican television in 2018. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about controversies and carriage disputes.

## Events

* Most television stations in Mexico were required to change frequencies to repurpose the 600 MHz band for use by mobile services.
* September - Tecate, Baja California-licensed XHDTV-TDT in the Tijuana market, the final English-language television station in western Mexico, disaffiliates from the American-based MyNetworkTV programming service in favor of the Monterrey, Nuevo Leon-based Milenio Televisión network. MyNetworkTV was moved to The CW-affiliated KFMB-DT2 in San Diego as a secondary affiliation. This left CW affiliate XHRIO-TDT in Matamoros, Tamaulipas as the only English-language television station licensed in Mexico until that station ceased operation on December 31, 2021.

## Television shows
### Debuts

* Casa de las Flores (2018–present)
* LOL: Last One Laughing (2018–2019)

### Programs on-air
#### 1970s

* Plaza Sesamo (1972–present)

#### 1990s

* Acapulco Bay (1995–present)
* Corazon salvaje (1993–present)
* Esmeralda (1997–present)
* La usurpadora (1998–present)

#### 2000s

* Alma de hierro (2008–present)
* Big Brother México (2002–2005, 2015–present)
* Hotel Erotica Cabo (2006–present)
* Lo Que Callamos Las Mujeres (2001–present)

#### 2010s

* 40 y 20 (2016–present)
* Atrapada (2018–present)
* Casa de las Flores (2018–present)
* Como dice el dicho (2011–present)
* El Chiapo (2017–present)
* La Voz… México (2011–present)
* Por amar sin ley (2018–present)
* México Tiene Talento (2014–present)
* Rubirosa (2018–present)
* Sin tu mirads (2017–present)
* Valiant Love (2012–present)

## Television stations
### Station launches

| Date | Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Notes/References |
| 12 February | Uruapan, Michoacán | XHJGMI-TDT | 15 (UHF) 12 (PSIP) | Commercial independent | |
| 2 May | Guadalajara, Jalisco | XHQMGU-TDT | 9 (VHF) 10 (PSIP) | Commercial independent | |
| July | Chihuahua, Chihuahua | XHICCH-TDT | 30 (UHF) 44 (PSIP) | Commercial independent | Satellite station of XHIJ-TDT/Ciudad Juárez |
| 14 August | Mexico City | XHTDMX-TDT | 11 (VHF) 6 (PSIP) | Multimedios Televisión | |
| October | Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua | XHMTCH-TDT | 28.1 (UHF)/6.1 (PSIP) 28.2 (UHF)/6.2 (PSIP) 28.3 (UHF)/6.3 (PSIP) 28.4 (UHF)/6.4 (PSIP) | Multimedios Televisión (primary) Milenio Television Teleritmo Independent (via XHABC-TDT) | |
| 3 December | Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco | XHCPPV-TDT | 27 (UHF) 10 (PSIP) | Commercial independent | |
| 17 December | Saltillo, Coahuila | XHTSCO-TDT | 36 (UHF) 10 (PSIP) | Independent | |

### Network affiliation changes

| Date | Market | Station | Channel | Old Affiliation | New Affiliation | Notes/References |
| September | Tecate/Tijuana, Baja California (San Diego, California, United States) | XHDTV-TDT | 49.1 (PSIP) | MyNetworkTV | Milenio Televisión | |

### Station closures

| Date | Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Sign-on date | Notes/References |
| Unknown date | Ensenada, Baja California | XHENB-TDT | 29 (UHF) | Pacific Spanish Network | 1 October 1994 | |