page_title: Television in Mexico
section_title: Broadcast expansion
hierarchical_section_title: Television in Mexico / History / Broadcast expansion
caption_attribution_description: English: Lolita Ayala being interviewed by Televisa at the Arte en Barricas 2012 event of Herradura Tequila at the Centro Cultural Indianilla in Mexico City
context_page_description: Television is a popular form of entertainment in Mexico, with mass entertainment playing an important role in creating a national, unified culture. The telenovelas are very traditional in Mexico and are translated to many languages and seen all over the world with renowned names like Lucero, Angelique Boyer, Adela Noriega, Maite Perroni, Diana Bracho, Leticia Calderón and Victoria Ruffo.
context_section_description: With the exception of the short-lived but popular Televisión Independiente de México (1968–72), which TSM absorbed in 1973 to form Televisa, the latter saw no major commercial competition until 1993. Instead, the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s were marked by a large expansion in state-owned television. This took flight in 1972 when the government, through financier SOMEX, expropriated XHDF-TV in Mexico City and used it to form the base of a Canal 13 national network with repeaters across the country. At the same time, a project known as Televisión Rural de México (later Televisión de la República Mexicana) sought to bring culture and information to rural Mexican audiences. In the 1980s, XHTRM-TV channel 22, the first UHF television station in the Valle de México, came to air bringing TRM programming to the nation's capital. In 1985, TRM was dismantled, and with the sign-on of XHIMT-TV channel 7 in Mexico City, the TRM repeaters were linked to that station, which became the flagship of the Red Nacional 7 of Imevisión. In 1993, Imevisión's privatization gave birth to Televisión Azteca.
  This time period also saw the development of the first television networks run by state governments, including TVMÁS in Veracruz and TeleMichoacán. 25 of Mexico's 32 federal entities currently boast state networks.
caption: Interview with Lolita Ayala at the charity auction "Arte en Barricas" (Art in Barricas) sponsored by Tequila Herradura in Mexico City.
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