XHRIO-TDT

Not to be confused with the now-defunct real life , also in Matamoros.
XHRIO-TDT (channel 15) is CW-affiliated television station located in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, whose over-the-air signal also covers the Rio Grande Valley across the international border in the United States. The station is owned by Mexican-based Telegrande; its programming and sales rights are managed by Rio Grande Communications.
==Brief history==
XHRIO came on the air on September 12, 1975 as XHEGC-TV for a copule of months until on January 5, 1984. In November 1988, the station became the Lower Rio Grande Valley's Telemundo affiliate. They would drop Telemundo to become the Lower Rio Grande Valley's WB affiliate when that network launched on January 11, 1995. 
On January 24, 2006, Time Warner's Warner Bros. Entertainment unit and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would merge the operations of The WB and UPN, which the companies respectively owned, into a joint venture called The CW Television Network. XHHWB-TV signed an affiliation agreement to join The CW upon the network's September 18 launch. In September 2006, XHHWB was rebranded as "The Valley's CW 15" to reflect their new affiliation as well as changing their call letters back to XHRIO-TV. 
On December 5, 2020, XHRIO-TDT added a sixth subchannel of the new Paradise Network. 
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