XHVR-TDT

XHVR-TDT, virtual channel 9 (digital channel 30), is a television station located in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, whose over-the-air signal also covers the Rio Grande Valley across the international border in the United States. XHVR is also affiliated with Televisa Noreste. XHVR has five sister stations, with two located in Mexico, XHRTA-TDT and XHRIO-TDT, and three located in the United States, KMBH, KSPI-TV, and KAZH-LD.
==History 1969-2012==
XHVR-TDT began on January 16, 1969 as XHRM-TV as a Televisa station, until 1983 when it change to a Las Estrellas station which lasted from 1983-2012, five years prior to the switch it change call signs to XHVR-TV. From 1983-1997 the station was focus to a Mexican audience and also advertisements and from 1997-2012 it serving American audience plus newscast which was branded "NotiValle". On September 15, 2001 XHVR-TV was one the first few stations to report on the "Queen Isabella Causeway Collapse" sadly the news footage was misplace and lost only snippets, short clips survive and the South Padre Island Town Meeting survive. In 2005, Northern Tamaulipas was struck by Hurricane Emily a Category 5, although it didn't struck the region directly it still cause some severe damage to the transmitter's main and back-up power and causing one of the steel rope's of the tower to snap. Again in 2008, this time Hurricane Dolly did a direct hit to the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Region and cause more severe damage to both the station/studio and the transmitter. Dolly cause power outages across the region, but thankfully both the transmitter and the main station have back-up generators. But due to the heavy winds and rain erosion cause the transmitter tower collapse. After Dolly, XHVR-TV had to use XHRIO's tower as a back-up signal until the main tower is rebuilt, which took 5 months, 2 weeks, and 6 days to get XHVR's tower ready. XHVR-TV stayed as a Las Estrellas station untill 2012. 
== 2012-Present Day ==
In 2012, XHMFV became the MundoFox affiliate serving the Reynosa-Matamoros and the Rio Grande Valley metropolitan areas. To reflect the new network XHVR-TV changed its call sign to XHMFV-TV. During the same day XHMFV added Galavision/XEQ-TV to its DT2 slot, prior to 2012 Galavision was a secondary affiliation on the DT1 slot from 1997-2012 when XHMFV-TV began its digital signal. By 2015, MundoFox ceased operations and began transmitting MundoMax and during this time XHMFV-TV turn off its analog signal as all Mexican stations. When MundoMax went off the air in 2016, XHMFV-TDT reverted back its call sign to XHVR-TDT, its DT2 channel which is GalaTV/Galavision moved up to the DT1 signal, and to fill up the DT2 XHVR-TDT put back XHTV which is now FOROtv, XHTV hasn't been seen in the region since 1997 when it got replace by Galavision. On July 9, 2018 GalaTV change its name to NU9VE.
==Gallery==
XHMFV8-1 8-2.jpg|XHVR-TDT logos from 2012 to 2016 as XHMFV-TDT and a MundoFox/MundoMax affiliate
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