XHILA-TDT (channel 66) is a Spanish-language independent television station in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, serving the Mexicali Valley and the southern Imperial Valley, including El Centro, California, and the Colorado River cities of San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, and Yuma, Arizona.
[3] It has been owned since its inception by Intermedia de Mexicali, airing independent programming during the day, and (originally) news from CNI at night.
On October 7, 2024, Gustavo Macalpin, host of the political satire program Ciudadano 2.0, was fired on air by the channel's director, Luis Arnoldo Cabada Alvídrez.
[5] Macalpin had made criticisms of multiple Morena politicians, the ruling party of Mexico, including Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, the governor of Baja California, her husband, Carlos Alberto Torres Torres, as well as Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the president of Mexico from 2018 to 2024, his children, and Claudia Sheinbaum, the incoming president.
In 2015, Intermedia signed a contract with the Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano to carry its Una Voz con Todos network on its stations in Mexicali and Ciudad Juárez.
Broadcast Group, Ltd., an American company which is controlled by the Cabada family, owns two translators in the United States that relay XHILA.