Canal 6 (alternately known as Multimedios Televisión) is a network of Spanish language television stations primarily concentrated in northeastern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
On weekdays, the network produces around twenty hours of live daily programming, with lesser amounts during the weekends and holidays.
Multimedios was founded in 1933 when Jesús Dionisio González acquired Monterrey radio station XEX, where he had formerly worked, for 12,500 pesos.
[3] Channel 12 gave birth to iconic shows in the city of Monterrey, such as Telediario hosted for more than five decades by Héctor Benavides[4] and Fútbol al día, hosted by Roberto Hernández Jr.[5] Further expansion would come in the 1980s and 1990s when the federal government licensed new television stations, leading to Multimedios establishing a broadcast presence in cities such as Tijuana, Chihuahua, and Tampico.
After operating in Monterrey alone for more than 20 years over XHAW-TV, Multimedios began its expansion in earnest in the late 1980s and early 1990s, building a rebroadcaster in Saltillo and new stations in northeast Mexico and in León, Guanajuato.
Multimedios participated in the IFT-6 television auction of 2017 and won six stations, including transmitters in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Puebla.
All American affiliates of the network are owned and operated by other broadcasters, due to FCC regulations regarding foreign ownership of radio and TV stations.
Independent station KWHY-TV began to air Multimedios-produced newscasts in 2017 after MundoMax ceased operations in December 2016, while Estrella TV's KRCA folded its news department outside several retained multimedia journalists beaming reports back to Monterrey at the start of March 2022.
As of September 2020, with the cancellation of the tween-focused variety show Acabatelo, Mexico City programming, including La Bola del Seis, Chismorreo, and Vivalavi, now predominates and airs live on the American feed.
[13] Multimedios is available across the United States on many cable, satellite and IPTV systems, including DirecTV, Dish/Sling, Comcast, Spectrum, AT&T U-Verse, Verizon FiOS and Grande Communications.