Callsign: | XHPBSA-TDT |
Branding: | Coahuila Televisión |
Digital: | 17 (UHF) |
Virtual: | 17 |
Founded: | January 2020 |
Location: | Saltillo, Coahuila |
Callsign Meaning: | PABF SAltillo |
Owner: | Gobierno del Estado de Coahuila |
Coordinates: | 25.3899°N -100.9985°W |
Erp: | 15.2 kW[1] |
XHPBSA-TDT (channel 17) is a public television station in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. It is owned by the state government of Coahuila and forms half of the Coahuila Radio y Televisión state broadcaster, alongside the 16-transmitter Coahuila Radio network. The studios and transmitter are co-located with Coahuila Radio in a state office building on Periférico Luis Echeverría.
On February 15, 2016, the government of the state of Coahuila applied before the Federal Telecommunications Institute to build a new television station in Saltillo.[2] On October 18, 2017, the IFT approved the application after a competing bid from the Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano, which would have had priority over the state government as a federal agency, was withdrawn.[3]
In preparation for the new television station, on March 8, 2019, Radio Coahuila, the state agency that manages the radio network, was officially restructured into Coahuila Radio y Televisión.[4] The XHPBSA transmitter was turned on in January 2020.