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55-408: Throughout its broadcast week, the network produces 58 hours of news programming per week under the branding of Telediario , including a Sunday night public affairs program, Cambios . It also produces pre-game, post-game and other programming involving Monterrey's two major soccer clubs, Tigres UANL and C.F. Monterrey , and through Groupo Multimedios' half-ownership of the team as of February 2017,

110-613: A COVID-19 vaccine in Mexico. On July 31, Mexico moved into third place in the number of fatalities, behind the United States and Brazil, with 46,688 deaths. Mexico occupied sixth place globally in the total number of confirmed cases, with 424,637. On August 3, Patricia Ruiz Anchondo, the Mexico City Social Prosecutor, announced that over 3,000 complaints had been filed regarding parties in apartment buildings that violated

165-519: A statistical sample . On January 12, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, which was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 31, 2019. The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, but

220-547: A Sunday. Sunday morning talk shows are a notable exception to this obscure scheduling. Harvard University claims that the public affairs genre has been losing popularity since the beginning of the digital era . This article related to television terminology is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico New normality in Playa del Carmen People with face masks praying in

275-706: A both a Mexican and American telephone number for the regular costs of airtime depending on provider. Public affairs (broadcasting) In broadcasting , public affairs radio or television programs focus on matters of politics and public policy . In the United States, among commercial broadcasters , such programs are often only to satisfy Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulatory expectations and are not scheduled in prime time . Public affairs television programs are often broadcast at times when few listeners or viewers are tuned in (or even awake) in time slots known as graveyard slots ; such programs can be frequently encountered at times such as 5-6 a.m. on

330-723: A full schedule of programming originating from both Monterrey and Mexico City beginning August 27. The transmitter for XHTDJA was turned on September 13. However, it would be nearly another year before the last IFT-6 station went on the air, with the Puebla transmitter announced for an August 26, 2019 start-up date. In 2019, two stations in the state of Chihuahua became Multimedios affiliates, XHAUC-TDT in Chihuahua and XHMH-TDT in Hidalgo del Parral. The Multimedios network formerly used virtual channel 12 (XHAW's channel number from its 1968 launch), from

385-511: A media partnership with the Mexican League 's Sultanes de Monterrey in baseball, including weekend home game coverage. The network also carries the home matches of Chivas over-the-air exclusively in Guadalajara, Monterrey and Torreón. The company also has network affiliates in many cities, some of which produce local content. The networks spans Northeast and North-Central Mexico, along with

440-435: A preventive measure. On March 17, 11 new cases were confirmed, raising the national total to 93, with Campeche being the only state with no confirmed cases. Mexico's limited response, including allowing a large concert and the women's soccer championship, as well as a lack of testing, have been criticized. Critics note that president López Obrador does not practice social distancing but continues to greet large crowds, and

495-459: A record low on March 10 due to fears of the coronavirus and because of falling oil prices. The Bank of Mexico (Banxico) stepped in to prop up the value of the peso, which fell 14% to 22.929 per US dollar. On March 11, a ninth case was confirmed in the city of Monterrey , Nuevo León . A 57-year-old man, who had recently come back from a trip all across Europe, was placed under quarantine. The man, who has remained anonymous, came back from his trip

550-580: A seventh case was also confirmed in Mexico City in a 46-year-old male who had previously had contact with another confirmed case in the United States. On March 10, an eighth case was reported in Puebla , a 47-year-old German man who had returned from a business trip to Italy. On the same date, 40 members of a dance company in Puebla, returning from a tour in Italy, were quarantined. The Mexican Stock Exchange fell to

605-415: A week before and had contact with eight other people who have also been placed under quarantine in their houses. The man has been confirmed to reside in the city of San Pedro Garza García . On March 12, Mexico announced it had a total of 15 confirmed cases, with new cases in Puebla and Durango . A day later, senator Samuel García Sepúlveda  [ es ] accused the federal government of hiding

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660-529: A week in mid-February. On February 29, a fourth case was detected and confirmed in the city of Torreón , in the state of Coahuila , from a 20-year-old woman who traveled to Italy. On March 1, a fifth case was announced in Chiapas in a student who had just returned from Italy. On March 6, a sixth case was confirmed in the State of Mexico in a 71-year-old man who had returned from Italy on February 21. On March 7,

715-463: Is also available nationwide through providers such as SKY México /VeTV and Izzi /Cablevisión. 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. The network leased stations from Mako Communications until early 2007. The American version of the network feed features American direct response advertising and public service announcements laid over

770-640: Is carried in both standard definition and high definition versions. In 2016, the network also became available in Costa Rica (the third largest Mexican diaspora behind the United States and Guatemala ) through cable (several of the network's personalities are Costa Rican-Mexicans ); the American and Costa Rican feeds, along with the local "Plus" feed thus had a separate version of their morning lifestyle program, Vivalavi , known as Vivalavi Internacional with different hosts carried over them. Vivalavi Internacional

825-607: The Bajío and western Mexico will block flights from areas such as California that have a high rate of coronavirus. He also said that they will purchase 25,000 testing kits. On March 26, Ana Lucía de la Garza Barroso , Director of Epidemiological and Operational Research at the Ministry of Health, reported surprisingly few cases, which raised questions of thoroughness. On March 30, the total number of cases of COVID-19 surpassed one thousand with 1,094 confirmed cases and 28 reported deaths in

880-584: The Basilica of Zapopan Panitary filter at the entrance to Poza Rica Park in Dolores Hidalgo , Guanajuato closed during the contingency The COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19 ) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ). The virus was confirmed to have reached Mexico in February 2020. However,

935-490: The National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) reported two cases of COVID-19 in mid-January 2020 in the states of Nayarit and Tabasco , with one case per state. The Secretariat of Health , through the "Programa Centinela" (Spanish for "Sentinel Program"), estimated in mid-July 2020 that there were more than 2,875,734 cases in Mexico because they were considering the total number of cases confirmed as just

990-520: The Southwestern United States through over-the-air availability, but is also available nationally in both countries via cable, satellite and IPTV services. As of May 2016, all of the network's programming is presented in a 16:9 widescreen optimized form in both standard and high definition. Multimedios was founded in 1933 when Jesús Dionisio González acquired Monterrey radio station XEX , where he had formerly worked, for 12,500 pesos. In

1045-635: The United Kingdom and became the eighth country with the greatest number of confirmed cases in the world. The same day, the ashes of 245 Mexicans that died of COVID-19 in the United States arrived in Mexico City and were given to their respective family. On the same day's daily press conference of Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell , the Undersecretary said that the Secretariat of Health was putting on hold

1100-514: The transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll. On January 22, 2020, the Secretariat of Health issued a statement saying that the novel coronavirus COVID-19 did not present a danger to Mexico. 441 cases had been confirmed in China , Thailand , South Korea , and the United States , and a travel advisory was issued on January 9. On January 30, 2020, before

1155-613: The 1950s, the group became known as Organización Estrellas de Oro ( Gold Stars Organization ), and entered the television business on 31 October 1964, when it received a television allocation in Monterrey, which later started on 24 February 1968 when it launched Canal 12 (Channel 12, XHAW-TV) in Monterrey. Channel 12 gave birth to iconic shows in the city of Monterrey, such as Telediario hosted for more than five decades by Héctor Benavides and Fútbol al día , hosted by Roberto Hernández Jr. Further expansion would come in

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1210-448: 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. Multimedios owns and operates most of its Mexican stations by way of two concessionaires, Multimedios Televisión and Televisión Digital. After operating in Monterrey alone for more than 20 years over XHAW-TV , Multimedios began its expansion in earnest in

1265-570: The Carlos Slim Foundation announced they were going to finance the effort of Mexico, Argentina, the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca to produce and distribute the production and distribution of the vaccine against COVID-19 that's being developed by the last two. The distribution of the vaccine will begin during the first semester of 2021 and it will be available through Latin America , with

1320-503: The International Health Regulations, being the first Latam country that deployed a mathematical model of infectious disease . On February 28, Mexico confirmed its first three cases. A 35-year-old man and a 59-year-old man in Mexico City and a 41-year-old man in the northern state of Sinaloa tested positive and were held in isolation at a hospital and a hotel, respectively. They had travelled to Bergamo , Italy, for

1375-414: The Monterrey and Mexico City editions. Overnights feature a special American edition newscast from Milenio Television, along with that network's 10 p.m. newscast. 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. At the start of 2022,

1430-675: The United States in deference to its American cable partners. The network, along with Milenio Television , produces several outsourced newscasts for two stations in Los Angeles , California from Monterrey during studio downtime, both due to station cutbacks in their news departments. 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

1485-450: The borders have not been closed. Of particular concern is the health of thousands of migrants in temporary camps along the border with the United States. The former national commissioner for influenza in Mexico during the 2009 flu pandemic , Alejandro Macías, said the problem is compounded by the fact that Mexico lacks sufficient intensive care unit beds, medical care workers and ventilators. On March 18, 25 more cases were confirmed raising

1540-403: The country's general quarantine was lifted and states began to resume their economic and social activities in stages. Deaths also grew by 56% (12,654 cases) in these 22 days of "new normal." On July 1, Mexico became the seventh country with the most COVID-19 deaths surpassing Spain . The same day, Mexico reported 231,770 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with this Mexico became the tenth country with

1595-412: The country. In the evening, a national health emergency was declared by Secretary Marcelo Ebrard ; all sectors in the country are urged to stop most of their activities. On April 10, the total confirmed deaths surpassed two hundred with 233 deaths and 3,844 cases confirmed by Mexican authorities. The government of Baja California closed a plant belonging to the multinational giant Smiths Group after

1650-497: The curve" and that only 5% of those infected will show symptoms, and only 5% of those patients with symptoms will go to the hospital, experts say that "their model is wrong" and that "there's a very good consensus on that". More than 100 health workers (doctors, nurses, orderlies, etc.) are among the 3,573 dead from the virus on May 12. Between May 9 and May 15, 13,000 new cases were confirmed. The totals were 42,595 cases, 10,057 active cases, and 4,477 deaths on May 15. On May 22,

1705-564: The declaration of a pandemic by the World Health Organization the Government of Mexico designed a Preparation and Response Plan that was made by the National Committee for Health Safety, a working group led by Secretariat of Health composed by different health entities aiming to act upon the imminent arrival of the pandemic. This group carried out a series of alert measures, rehabilitation and updating of epidemiological regulations based on

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1760-489: The federal government and the state government of Mexico City ignored the wave of coronavirus deaths in the capital city. The article criticized the way that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been handling the pandemic citing the lack of testing done and the fact that the government has been hiding the real number of COVID-19 cases and deaths. It was also mentioned that despite the fact that Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell has been saying that "We [Mexico] have flattened

1815-612: The firm refused to sell ventilators to the Mexican government. On the same day, Mexican consulates in the United States announced the deaths of 181 Mexican nationals due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 13, the number of COVID-19 infections in the country passed 5,000; there were 332 deaths. The Mexican Navy announced it would open ten voluntary self-isolation units to shelter 4,000 COVID-19 patients in Mexico City, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas and Veracruz. Sonora became

1870-453: The first state in the country to declare a curfew. The number of coronavirus cases surges past 10,000 to 10,544 with 970 deaths on April 21. The death toll surpassed the 1,000 figure on April 23. Tijuana expects its hospitals to run out of space over the weekend. On May 1, Mexico surpassed 20,000 infections of COVID-19. Mexicanos contra la corrupción (Mexicans against corruption) alleged that Léon Manuel Bartlett, son of Manuel Bartlett

1925-685: The head of the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) , fraudulently tried to sell overpriced ventilators to the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) in Hidalgo. On May 2, Mexico surpassed 2,000 deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At least forty Mexican and Guatemalan farm workers in Canada contracted coronavirus, that according to the United Food and Commercial Workers . An article published on The New York Times on May 8 assured that both

1980-990: The late 1980s and early 1990s, building a rebroadcaster in Saltillo and new stations in northeast Mexico and in León, Guanajuato . It further increased its broadcast reach with affiliate stations in the northeast. In the Monterrey area, Multimedios also owns and operates a second TV station, XHSAW-TDT . Multimedios participated in the IFT-6 television auction of 2017 and won six stations, including transmitters in Mexico City , Guadalajara and Puebla . The Mexico City station began broadcasting Milenio TV and Teleritmo on July 4, 2018. XHMTCO-TDT in Monclova, Coahuila , signed on July 7, 2018, and XHMTDU-TDT in Durango entered program service on August 6. XHTDMX-TDT began limited program service on August 14, 2018, and began

2035-458: The main Monterrey feed, along with some programming substitutions (mainly Monterrey-specific local shows and paid programming for second runs of the network's main shows), along with KHLM-LD's Houston -focused public affairs program ¿Que Pasa Houston? on Sunday afternoons. The main Monterrey feed is available to Mexican viewers, streaming through the network's website and its iOS App Store and Google Play apps, with all network feeds blocked in

2090-404: The most infected people with the virus in the world. On July 4, Mexico moved to sixth place in the number of deaths by COVID-19, surpassing France . On July 8, department stores reopened in Mexico City, but customers were limited to only one hour of shopping, they must wear a face mask, and may not use dressing rooms nor try products such as cosmetics or perfumes. On July 11, Mexico surpassed

2145-416: The national standardization of virtual channels on October 27, 2016, until the change to 6 on February 24, 2018. This mapping was not exclusive throughout Mexico, as Hidalgo 's state network Radio y Televisión de Hidalgo and six local stations elsewhere are also mapped to channel 12. On February 24, 2018 (timed to XHAW-TDT's 50th anniversary celebration of going on the air on that date), Multimedios changed

2200-473: The network's daily live entertainment programming outside of news and sports programming and the newly launched Mexico City-based afternoon gossip program Chismorreo was temporarily and voluntarily suspended due to the nation's coronavirus pandemic , which included a network campaign encouraging viewers to stay home; much of the entertainment programming eventually returned, though with only a few in-studio hosts practicing proper social distancing who coordinate

2255-413: The number of new cases and deaths reported in 24-hours reached a record high of 2,973 and 420 respectively. On June 2, the number of new cases of infection increased by 4.2% (3,891) compared to the day before. Women made up 57% of the 97,326 confirmed cases in the country at the time. 51.2% of all infections (94,958 cases) occurred in the so-called "new normal" from May 18 to June 23 as the period after

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2310-456: The official COVID-19 sanitary guidelines. Most of them were in the boroughs of Benito Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, and Iztapalapa. On August 4, the Secretariat of Health reported that 4,732 people who spoke an indigenous language have been infected with COVID-19 and, of those infected, 798 have died. Mexico passed the mark of 50,000 deaths on August 6. The United States Department of State classifies travel to Mexico as "high risk." On August 13,

2365-449: The original Monterrey-based version of Vivalavi airs in late night, with the Mexico City version airing live, along with C6 Alerta in early prime, which highlights current crime news. Prime programming from Monterrey (considered 9:30 p.m. local time) on weeknights now airs on an hour delay in the United States, though due to Mexico's suspension of Daylight Savings Time in 2023 and the American feed continuing to air programming live,

2420-410: The presentation of next week's "traffic light" due to the inconsistencies found on the data that certain states were reporting. Yucatán and Quintana Roo , states that were pointed out by López-Gatell for their inconsistencies and delayed reporting, said that they were fully complying with what they were asked to report. On July 12, Mexico became the country with the fourth greatest number of deaths in

2475-488: The respective level of risk by the federal health authority, and accordingly instructs its population to take measures related to a lower risk level, after the investigation of the competent authority that so resolves, it is clear that the public servants who take such determination may be civil, administrative and/or criminally liable for that decision. Several governors rejected the proposal. The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Pasteur announced it will soon begin testing

2530-473: The rest of their casts appearing via videotelephony , and a number of programs temporarily changing their time slots to accommodate expanded news programming (a reality competition involving expectant parents competing for prizes, Todo por el parto , was completely suspended, with a compressed finale episode done via videotelephony). Several of the network's news anchors and reporters also chose appear from home via video conferencing and self-isolate. The network

2585-454: The start of March 2022. As of late August 2018, the American network features mainly the XHAW-TDT schedule of entertainment programming from Monterrey, but the noon and primetime Telediario blocks are now split, with the first hour originating from XHTDMX-TDT's Mexico City broadcast, and the second hour being the Monterrey broadcast, with the morning newscast block switching in and out from both

2640-605: The time it airs is actually two hours ahead in the United States from March until November. The network is authorized to be carried as a foreign television service in Canada by that country's broadcasting authority , receiving that authorization on April 22, 2015; Milenio Television was also included in a separate application. 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 . It

2695-462: The total to 118 cases and 314 suspected cases. Authorities in Jalisco are concerned about a group of 400 people who recently returned from Vail, Colorado ; 40 people have symptoms of COVID-19. On March 22, bars, nightclubs, movie theaters, and museums were closed in Mexico City. Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez of Jalisco announced that beginning Thursday, March 26, Jalisco and seven other states in

2750-650: The true number of confirmed cases. On March 14, Fernando Petersen, the secretary of health of the state of Jalisco , confirmed the first two cases of COVID-19 were detected in Hospital Civil de Guadalajara . Two new cases were confirmed in Nuevo León, and the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) announced that all sporting and civic events in schools would be canceled. The same day, the Secretariat of Education announced that Easter break, originally planned from April 6 to 17, would be extended from March 20 to April 20 as

2805-453: The virtual channel of all of its owned and operated stations to channel 6. Towards the end of April 2018, Multimedios began to utilize a secondary black and yellow "6" logo to remind viewers of its new national channel position, with its trademark star logo (which was simplified and took a mirrored look from its former logo in mid-2015) was phased out by 2022, and the network took on the "Canal Seis" branding full-time. In mid-March 2020, much of

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2860-416: The virus. On July 30, Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell threatened governors who deliberately change the traffic light status of their respective states with criminal sanctions. On that matter, Maricela Lecuona González, lawyer of the Secretariat of Health , said that: When the government of a federal entity ceases to comply with the result of the weekly assessment and omits to call for measures relating to

2915-638: The world with 35,006, surpassing Italy . On July 13, 304,435 cases and 35,491 deaths were reported. Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell, said that there has been a decrease in new cases in the Valley of Mexico as Guanajuato moves into second place with 2,530 active cases. Nuevo León reports an occupancy rate of 82% in hospitals. On July 22, the Assistant Director of the Pan American Health Organization , Jarbas Barbosa, announced that Mexico

2970-508: Was cancelled on January 11, 2017. Vivalavi began to feature segments from Monterrey and Mexico City in mid-August 2018, and the Thursday evening program SNSerio often has their hosts record the series in Mexico City to access a larger base for possible program guests than available in Monterrey. In addition to this, the audio streams of Multimedios, Milenio TV and Multimedios' sports radio station XERG-AM are available via telephone through

3025-420: Was the 38th country to send a letter of intent to buy a COVID-19 vaccine when one is available. Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said there was evidence that a vaccine might be available during 2020, and that the goal is an even distribution of 2 billion doses among the other 77 countries. On July 23, President López Obrador confirmed that he had relatives infected by COVID-19 and even that some have died because of

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