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29-627: The station's digital signal is multiplexed : XHAW and sister station XHSAW broadcast in HDTV ; XHSAW formerly shared virtual channel 12. XHSAW broadcasts on channels 12.1 through 12.4; XHAW broadcasts channels 6.1 and 6.2. 6.1 and 6.2 are the only channels available in Saltillo and Guadalupe/Juárez/Cadereyta, as there is no shadow XHSAW there. Even though XHAW broadcast on analog channel 11 in Saltillo, it used virtual channel 12 there even prior to 2016. On February 24, 2018 (the station's 50th anniversary date),

58-468: A bee and a crocodile named Croc, instead of a carrot). The rebrand was designed by ABC Made, the ABC's in-house award-winning creative team. On 1 January 2023, ABC Kids lost an hour of programming, with the closedown and the transition to ABC TV Plus moved to 6:30 p.m.; the ABC cited that ABC TV Plus wanted to take advantage of a "co-viewing" audience of older children and adults in the evenings at that hour, but

87-487: A portion of the spectrum in each multiplex. The first multichannel broadcast in Australia was ABC Kids , which broadcast from 2001 to 2003; in the succeeding years, the country's commercial broadcasters also launched secondary services to compete against DVDs and online piracy. However, their ability to do so was hampered at first by a ban on adding channels, with a focus on such services as datacasting and high-definition. It

116-454: A television station in Mexico is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Multiplex (TV) A multiplex or mux , also known as a bouquet , is a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium, particularly terrestrial broadcasting. The program services are broadcast as part of one transmission and split out at

145-574: A two-part channel number (e.g. 20.1) consisting of a major and minor channel number. The digital conversion in countries where broadcasters retained control of their entire multiplex after switchover permitted broadcasters to introduce new supplemental and ancillary services, many of them national in scope. In Australia, Mexico, and the United States, new TV channels were introduced with national coverage. The licensing of such additional services varies according to national broadcasting regulations. In

174-519: Is also used in ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) rollout plans. To allow multiple stations to begin 3.0 broadcasting without loss of ATSC 3.0 service, one station will typically become a "lighthouse", airing the main channels of several participating stations, while the lighthouse station's channels are broadcast in ATSC 1.0 format on the multiplexes of the other participating stations. ABC Kids (Australia) ABC Kids

203-532: Is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 's part-time channel, broadcasting shows between the hours of 5   am and 7:30   pm for children 6 years old and younger, including an upper preschool audience. It shares the same bandwidth as ABC Family which broadcasts outside ABC Kids' scheduled hours. In 1989, ABC for Kids was formed as a children's music label. Its first project was titled 0–9 . In 1991, all children's programming on

232-655: The ABC For Kids timeslot was rebranded as ABC Kids and content was expanded to include shows for older children as well as younger children. A new logo was also introduced, featuring a solid green Lissajous curve (taken from the ABC's logo) overlaid with "ABC Kids" in lowercase blue letters. In addition to the daily broadcasting block on the ABC, a new children's channel with the ABC Kids branding commenced transmission nationally on 1 August 2001 on channel 21, becoming ABC Television 's first digital multichannel service. The service

261-427: The ABC was organized into a daily broadcasting block under the name ABC For Kids . This new programming block featured a range of programming ranging from preschoolers to young children and included both old and new content. The logo featured six blocks (3 across, 2 down) with the top row lettered "A", "B" and "C", and the bottom row featuring an apple, a bee and a carrot beneath their respective letter. In August 2001,

290-406: The ABC's daily children's broadcasting block. After the close of the ABC Kids and Fly TV channels, programming for younger Fly TV viewers was integrated into the ABC Kids broadcasting block. In February 2009, two daily blocks of children's programming were launched as ABC1 For Kids , running from 8:00   am to 11:00   am and 2:55   pm to 4:00   pm on ABC1. On 4 December 2009, at

319-409: The United States, a broadcast license covers the full 6 MHz channel and any services broadcast within it. The United Kingdom frequency plan includes three "universal" multiplexes for the national public service broadcasters and three commercial multiplexes broadcast from a total of 80 transmitter sites. The ISDB-T specification includes 1seg , a mobile media and data broadcasting service utilizing

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348-418: The United States, such services are called digital multicast television networks or diginets. The term is also used in an otherwise unrelated sense to refer to additional channels offered by premium pay television services, such as HBO , similar to its meaning with regard to movie theaters . Depending on the type of transmission system, individual services are either numbered with whole numbers (e.g. 36) or

377-522: The additional capacity available on many converted stations. Diginets affiliate with individual stations in each market and are generally genre-specific in their programming. Diginets have continued to grow as more advanced encoders enable stations to add additional, income-generating ancillary services. Subchannels have also been used in smaller "short markets" with few full-power stations to provide in-market affiliates of additional major networks; by 2011, Fox had 35 such subchannel affiliates. Multiplexing

406-537: The audience: in 2018, 7mate led the group with an audience share of 4.1 percent among metropolitan audiences. However, after the Australian Communications and Media Authority permitted the commercial broadcasters to move required children's programming and national drama commitments to their multichannels, ratings and visibility fell precipitously; by 2013, the ABC had more viewers for its children's channels than

435-509: The commercial broadcasters combined. The commercial broadcasters also became more reliant on news, sport, and reality competitions on their main channels. Each of the five major broadcasters offers its own suite of multichannels: In 2009, the Brazilian government ruled that only federally-owned television channels—namely TV Brasil , TV Senado , TV Câmara , TV Justiça , and TV Globo —could offer multiple channels of programming. The decision

464-412: The first of a series of cuts to save around A$ 25 million a year for the ABC. The ABC could not secure government funding to keep the channel on-air, and the sluggish uptake of digital television in Australia at the time made justifying a digital-only channel with a low viewership against the cost of keeping the channel on-air difficult. However, the ABC Kids brand still remained throughout this period on

493-821: The first station in Canada to launch original content on its multiplex channels. In 2015, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) formally authorized broadcasters to apply for permission to add subchannels. In 2016, the IFT began assigning virtual channels to stations based on their programming, grouping transmitters of the same national network. In 2010, multiplex licensees in Spain were permitted to add two new channels to their services. The Supreme Court of Spain ruled in December 2012 to void this action, stating that

522-461: The move was illegal as it did not award the channels by way of a public bidding process. As a result, a total of nine channels closed down on May 6, 2014. Commercial and non-commercial broadcasters began experimenting with additional subchannels over the course of the 2000s. After the digital television transition in 2009, a new crop of national services, known as digital multicast television networks or diginets, began to emerge, taking advantage of

551-415: The name of the channel was changed to ABC Kids and a new logo inspired by the classic children's logo was unveiled. Within the rebrand of ABC Comedy on 4 December 2017, broadcasting of the channel was rescheduled to end at 7:30   p.m. instead of 7   p.m. The channel again received a new logo and look on 17 March 2020, introducing three animated characters based on the classic logo (an apple,

580-467: The receiving end. The conversion from analog to digital television made it possible to transmit more than one video service, in addition to audio and data, within a fixed space previously used to transmit one analog TV service (varying between six and eight megahertz depending on the system used and bandplan). The capacity of a multiplex depends on several factors, including the video resolution and broadcast quality, compression method, bitrate permitted by

609-510: The same time as the launch of ABC Me (then ABC3), a new preschool children's block, ABC For Kids on 2 was launched on ABC2 , featuring children's programming each day until 6   pm. Some ABC2 programmes had to be cancelled or relocated to other channels, such as Rage . The classic ABC For Kids logo from 1991 was rendered in 3D when the ABC for Kids name was revived. In May 2011, the Weekday Morning Children's Block on ABC1

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638-641: The station began to use the channel 6 virtual channel along with most other Multimedios stations as part of the network's national expansion. XHAW Saltillo broadcast on physical channel 51 because channel 25 was in use by analog XHSTC-TV there. It was relocated to channel 25 after the digital television transition. On September 24, 2015, XHAW shut off its analog signals, both in Monterrey and Saltillo; its digital signals remained. 25°39′26″N 100°17′58″W  /  25.65721°N 100.29953°W  / 25.65721; -100.29953 This article about

667-682: The transmission standard, and allocated bandwidth; statistical time-division multiplexing is often used to dynamically allocate bandwidth in accordance with the needs of each individual service. Each service in a multiplex has a separate virtual channel (also known as a logical channel number) for identification and tuning. Depending on the country, a multiplex may be controlled by one broadcaster offering multiple subchannels or may feature services from multiple broadcasters with separate licenses. Multiplexing has made it possible for many new free-to-air television services to be introduced, some of them expressly designed for carriage as additional channels. In

696-462: Was extended first to April 2022 and then December 2023. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) requires stations to file licence amendments in order to be considered for permission to carry digital subchannels. On August 17, 2012, the CRTC gave approval to Leamington, Ontario , community station CFTV-TV to broadcast four local subchannels on its digital signal, making it

725-471: Was launched on 1 November 2001 to feature programming aimed at teenagers and young adults up to early 20s and broadcast a 6-hour block from 6:00   pm to 12:00   am, which was repeated from 12:00   am to 6:00   am. In addition to their availability on free-to-air television, the ABC Kids and Fly TV channels were also available on Austar channel 14 and Optus TV channel 21. The ABC Kids and Fly TV channels were discontinued on 30 June 2003 in

754-539: Was made, per an advisor to the Brazilian communications ministry, to prevent the leasing of channels to broadcast infomercials and church services. The effect of the decision was to bar new entrants without their own stations from increasing commercial competition. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil , educational and commercial broadcasters were allowed to introduce subchannels, primarily to carry educational programming, which

783-549: Was not until 2009 that commercial broadcasters were allowed to add multichannels; in that year, the three major networks all did so, bringing the number of channels they offered from three to eleven. The original commercial multichannels were generalist in nature, which made it difficult for advertisers to target specific demographics and therefore made them less lucrative. The shift to specifically targeted services and their reliance on existing programming has allowed these channels to survive despite drawing comparatively low shares of

812-541: Was officially inaugurated by former ABC Managing Director, Jonathan Shier , at the Australian Parliament House in Canberra on 7 August 2001. The ABC launched the channel without additional funding, hoping that its success would prompt an additional government grant. ABC Kids was broadcast from 6:00   am to 6:00   pm, with the remaining broadcasting time occupied by its sister service, Fly TV. Fly TV

841-543: Was removed. ABC for Kids on 2 rebranded as ABC 4 Kids and was refocused as a part-time channel for preschoolers sharing the same bandwidth of ABC2 between 6   am and 7   pm. A new logo based on the ABC3 logo was also introduced. In early 2014 all children's programming was removed from the main ABC channel and was divided between ABC 4 Kids and ABC3. Broadcasting of the channel was rescheduled to begin at 5   am instead of 6   am on 7 July 2014. On 2 March 2015,

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