XHCCU-TDT
TV station in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico
XHCCU-TDT was a television station in Cancún, Quintana Roo. Broadcasting on virtual channel 8 from a studio and transmitter facility located in central Cancún, XHCCU is owned by Grupo SIPSE and is known as SIPSE TVCUN.
History
The station's concession was awarded to SIPSE in 1991 and its concession took effect in July 1992.
Between December 2013 and January 2017, XHCCU branded as Gala TV Cancún. It returned to branding as SIPSE TVCUN at the start of February 2017.
In October 2018, XHCCU moved from channel 39 to 36 in order to facilitate the repacking of TV services out of the 600 MHz band (channels 38-51).
“XHCCU-TDT” enters the record as tV station in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what XHCCU-TDT, station and Cancún can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18395616. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 1992, 2013 and 2017.
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