Canal 44 (Jalisco)
University television station in Guadalajara, Jalisco
Canal 44 (Spanish: Channel 44, call sign XHUDG-TDT) is the television network of the Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG), a university in Jalisco, Mexico. Canal 44 broadcasts to the Guadalajara metropolitan area from a transmitter located on Cerro del Cuatro in Tlaquepaque, with additional transmitters in Ciudad Guzmán, Lagos de Moreno, and Puerto Vallarta. Canal 44 and the UDG's eight-station radio network form the Sistema Universitario de Radio y Televisión (University Radio and Television System).
History
As early as 1991, UDG sought a permit to build a television station and was denied; instead, the permit was built out as Jalisco's state television system, XHGJG-TV channel 7 (known as C7). It tried two more times to obtain a permit, once in 1995 and again in 1997.
In 2001, UDG and Televisa signed an agreement under which UDG supplied some programs to be broadcast on Televisa's local channel 4, XHG-TV.
On January 27, 2010, Cofetel at last approved the award of a permit for a non-commercial television station to the University of Guadalajara to construct XHUDG-TV. The station went on the air on January 31, 2011, with a staff of 100. The University of Guadalajara thus became the sixth university in Mexico to sign on a television station.
Not long after, UDG applied for a digital companion channel for its station, and in November 2013, the first test transmissions of XHUDG-TDT (RF channel 46) were broadcast. On December 16, 2015, XHUDG, along with other television stations in Guadalajara, shut off its analog signal and went digital-only. This facility continues to operate, though a failure to renew the original concession led to a call sign change to XHCPCT-TDT with a new concession effective January 1, 2022.
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