XHRIO-TV
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| Brownsville / McAllen / Harlingen, Texas | |
| City of license | Matamoros, Tamaulipas |
| Branding | FOX Rio 2 (general) FOX 2 News (newscasts) My 2 (for MNTV programs) |
| Slogan | At 9, it's news, at 10, it's history |
| Channels | Analog: 2 (VHF); cable 6 |
| Affiliations | Fox MyNetworkTV (secondary) MTV Tr3s (secondary) |
| Owner | Entravision (license and transmitter owned by a Mexican company) |
| Call letters’ meaning | XH = Mexican callsign RIO Grande Valley |
| Former callsigns | XHRIO-TV (to the late 1990s) XHHUPN-TV (late 1990s-2005) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (to the late-1980s) Telemundo (late 1980s-early 1990s) UPN (late 1990s-2005) |
| Website | foxrio2.com |
XHRIO-TV, channel 2, is the local Fox affiliate for the Lower Rio Grande Valley. It is licensed to Matamoros, Mexico, but serves American audiences across the Rio Grande from studios in McAllen, Texas. Known as FOX RIO 2 or FOX XRIO, XHRIO is one of two Fox affiliates that broadcast from Mexico (San Diego / Tijuana's XETV-TV is the other). It can be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 6 in analog and digital cable channel 870 in high definition], as well as on sister station KNVO's third digital subchannel. XHRIO is operated by KNVO owner Entravision under a local marketing agreement; Mexican law does not allow foreigners to own any media outlets.
XHRIO carries the full Fox schedule, along with MyNetworkTV programming nightly at 10 p.m., and MTV Tr3s during late night and early morning hours (generally 1 a.m. to 9 a.m.).
Because it is licensed in Mexico, XHRIO is exempt from the requirement to stop analog broadcasting after February 17, 2009 that US full power TV stations are subject to; Mexico has a different timetable for its own transition to digital, which is expected to be complete by 2021.
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[edit] History
The station signed on in the late 1970s as an English language independent station, running primarily reruns of older US shows. However, technical difficulties plagued the station, and thus it was never able to establish an advertising base in the English market. As a result, channel 2 would later become a Spanish language station, first as a local channel for Matamoros viewers, and later as a Telemundo affiliate. In the late 1990s, the station reverted back to English language programming and became XHHUPN-TV, a UPN affiliate. In 2005, the station reverted back to the XHRIO-TV calls (which it had previously used before joining UPN) and dropped UPN for Fox.
Fox programming had previously been seen on XHFOX channel 17, but in the early 2000s, station owner Televisa dumped the Fox affiliation and flipped that channel to a XEW-TV repeater. Prior to XHFOX's arrival and before XHRIO took Fox, Lower Rio Grande viewers on the American side received the network from the nationwide Foxnet channel.
[edit] Newscast
On March 12, 2007, XHRIO debuted FOX 2 News at Nine. The 30 minute newscast airs Monday through Friday at 9 p.m. This newscast was XHRIO's first, although it was not the first in the area (as XHFOX produced one while it was a Fox affiliate). Like many Fox affiliates, XHRIO takes advantage of the network's shorter primetime schedule by scheduling their newscasts an hour before the other local affiliates in the region. In addition to local/national news, weather and sports, FOX 2 News also includes "Around The World In 80 Seconds", an 80 second segment dedicated to International news, health news and entertainment news.
[edit] News team
- Anchors: Octavio Saenz,Irma Saenz
- Weather: Robert Ceballos
- Sports: Alex Del Barrio
- Health: Anna Ramirez
- Entertainment:Danielle Longoria
[edit] Carriage issues
Because XHRIO is licensed and broadcasting from Mexico, it is not covered under US "must-carry" regulations from the FCC. This means that, apart from low-powered affiliates in the US, XHRIO is one of only two Fox affiliates that local cable systems are not required to carry (XETV is the other). However, US cable systems are effectively required to carry XHRIO anyway, since it is operated by Entravision, which owns stations on the American side of the border—the same must-carry rules give full-powered American stations the option of "retransmission consent", or requesting compensation from cable systems to carry their station. In this case, KNVO, an Entravision-owned Univision affiliate in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, can require cable systems to offer XHRIO on their systems as part of the compensation for carrying KNVO.
On September 27, 2006, DirecTV added XHRIO to its lineup in the Rio Grande Valley market; prior to that date, DirecTV viewers in that market received Fox programming from Corpus Christi's K47DF.
On September 14, 2007, Time Warner Cable added XHRIO-DT to its HD service on channel 870. Like many other HD channels on the local Time Warner Cable system, XHRIO-DT can be picked up on basic cable by connecting the cable directly into an HDTV with a built-in ATSC tuner; when tuned to in this manner, it is found on channel 127.
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