XHAS-TDT

XHAS-TDT

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Tijuana, Baja California/San Diego, California Mexico/United States
Branding	Telemundo 33 (general) Noticiero 33 (newscasts)
Slogan	Te Da Más
Channels	Digital: 34 (UHF) Virtual: 33 (PSIP)
Subchannels	33.1 Telemundo 33.2 LATV
Affiliations	Telemundo
Owner	Entravision Communications Corporation (license and transmitter owned by a Mexican company) (Tele Nacional, S. de R.L. de C.V.)
First air date	1981 (1981)
Sister station(s)	KBNT-CD, XHDTV-TDT
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 33 (UHF, 1981–2013)
Former affiliations	Canal de las Estrellas (1981–1990)
Transmitter power	400 kW
Height	236 m
Facility ID	178637
Transmitter coordinates
Licensing authority	IFT
Website	www.telemundo33.com

XHAS-TDT, virtual channel 33 (UHF digital channel 34), is a Telemundo-affiliated television station serving the San Diego–Tijuana international metropolitan area that is licensed to Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The station is operated by the Entravision Communications Corporation under a time brokerage agreement (with the station's license and transmitter owned by a Mexican company), and is a sister station to MyNetworkTV affiliate XHDTV-TDT (channel 49), Univision affiliate KBNT-CD (channel 17) and Telefutura affiliate KDTF-LD (channel 51). All four stations share studio facilities located on Ruffin Road in the Kearny Mesa section of San Diego, California, United States; XHAS maintains transmitter facilities on Mount San Antonio in Tijuana.

History

The station first signed on the air in 1981; it originally operated as an affiliate of the Mexico-based network Canal de las Estrellas. In 1990, XHAS switched its affiliation to the U.S.-based Spanish language network Telemundo.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming
33.1	1080i	16:9	TELEMU	Main XHAS-TV programming / Telemundo
33.2	480i	4:3	LATV	LATV

Analog-to-digital transition

While the United States completed its transition to full-power digital television on June 12, 2009, Mexico is making the transition to digital-only television broadcasts over several years in order from the largest population centers to the smallest; the country's digital television transition expected to be completed by December 31, 2015. XHAS-TV discontinued its analog signal on May 28, 2013, as all television stations in the Tijuana metropolitan area were required to convert to digital-exclusive broadcasts on that date.

Newscasts

XHAS-TV presently broadcasts five hours of local newscasts each week (with one hour on weekdays); the station does not produce newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays. The station broadcasts half-hour local newscasts each weeknight at 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. While it competes with the local newscasts on Univision-affiliated sister station KBNT-CD seen in the same timeslotes, as the two stations share studio facilities in Entravision's building, XHAS focuses its newscasts more on issues affecting Tijuana (competing against locally-programmed XEWT-TDT (channel 12)), while KBNT-CD focuses more on San Diego.

News team

Current on-air staff

Anchors

• Martin Borchard - news anchor; weeknights at 6:00 and 11:00 p.m.
• Humberto Gurmilan - sports anchor; weeknights at 6:00 and 11:00 p.m.

Reporters

• Yolanda Cabellero - general assignment reporter
• Claudia Orozco - general assignment reporter
• Adriana Rodriguez - general assignment reporter

External links

• www.telemundo33.com - XHAS-TV official website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for XHAS-TV (pertains to transmitter site, which is on the California side of the market)