Mexican Telesystem

Telesistema Mexicano was an alliance formed by independently owned television stations XEW-TV Canal 2, XHTV-TV Canal 4 and XHGC-TV Canal 5 in Mexico, Distrito Federal.

History

Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta, after having created the largest and most important radio network in Latin America, set out to continue the technological and communications advance in Mexico by building a television station, which was Channel 2; Later, with the merger of channels 2, 4 and 5, Telesistema Mexicano was born, which makes its first transmissions from the building known as Televicentro, located on Avenida Chapultepec No. 18, in the City of Mexico, which later and after the merger of Televisión Independiente de México and Telesistema Mexicano, in 1973 would become Televisa.

When Guillermo González Camarena, one of the main partners of TSM, inventor and main promoter of television and its development in Mexico, died; April 18, 1965 was the first and only time that the channels stopped transmitting, as a sign of mourning, throughout Mexico City.^{[citation required]}