It's come up a bit in the one thread where we mentioned CBC coverage as far in as Toledo, but what about international OTA stations across the border in general (excluding TV border blasters like XETV or XHAS)?
Mexico makes for an interesting start.
Time Warner in El Centro and Yuma is fairly similar, but there's some difference. XHILA/66.x Mexicali has cable channel 14 in both cities, while a repeater of Canal de las Estrellas occupies channel 18 (XHLRT/44 San Luis del Rio Colorado in Yuma, XHBM/14 Mexicali in El Centro). El Centro viewers also get Televisa independent XHBC. There are massive omissions of Televisa's other networks and both TV Azteca stations, as well as Telemax, the Sonora state network (which is on 50 in SLRC, 10 kW).
I also thought to look at Nogales, where the cable provider is Mediacom. Both Azteca networks are represented (with the listing showing XHCAN/4 Cananea as the Azteca 7 source but XHFA/2 is spurned for the national Azteca 13 feed), as is XEW (local repeater XHNOS-50). Missing again are Televisa's other networks and Telemax, which somehow has not a single repeater in Nogales proper even though Sonora's state network has the most transmitters of any of Mexico's state networks (many of them at ridiculously low powers in very small communities!). XHNSS, which is comparatively an independent (affiliated with tiny cadenatres but heavy on the local news), is also carried.
It's really unusual that two of Televisa's three national networks don't have any American cable coverage in these border markets, and even more baffling that neither Azteca station is carried on cable in the Imperial Valley. (Potential viewers of these stations would need an antenna.)
Mexico makes for an interesting start.
Time Warner in El Centro and Yuma is fairly similar, but there's some difference. XHILA/66.x Mexicali has cable channel 14 in both cities, while a repeater of Canal de las Estrellas occupies channel 18 (XHLRT/44 San Luis del Rio Colorado in Yuma, XHBM/14 Mexicali in El Centro). El Centro viewers also get Televisa independent XHBC. There are massive omissions of Televisa's other networks and both TV Azteca stations, as well as Telemax, the Sonora state network (which is on 50 in SLRC, 10 kW).
I also thought to look at Nogales, where the cable provider is Mediacom. Both Azteca networks are represented (with the listing showing XHCAN/4 Cananea as the Azteca 7 source but XHFA/2 is spurned for the national Azteca 13 feed), as is XEW (local repeater XHNOS-50). Missing again are Televisa's other networks and Telemax, which somehow has not a single repeater in Nogales proper even though Sonora's state network has the most transmitters of any of Mexico's state networks (many of them at ridiculously low powers in very small communities!). XHNSS, which is comparatively an independent (affiliated with tiny cadenatres but heavy on the local news), is also carried.
It's really unusual that two of Televisa's three national networks don't have any American cable coverage in these border markets, and even more baffling that neither Azteca station is carried on cable in the Imperial Valley. (Potential viewers of these stations would need an antenna.)
