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XETV is the callsign for San Diego 6 The CW, a full service border blaster television station in San Diego, California. The station is licensed to Tijuana, and is owned by Televisa, who has a local marketing agreement with Entravision of Santa Monica. It is the local sister station to XHDTV. Its digital signal is seen on channel 23.1, but because they are a Mexico station, they will be allowed to keep analog channel 6 on until Mexico's digital transition is completed in 2015.

The station signed on in the 1950s as a supplement to the San Diego television market after the city had run out of VHF television allotments. It was independent until 1956, when the station was permitted to have ABC affiliation. As a Mexican station, XETV had to have ABC shows bicycled to them from another source (recorded elsewhere and the tapes/films transported physically to the station). This didn't last, as KNSD, channel 39, successfully wrestled affiliation away on July 1, 1973, when KNSD was independent KCST. The station charged that a Mexican station could not be affiliated with an American network. It remained independent for two more decades until it affiliated with FOX. Again, as with ABC, XETV had to have FOX shows bicycled to them until 1994 when FOX won the NFC football package from CBS. XETV was granted a waiver to air the football games live as well as the rest of FOX's shows. Independent KUSI, channel 51, tried to block the waiver in an attempt to steal FOX from XETV but failed.

On August 1, 2008, FOX moved its affiliation to KSWB, channel 69, which had been a CW affiliate. XETV switched to The CW network at that time. They call themselves "San Diego 6 The CW" as they continue to fight losing the Fox affiliation in court. XETV airs CW shows at their scheduled times except for the weekday afternoon shows and two hours of the 4Kids On CW Saturday morning cartoons. The afternoon programs air late night/early morning from 3 AM to 5 AM, 12 hours after their regular airings, while the 7 AM to 9 AM Saturday shows air from 5 AM to 7 AM (local news goes from 7 to 9 AM, followed by the remaining three hours of CW's kids shows).

Due to its Mexican license, the station does not fall under the FCC's must-carry regulation. However, local cable stations choose to carry it anyway, due to the CW network and that channel 6's signal from Mt. San Antonio (west of Tijuana) cannot be seen adequately in north San Diego county areas with regular antennas.

[edit] Current Prime-Time Schedule

Day	7:00	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	11:00
Monday	The Simpsons	The Simpsons	Gossip Girl		One Tree Hill		San Diego 6 News		11@11/San Diego 6 Extra
Tuesday	The Simpsons	The Simpsons	90210		Privileged		San Diego 6 News		11@11/San Diego 6 Extra
Wednesday	The Simpsons	The Simpsons	America's Next Top Model		90210 (encores)		San Diego 6 News		11@11/San Diego 6 Extra
Thursday	The Simpsons	The Simpsons	Smallville		Supernatural		San Diego 6 News		11@11/San Diego 6 Extra
Friday	The Simpsons	The Simpsons	Everybody Hates Chris	The Game	America's Next Top Model (encores)		San Diego 6 News		11@11/San Diego 6 Extra
Saturday	Seinfeld	Seinfeld	Jeremiah		The Dead Zone		San Diego 6 News		South Park
Sunday	In Harm's Way		Valentine		Easy Money		San Diego 6 News	That Sunday Sports Show	South Park

[edit] External Links

Official Site