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| Channels | |
| Branding | SICOM Televisión |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | Independent educational Canal 22 TV UNAM DW Canal 44 de Guadalajara |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Gobierno del Estado de Puebla |
| History | |
| Founded | November 26, 2003 |
Former call signs |
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Former channel numbers | 26 (analog, 2003–2015; digital virtual, 2015–2021) |
| Canal Once (to mid-2005) | |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | IFT |
| Transmitter coordinates | 19°04′39″N98°20′42″W / 19.07750°N 98.34500°W /19.07750; -98.34500 |
| Links | |
| Website | sicom |
SICOM Televisión (virtual channel 16) is the statewidepublic television network of the Mexican state ofPuebla, with transmitters inPuebla City andZacatlán. It is part of theSICOM, Sistema Estatal de Telecomunicaciones (State Telecommunications System), which also providespublic radio service in the state. Covering a little over 40% of the state (by population), it offers educational, cultural and alternative programming, much of which is locally generated content intended to address the needs, expectations and lives of Pueblan society.[1] It also airs programming fromCanal 22,TV UNAM,DW andCanal 44 de Guadalajara
The network has transmitters inPuebla City andZacatlán.
XHPUE-TV channel 26 received its permit in 2003, preceded by four years by the Zacatlán transmitter, originally permitted in 1999 as XHPZL-TV on channel 4. The original five-year permit for the Zacatlán transmitter expired in 2004, but XHPBZC-TDT 11 was not authorized as its replacement until 2017.
XHPUE was licensed for digital and analog transmissions on the same channel 26 in 2014; this made it one of the first two stations with such intermittent authorization, alongsideXHMNL-TV in Monterrey. After several tests, it flash-cut to digital in March 2015.
On August 18, 2021, due to the impending expiration of the XHPUE-TDT concession at the end of the year, theFederal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) authorized the modification of XHPBZC-TDT's statutory coverage area to include the entire state of Puebla, conditioned on the surrender of the Puebla City concession, which took effect December 3, 2021. At the same time, the recently renamed SET Televisión began using virtual channel 16.[2][3]
In 2023, the original SICOM name was restored after a state government study found that eight out of ten residents surveyed across 21 municipalities continued to call the state network SICOM despite being out of use for twelve years.[4]
| RF | Location | ERP |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | Zacatlán | 180 watts |
| 26 | Puebla City | 72.8 kW |
