XHTAM-TDT (channel 2) is atelevision station located inReynosa,Tamaulipas, Mexico, whose over-the-air signal also covers theRio Grande Valley across theinternational border in the United States. The station is owned byGrupo Televisa and carries itsLas Estrellas andCanal 5 networks. It is one of two Las Estrellas stations in the Rio Grande Valley,XERV-TDT being the other.

The station signed on for the first time on September 4, 1994, as XHFOX-TV (changed from the original XHRTA-TV before launch), broadcasting programming from theFox network for Texas' Rio Grande Valley; prior to XHFOX's sign-on and after its switch to Las Estrellas in 2002, viewers in the valley (includingMcAllen) received their Fox programs on cable via the nationalFoxnet service. In 2001, its final year as a Fox affiliate, XHFOX broadcast a local newscast at 9:00 p.m. produced byKRGV-TV.^[2]

In 2002, XHFOX disaffiliated from Fox and became XHTAM-TV, largely rebroadcasting programming from Las Estrellas.^[2] The Fox affiliation was carried over toXHRIO-TV from 2005 to 2012; Fox programming today can be seen onKFXV.

The station's digital signal ismultiplexed:

XHTAM is one of two Canal 5 transmitters not using virtual channel 5 because the number is used by a nearby U.S. station, in this case KRGV-TV.

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