XHAS-TDT

XHAS-TDT, virtual channel 33 (UHF digital channel 34), is a Telemundo-affiliated television station serving the San Diego–Tijuana international metropolitan area that is licensed to Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The station is operated by the Entravision Communications Corporation under a time brokerage agreement (with the station's license and transmitter owned by a Mexican company), and is a sister station to MyNetworkTV affiliate XHDTV-TDT (channel 49), Univision affiliate KBNT-CD (channel 17) and Telefutura affiliate KDTF-LD (channel 51). All four stations share studio facilities located on Ruffin Road in the Kearny Mesa section of San Diego, California, United States; XHAS maintains transmitter facilities on Mount San Antonio in Tijuana.

History

The station first signed on the air in 1981; it originally operated as an affiliate of the Mexico-based network Canal de las Estrellas. In 1990, XHAS switched its affiliation to the U.S.-based Spanish language network Telemundo.