XHAL-TDT (channel 5) is a television station in Las Lajas, Veracruz, Mexico, owned and operated by Grupo Televisa. The station carries the Canal 5 network since its inception.
Although XHAJ started regular broadcasting in November 1968,[1] the concession was likely already operational in April 1965, when Guillermo González Camarena, owner of XHGC-TDT (to which the station was an affiliate) inspected its transmitter and would eventually die in a car accident on April 18.[2] The initial concessionaire was Televisora Regional Veracruzana, which got its license awarded on Ocobet 22, 1964.[3]
In its early years, XHAJ carried classes from the Telesecundaria system, relayed directly from XHGC, which was conceived by Guillermo González Camarena shortly before his death (and started on the Canal 5 network in 1968).[4] From 1987 to 1995, it aired the TV Matutina (later Supercadena 8) programming block alongside most XHGC affiliates outside Mexico City.[5]
XHAJ operates a relay station in San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz, sharing virtual channel 28 with the main station in Xalapa.[6]
