XEQ was founded in 1969, as XHTM-TV (channel 8), operated by
Televisión Independiente de México (TIM). TIM was headquartered at
Estudios San Angel from the time it signed on. In January 1973, TIM merged with Telesistema Mexicano, becoming Televisión Vía Satélite, better known as
Televisa. TIM's Mexico City headquarters and production center became
Televisa San Angel, which along with Televisa's original Chapultepec facility, is one of the network's two primary Mexico City studios. In 1985,
Imevisión desired to add a VHF station in Mexico City, which became
XHIMT-TV channel 7. In order to accomplish this, a complex channel swap was conducted involving XHTM and Televisa's relay stations at
Altzomoni in the State of Mexico. XEX-TV, then on channel 7, was moved to 8, and XEQ-TV, then on 9, was moved to channel 10. As part of the move, Televisa moved the XEQ-TV callsign to Mexico City, so the two repeaters on Puebla became XEX-TV and
XHTM-TV. For much of the 1980s, Televisa devoted channel 9 to noncommercial cultural and educational programming. This ended in 1992 with XEQ-TV returning to commercial programming. In 2018, the concessions of all Televisa-owned Nu9ve stations were consolidated in the concessionaire Teleimagen del Noroeste, S.A. de C.V., as part of a corporate reorganization of Televisa's concessionaires. ==Technical information==