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XHTV was Mexico's first television station and one of the building blocks of Telesistema Mexicano, which became Televisa in 1973.

Romulo O'Farril received the concession for XHTV in 1949, granted to Televisora de México S.A., owned by Novedades, O'Farril's existing newspaper. The station received equipment starting in March 1950, ending with the delivery of a mobile studio in July that year.{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Maintenance/50s/Radio-Maintenance-1950-07.pdf |title=Radio and Television Maintenance |date=July 1950 |accessdate=13 September 2024 |page=28 }} Test broadcasts started on July 5.{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-TV-Digest/50s/Television-Digest-1950-06.pdf |title=Television Digest |date=24 June 1950 |accessdate=13 September 2024 |page=15 }} Its facilities were located at the National Lottery Building, the highest in the city at the time. Around 2,000 sets picked up its signal.{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Maintenance/50s/Radio-Maintenance-1950-07.pdf |title=Electronics |date=September 1950 |accessdate=13 September 2024 |page=130 }} Its broadcasts started on September 1 with the live coverage of the annual presidential message to the opening of the Congress,{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Electronics/50s/1950/Radio-Electronics-1950-11.pdf |title=Radio Electronics |date=November 1950 |accessdate=13 September 2024 |page=14 }} followed by regular programming from 5pm (the first program being Teatro de la Fantasía) to 7:30pm, which included an extended news bulletin with comments of the presidential ceremony.Revista Tele*Guia. Edición Especial 40 aniversario. Tomo I. August 1992. Page 76. The official inauguration, however, took place the previous day, on August 31, with a "artistic musical" program from the Jockey Club of the Hipódromo de las Américas with the participation of the Secretary of Communications, Agustín García López. Initially, it aired regular programming for two hours a day each evening,{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Electronics/50s/Electronics-1950-10.pdf |title=Electronics |date=October 1950 |accessdate=13 September 2024 |page=62 }} from 5pm to 7pm, with longer programming on Sundays from 4pm to 7pm.{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Televiser/Televiser-1950-11.pdf |title=Televiser |date=November 1950 |accessdate=13 September 2024 |page=12 }} In order to increase its production capacities, the station moved to two new premises in 1951, with studios at Bucareli street number 4 and Balderas street.

An American survey from a correspondent to TV-Radio Life magazine in 1952 said that O'Farrill's programs were "poorly produced", that the films seen on the station were older than in the United States at the time and that the quality of the technical staff was "questionable", paling in contrast to XEW.{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Life/50s/52/Radio-TV-Life-1952-04-11.pdf |title=TV-Radio Life |date=11 April 1952 |accessdate=13 September 2024 |page=7 }} At the end of the year, XHTV triumphed over XEW in theatrical performances and remote broadcasts, but lost its grip on operatic broadcasts when XEW's program presented by Raúl Chávez beat XETV's analog in the second half of the year.[https://books.google.pt/books?id=4F9EAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA4 La Televisión Tuvo Grandes Éxitos en México Durante el Año de 1952, La Opinión, 13 January 1953]

In 1955, XHTV became a part of Telesistema Mexicano,[https://web.archive.org/web/20070528042519/http://www.mexicanadecomunicacion.com.mx/Tables/FMB/foromex/minima.html Historia mínima de la televisión mexicana (1928-1996)] and, as consequence, it moved to the new Televicentro facilities shared by the three stations.Boletín Radiofónico, number 62, March 31, 1955

In 2001, XHTV began using the name 4TV with a program lineup targeted at the Mexico City area; from January 2003 it adopted a new logo and the slogan "El Canal de la Ciudad" (The City Channel).{{Cite web |url=https://www.merca20.com/televisa-se-publicita/ |title=Televisa se publicita |date=14 January 2003 |access-date=14 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820025622/https://www.merca20.com/televisa-se-publicita/ |archive-date=20 August 2014 }} For the 2009-2010 season of the channel, its morning program Matutino Express increased its length by one hour and Ellas con estrellas moved to an 11am timeslot. Its former late afternoon slot was filled by canned programming.{{Cite web |url=https://wradio.com.mx/radio/2009/08/21/sociedad/1250876760_865260.html |title=Canal 4 está de manteles largos; su programación cambiará, los detalles con Javier Poza y Esteban Arce |date=21 August 2009 |access-date=14 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240914131501/https://wradio.com.mx/radio/2009/08/21/sociedad/1250876760_865260.html |archive-date=14 September 2024 }}

On August 30, 2010 (sixty years after the channel was founded), the channel's name was changed to FOROtv (literally "Forum TV"), with most of Televisa's news programs moved here, such as Las Noticias por Adela (from XEQ), and with new news and talk programs being created. Prior to this, the channel, under the name of "Canal de la Ciudad" ("The City's Channel"), broadcast programs targeted at Mexico City's metro area, as well as reruns of American series and blocks of Mexican movies.

Under this format, the channel seeks to emulate the success achieved by its predecessor ECO (which operated from 1988 to 2001). It competes in a crowded cable news space with such channels as TV Azteca's adn40 and Azteca Noticias, Telefórmula, Efekto TV, CNN en Español, Excélsior TV, and Milenio Televisión, among others.

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:{{mexico-MP|access-date=3 November 2018}}

XHTV, along with other Mexico City TV stations, shut off its analog signal on VHF channel 4, on December 17, 2015, at 12:00 a.m., as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 49, using PSIP to display XHTV's virtual channel as 4 on digital television receivers.

In October 2016, XHTV added shopping channel CJ Grand Shopping as subchannel 4.2; this channel was deleted in March 2019 and replaced in June with a new CV Shopping channel wholly owned by Televisa.

On November 3, 2018, XHTV relocated from channel 49 to 15 to allow the 600 MHz band to be used for mobile services. It was the last station to repack in Mexico City.

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Some of the programs on XHTV as Foro TV currently include the following:

• Las Noticias ("The News")
• Estrictamente Personal (Strictly Personal)
• Por las Mañanas (In the Mornings)
• Paralelo 23 ("The 23rd Parallel", passes through central Mexico)
• A las Tres ("At 3:00 p.m.", anchored by Ana Paula Ordorica)
• Hora 21 ("21st Hour"; airs at 9:00 p.m., anchored by Julio Patán)
• En Una Hora ("In One Hour")
• El Centro del Debate ("Debate Center")
• Agenda Pública ("The Public Agenda")
• Es La Hora De Opinar ("It's Time for Your Opinions")
• Fractal (tech news)
• Noticias MX (Mexico City report, anchored by Enrique Campos Suarez)
• Por el Planeta (ecology news)

• National Football League (one live game per week)
• Major League Baseball
• Liga MX (certain matches in special cases)
• Copa MX (only the final game)
• Formula 1
• NASCAR Toyota Series

• Las Noticias por Adela
• El Mañanero
• Versus (daily sports news)

• Noticieros Televisa

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