XHVRG-TDT

XHVRG-TDT, virtual channel 53 (UHF digital channel 27), is a Spanish-language independent station licensed to, and serving the  in lower  and northern. Known on air as Canal 53, the station has had a variety of affiliations since signing on the air in 1990 and also produces programs such as local news. The station is owned by the -based and is licensed to the concessionaire Televisión del Valle de Río Grande, S.A de C.V.

History
In 1988, Arnoldo Cabada de la O, owner of in, received a concession to operate channel 53 in Matamoros, with callsign XHDZ-TV. The station came on the air in October 1990 as XHVRG-TV. For the first 5 years of its life, XHVRG carried an entirely local program schedule.

In 1994, Arnoldo managed to get XHVRG-TV a charter affiliation with the English-language U.S. network in the runup to it's January 1995 launch. This was an attempt to earn better ratings on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande Valley market.

Between 1998 and 2003, the station sold it's Sunday afternoon paid programming time to a -based production company, out of which arose the furry-oriented Fur TV (first an online-only operation, now includes a OTA network).

On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW. One month later on February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced the launch of a new "sixth" network called MyNetworkTV, which would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. XHVRG-TV became the Rio Grande Valley's MyNetworkTV affiliate when the network launched on September 5, 2006.

In 2013, XHVRG-TV dropped MyNetworkTV in favor of. In 2015, it reverted to a Spanish-language independent.