its own advertising. The station began taking programs from Imevisión to fill the local window instead. In September 1990, given the uneasy state of relations between station and network, XHAS switched its affiliation to the U.S.-based Spanish-language network Telemundo; the Síntesis newscast moved from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. as a result of the changes. The Telemundo affiliation switch also resulted in a letter from the SCT, asking it to explain its "arbitrary" affiliation change. In December 1994, new management at XHAS fired the Síntesis team and built their own news department; after five months on local radio, Síntesis moved to XHJK and Televisión Azteca, where it remained for eight years. Entravision acquired operating control in 2000, resulting in a lawsuit from Telemundo, which claimed it had right of first refusal and wanted to purchase the outlet for $30 million. A weekday 6 p.m. newscast launched in 2002. XHAS carried 109 Spanish-language telecasts of the San Diego Padres in the 2005 season. In January 2017, NBC announced that it was hiring people for KNSD with the intention of launching a new Telemundo O&O station in San Diego, replacing XHAS-TDT (whose affiliation expired on 30 June 2017). Telemundo programming moved to a subchannel of KNSD (Now KUAN-LD) on 1 July 2017 at 12:00 AM. At the same time, XHAS became an affiliate of Azteca América; the network, which had been affiliated with KZSD-LP, was carried on a subchannel of sister station XHDTV-TDT from 15 March 2017 until XHAS joined the network. It was announced in October 2022 that Intermedia, owner of XHILA-TDT in Mexicali, would take over programming for the station on 2 November, to be called "Canal 33". Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital transition While the United States completed its transition to full-power digital television on 12 June 2009, Mexico made the transition over a period of several years four years later, XHAS-TV discontinued its analog signal on 28 May 2013, as all television stations in the Tijuana metropolitan area were required to convert to digital-exclusive broadcasts on that date as part of a pilot program; the stations were later ordered to resume analog transmissions until 18 July 2013 due to concerns about the interaction of the shutoff with state elections. Newscasts XHAS-TDT presently broadcasts 7½ hours of local newscasts each week (with 90 minutes each weekday); the station does not produce newscasts on Saturdays