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En Familia con Chabelo was a Mexican children's-family television program hosted by Xavier López Chabelo which was broadcast live in México City on Canal 2 of Televisa. Its first broadcast was on November 26, 1967.

The program was broadcast on the Sunday bar of Canal de las Estrellas with a schedule from 7:00 a.m. to to 10:00 a.m. being a program with the highest number of ratings each weekend.

It premiered on Canal 2 (currently Las Estrellas) on November 26, 1967 and ended on December 20, 2015 después de más de 48 años al aire, after more than 48 years on the air, being temporarily replaced in its space by the Christmas episodes of the shows El Chavo del 8 and El Chapulín Colorado, as well as the film Don Ratón y don Ratero on December 27, 2015,     in which, in the end, it was definitively replaced by the block of classic Mexican films from the network Las Estrellas, known as Clásicos para recordar from Sunday, January 3, 2016 to the present.

Duration and interruptions
From November 26, 1967 until its end on December 20, 2015 and with a total of 2,448 programs on the air, En Familia con Chabelo was broadcast for 48 years almost without interruption, however there were occasions when they had to interrupt, cut or even not air the show:

Some interruptions:


 * For illnesses and accidents of Xavier López Chabelo.
 * Special broadcasts of the yOlympic Games.
 * The visits of Pope Juan Pablo II to Mexico.
 * During April and May 2009 due to the Influenza H1N1 disease pandemic (because there was no public as a result of said pandemic). As a consequence, on Sundays April 26, May 3 and May 10, 2009, episodes from previous years were rebroadcast instead as a special of the show.
 * The tribute to Chespirito and the broadcast of the América Celebra a Chespirito program, which occurred on March 11, 2012, which, as a consequence, the En Familia con Chabelo program had a special broadcast for 2 hours that Sunday (from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.). m to 9:00 a.m.)..
 * On March 25, 2012, for the visit of Pope Benedicto XVI to Mexico
 * On July 1, 2012, due to the 2012 presidential election in Mexico
 * Transmission of the 2014 Brazil Soccer World Cup (necessarily when the Mexican National Team participated in a World Cup match), which on Sunday June 29, 2014 was not broadcast on the Sunday program due to the broadcast of the Netherlands VS Mexico match within said world cup started at 10:00 a.m. m.. Instead, the morning magazine program Hoy Mundialista was broadcast in its space with a schedule from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

Sections
During its 48 years on the air, the En Familia con Chabelo program was structured as follows:


 * Just at the beginning of the program, the attendance list by Jorge Alberto Aguilera.
 * Some opening musical piece performed by Xavier López Chabelo.
 * The dice game, always contested by Chabelo himself against Jorge Alberto Aguilera and with the participation of the audience.
 * The question game, either by two contestants or by the public.
 * Children's Contest Games always sponsored by a particular brand (La Escalera Loca, trivia contests, relay races, soccer game, among others)
 * Los Cuates de la Provincia / Los Cuates de América: Section led by Jorge Alberto Aguilera, which consisted of a game of completing the lyrics, either from a sponsoring brand or from the same name of the program, this always carried out by telephone with a participant, either coming from the interior of the Mexican Republic or within the American continent, whose prize to the winner was always cash ($1,000.00 M.N. or more in the section of the Cuates de Provincia and $100.00. USD or more in the case of the section of the Cuates of America).
 * Special guest, which can be a singer who performs a song or a comedian who performs his show within the program.
 * Las puntadas de los chiquillos y las chiquillas (2006) / Sonrisas en Familia (2011), which consists of segments in the form of comic sketches performed by girls and boys of that time and sometimes by adult actors and Chabelo himself. These were transmitted either before a commercial break, when a section of the Cuates de la Provincia/América ended, or when a game or contest of the program ended in its entirety.
 * Product presentations before each game or contest (sponsorships).
 * La Catafixia, the final section of the program that consists of a contest between three participants present in the program who were drawn and selected before the commercial break, who won first place in a game or contest, when the participants had to choose between a prize or another, to which Xavier López Chabelo invited each of the three selected participants whether to keep the gifts already won in a contest or return them and enter the 'Catafixia', always with the risk of improving or worsening their prize to through three options in the form of small curtains, whose prizes to improve consisted of living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, televisions and mattresses, all of them sponsored by the mexican furniture store, Muebles Troncoso, while the third option was frequently joke gifts, such as a live turkey for the holidays, the giant backpack on the way back to school, a cauldron or a person disguised as a cupid or a soccer player, among others.
 * Some closing piece of music performed by Xavier López Chabelo.
 * Farewell to the program, by Chabelo together with his collaborators.

Cast

 * Xavier López Rodríguez 'Chabelo'  (1967-2015)
 * Jorge Alberto Aguilera (1990-2015)
 * Eugenio Derbez
 * Verónica Castro (1968-1974)
 * Francisco Suárez 'El Mago Frank'


 * Program musicians::
 * Ángel Jalili
 * Pepe Torres


 * Los Cuates de Chabelo (Hostees):
 * Odemaris Ruiz
 * Viviana
 * César
 * Lalo
 * Toñito
 * Ferko
 * Karla Bernal 
 * Charly
 * Araceli Rangel 

Sponsors
During the broadcasts of the program there were several sponsors who participated on the air. Editorial Novaro was the first sponsor that was present in the broadcasts of the program in the early years and in fact because of Novaro's sponsorship, the program was originally called En Familia con "EN", using the editorial's acronym. Throughout the years, more sponsors would give Xavier López the confidence to promote and give gifts of his products in his contests that he presented in each transmission, of which the following stand out:


 * Sabritas
 * Sonrics
 * Muebles Troncoso
 * Ingles Sin Barrera
 * Duvalín
 * Zapatos Chabelo
 * Bubble Gummers
 * Tutsi Pop
 * Marinela
 * Yoplait
 * Bimbo
 * Barcel
 * Gamesa
 * Paletón
 * Nesquik
 * Chocomilk
 * Selz Soda
 * Paleta Mini Reloj
 * Ricolino
 * Skittles
 * M&M's
 * Audiotech
 * Frutsi
 * Hermanos Vázquez
 * Pepsi
 * Sprite
 * Dr. Pepper
 * Jumex
 * McCormick
 * Vips
 * Apoyo Económico
 * Agua Inmaculada
 * Chenson
 * Muebles B&B
 * Duncan
 * Hasbro
 * Mattel

Awards
Both Xavier López Chabelo and En Familia con Chabelo received several awards and recognitions:


 * During the transmission of the program in 2012, he received a Tribute for his 2,300 programs broadcast on the air.
 * Likewise, the program has a Record Guinness for the longest trajectory of a children's program for 44 years.
 * On January 18, 2015, as a special of the program, episode 2,400 was broadcast, in which a commemorative plaque was unveiled by the then international president of Televisa Pepe Bastón, for the recording and broadcast of 2,400 programs on the air in that moment.

End of the program
It was on November 27, 2015 when Xavier López Chabelo announced through his social networks that the program would end its broadcasts on Sunday, December 20, 2015, due to programming changes on Canal de las Estrellas.

Also the last episode of the program was broadcast in the United States of America on Galavisión (television network owned by Univision) broadcast one week after its broadcast in Mexico, on Sunday December 27, 2015 at 12PM/11C.

The last episode surpassed the rating of even previous shows. In the broadcast there were great guests, among them Yuri who dedicated a song and some phrases to the driver; it was also attended by Emilio Azcárraga Jean, President of Televisa and finally, a letter was received from the former president of the republic Enrique Peña Nieto.

Letter from former president Peña Nieto to Chabelo
During the broadcast of the last program and while the former president Enrique Peña Nieto was on the air, he sent a letter to Chabelo expressing his congratulations for 48 years of the program and regretted that the program has come to an end.

"Today an emblematic stage of Mexican television ends, in which his iconic character brought fun to the homes of Mexico." Fragment of the letter sent to Xavier López

Special Posthumous Tribute
After the death of Xavier López Rodríguez on March 25, 2023, Televisa announced on its social networks that on March 26, 2023 they were going to broadcast the actor and comedian's programming, including the retransmission of the En Familia con Chabelo program with the hours from 8:00 a.m. m. to 11:00 a.m. m. by Las Estrellas n open television and also broadcast simultaneously on its sister cable television channel Distrito Comedia, retransmitting the episode originally broadcast on March 5, 2006.

Children's Day Special
On the social networks of Las Estrellas it was announced that on April 30, 2023, on the occasion of Children's Day in Mexico, the En Familia con Chabelo program would be broadcast on its Sunday programming from 8:00 a.m. to. m. to 11:00 a.m. m., whose rebroadcast episode was the one originally aired on July 9, 2006.

Before the broadcast of the program, at 6:00 a.m. m. a Chilindrina film called La Chilindrina in distress would be broadcast and at the end of the En Familia con Chabelo program the sports program Más Deporte would be broadcast.