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Grupo Radio Centro
Grupo Radio Centro is a Mexico City-based owner and operator of radio stations. It owns 30 radio stations in Mexico and the United States, including 8 radio stations in Mexico City. History Radio Centro's origins date to 1946, when Francisco Aguirre Jiménez formed the Cadena Radio Continental to operate XEQR-AM 1030 and new station XERC-AM 790 in Mexico City. Organización Radio Centro was formed in 1952, and the current company was founded in 1971. In 1965, it founded OIR (Organización Impulsora de la Radio), which syndicates Radio Centro's formats to stations across Mexico. Its non-Mexico City business extended further in the 1980s, when Radio Centro began selling its formats outside the United States (in 1983) and created Cadena Radio Centro (in 1986) to manage this portion of its operations. Meanwhile, in Mexico City, it had expanded to five AM stations and three new FM outlets. Radio Centro was the second media company to place its FM towers on Cerro del Chiquihuite, to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and financial centers in the world, and is classified as an Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Alpha world city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2024 ranking. Mexico City is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 Boroughs of Mexico City, boroughs or , which are in turn divided into List of neighborhoods in Mexico City, neighborhoods or . The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the list of largest cities#List, sixth-largest metropolitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KQBU (AM)
KQBU (920 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to serve El Paso, Texas, United States. The station is owned by 97.5 Licensee TX, LLC, an American subsidiary of Grupo Radio Centro (GRC). History KQBU received its first license, as KELP, and signed on in 1947 as a 1,000 watt daytime-only station. After ownership by Paso Broadcasting Company and Trinity Broadcasting Corporation, it was sold to Gordon McLendon in 1954. McLendon added a couple of transmission towers in order to add night authority with 500 watts power, as well as to add an antenna for a new TV station, KILT. The old tower site was 4530 Delta Drive on the property used for the city of El Paso sewage treatment plant. In 1957, KELP and its TV station were sold to KELP Radio Corporation, which changed the TV station's calls to KELP-TV. Sales of KELP-AM-TV to Northern Pacific Radio Corporation (in 1961) and John B. Walton (in 1966), and of the AM station to Clear Channel Communications (in 1977), followed. On August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grupo Radiorama
Grupo Radiorama is the largest owner and operator of radio stations in Mexico. Founded in 1970, the company operated nearly 400 radio stations in 2014. History Radiorama was founded on December 9, 1970, by Javier Pérez de Anda and Adrián Pereda López. The two founders had previous experience at other radio groups, such as Organización Radio Centro and Radiópolis. Radiorama started with 7 stations, but grew to 150 by 1985. In 2003, Radiorama and Televisa Radio signed a licensing agreement whereby Radiorama stations would be incorporated into Televisa Radio networks, chiefly Los 40 Principales, W Radio and Ke Buena.Fernando Mejía Barquera"Ganó Televisa" ''Etcétera'' 27 October 2006 Structure Radiorama is structured unusually. While it is related to stations in almost every Mexican state, in some markets it relies on local and regional partners, some of which have their own names, such as Grupo Audiorama Baja California, Grupo AS in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Avanradio-Rad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XEJCC-AM
XEJCC-AM is a radio station on 720 AM in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. It is operated by Grupo Radio Centro Grupo Radio Centro is a Mexico City-based owner and operator of radio stations. It owns 30 radio stations in Mexico and the United States, including 8 radio stations in Mexico City. History Radio Centro's origins date to 1946, when Francisco Agu ... and is known as La Z with a Regional Mexican format. History XEJCC received its concession on November 27, 1989. It operated on 1520 kHz, with a daytime power of 1,000 watts, and was owned by Ana Patricia Eulalia Núñez Cervera. In 2006, Grupo Impulsor de Medios, owned by various executives of Radiorama, bought XEJCC. In March 2010, XEJCC was approved to move from 1520 to 720 kHz. In October 2020, the station abandoned its separate format as El Fonógrafo to simulcast sister station XHEM-FM 103.5. References Radio stations in Chihuahua {{Chihuahua-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHEM-FM
XHEM-FM (103.5 MHz) is a radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ... in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. The station broadcasts a Regional Mexican format known as La Z. History Emmy Pinto Reyes, also the original owner of XHPR-FM (Veracruz, Veracruz), XHPR-FM in Veracruz, Veracruz, received the concession for XHEM in 1970. Until 2015, XHEM carried the Planeta Spanish CHR format; La Z, which had been on XHNZ-FM 107.5, moved here after Grupo Radio México, a predecessor to Grupo Radio Centro outside Mexico City, stopped operating that station. References External links Radio stations in Chihuahua Radio stations established in 1970 Mass media in Ciudad Juárez 1970 establishments in Mexico {{Chihuahua-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHQQ-FM
XHQQ-FM is a radio station in Monterrey, Nuevo León. Mexico. Broadcasting on 93.3 FM, XHQQ is owned by Grupo Radio Centro, and is promoted as "Banda 93.3". History XHQQ began life as XEH-FM, authorized for the even-decimal FM frequency of 93.2 MHz on a concession awarded on December 21, 1963. At the time, Mexico had authorized about 20 FMs on even-decimal frequencies, primarily as studio-transmitter links, though a special few were authorized as main stations; XEWV-FM 89.6 Mexicali, XEH-FM 93.2, and XHM-FM 88.8 Mexico City were among this group. XEH changed calls to XHQQ in the late 1960s, and it remained the last even-frequency FM standing as of 1970. In the early 1970s, XHQQ came in line with most other radio stations in the Americas by moving to an odd-decimal frequency, in this case 93.3. The station came under the ownership of Grupo Radio México, whose largest station cluster is in Monterrey. In 2015, ownership was transferred to Grupo Radio Centro Grupo Radio Cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XESTN-AM
XESTN-AM ( 1540 AM, "Universal") is a Spanish-language radio station in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. It relays programming from XHRED-FM 88.1 in Mexico City. 1540 AM is a United States clear-channel frequency. History The first concession for XESTN was awarded on November 29, 1988, to Jesús D. González González of Grupo Multimedios. The station was originally daytime-only and licensed to Santa Catarina. It was transferred in 2000 to Radio Red, S.A. de C.V., though Radio Red programs had been airing on XESTN since at least 1994. In 2009, the station increased its daytime power to 5,000 watts. On January 14, 2019, concurrent with a major reshuffling and the relaunch of XERC-FM Mexico City as talk station "Radio Centro 97.7", XESTN and XEDKR-AM Guadalajara began simulcasting that station instead of Radio Red. As part of the launch of Radio Centro's TV station, XHFAMX-TDT, on October 31, 2019, Universal moved to XERC-FM and all the talk programming moved back to XHRED-F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XEH-AM
XEH-AM is a radio station on 1420 AM in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. It is owned by Grupo Radio Centro and carries a radio format of Cumbia and Vallenato music. Its transmitter is in San Nicolás de los Garza, just outside Monterrey. XEH is considered one of the earliest radio stations in Mexico, hence its three-letter call sign; its history stretches back to 1921. History XEH is among Mexico's pioneering radio stations, tracing its roots to Constantino de Tárnava's 1921 experimental transmissions of TND ("Tárnava Notre Dame"), the first radio station in Latin America, named for the University of Notre Dame in the United States where he studied electrical engineering. The station went through several call signs as Mexican call letter allotments changed, finally settling on XEH around the time of its first formal concession in 1932. At this point, XEH began branding itself as "The Voice of Monterrey Since 1921". In 1962, de Tárnava sold XEH to Mario Quintanilla, owner of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XEDKR-AM
XEDKR-AM (700 AM, "Universal") is a Spanish-language radio station in Guadalajara. It relays programming from XHRED-FM 88.1 in Mexico City. 700 kHz is a United States clear-channel frequency. History The first concession for 700 AM in Zapopan was awarded on October 17, 1953, for XEAR-AM and awarded to J. de Jesús Franco Gómez. By the 1960s, the station was transferred to Asociación Radiofónica, S.A., and sometime between 1969 and 1974, the callsign was changed to the present XEDKR-AM as a result of its acquisition by Radio Grupo DK (the Guadalajara arm of Radio Programas de México). It was known as Radio Ambiente in the early 1970s and by the late 1980s had become a direct repeater of Radio Red. It was transferred in 1991 to XEDKR-AM, S.A. de C.V., and sold along with the rest of RPM to Grupo Radio Centro in 1995. On January 14, 2019, concurrent with a major reshuffling and the relaunch of XERC-FM Mexico City as talk station "Radio Centro 97.7", XEDKR and XESTN-AM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XEQR-FM
XEQR-FM is a radio station in Mexico City. Located on 107.3 MHz, XEQR-FM is owned by Grupo Radio Centro and carries a grupera format as "La Z". XEQR-FM broadcasts in HD and carries two subchannels, known as La Z on HD1 and Radio Centro XEQR-AM XEQR-AM (branded as Radio Centro 1030) is a radio station based in Mexico City. It is owned by Grupo Radio Centro, broadcasting an oldies and adult standards format in Spanish. History XEFO-AM signed on January 1, 1931, as the radio station of ... on its HD2 signal. The transmitter is located atop a tower in La Mesa/Villa Alpina site at the outskirts west of Mexico City. XEQR-FM was Mexico's top-rated radio station from 1999 to 2017. History XEQR took to the air in 1974 — more than 10 years after receiving its concession on December 3, 1963 — with the name "Radio Universal" and a format of music in English from the 1950s and 1960s. In 1991, it became known as "Universal Stereo 107.3 FM" and picked up the long-running "El Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XEJP-FM
XEJP-FM is a radio station in Mexico City. Located on 93.7 MHz, XEJP-FM is owned by Grupo Radio Centro and broadcasts contemporary music in Spanish from the 1980s to the present as "Joya 93.7". XEJP-FM broadcasts in HD. The transmitter is located atop a tower in La Mesa/Villa Alpina site at the outskirts west of Mexico City. History XEJP traces its lineage to the first FM radio station in Mexico. In April 1947, the ''Diario Oficial de la Federación'' ran an advisory asking for comments on the proposed award of a station on 94.1 MHz to Federico Obregón Cruces, and while said authorization was given on November 28, 1948, it was not until December 30, 1952 that the concession was awarded and the first FM station in Mexico came to air. "XHFM" broadcast with 3,000 watts and would be alone on the band until the sign-on of XEOY-FM in 1955. The story of Radio Joya, as XHFM was known, was cut short on July 28, 1957, when an earthquake led to the total destruction of its stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHFAJ-FM
XHFAJ-FM (91.3 FM) is a Mexican radio station in Mexico City. The station is owned by Grupo Radio Centro and carries a contemporary hit radio format known as Alfa 91.3. XHFAJ-FM broadcasts in HD.http://hdradio.com/mexico/estaciones HD Radio Guide for Mexico The transmitter is located atop a tower in La Mesa/Villa Alpina site at the outskirts west of Mexico City. History The station began broadcasting in 1968, as ''Radio Sinfonía de México'' airing classical music. In 1973, it was sold to the concessionaire of XEQK-AM and began simulcasting that station. After being sold again to Radio Programas de México, the station was relaunched on September 13, 1986, with its current name, airing then-current music in English. Alfa 91.3 was created by Clemente Serna Barrera of Radio Programas de México (RPM). Its forerunners included Martha Debayle, Rocío BarbabosaEdward "Fast Eddie" Muller Eduardo Vallarta, Claudia Arellano, and Luisa Carrandi. In April 1990, Alfa 91.3 was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
