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XELA-AM
XEITE-AM is a radio station in Mexico City, broadcasting on 830 kHz. The station is owned by Capital Media and currently is known as Lokura FM, a rock format. History XELA-AM XELA-AM began broadcasting on July 5, 1940, with a classical music format. For many years it was one of the few sources of classical music available to ordinary Mexican citizens. XELA was able to acquire quality sound recordings from the United States, England and France, even though it started with a very low budget, through an exchange program for Mexican music recordings. The station was acquired by Grupo Imagen in 1963. From the 1970s to the mid-1980s, the station simulcast on XELA-FM 98.5. That station was split off in the mid-1980s. One long-running feature of the station was ''La hora sinfónica Corona'', the dinner hour symphony which aired continuously for 59 years. The station was threatened with closure in 2000, but protests by listeners from laborers to the intelligentsia keep it open for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grupo Imagen
Grupo Imagen S.A.B. de C.V., commonly known as Imagen, is a Mexican media conglomerate owned by Grupo Empresarial Ángeles. As of 2016, it is the third-largest mass media company in Mexico after Televisa and TV Azteca. History Grupo Imagen traces its roots to the foundation of XEDA-AM on June 18, 1936. This station was acquired by José Luis Fernández Soto in 1962, and in the same year, Fernández Soto founded "Grupo Imagen Comunicación en Radio", which became the operator of XEDA-AM and XEDA-FM. In 1963, Grupo Imagen doubled in size with the acquisition of Radio Metropolitana and its XELA- AM- FM cluster. With these four stations, Grupo Imagen began to form a wide range of programming. While XEDA-FM remained Imagen's flagship with a talk format and XELA-AM continued with its longtime classical music programming, the other two stations changed programming concepts often. In the 1980s, XELA-FM became XHDL-FM "Dial FM", changing formats to rock as "Radioactivo" in the 1990s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHDL-FM
XHDL-FM is a radio station on 98.5 FM in Mexico City. XHDL is owned by ''El Heraldo de México'' and operates as a news/talk station known as El Heraldo Radio. The transmitter site is located atop Cerro del Chiquihuite. XHDL-FM broadcasts in HD Radio, HD. History 98.5 FM began as XELA-FM in 1962, owned by Radio Metropolitana, S.A., the concessionaire of XELA-AM 830. Until 1984, it was an FM simulcast of 830 AM; when it broke away, it became "Stereo Classics", English-language music of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In 1989, the format was changed to more contemporary music in English as "Dial FM", and the callsign was changed to XHDL-FM to reference the new format. Radioactivo era On July 20, 1992, XHDL became "Radioactivo 98.5", with a rock and hip hop format. Its first slogan, "Radioactivity's in the air", was quickly eclipsed by its second: "Fuck everyone else". Various international artists, such as Metallica, Rammstein, The Mars Volta, Fabolous, Snoop Dogg and the Red Hot Chil ... [...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] |
José Luis Cuevas
José Luis Cuevas (February 26, 1934 – July 3, 2017) was a Mexican artist, he often worked as a painter, writer, draftsman, engraver, illustrator, and printmaker. Cuevas was one of the first to challenge the then dominant Mexican muralism movement as a prominent member of the Generación de la Ruptura (English: Breakaway Generation). He was a mostly self-taught artist, whose styles and influences are moored to the darker side of life, often depicting distorted figures and the debasement of humanity. He had remained a controversial figure throughout his career, not only for his often shocking images, but also for his opposition to writers and artists who he feels participate in corruption or create only for money. In 1992, the José Luis Cuevas Museum was opened in the historic center of Mexico City holding most of his work and his personal art collection. His grandson Alexis de Chaunac is a contemporary artist. Biography Childhood José Luis Cuevas was born on February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHCH-FM
XHCH-FM is a radio station on 89.3 FM in Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico. XHCH-FM is owned by Capital Media and is known as Lokura FM with a rock format. History XECH-AM received its concession on September 14, 1938, having gone on the air in either 1937 or 1938. The station, the first in the State of Mexico, operated on 1490 kHz and was owned by Rodolfo Llamas. XECH was Toluca's only local radio station for more than 25 years until XEQY-AM 1200 "Radio Fiesta" signed on in 1965. Llamas sold XECH to Ramón Cahero Padrón in 1956; Cahero Padrón sold it to Emma Ruíz de Azcue in 1963. Osvelia Irene and Oscar Azcue Ruíz became the concessionaires in 1996 after Emma's death, and they promptly sold the station to Grupo ACIR. ACIR only owned the station for a year before selling to Capital. It also moved from 1490 to 1040 kHz in order to increase daytime power to 5 kW from its previous 1; it broadcast at night with 750 watts. On November 6, 2017, XHCH-FM 89.3 signed o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
XEEST-AM
XEEST-AM is a radio station on 1440 AM in Mexico City. The station airs christian radio, Christian programming under the name "Ondas De Vida". History XELZ-AM received its first concession on December 1, 1942, to María Cardona de Zetina. For most of its history under this callsign, it broadcast ranchera music and was known as "Radio LZ". It was sold to Radio Variedades, S.A. in 1961, and became a part of Grupo Radio Centro. In the late 1970s, the tropical format ''Radio AI'' changed from XENET-AM, 1320 AM to 1440. By the 1980s, it had adopted the XEEST-AM callsign and was known as "Estudiantes AM", targeting a youth audience with pop in Spanish. This format evolved into "Radio 14-40" in the mid-80s with Spanish-language rock joining the musical mix. Yet again, in 1989, the station changed names, this time to "Radio Alegría", but kept its format, eventually incorporating the wave of Spanish-language rap. In 1993, the format was changed and the station became "Radio Éxitos" (a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHIMER-FM
XHIMER-FM is a radio station in the Mexican capital Mexico City. The station is owned by the Instituto Mexicano de la Radio (IMER) and broadcasts a classical music format under the brand name Opus 94 from a tower on Cerro del Chiquihuite. History In the 1970s, the Instituto Politécnico Nacional ceded its rights to 94.5 FM to the Secretariat of Public Education so the SEP could move Radio Educación ( XEEP-AM) to FM. However, the money was not available for the SEP to build the station, and so the proposal was stalled. The Opus format began on 710 AM ( XEMP) in 1983. That same year, 94.5 FM, the last full-power FM frequency available in Mexico City, was put up to attract noncommercial permits. Several groups — the IPN and IMER among them — jockeyed for the station, with IMER winning. Opus moved to the new 94.5 XHIMER-FM on July 4, 1986, when 50 kW transmissions commenced. The station received authorization for a power boost to 100 kW in 1991, but IMER was not able t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instituto Mexicano De La Radio
The Instituto Mexicano de la Radio (IMER; English: "Mexican Radio Institute") is a Mexican public broadcaster. It was founded in 1983 as a companion to the public TV broadcaster Imevisión, since privatized and known as TV Azteca. When Imevisión was privatized, XEIMT-TV (Imevisión's cultural channel) and IMER remained under government control. Current stations *Mexico City: XHIMER-FM, XHOF-FM, XHIMR-FM, XEDTL-AM, XEMP-AM, XEB-AM, XEQK-AM * Tijuana, Baja California: XHUAN-FM * Cananea, Sonora: XHFQ-FM * Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila: XHRF-FM *Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua: XHUAR-FM *Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán: XHLAC-FM * Salina Cruz, Oaxaca: XHSCO-FM * Comitán, Chiapas: XHEMIT-FM * Cacahoatán, Chiapas: XHCAH-FM *Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas: XHCHZ-FM *Mérida, Yucatán Mérida (, ) is the capital of the List of states of Mexico, Mexican state of Yucatán, and the largest city in southeastern Mexico. The city is also the seat of the Mérida Municipality, eponymous mun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Víctor Hugo Rascón
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Vicente Quirarte
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XEX-AM
XEX-AM (730 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station based in Mexico City, Mexico. It carries a sports radio format known as "W Deportes." The station is owned by Radiópolis. XEX is a Class A clear-channel station, powered at 60 kilowatts and using a non-directional antenna. The transmitter is on Avenida Rio Bravo, in Los Reyes Acaquilpan, just east of Mexico City. History XEX-AM came to air in 1947 as a 500,000 watt national radio station. The Mexican government built XEX with the transmitter equipment of the former XERA at Villa Acuña, Coahuila, whose 500 kW transmitter was seized, dismantled and shipped to Mexico City. It obtained its call sign from a Monterrey station, which was reassigned the XEAW-AM call letters. During the 1940s, XEX was a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System as its Latin American flagship station. In 1951, it was sold to Rómulo O'Farrill after four years of losses. Its sister stations were also flagships of Latin American b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
