XEDW-AM was a radio station in

Minatitlán, Veracruz Minatitlán is a city in southeastern Mexican state of Veracruz in the Olmec region of the state and the north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. In 2010 the greater metropolitan area had a population of 356,020. The municipality covers an area of ...

, Mexico. The station broadcast from 1936 to September 5, 1969—13 years beyond the expiration of its concession—when it was closed by a federal government inspector.

History

XEDW was awarded its concession on July 1, 1936. The 20-year concession was made to Héctor Silva Canto. The station broadcast on 1150 kHz until moving to 1260 khz with the adoption of the

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on March 29, 1941, where it operated with 250 watts. The concession expired on June 30, 1956, without being renewed. On September 5, 1969, XEDW was visited by Víctor Hernández Castillo, a federal inspector from the Directorate General of Telecommunications, and ordered closed. The person who presented himself as the operator of the station, Daniel Schacht Pérez, replied one day late to a letter asking him to show cause why the station should not be permanently closed. (Schacht owned XEKM-AM a radio station in the same city.) As a result, in a resolution dated February 16, 1972 but not published in the ''

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'' until March 17, 1975, the

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decreed the closure of the station and ordered it to pay a fine of 5,000

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. The 1260 khz frequency in Minatitlán was opened to new commercial bidders on October 18, 1976, as XEMTV-AM. Oscar Bravo Santos was the only applicant to file for the frequency on time, and his XEMTV-AM signed on October 14, 1983.

References

{{reflist 1936 establishments in Mexico 1969 disestablishments in Mexico Defunct radio stations in Mexico Radio_stations_established_in_1936 Radio_stations_disestablished_in_1969