XEJP-AM (1150 kHz) is a commercial

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. It is owned by Grupo Acustik and it airs a

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. By day, XEJP is powered at 20,000

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s. But to avoid interference to other stations on 1150 AM, it reduces power at night to 10,000

s. It uses a non-directional antenna. The

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is off Calle Maravillas in the San Miguel Teotongo neighborhood of Mexico City.FCCdata.org/XEJP-AM
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History

While the concession for XEJP was awarded in 1936 for a station on 1130 kHz, owned by Salvador Monterrubio R., it took nearly two decades to begin broadcasts. It signed on the air on . In 1964, it took on what would be its longest-running format, ''Radio Variedades'' with a wide-ranging catalog of music in Spanish. In 1997, Radio Variedades and the XEJP

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moved to 1320, and in return 1150 became news-formatted "Formato 21" XECMQ-AM. In October 2001, 1150 and 790 swapped formats. "Formato 21" went to 790, while 1150 adopted the Spanish oldies format "El Fonógrafo" which had aired on 790 since its 1990 launch. The XEJP calls were reclaimed in 2004 after, in the Infored/Radio Centro split, 1320 became XENET. In 2017, citing "changes in AM transmission infrastructure", Grupo Radio Centro reorganized all of its AM radio stations, shutting down several and consolidating their programs. El Fonógrafo moved to

XEN-AM XEN-AM (branded as El Fonógrafo) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station in Mexico City. It airs a Spanish-language adult hits format on 690 Hertz, kHz. The station is owned by Grupo Radio Centro. XEN broadcasts with 100,000 watts by d ...

690, sharing its musical format with programs from talk station

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 ...

1030. XEJP then went silent. In January 2019, the IFT approved GRC diplexing XEJP with XEN at its San Miguel Teotongo transmitter site and reducing daytime power from 50,000 to 20,000 watts.RPC: #036203 Change in Transmitter Location — XEJP-AM
/ref> XEJP began testing from the new site on August 6, 2019 and resumed regular programming as an Acustik Radio station on September 2, 2019. That same day, Acustik began programming two other former Radio Centro AM stations, XEUNO-AM in Guadalajara and XEMN-AM (later changed to XEFB-AM) in Monterrey. The three stations were outright sold to Acustik shortly after.

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