XEK-AM/XHK-FM is a radio station on 960 kHz and 90.9 MHz in

Nuevo Laredo Nuevo Laredo () is a city in the Municipality of Nuevo Laredo in the Mexican List of states of Mexico, state of Tamaulipas. The city lies on the banks of the Rio Grande, across from Laredo, Texas, Laredo, United States. The 2010 census popula ...

, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

History

XEDF-AM was founded on May 17, 1937, by Ruperto Villarreal, who was 18 years old. It was one of the first stations in the two Laredos, originally broadcasting on 790 kHz. In the 1950s, XEDF moved to 960. It also engaged in a call sign swap with 970 AM in Mexico City, then XEK-AM. The Mexico City station desired the XEDF calls, assigned sequentially, as the DF was the abbreviation for the

Federal District A federal district is a specific administrative division in one of various federations. These districts may be under the direct jurisdiction of a federation's national government, as in the case of federal territory (e.g., India, Malaysia), or the ...

. As a result, on October 22, 1957, the Nuevo Laredo station took on the XEK-AM calls. At the end of its life, it operated with 5,000 watts. XEK was approved for AM-FM migration in 2017 as part of a second wave of stations and signed on XHK-FM 90.9 on April 7, 2018. XEK-AM signed off April 7, 2019, after the required year of simulcasting. However, on June 5, 2019, the IFT unanimously declared a continuity obligation for XEK, which according to a 2018 study left 59 people without any radio service when it signed off the air. For decades, XEK/XHK branded as ''La Estación Grande de Nuevo Laredo'', until December 1, 2019, when XHK became ''90.9 La Raza'', taking over the grupera format that had been on the Cortez family's

XHBK-FM XHBK-FM/XEBK-AM (95.7 FM and 1340 AM) is a radio station in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, broadcasting to the Laredo–Nuevo Laredo, Laredo Borderplex. It is owned by Gustavo Alonso Cortez Montiel and currently programmed by Radio United with ...

95.7 and was supplied to that station under a five-year LMA with Latin Western Enterprises of Laredo.FCC 325(c) Filing, XHBK-FM, 2015
/ref> The station renamed itself ''La Grande'' shortly before the LMA was ended in mid-2024.

References

External links

XEK official website (pre-2019)
News and talk radio stations in Mexico Spanish-language radio stations Radio stations in Nuevo Laredo Radio stations in Mexico with continuity obligations {{Tamaulipas-radio-station-stub