XHAR-FM (branded as La Mexicana) is a Mexican
Spanish-language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Am ...
FM
radio station
Radio broadcasting is transmission 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 radi ...
in
Tampico
Tampico is a city and port in the southeastern part of the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. It is located on the north bank of the Pánuco River, about inland from the Gulf of Mexico, and directly north of the state of Veracruz. Tampico is the fifth ...
, with transmitter at
Pueblo Viejo, Veracruz
Pueblo Viejo is one of the 212 municipalities of the Mexican state of Veracruz.
It is located in the state's Huasteca Alta region.
The municipal seat is the city of Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Veracruz.
Geography
The municipality covers a total area of ...
.
History
XEAR-AM 1490 received its concession on July 11, 1980. Owned by
Enrique Cárdenas González
Enrique Cárdenas González (February 4, 1927 – March 1, 2018) was a Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as Governor of Tamaulipas from 1975 to 1981 and Municipal President of Ciudad Victo ...
, a future governor of Tamaulipas who owned various radio stations in the state, it broadcast with 1,000 watts. In 1990, XEAR was sold to Comercializadora de Eventos Radiofónicos, marking the beginning of Radiorama/Grupo AS operation of the station. In the decade that followed, it moved to 660 kHz and raised power to 5,000 watts during the day.
XEAR was accepted to migrate to FM in 2012.
References
Regional Mexican radio stations
Radio stations in Tampico
Radio stations in Veracruz
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