XHBO-FM is a radio station on 105.5 FM in

Irapuato, Guanajuato Irapuato is a Mexican city (and municipality) located at the foot of the Arandas Hill (in Spanish: ''Cerro de Arandas''), in the central region of the state of Guanajuato. It lies between the Silao River and the Guanajuato River, a tributary of the ...

. XHBO is owned by

Grupo Radiorama Grupo Radiorama is the largest owner and operator of radio stations in Mexico. Founded in 1970, the company operated nearly 400 radio stations in 2014. History Radiorama was founded on December 9, 1970, by Javier Pérez de Anda and Adrián Pered ...

and carries its Fiesta Mexicana grupera format.

History

XEBO-AM received its concession on January 16, 1937, broadcasting with 600 watts on 1330 kHz. By the 1960s it was operating with 1,000 watts, and ultimately in the 1990s it changed to 5,000. In October 2011, a strike began at XEBO over unpaid salaries, impeding its AM-FM migration and shutting the station down for two years. On December 12, 2013, XEBO's employees signed an agreement to sell the station to

Radiorama Radiorama were an Italian Italo disco band formed in 1984 by Simona Zanini and Aldo Martinelli. They were later joined by Mauro Farina and Giuliano Crivellente. Their first two singles, "Chance to Desire" and "Desire" were European hits. Disco ...

. When XEBO returned to the air, it had carried out its AM-FM migration and become XHBO-FM 105.5. For some time until 2015, XEBO/XHBO's transmitter was located in San José de la Sonaja, to the south of town. It was relocated to Irapuato that year. In 2016, the successors of Alfonso Martínez Vela transferred the station to a new concessionaire. In March 2018, XHBO-FM was taken over by

Multimedios Radio Multimedios Radio is the radio division of Grupo Multimedios, operating 31 radio stations in northern and central Mexico. Multimedios traces its history to the founding of XEAW-AM in the late 1930s. Stations Monterrey, Nuevo León Multim ...

as part of MM beginning operations of the Radiorama Bajío cluster in León. Multimedios immediately replaced the @FM pop format, owned by Radiorama, with its La Lupe format of grupera music from the 80s and 90s. The change was undone when Multimedios stopped leasing several stations from Radiorama on August 1, 2020.

References

Spanish-language radio stations Radio stations in Guanajuato Radio stations established in 1937 {{Guanajuato-radio-station-stub