XHCHA-FM is a radio station in

Chihuahua City The city of Chihuahua or Chihuahua City ( ; Lipan language, Lipan: ) is the state capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua. , the city of Chihuahua had a population of 925,762 inhabitants. while the metropolitan area had a popu ...

, Chihuahua,

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. Broadcasting on

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, XHCHA is owned by

Multimedios Radio Multimedios Radio is the radio division of Grupo Multimedios, Grupo Firmas Globales, operating 61 radio stations in Mexico. Multimedios traces its history to the founding of XEAW-AM in the late 1930s. Stations Monterrey, Nuevo León Multimed ...

and carries its La Lupe Spanish variety hits format.

History

XHCHA was made available for commercial use on December 5, 1989, with a maximum ERP of 50 kilowatts. Bidders for the station included Joaquín Vargas Gómez of

MVS Radio MVS Radio are a group of four international Spanish-language radio networks owned by the mass media conglomerate MVS Comunicaciones. The group of radio networks consists of Exa FM, La Mejor FM, Globo and MVS Noticias and are broadcast in a variou ...

and Francisco Aguirre Gómez of

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. In 1990, the government declared Radio Espectacular the winner of the station; the concession was awarded in 1993. The station has been owned by Multimedios for its entire history. Previous formats on XHCHA include Radio Recuerdo and Stereo Hits (which became Hits FM). On January 17, 2020, Multimedios Radio flipped XHCHA to its La Lupe variety hits format, and Hits FM moved to XHHEM-FM, leading to the end of Classic.

References

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