XHCHI-FM is a radio station in Chihuahua, Chihuahua,

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

. Broadcasting on 97.3 FM, XHCHI is owned by

Grupo Imagen Grupo Imagen S.A.B. de C.V., commonly known as Imagen, is a Mexican media conglomerate owned by Grupo Empresarial Ángeles. As of 2016, it is the third-largest mass media company in Mexico after Televisa and TV Azteca. History Grupo Imagen t ...

and carries the Imagen Radio news/talk format.

History

On June 5, 1992, the

Secretariat of Communications and Transportation The Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (''Secretaría de Infraestructura, Comunicaciones y Transportes'', SICT) of Mexico is the national federal entity that regulates commercial road traffic and broadcasting. Its h ...

issued a call for bids to build and operate a 50,000-watt commercial radio station at 97.3 MHz in Encinillas, Chihuahua, in the northern part of

Chihuahua Municipality Chihuahua is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat is the city of Chihuahua, which is also the capital of the state of Chihuahua. As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 819,543, up ...

, with call sign XHECS-FM. Nine applications were received, and the SCT selected the bid of José Guadalupe Bernal Vázquez, owner of Corporación Bajío Comunicaciones of

Celaya, Guanajuato Celaya (; Otomi: ) is a city and its surrounding municipality in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, located in the southeast quadrant of the state. It is the third most populous city in the state, with a 2005 census population of 310,413. The munic ...

, in 1994. The concession document was issued in September 1997 for a term beginning in October 1994. On April 3, 2001, the station was sold to Radio Triunfos, S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of

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 ...

, to become "FM Tú" a pop format similar to that of

XHFMTU-FM XHTKR-FM is a radio station in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. Broadcasting on 103.7 FM, XHTKR is owned by Multimedios Radio and carries the La Ke Buena Regional Mexican format from Radiópolis. The transmitter is located atop Cerro del Mirador. ...

in Monterrey. On December 10, 2003, it was authorized to change the call sign to XHCHI-FM, making it one of two unrelated stations to bear the call sign along with a station in Nácori Chico. On April 5, 2005, it was authorized to move the transmitter to the town of Nuevo Sacramento, north of the city of Chihuahua, and lower the power to 30 kW, thus placing the capital city in XHCHI-FM's coverage area. On April 6, 2006, the station and several other Multimedios-owned radio stations in northern Mexico were sold to

, which resulted in the station flipping to the Imagen Radio news/talk network.

References

Radio stations in Chihuahua Mass media in Chihuahua City Grupo Imagen {{Chihuahua-radio-station-stub