XHFCY-FM is a radio station in

Mérida, Yucatán Mérida (, ) is the capital of the List of states of Mexico, Mexican state of Yucatán, and the largest city in southeastern Mexico. The city is also the seat of the Mérida Municipality, eponymous municipality. It is located slightly inland fro ...

, in

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, with transmitter at San Pedro Nohpat. Broadcasting on 105.9 FM, XHFCY is owned by Valanci Media Group and carries a contemporary music format known as Super Stereo.

History

Rafael Rivas Franco and Julio Molina Font put XEFC-AM 1050 on air July 26, 1930. Rivas gave XEFC its call sign in honor of

Felipe Carrillo Puerto Felipe Santiago Carrillo Puerto (8 November 1874 – 3 January 1924) was a Mexican journalist, politician and revolutionary who served as the governor of Yucatán from 1922 until his assassination in 1924. He became known for his efforts at rec ...

, a former governor of the state who had been executed in 1924. Font sold his stake in the station, and the concession, to Rivas in 1944. XEFC was the first station in what came to be known as Organización Radio Peninsular, which later expanded to include additional Mérida and Yucatán radio stations and is now known as Grupo Rivas. XEFC later moved to 1330 AM in the 1950s and slid to 1090 kHz in the early 2000s. On July 1, 2010, XHFCY-FM 105.9 signed on as part of the national plan to move most AM radio stations to FM. The added Y in the callsign allowed the avoidance of a callsign conflict with then- XHFC-FM, a community station in Michoacán. In 2021, Grupo Radio Digital took over operation of XHYW and XHFCY from Rivas Radio, which was formed after an internal split within the Rivas cluster. The concession transfer was approved by the

Federal Telecommunications Institute The Federal Telecommunications Institute (Spanish Language, Spanish: ''Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones''; abbreviated as IFT and incorrectly referred to as IFETEL, Tzeltal language, Tzeltal: ''Snaul jtsob a’telelil Sk’asesojibal k’o ...

(IFT) on October 26, 2022.

References

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