XHPEM-FM is a radio station serving Tayoltita,
San Dimas Municipality
San Dimas is one of the 39 municipalities of Durango, in north-western Mexico
Mexico ( Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the U ...
,
Durango
Durango (), officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: ''Korian''; Nahuatl: ''Tepēhuahcān''), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated i ...
and owned by Desarrollo Comunal Sustentable, A.C., an arm of the San Dimas silver and gold mine owned by
First Majestic Silver
First Majestic Silver Corp. is a Canadian silver-mining company that operates in Mexico and the United States. It has four producing mines under its control: San Dimas Silver/Gold Mine, Santa Elena Silver/Gold Mine, La Encantada Silver Mine, and J ...
. It broadcasts with 5 watts ERP on 100.7 MHz.
It received its social use concession in May 2015 and was among the first stations to ever receive such a concession. The station had been operating prior to then without a concession. Its primary audience is the town of Tayoltita, a mining town sustained by the San Dimas gold and silver mine of Primero Empresa Minera, which was acquired in 2018 by
First Majestic Silver
First Majestic Silver Corp. is a Canadian silver-mining company that operates in Mexico and the United States. It has four producing mines under its control: San Dimas Silver/Gold Mine, Santa Elena Silver/Gold Mine, La Encantada Silver Mine, and J ...
; XHPEM represents the community's only mass media. The station was formally relaunched in late 2019 as Radio Plata from a new cultural center in Tayoltita supported by First Majestic.
Until the authorization of
XHPINO-FM
XHTGO-FM/XETGO-AM is a radio station on 90.1 FM and 1100 AM in Guadalupe Victoria, Zacatecas, Mexico. The station is owned by NTR and known as Radio Cañón.
History
XETGO-AM 1100 received its concession in 1993, broadcasting with 5,000 watts d ...
with 4 watts in 2018, XHPEM-FM was Mexico's least powerful radio station.
References
Spanish-language radio stations
Radio stations in Durango
Former pirate radio stations
Radio stations established in 2015
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