XHPNK-FM is a radio station on

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Los Mochis, Sinaloa Los Mochis () is a coastal city in northern Sinaloa, Mexico. It serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of Ahome. As of the 2010 census, the population was 362,613, which was 61 percent of the municipality's population. Los Mochis is the ...

. It is owned by

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and is known as Radio Variedades with a romantic format.

History

XEPNK-AM 880 received its concession on November 19, 1980. The 5,000-watt daytimer was owned by Felipe García de León. In the mid-1980s, García de León traded XEPNK to Grupo OIR in exchange for XEOS and XEHX radio in

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. The concession transferred to Radio y Televisión de Sinaloa in 1993, around which time XEPNK boosted its power to 10,000 watts day and 2,000 night. In 2011, XEPNK moved to FM as XHPNK-FM 103.5. In 2016, after

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transferred operational control of the station to Radiorama, XHPNK changed names from La Rancherita to Romántica as part of a frequency shuffle of formats at the cluster. GRC, GRM's successor, resumed operating the stations in February 2019, with XHPNK becoming Radio Variedades, the former name of XHCW-FM 96.5. On March 10, 2021, the

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denied an application for the renewal of XHPNK-FM's concession for failure to pay the final installment of its fee to move to FM.

References

Radio stations in Sinaloa {{Sinaloa-radio-station-stub