XHRUV-FM is the radio station of the Universidad Veracruzana in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. It broadcasts from the state capital of Xalapa on 90.5 MHz. It uses the identification "Radio UV" and broadcasts a mix of news, cultural shows and

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from its transmitter in

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. The station is on the air from 5 a.m. to 1 a.m. XHRUV is the successor to XERUV-AM, which was a Class A

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on 1550 AM in Xalapa that is now silent.

History

Radio UV was established on 15 September 1944, just days after the university itself, and was broadcasting with 200 watts on 580 kHz as XEJJ by 1946. By 1955, it increased power to 500 watts and moved to 1400 kHz,Though the university website says that the move to 1400 was in 1955 and the callsign change to XEXB was in 1958, the station was already listed as XEXB with 500 watts daytime and 250 watts nighttime on 1400kHz in the 1953 version of and began transmitting from the Cerro de Macuiltépetl with studios in the Xalapa Teatro del Estado in 1956. The programming was 12 hours of

. The call sign also changed to XEXB in the 1950s. The station was shut down later, only transmitting music sporadically. An agreement to swap frequencies with XEZL was made in 1965, with the goal of swapping frequencies and also using some of XEZL's schedule for cultural programming. By 1979, XERUV-AM it was a 10,000 watt station on 1550 kHz, and began transmitting 20 hours per day from the local Teatro del Estado on 2 March 1980 with programming that included talk, sports, and children's literature. The station gained space in the Casona de Clavijero in 1988, and a new transmitter location in

in 1997. In 2014, the station gained an FM

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, XHRUV-FM 90.5 MHz, on a separate permit. The station

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with test transmissions in June 2014. In 2016, the IFT denied a long-pending request to renew XERUV-AM's permit, because the original renewal made in 2005 by then-station manager Fernando Escalante Sobrino was 15 days late. As a result, effective June 1, XERUV-AM went off the air, and XHRUV-FM was officially launched."Radio UV finalizó un ciclo e inicia otro", UV June 1, 2016
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External links

FCC information on XERUV
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References

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