XESOS-AM

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/XHSOS-FM 97.3 is a radio station in

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, Mexico. It is owned by Grupo Radiofónico ZER and airs a Regional Mexican format as La Ranchera.

History

The history of XHSOS begins on the AM band, with a station licensed to Naco. XETM-AM on 1350 kHz was awarded to Jesús Manuel Franco Martínez on March 19, 1941. The station was originally licensed for operation at 1 kW day and night. Francisco Ernesto Ruiz, who would go on to become the Spanish radio play-by-play voice of the

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, was a disc jockey at XETM from 1972 to 1981.MLB: 2004 Nominees for the Ford C. Frick Award
/ref> In 2000, XETM was sold to Arnoldo Rodríguez Zermeño, founder of Grupo Radiofónico ZER. Zermeño moved the station to El Sifón (with studios in

), changed its callsign to XESOS-AM and increased its power to 50 kW daytime on 670 kHz. In 2003, after the United States

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complained about interference to other stations on 670, Mexico moved XESOS to 730 kHz at 300 watts of power. The AM-FM migration saw XESOS become XHSOS-FM 97.3 with 25 kW of effective radiated power.

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* Radio stations in Sonora Radio stations established in 1941 Radio stations in Mexico with continuity obligations {{Sonora-radio-station-stub