XHTQ-FM is an FM radio station in

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and

Orizaba Orizaba (, Otomi: ) is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located 20 km west of its sister city Córdoba, and is adjacent to Río Blanco and Ixtaczoquitlán, on Federal Highways 180 and 190. The city had a ...

, Veracruz,

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. It broadcasts romantic music as Romántica 101.3. In its incarnation as AM station XETQ-AM, it was at one point a

clear-channel station A clear-channel station is a North American AM radio station that has the highest level of protection from interference from other stations, particularly from nighttime skywave signals. This classification exists to ensure the viability of cross ...

on 850 kHz.

History

The concession for XETQ was awarded to Francisco Campos H. in 1945, specifying operation at 250 watts on 1370 kHz. It was the third radio station in Orizaba, after the government-owned XEFD and privately owned XEPP. By the 1960s, the low power allotment and frequency were changed, and the small station soon became a

on 850 kHz. It was authorized for 100 kW day/50 kW night. Sometime in the 1990s, this high power level was dropped in favor of a 10 kW day/1 kW night pattern.XETQ concession, 2004
/ref> The AM-FM migration caused XETQ to become XHTQ-FM on 101.3 MHz; XETQ-AM 850 was shut off for good in 2013.

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* Radio stations in Veracruz {{Veracruz-radio-station-stub