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XHFO-FM
XHFO-FM is a radio station on 92.1 MHz in Mexico City. The station is owned by Grupo Siete and carries the Radio Disney pop format. History XHFO received its initial concession on November 26, 1964. It was owned by Raymundo Romero Damian. XHFO signed on in 1979 as "Radio Triunfadora", being renamed to "Crystal FM" in 1982, with a contemporary Spanish music format. In 1993, as grupera music began to gain success, the station was lent to Grupo Radio Centro in exchange for XEEST-AM in a relationship that would last 26 years. GRC promptly changed the name and format of XHFO to "Sonido Z" with grupera and regional Mexican music. In 1996 it was renamed "La Z". On December 7, 1998, a format swap occurred between XHFO and XEQR-FM, with XHFO adopting the English classic hits format "Universal Stereo" that had begun in 1974, whereas "La Z" moved to XEQR. The swap was due to both formats being in close proximity to competitor stations with almost the same formats (XEQ-FM and XHDFM-FM), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XEEST-AM
XEEST-AM is a radio station on 1440 AM in Mexico City. The station airs Christian programming under the name "Ondas de Vida". History XELZ-AM received its first concession on December 1, 1942, to María Cardona de Zetina. For most of its history under this callsign, it broadcast ranchera music and was known as "Radio LZ". It was sold to Radio Variedades, S.A. in 1961, and became a part of Grupo Radio Centro. In the late 1970s, the tropical format ''Radio AI'' changed from 1320 AM to 1440. By the 1980s, it had adopted the XEEST-AM callsign and was known as "Estudiantes AM", targeting a youth audience with pop in Spanish. This format evolved into "Radio 14-40" in the mid-80s with Spanish-language rock joining the musical mix. Yet again, in 1989, the station changed names, this time to "Radio Alegría", but kept its format, eventually incorporating the wave of Spanish-language rap. In 1993, the format was changed and the station became "Radio Éxitos" (a name that had been used on X ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Disney Latin America
Radio Disney Latin America is a pop music and rock music network owned by The Walt Disney Company, which is broadcast in several countries in Latin America. The station is aimed primarily at youth and adolescents. Availability Radio Disney is available in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. 2019 Mexico breakup On December 26, 2019, Disney and its Mexican partner, Grupo ACIR, announced they were mutually ending their relationship, which had covered twelve Mexican cities. Ten of the twelve Radio Disney stations were transitioned to ACIR's replacement pop format, Match. However, Radio Disney stated in a press release that it would return on new stations in 2020. One article attributed the breakup to "three direct format competitors and an impressive surge in Spotify consumption in key market Mexico City.". Radio Disney returned to the country on February 1, 2020, exclusively on Mexico City sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XEQR-FM
XEQR-FM is a radio station in Mexico City. Located on 107.3 MHz, XEQR-FM is owned by Grupo Radio Centro and carries a grupera format as "La Z". XEQR-FM was Mexico's top-rated radio station from 1999 to 2017. History XEQR took to the air in 1974 — more than 10 years after receiving its concession on December 3, 1963 — with the name "Radio Universal" and a format of music in English from the 1950s and 1960s. In 1991, it became known as "Universal Stereo 107.3 FM" and picked up the long-running "El Club de los Beatles" program from XERC-AM, which ceased airing it when that station dropped the Radio Éxitos format. On December 7, 1998, XEQR and XHFO-FM XHFO-FM is a radio station on 92.1 MHz in Mexico City. The station is owned by Grupo Siete and carries the Radio Disney pop format. History XHFO received its initial concession on November 26, 1964. It was owned by Raymundo Romero Damian. XHF ... engaged in a format swap. XEQR picked up the grupera format "La Z" which h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHCME-FM
XHCME-FM is a radio station in Melchor Ocampo, State of Mexico Melchor Ocampo is a town and municipality in State of Mexico, Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 32.48 km². As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 37,706. Name From its founding until 1894, the municipality was .... Broadcasting on 103.7 FM, XHCME is owned by Grupo Siete and is known as Crystal with an older-leaning Regional Mexican format. History XHCME received its concession on August 5, 1994. It was owned by Carlos Rafael González Aragón Ortíz and originally to be located in Coacalco, where it maintains its studios. Grupo Siete operates XHCME as a rimshot into the Mexico City area. On July 1, 2017, XHCME changed formats to Crystal, reviving a name used before by Grupo Siete stations including in Mexico City and Toluca. Gallery File:XHCME Bengala103.7 logo.png, Former logo for Bengala 103.7 File:Salón de Fiestas Emperador Coacalco.jpg, Crystal is broadcast from Emperador ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grupo Radio Centro
Grupo Radio Centro is a Mexico City-based owner and operator of radio stations. It owns 30 radio stations in Mexico and the United States, including 8 radio stations in Mexico City. History Radio Centro's origins date to 1946, when Francisco Aguirre Jiménez formed the Cadena Radio Continental to operate XEQR-AM 1030 and new station XERC-AM 790 in Mexico City. Organización Radio Centro was formed in 1952, and the current company was founded in 1971. In 1965, it founded OIR (Organización Impulsora de la Radio), which syndicates Radio Centro's formats to stations across Mexico. Its non-Mexico City business extended further in the 1980s, when Radio Centro began selling its formats outside the United States (in 1983) and created Cadena Radio Centro (in 1986) to manage this portion of its operations. Meanwhile, in Mexico City, it had expanded to five AM stations and three new FM outlets. Radio Centro was the second media company to place its FM towers on Cerro del Chiquihuite, to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XERED-AM
XERED-AM is a radio station in Mexico City. Located on 1110 kHz, XERED-AM is owned by Grupo Radio Centro. 1110 AM is a United States clear-channel frequency. History The concession history for XERED-AM begins with XEFO, a radio station launched on December 30, 1930Enrique E. Sánchez Ruiz, "Orígenes de la radiodifusión en México". Guadalajara: ITESO, 1984 on 940 kHz as the radio station of the National Revolutionary Party (later the PRI). The earliest available concession for XEFO dates to July 1, 1932. Despite the ban on political use of radio stations, XEFO radio was used as a method of disseminating party ideology, government accomplishments and as the chief medium of broadcasting news and propaganda during Lázaro Cárdenas's 1934 presidential election. XEFO was also relayed on shortwave XEUZ, which broadcast on 6120 kHz with 5 kW. Not long after Cárdenas was replaced by Miguel Alemán, XEFO was sold in 1941 to Francisco Aguirre Jiménez, who changed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grupo ACIR
Grupo ACIR is a Mexican media company specializing in the operation of radio stations. It was established in 1965. ACIR is an acronym for ''Asociación de Concesionarios Independientes de Radio'' (Association of Independent Radio Concessionaires). History Grupo ACIR was founded on June 8, 1965, when Francisco Ibarra bought the XEDQ-AM (Radio Alegría) station in San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz. During the next two years, three new radio stations were integrated: XEOM-AM in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, XEMM-AM in Morelia, Michoacán, XEMIA-AM in Guadalajara, Jalisco; and three stations of amplitude modulation in the Mexico City: XEL-AM Radio Capital, XEFR-AM Radio Felicidad and XEVOZ-AM Radio Voz. In 1966, the group had 22 radio broadcasters, among its own, managed and affiliated. The distinctive feature of Grupo ACIR compared to its competitors was to provide a comprehensive sales, programming, engineering and legal advice service in all its stations. In 1970, one more station joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHPOP-FM
XHPOP-FM is a radio station on 99.3 FM in Mexico City. The station is owned by Grupo ACIR and airs the company's Match format of contemporary hit radio in English. History After initially being authorized as XEN-FM, a counterpart to XEN-AM 690, XHPOP was on the air by 1977. It initially broadcast an instrumental music format under the name ''Música Feliz 99'' before changing to a hit radio format as ''Sonido 99'' by the end of the decade. The 1985 Mexico City earthquake severely damaged the studios used by XEN and its Ondas de Alegría sister stations, and after some time off the air and a relocation to new studios, the station reemerged as ''Radio Metrópoli'' and then ''Fórmula Mexicana'', both broadcasting Mexican music. The station reverted to ''Sonido 99'' at the end of 1987—a year in which the Díaz Romo cluster was split due to family differences—and soon changed to ''Digital 99''. In 1995, it was leased alongside ARTSA sister stations XHSH and XHDFM to Grupo A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Disney
Radio Disney was an American radio network operated by the Disney Radio Networks unit of Disney Branded Television within the Disney General Entertainment Content, headquartered in Burbank, California. The network broadcast music programming oriented towards children, pre-teens and teenagers, focusing mainly on current hit music and a heavy emphasis on teen idols (particularly those signed with Disney Music Group record labels, such as Hollywood and Walt Disney); compared to most CHR stations, Radio Disney was far more aggressive in playing only current hits and eschews recurrent rotation. For many years Radio Disney affiliated with stations in markets of varying size, mainly large and mid-sized markets; however, by the early 2010s, Disney had begun to phase out the network's affiliations with terrestrial radio stations, and sold its owned-and-operated Radio Disney stations (with the exception of KDIS in Los Angeles) to third-parties, in order to focus more on its programm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Generation X
Generation X (or Gen X for short) is the Western world, Western demographic Cohort (statistics), cohort following the baby boomers and preceding the millennials. Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1960s as starting birth years and the late 1970s to early 1980s as ending birth years, with the generation being generally defined as people born from 1965 to 1980. By this definition and United States Census, U.S. Census data, there are 65.2 million Gen Xers in the United States as of 2019. Most members of Generation X are the children of the Silent Generation and early boomers; Xers are also often the parents of millennials and Generation Z. As children in the 1970s and 1980s, a time of shifting societal values, Gen Xers were sometimes called the "latchkey generation," which stems from their returning as children to an empty home and needing to use the door key, due to reduced adult supervision compared to previous generations. This was a result of increasing divorce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Ferriz De Con
Pedro Ferriz de Con (born December 12, 1950) is a Mexican radio and TV news anchor. During the 1990s, he worked for the Multivision Network. In January 2000, he left MVS and went to Grupo Imagen, where he hosted the morning newscast on XEDA-FM until August 25, 2014. He also hosted the evening newscast of Cadenatres from 2007 to 2012. He currently hosts a morning radio newscast named "Central FM". On January 15, 2016, he announced his independent bid to run for president in 2018 in Mexico via his Facebook Page.https://www.facebook.com/342413339188070/videos/vb.342413339188070/916220391807359/?type=2&theater Ferríz de Con is a Civil Engineer from the Universidad Iberoamericana in México City and has a Master's Degree in applied mathematics from Fleming College at Lugano, Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
