XEQ-AM (940

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class A clear channel AM

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. The concession is held by Cadena Radiodifusora Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. and is operated by

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. XEQ-AM broadcasts from a transmitter located at

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, on Boulevard Generalísimo Morelos, east of Mexico City. It currently simulcasts

XEQ-FM XEQ-FM is a radio station in Mexico City. Broadcasting on 92.9 FM, XEQ-FM broadcasts grupera music under the name "La Ke Buena" and is the flagship of a network of stations with the same branding and format. The programming on XEQ-FM is also simu ...

92.9.

History

XEQ began operations in 1938. It was owned by

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doing business as Radio Panamericana, S.A., and was a

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as part of the "Chain of the Americas." It was Azcárraga's second station after

XEW-AM XEW-AM is a radio station in Mexico City, Mexico, broadcasting on the AM frequency of 900 kHz; it is branded as ''W Radio''. XEW-AM serves as the originating station for other "W Radio" stations around Mexico that carry some of its program ...

. By the 1960s, XEQ was operating with 150,000 watts during the day and 50,000 at night. In the 1970s, it switched to 100,000 watts day and night.Broadcasting Yearbook 1970 page B-289
/ref> It later reduced its power to 50,000 watts. The XEQ

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later appeared on other stations:

was licensed in the 1950s, and the original

XEQ-TV XEQ-TDT (channel 22, virtual channel 9) is a Televisa TV station, based in Mexico City. XEQ is the flagship television station of the Nu9ve network. The Nu9ve network, unlike the other major networks in Mexico, is broadcast by a mix of full-time ...

, broadcasting to Puebla, signed on in 1952 to relay

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. (In 1985, a call sign swap led to a different

in Mexico City.) In 2014 and 2015, XEQ was approved to lower its power from 50,000 to 30,000 watts. Until 2019, the station was known as Ke Buena but carried a tropical version of the format, instead of the typical grupera version. On October 31, 2019, this ended and XEQ-AM began simulcasting

. On November 7, 2022, Monterrey's

XHCHL-FM XHCHL-FM is a radio station on 90.1 FM serving Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. It is owned by and known as . History XHCHL received its concession on November 23, 1994. XHCHL was authorized to broadcast with 15,000 (later 20,000) watts on 99.1& ...

also adopted the Ke Buena format, relaying most of XEQ's programming but with local advertising.

References

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