XEWF-AM is a radio station located in

Tlalmanalco Tlalmanalco is a municipality located in the far south-eastern part of the State of Mexico. The municipal seat and second largest town in the municipality is the town of Tlalmanalco de Velázquez The name is from the Nahuatl language, meaning “f ...

in the

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, serving

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. Broadcasting on

540 AM The following radio broadcasting, radio stations broadcast on AM broadcasting, AM frequency 540 kHz: 540 AM is a Canadian and Mexican clear-channel frequency. CBK (AM), CBK, Watrous, Saskatchewan, Watrous-Regina, Saskatchewan, CBT (AM), CBT Gr ...

, XEWF is owned by

Grupo Radiorama Grupo Radiorama is the largest owner and operator of radio stations in Mexico. Founded in 1970, the company operated nearly 400 radio stations in 2014. History Radiorama was founded on December 9, 1970, by Javier Pérez de Anda and Adrián Pered ...

History

The history of XEWF begins in

Cuernavaca, Morelos Cuernavaca (; nci-IPA, Cuauhnāhuac, kʷawˈnaːwak "near the woods", ) is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico. The city is located around a 90-minute drive south of Mexico City using the Federal Highway 95D. The na ...

, with Fernando Díaz Enríquez receiving a concession for the station on 1420 kHz in that city. After four decades of transmitting from Cuernavaca, XEWF moved in 2004 to Tlalmanalco, east of Mexico City, and changed its frequency to 540 kHz in a bid to become a rimshot serving Mexico City, which comprises 35% of the national radio market. In October 2006, Radiorama Valle de México began operating the station as ColoRín ColoRadio, targeted at children aged six to twelve. In May 2007,

XEUR-AM XEUR-AM is a radio station licensed to and located in Mexico City. Broadcasting on 1530 AM, XEUR is owned by Grupo Radiorama. 1530 AM is a United States clear-channel frequency. The station's transmitter is located in the borough of Iztacalco. Hi ...

1530 and XEWF completed an effective format swap, with XEUR becoming a simulcast of

grupera Grupera (also known as Grupero or Onda Grupera) is a genre of Regional Mexican music. It reached the height of its popularity in the 1990s, especially in rural areas. The music has roots in the rock groups of the 1960s, but today generally consis ...

-formatted

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 Ke Buena. The next year, the station broke from XEQ to run its own programming aimed at listeners on the east side of Mexico City; the station has since changed names twice, to "La Mexiquense" and "La Bestia Grupera". On January 1, 2020, the station began simulcasting

XHDL-FM XHDL-FM is a radio station on 98.5 FM in Mexico City. XHDL is owned by ''El Heraldo de México'' and operates as a news/talk station known as El Heraldo Radio. History 98.5 FM began as XELA-FM in 1962, owned by Radio Metropolitana, S.A., the conc ...

"El Heraldo Radio".Tweet from @heraldodemexico
January 1, 2020 A year later on February 1, 2021, XEWF returns to La Bestia Grupera format, leaving Heraldo Radio only on

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