XHCHI-FM is a radio station in

Chihuahua, Chihuahua The city of Chihuahua ''(La Ciudad de Chihuahua)'' () is the state capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. , the city of Chihuahua had a population of 925,762 inhabitants. while the metropolitan area had a population of 988,065 inhabitants. ...

. Broadcasting on 97.3 FM, XHCHI is owned by

Grupo Imagen Grupo Imagen is a Mexican media conglomerate, part of Grupo Empresarial Ángeles. History Grupo Imagen traces its roots to the foundation of XEDA-AM in June 1936. This station was acquired by José Luis Fernández Soto in 1962, and in the same y ...

and carries its news/talk Imagen Radio format.

History

On June 5, 1992, the

Secretariat of Communications and Transportation The Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (''Secretaría de Infraestructura, Comunicaciones y Transportes'', SICT) of Mexico is the national federal entity that regulates commercial road traffic and broadcasting. Its he ...

issued a call for bids to build and operate a 50,000-watt commercial radio station at 97.3 MHz in the town of Encinillas, Chihuahua, in the northern part of

Chihuahua Municipality Chihuahua is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat is the city of Chihuahua which is also the capital of Chihuahua State. As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 819,543, up from 758,79 ...

, with call sign XHECS-FM. Nine applications were received, and the SCT selected the bid of José Guadalupe Bernal Vázquez, owner of Corporación Bajío Comunicaciones of

Celaya, Guanajuato Celaya (; ) is a city and its surrounding municipality in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by ...

, in 1994. The concession document was issued in September 1997 for a term beginning in October 1994. On April 3, 2001, the station was sold to Radio Triunfos, S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of

Multimedios Radio Multimedios Radio is the radio division of Grupo Multimedios, operating 31 radio stations in northern and central Mexico. Multimedios traces its history to the founding of XEAW-AM in the late 1930s. Stations Monterrey, Nuevo León Multime ...

. Similarly, on December 10, 2003, it was authorized to change the call sign to XHCHI-FM, making it one of two unrelated stations to bear the call sign along with a station in Nácori Chico. Finally, on April 5, 2005, it was authorized to move the transmitter to the town of Nuevo Sacramento, north of the city of Chihuahua, and lower the power to 30 kW, thus placing the capital city in XHCHI-FM's coverage area. On April 6, 2006, the station and several other Multimedios-owned radio stations in northern Mexico were sold to

, which resulted in the station flipping to the Imagen Radio news/talk network.

References

Radio stations in Chihuahua Mass media in Chihuahua City Grupo Imagen {{Chihuahua-radio-station-stub