XHDQ-FM is a radio station on 103.9 FM in

San Andrés Tuxtla San Andrés Tuxtla is a city and municipality in the south of the Mexican state of Veracruz. The city is the largest in the Los Tuxtlas region. It was founded after an eruption of the San Martín Volcano pushed people into this valley during the ea ...

Veracruz Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...

, Mexico. The station is owned by

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; it was the company's first station and, by 2022, its smallest-market property. Grupo ACIR ceased operating XHDQ-FM on June 29, 2022, as part of a retreat from three stations in southern Veracruz. The station was then sold to Cuatro Media, a Xalapa-based station group owned by Carlos Ferráez, and returned to the air.

History

XEDQ-AM received its concession on July 22, 1961. It broadcast on 1400 kHz and was owned by Radio Ondas de los Tuxtlas, S.A. Two years later, on June 8, 1963, XEDQ was bought by Francisco Ibarra López, who in 1965 formed Grupo ACIR. By 1969, XEDQ had moved from 1400 to 1360; it would move to 830 sometime in the 1990s. In 2010, XEDQ received authorization to move to FM. In 2018, the station began using the Amor brand; it had already been using the format but branded as Radio Alegría with a retro logo calling to mind the ACIR logos of the 1980s, a nod to XEDQ's history as ACIR's first radio station. Effective June 29, 2022, Grupo ACIR opted to shut down XHDQ-FM. The day before,

XHOM-FM XHOM-FM is a radio station on 107.5 FM in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. History In 1961, Radio Coatzacoalcos, S.A., the owners of XEOM-AM 1340, became one of several dozen Mexican AM station owners to experiment with FM broadcasting. The ea ...

and

XHNE-FM XHNE-FM is a radio station on 100.1 FM in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. History XHNE received its concession on October 5, 1979. It was owned by Rosa María Baptista y van der Elst. In April 1994, it was sold to ACIR and its power raised to 5 ...

, the ACIR cluster in Coatzacoalcos, closed. The closure of the cluster caused the loss of 17 jobs. On October 15 of the same year, a group led by Carlos Ferráez acquired XHDQ to be relaunched under the La Ke Buena grupera brand.

References

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