XHKV-FM 88.5/XEKV-AM

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is a combo radio station in

Villahermosa Villahermosa ( , ; "Beautiful Village") is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Tabasco, and serves as the Municipalities of Mexico, municipal seat (governing county) of the state. Located in Southeast Mexico, Villahermosa is an ...

Tabasco Tabasco (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco), is one of the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 17 municipalities and its capital city is Villahermosa. It is located in ...

, Mexico. The station carries the W Radio news/talk format from

Radiópolis Radiópolis (incorporated as Sistemas Radiópolis, S.A. de C.V.) is a Mexican radio broadcast company that owns AM and FM radio stations in Mexico and syndicates music and talk formats. It is the former radio division of Televisa, which spun its ...

. XEKV and XHKV are broadcast from a transmitter facility in Col. Las Gaviotas, on Villahermosa's east side.

History

The concession for 740 AM was awarded in March 1971 to Enrique Lodoza Gómez. In 1994, the FM station was added. In 2012, XEKV/XHKV was sold to Radio Dinámica del Sureste, which was primarily owned by México Radio, S.A. de C.V., the radio subsidiary of

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(OEM). In 2021, NTR acquired the ABC Radio group from OEM. The station continued to broadcast the

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pop format from

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until April 16, 2023, when NTR's four Exa FM stations left the network. On April 24, 2023, as part of a national alliance between the company and

, 22 NTR-owned stations adopted franchise formats from Radiópolis. With Ke Buena and

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already represented in Villahermosa, XHKV–XEKV joined the W Radio news/talk network.

References

1971 establishments in Mexico Radio stations established in 1971 Radio stations in Tabasco News and talk radio stations in Mexico Spanish-language radio stations Villahermosa {{Tabasco-radio-station-stub