XHUAN-FM (102.5
MHz
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''Fusión 102.5'') is a
public
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radio station
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licensed to
, owned by IMER (
Instituto Mexicano de la Radio
The Instituto Mexicano de la Radio (English: "Mexican Radio Institute") is a Mexican public broadcaster, akin to National Public Radio in the US. It is also known as IMER.
History
It was founded in 1983 as a companion to the public TV broadcast ...
),
Mexico
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's public radio network. Like the Public Radio stations in the United States, IMER presents a variety of discussion and music programs.
XHUAN used to broadcast in
HD.
History
XHUAN signed on in the summer of 1986, carrying matches from the
1986 FIFA World Cup
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and music programming. It formally launched on August 1, 1986, and it held an inauguration ceremony on January 27, 1987, attended by President
Miguel de la Madrid
Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (; 12 December 1934 – 1 April 2012) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 59th president of Mexico from 1982 to 1988.
Inheriting a severe economic an ...
. That same year, the station launched its own newscast, ''Enlace FM''.
In 1990 the station flipped to a ranchera music format, maintaining some old programs and the newscast; this format was dropped two years later, with a return to the wide-ranging format as "Estéreo Frontera". In the mid-1990s, the local newscast was canceled and the format changed to
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 ...
music; this lasted until 2002, when the station yet again returned to its public mixed format. The current Fusión format was introduced in 2006, focusing the station on jazz music, news and community programming.
The concession for XHUAN-FM lapsed effective April 13, 2023, due to failure to file a timely renewal. The
Federal Telecommunications Institute
The Federal Telecommunications Institute ( Spanish: ''Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones''; abbreviated as IFT and incorrectly referred to as IFETEL) is an independent government agency of Mexico charged with the regulation of telecommunicat ...
granted a new concession, which initially bore the template call sign XHCPDJ-FM, which was changed back to XHUAN-FM along with those for five other stations whose concessions were lapsed and reawarded.
References
Radio stations in Tijuana
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