XHPEM-FM is a radio station serving Tayoltita,
San Dimas Municipality
San Dimas is one of the 39 municipalities of Durango, in north-western Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Tayoltita. The municipality covers an area of 5,620.5 km².
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 19,691, up from 19 ...
,
Durango and owned by Desarrollo Comunal Sustentable, A.C., an arm of the San Dimas silver and gold mine owned by
First Majestic Silver. It broadcasts with 5 watts ERP on 100.7 MHz.
It received its social use concession in May 2015 and was among the first stations to ever receive such a concession. The station had been operating prior to then without a concession. Its primary audience is the town of Tayoltita, a mining town sustained by the San Dimas gold and silver mine of Primero Empresa Minera, which was acquired in 2018 by
First Majestic Silver; XHPEM represents the community's only mass media. The station was formally relaunched in late 2019 as Radio Plata from a new cultural center in Tayoltita supported by First Majestic.
Until the authorization of
XHPINO-FM with 4 watts in 2018, XHPEM-FM was Mexico's least powerful radio station.
References
Spanish-language radio stations
Radio stations in Durango
Former pirate radio stations
Radio stations established in 2015
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