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XEINFO-AM
XHINFO-FM (105.3 FM) is a radio station in Mexico City. XHINFO-FM is owned by XEFAJ, S.A. de C.V., a company controlled by Eduardo Henkel Rojas. It is presently operated by Capital Digital, owner of ''Chilango'' magazine, and is known as Radio Chilango. XHINFO-FM broadcasts in HD. Established in the early 1960s as an AM station on 1560 kHz, today's XHINFO has had a turbulent history. In the 2000s, an agreement by longtime owner Grupo Radio Centro to spin the station off to José Gutiérrez Vivó, host of the ''Monitor'' newscast, ended in a split and years of lawsuits that dragged the station off the air. However, a sale to Henkel, who had been a creditor, led to an interim operation through most of the 2010s. In 2017, XEINFO-AM won the only slot for a commercial Mexico City station to migrate to FM and began FM broadcasting the next year under an agreement with a company that programmed the station as "Aire Libre" with an indie and eclectic music format. A further dispute betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XEEST-AM
XEEST-AM is a radio station on 1440 AM in Mexico City. The station airs christian radio, Christian programming under the name "Ondas De Vida". History XELZ-AM received its first concession on December 1, 1942, to María Cardona de Zetina. For most of its history under this callsign, it broadcast ranchera music and was known as "Radio LZ". It was sold to Radio Variedades, S.A. in 1961, and became a part of Grupo Radio Centro. In the late 1970s, the tropical format ''Radio AI'' changed from XENET-AM, 1320 AM to 1440. By the 1980s, it had adopted the XEEST-AM callsign and was known as "Estudiantes AM", targeting a youth audience with pop in Spanish. This format evolved into "Radio 14-40" in the mid-80s with Spanish-language rock joining the musical mix. Yet again, in 1989, the station changed names, this time to "Radio Alegría", but kept its format, eventually incorporating the wave of Spanish-language rap. In 1993, the format was changed and the station became "Radio Éxitos" (a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XENET-AM
XENET-AM was a radio station in Mexico City. Located on 1320 kHz, XENET-AM was owned by Emisora 1320, S.A. de C.V. The station signed off the air on May 23, 2008, and its concession expired on July 3, 2016. History The concession for 1320 AM in Mexico City was originally awarded to Carmen Gutiérrez Trejo, with the callsign of XEAI. The station was eventually sold to Corporación Nacional de Radio y Televisión, S.A. and became part of Grupo Radio Centro, originally having a tropical music format known as "Radio AI". In 1974, the station became XECMQ-AM and "Radio Sensación", broadcasting ballad music in Spanish. In 1993, "Formato 21", a news format, replaced it. In 1997, 1150 AM swapped callsigns and formats with 1320 AM, with this frequency becoming XEJP-AM and taking on 1150's longtime "Radio Variedades" format. In a 1998 contract, Grupo Radio Centro announced the transfer of XEJP-AM 1320 and XEFAJ-AM 1560 (now XEINFO-AM) to José Gutiérrez Vivó, journalist and produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHRED-FM
XHRED-FM is a radio station on 88.1 FM in Mexico City. XHRED-FM is owned by Grupo Radio Centro and broadcasts a combined format of news/talk and English classic hits known as ''Universal'' (formerly ''Universal Stereo'', the format's name between 1991 and 2014). XHRED-FM also broadcasts via the HD Radio over-the-air broadcast service for compatible home and car stereos. The transmitter is located atop a tower in La Mesa/Villa Alpina site at the outskirts west of Mexico City. History Radio Red Radio Central de México, S.A., the operator and concessionaire of XERED-AM, first received a concession to operate an FM radio station in Mexico City in 1972. XHRED-FM then launched in 1976 picking up a format previously heard on XEINFO-AM, 1560 AM: "Radio VIP" with a mix of programming and music primarily in English. Further, in the 1980s, Spanish-language newscasts were added with the title ''Monitor'', airing simultaneously with sister station XERED-AM. For some time in the early 1990s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grupo Radio Centro
Grupo Radio Centro is a Mexico City-based owner and operator of radio stations. It owns 30 radio stations in Mexico and the United States, including 8 radio stations in Mexico City. History Radio Centro's origins date to 1946, when Francisco Aguirre Jiménez formed the Cadena Radio Continental to operate XEQR-AM 1030 and new station XERC-AM 790 in Mexico City. Organización Radio Centro was formed in 1952, and the current company was founded in 1971. In 1965, it founded OIR (Organización Impulsora de la Radio), which syndicates Radio Centro's formats to stations across Mexico. Its non-Mexico City business extended further in the 1980s, when Radio Centro began selling its formats outside the United States (in 1983) and created Cadena Radio Centro (in 1986) to manage this portion of its operations. Meanwhile, in Mexico City, it had expanded to five AM stations and three new FM outlets. Radio Centro was the second media company to place its FM towers on Cerro del Chiquihuite, to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Programas De México
Radio Programas de México (RPM) was a radio company of Mexico, founded by Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta and Clemente Serna Martínez in 1941. It was a pioneer in the expansion of Mexican radio, particularly in the creation of radio networks. RPM, known in its final years as Radiodifusión Red, was sold to Grupo Radio Centro in 1994. History RPM began operations on May 31, 1941, a joint venture of Monterrey broadcaster Clemente Serna Martínez, and Azcárraga, who already owned two of Mexico's most popular radio stations: XEW-AM, XEW and XEQ-AM, XEQ. It was the first company to specialize in selling radio programs recorded on vinyl and magnetic tape.Fernando Mejía BarqueraHistoria mínima de la radio en México/ref> The business model of RPM was incredibly lucrative; it sold the best XEW and XEQ radio programs to stations throughout interior Mexico, offering these small stations programs they could not produce themselves as well as access to national advertising accounts and the ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XERED-AM
XERED-AM (1110 Hertz, kHz) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station in Mexico City. It is owned by Grupo Radio Centro and it airs a talk radio radio format, format including news and sports, known as Radio Red. Late nights and weekends, it plays contemporary hit radio, contemporary hits in English. XERED-AM is powered at 50,000 watts. AM 1110 is a United States clear-channel station, clear-channel frequency reserved for list of broadcast station classes#AM, Class A stations KFAB Omaha and WBT (AM), WBT Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlotte. But XERED is far enough away to avoid causing interference to those stations. Its transmitter is off Avenida Canal de Garay, south of downtown Mexico City. History XEFO and XERCN The concession history for XERED-AM begins with XEFO, a radio station launched on .Enrique E. Sánchez Ruiz, "Orígenes de la radiodifusión en México". Guadalajara: ITESO, 1984 It originally broadcast on 940 kHz as the radio station of the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilana Sod
Ilana Sod (born February 3, 1973) is a Mexican television and radio journalist, presenter, and producer. She has worked for a variety of media outlets and collaborated on initiatives relating to social issues and youth-oriented programming. Career From 2004 to 2012, Ilana Sod was MTV Latin America's newscaster and Editor-in-Chief for Public Affairs Programming. She was previously a columnist for the Mexican newspaper Excélsior and a contributor to Radio Trece in the Mexico City area. Sod was born in Mexico City and splits her time between residences in Los Angeles and her home nation, Mexico. She is still a recurring contributor for MTV and multiple media outlets throughout the Spanish-speaking world. The 2014 TV news SpecialHecho en America which Sod co-produced witManuel Alvarez for NBCUniversal's mun2 Channel has been nominated or shortlisted for several prestigious awards, includina 2014 nominationfor a Daytime Emmy in the Outstanding Special Class Special. "Hecho en Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.3 million people, making it the fifth most populous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Prensa (Mexico City)
''La Prensa'' is a Mexican newspaper, owned by Organizacion Editorial Mexicana, established in 1928. The newspaper had a circulation of 244,299, the highest circulation of any newspaper in Mexico, as of 2013. Their sister newspaper, ESTO once had the highest circulation of any Mexican newspaper with 400,000 copies. ''La Prensa'' was widely criticized for publishing explicit photos of the mutilated body of Ingrid Escamilla following her murder in February 2020. The paper has defended its policy of reporting on crime but said it will review its policies. Al Jazeera, 14 Feb 2020 See also * |
Unidad De Inteligencia Financiera (Mexico)
Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera (''Financial Intelligence Unit'') or UIF is an administrative unit of Mexico's Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit responsible for receiving, analyzing and disseminating information related to the prevention, detection and combat to the violations of operations with illegal resources such as money laundering and terrorist-financing activities. Its main source of information are the reports and notices provided by the financial institutions in the country. The UIF was created on 7 May 2004, during the presidency of Vicente Fox Quesada. Agency Executives See also *Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit The Secretariat of the Treasury and Public Credit (, SHCP) is the finance ministry of Mexico. The Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the department, and is a member of the federal executive cabinet, appointed to the post by the President ... References Mexican intelligence agencies Financial regulatory authorities 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institutional Revolutionary Party
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, , PRI) is a List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party (, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (, PRM) and finally as the PRI beginning in 1946. The party held uninterrupted power in the country and controlled the President of Mexico, presidency twice: the first one was for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, the second was for six years, from 2012 to 2018. The PNR was founded in 1929 by Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexico's paramount leader at the time and self-proclaimed (Supreme Chief) of the Mexican Revolution. The party was created with the intent of providing a political space in which all the surviving leaders and combatants of the Mexican Revolution could participate to solve the severe political crisis caused by the assassination of president-elect Álvaro Obregón in 1928. Although Calles himself fell into political disgrace and was exiled in 1936 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulum
Tulum (, ) is the site of a pre-Columbian Mayan walled city which served as a major port for Coba, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The ruins are situated on cliffs along the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula on the Caribbean Sea. Tulum was one of the last cities built and inhabited by the Maya and achieved its greatest prominence between the 13th and 15th centuries. Maya continued to occupy Tulum for about 70 years after the Spanish began occupying Mexico, but the city was abandoned by the end of the 16th century. Tulum is one of the best-preserved coastal Maya sites, and today it is a popular site for tourists. History and description File:MX -Tulum.png, Map of central Tulum File:Tulum_Maya-13.jpg, Tulum Ruins File:TulumCatherwood1844.jpg, Main temple at Tulum, lithograph in 1844 by Frederick Catherwood. File:CastilloTulum.jpg, View to the top of El Castillo The site might have been called Zama, meaning ''City of Dawn,'' because it faces the sunrise. Tulum st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
