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XHCHL-FM
XHCHL-FM is a radio station on 90.1 FM serving Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. It is owned by and known as . The transmitter is located atop Sierra Papagayos. History XHCHL received its concession on November 23, 1994. XHCHL was authorized to broadcast with 15,000 (later 20,000) watts on 99.1 MHz from China, Nuevo León. On July 15, 1996, the station came to air with a grupera format known as "La Picosa". In 2007, XHCHL moved to 106.5 MHz. In 2010, XHCHL was authorized to move to Los Ramones and broadcast on 90.1. Initially, XHCHL on 90.1 was Beat 90.1, a dance Top 40 station featuring s a current-based mix of dance music, with Top 40 and R&B remixes, along with electronica and house music. It was the second Dance Contemporary radio station in Mexico, after semi-sister station XHSON-FM/Mexico City. In 2017 and 2018, the Bichara family, which owns Núcleo Radio Monterrey, slowly shifted XHCHL toward a new direction, which was completed in early 2018 when the statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHSP-FM
XHSP-FM is a radio station on 99.7 FM in Monterrey, Nuevo León. Mexico. The station is owned by El Heraldo de México with its El Heraldo Radio news format. The transmitter is atop Edificio Latino. History XHSP was the first radio station owned by Grupo Radio México, a corporate cousin of GRC that merged into it in 2016. It received its concession on May 15, 1973, and it was then owned by Luis Ignacio Santibañez Patino. Radio Emisora XHSP-FM became the concessionaire in 1986; it eventually became the legal owner for almost all GRC stations in Monterrey, namely those that were formerly part of GRM. In 2020, Grupo Radio Centro put ten stations up for sale, including XHSP-FM. The station was purchased by Heraldo Media Group, and La Invasora ended programming on May 30, 2021, making way for El Heraldo Radio to move from XHCHL-FM XHCHL-FM is a radio station on 90.1 FM serving Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. It is owned by and known as . The transmitter is located atop Sierra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHRL-FM
XHRL-FM is a radio station on 98.1 FM in Monterrey, Nuevo León. Mexico. The station is owned by Núcleo Radio Monterrey and carries a romantic/pop format known as Génesis 98.1. History XHRL received its concession on April 11, 1972. It was operated by Multimedios Radio Multimedios Radio is the radio division of Grupo Multimedios, Grupo Firmas Globales, operating 61 radio stations in Mexico. Multimedios traces its history to the founding of XEAW-AM in the late 1930s. Stations Monterrey, Nuevo León Multimed ... (in its beginnings as Organización Estrellas de Oro) and programmed a Spanish-language romantic music format known as Estéreo Recuerdo. In 1990 it was sold to Núcleo Radio Monterrey (a division of Núcleo Radio Mil in Nuevo León) and changed its name to Génesis 98.1, maintaining the romantic music format and adding pop in Spanish. References Radio stations in Monterrey Radio stations established in 1972 {{Nuevo León-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XEG-AM
XEG-AM (1050 kHz) is a Class A clear channel radio station in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. Its transmitter is in Guadalupe, Nuevo León. XEG was known as a border blaster in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. It now uses the name ''La Ranchera de Monterrey'' and broadcasts a Classic Ranchera radio format. XEG is one of a handful of North American AM stations to broadcast at 100,000 watts around the clock. No commercial AM stations in the U.S. or Canada run more than 50,000 watts. XEG is non-directional at night but uses a directional antenna by day. History XEG received its concession on February 21, 1944. In 1950, the advertising time on XEG came under the control of Harold Schwartz of Chicago who also came to represent co-owned XERB 1090 AM in Tijuana/ Rosarito, Baja California, the station made famous in the movie ''American Graffiti''. During the mid-and late 1970s, XEG (then at 150 kW power, directional north) was known for its nighttime English-language R&B/Soul mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XECT-AM
XECT-AM is a radio station on 1190 AM in Monterrey, Nuevo León. Mexico. The station is owned by Núcleo Radio Monterrey and currently is known as "La Voz", a Christian radio format. History XECT received its concession on August 20, 1971. Owned by Clemente Serna Alvear, of the Serna family that founded 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, ... in the 1940s, XECT was a 500-watt daytimer. Serna transferred the station to Canal 1190, S.A., in 1975. In the early 1990s, XECT went from broadcasting with 500 watts during the day and 100 at night to its current power levels by way of technical changes authorized in 1992 and 1998. References Mass media in Monterrey {{Nuevo León-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KJAV-FM
KJAV (104.9 FM, "Life Radio 104.9") is a radio station that is licensed to Alamo, Texas, United States. The station was acquired by Christian Ministries of the Valley, Inc in 2023, and broadcasts a Contemporary Christian radio format. History Original Christian radio format This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on October 9, 1979. The new station was assigned the KJAV call sign by the FCC on January 14, 1980. KJAV received its license to cover from the FCC on October 23, 1980. In 1987, KJAV was sold to La Radio Cristiana Network, a network of Spanish-language Christian radio stations owned by evangelist and musician Paulino Bernal. La Radio Cristiana Network sold the station to BMP Radio for a recorded $7 million in 2004. Rhythmic oldies After the station was purchased by BMP Radio, the KJAV transitioned to a rhythmic oldies format, rebranding as "Jammin 104.9 The Valley's Old School". The station had a morning sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Ramones
Los Ramones is the name of a municipality and its corresponding seat of government and main population center in Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. Geography Location Los Ramones is located in the west central portion of the Mexican state of Nuevo León. Its coordinates are ; it is 226 meters above sea level. It limits with the following municipalities, all in the state of Nuevo Leon: Cerralvo to the North; General Terán to the south; to the East with China, Nuevo Leon and Los Herreras; and to the West with Cadereyta Jiménez, Pesquería and Dr. González. Its total territory covers 1,378.8 square kilometers. Climate The southern portion of the municipality enjoys a temperate climate, with an average annual temperature between 12 and 18 degrees Celsius. The northern part of Los Ramones has an extremely hot, semi-arid climate, with little rainfall. May and September are the rainiest months in Los Ramones, with an average rainfall of 600 mm. Generally, hail storms appear b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHSON-FM
XHSON-FM (100.9 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Mexico City, owned and operated by NRM Comunicaciones. It has an electronic dance music (EDM) format and calls itself "Beat". Its playlist includes electro-house, techno, trance, progressive, drum and bass, dubstep, house, breaks and other dance and electronica music. It also plays chill-out and lounge music 13 hours a week. It has a staff of four announcers and 31 resident DJs along with additional guest DJs from time to time. XHSON-FM is a Class C station with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. The transmitter tower is atop Cerro del Chiquihuite. History The history of 100.9 FM in Mexico City begins with Televideo, S.A., receiving a concession for XEOY-FM in 1957. However, the station didn't sign on the air until . The original call sign was XEBS-FM, using the moniker "La Chica Musical". In the mid-1970s, the station became known as "Sonomil" (a name derived both from its position at 100.9 FM and fro ... [...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] |
El Heraldo De México
''El Heraldo de México'' is a Mexican national daily newspaper published in Mexico City. Initially founded in 1965, after a 14-year absence of the name, the newspaper was relaunched on May 2, 2017. History Original ''El Heraldo de México'' The original newspaper was launched by the Alarcón family on November 9, 1965. The newspaper came on the scene as a technological leader, with a Goss Urbanite press and eventually a custom-built facility in the Colonia Doctores neighborhood. It was printed in color, a rarity for Mexican papers of the time, which often remained in black-and-white for several more decades. It was often considered loyal to governments in power. The newspaper had a traditional emphasis on society and entertainment news. It sponsored the El Heraldo de México Awards, an annual media and sports award, given out between 1966 and 2002. ''Diario Monitor'' In October 2003, José Gutiérrez Vivó, host and president of Grupo Monitor, associated with the ''Monito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McAllen, Texas
McAllen is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Hidalgo County. It is located at the southern tip of the state in the Rio Grande Valley, on the Mexican border. The city limits extend south to the Rio Grande, across from the Mexican city of Reynosa. McAllen is about west of the Gulf of Mexico. As of the 2020 census, McAllen's population was 142,210, making it the 21st-most populous city in Texas. It is the fifth-most populous metropolitan area ( McAllen–Edinburg–Mission) in the state of Texas, and the binational Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan area counts a population of more than 1.5 million. From its settlement in 1904, the area around McAllen was largely rural and agricultural in character, but the latter half of the 20th century had steady growth, which has continued in the 21st century in the metropolitan area. The introduction of the ''maquiladora'' economy and the North American Free Trade Association led to an increase in cross-bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronica
Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mostly used to refer to electronic music generally. History Early 1990s: Origins and UK scene The original widespread use of the term "electronica" derives from the influential English experimental techno label New Electronica, which was one of the leading forces of the early 1990s introducing and supporting dance-based electronic music oriented towards home listening rather than dance-floor play, although the word "electronica" had already begun to be associated with synthesizer generated music as early as 1983, when a "UK Electronica Festival" was first held. At that time electronica became known as "electronic listening music", also becoming more or less synonymous to ambient techno and intelligent techno, and was considered distinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Music
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive Four on the floor (music), four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute. It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago's underground Clubbing (subculture), club culture and evolved slowly in the early/mid 1980s as DJs began altering disco songs to give them a more mechanical beat. By early 1988, house became mainstream and supplanted the typical 80s music beat. House was created and pioneered by DJs and producers in Chicago such as Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy, Jesse Saunders, Chip E., Joe Smooth, Steve "Silk" Hurley, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Marshall Jefferson, Phuture, and others. House music initially expanded to New York City, then internationally to cities such as London, and ultimately became a worldwide phenomenon. House has a large influence on pop music, especially dance music. It was incorporated into works by major international artists including Whitney Hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
