XHAC-FM (Campeche)

XHAC-FM is a regional Mexican radio station that serves the state of Campeche.

XHAC-FM
CityCampeche, Campeche, Mexico
Broadcast areaCampeche
Frequency102.7 MHz
BrandingKe Buena
Programming
FormatRegional Mexican
AffiliationsRadiorama, Televisa Radio
Ownership
OwnerNúcleo Comunicación del Sureste
(Radiorama del Sureste, S.A.)
History
First air dateAugust 7, 1939
Call sign meaningDerived from former AM callsign XEA + Campeche
Technical information
ERP25,000 watts (FM)[1]
HAAT26.38 meters
Transmitter coordinates19°50′30″N 90°32′06″W
Links
Websitewww.ncscampeche.com/kebuena-campeche.html

History

XEA-AM was Campeche's first radio station and the only station in the state for 18 years. Its roots lay in an unlicensed station that operated for a time in 1938 but was shut down a month later because it lacked a concession. Given the public interest that the new station had excited, Luis A. Maury applied for a concession, and on August 7, 1939, XEA-AM on 1370 kilohertz took to the air with the final annual address of Governor Eduardo Mena Córdova. Its formal concession was issued eight days later.[2] XEA initially operated three hours a day, in the evening, and as electricity was scarce in Campeche, few residents had radios. It was commonly known as "El Eco de las Murallas".

Alejandro Casanova Brito, known as "Lexo", joined the station as an early announcer. By 1942, Maury wanted out of the radio business and sold the station to Casanova, who obtained financing for the acquisition from Governor Héctor Pérez Martínez. Casanova repaid the governor with airtime, leading to the creation of La Hora Estatal, a government radio program similar to the modern opt-outs of La Hora Nacional.[2] Sponsored programming arrived on the station, as did a restructuring of the broadcast day. Newscasts like "Vida Social Arceo" and "Cuestión de Minuto", modest radio novels, live remotes from popular dances and political gatherings, and the transmission of Piratas de Campeche baseball games in the Peninsular League were staples of XEA. Additionally, the provision of round-the-clock electricity to Campeche beginning in 1950 increased the popularity of local radio. The station produced a variety of locally recognized announcers and hosts.[2]

It would not be until 1957 that the station had competition, as Manuel Araujo Echeverría set up Campeche's second station on 1430 kHz, XEUK-AM. Six years later, the station was sold to the Rivas-Arceo Corcuera consortium of Yucatán broadcaster Rafael Rivas Franco and local Alberto Arceo Corcuera, who rebranded it XERAC-AM. Additionally, XECAM-AM was built in 1961 by Rafael Cutberto Navarro.[2]

In the late 1960s, now with local competition, XEA moved to a musical format and took the name Radio Variedades, with a wide variety of music in Spanish.[2]

In 1980, Arceo Corcuera bought XEA, making it sister station to XERAC as well as XHMI-FM, the first FM station in the state. He quickly built a media empire, which also featured stations in Palizada, Escárcega and Champotón and the Tribuna newspaper. This became known as Núcleo Comunicación del Sureste.[2] With the sale, XEA changed its format to tropical music. In 1985, XEA along with the Palizada and Escárcega stations secured an affiliation to Radiorama.

In 2008, XEA picked up the Ke Buena national grupera format. The station migrated to 102.7 MHz FM in 2011 and changed its callsign to XHAC-FM, making it one of two unrelated stations to bear the callsign along with a station in Aguascalientes.

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gollark: It looks simpler than your diagram, although I suppose that covers all school stuff while I'm only talking about my specific school and there are other options like vocational training of some kind.
gollark: My school has some convoluted thing where for A-level (high school, ish), as well as the regular 3 A-levels, you *also* have to do two of these three options:- EPQ i.e. a big independent-research-y project- a bunch of 3-month nonexamined "carousel" courses about random stuff like sign language and cooking and photography- a "complementary studies" course, which is *either* a nonexamined random thing or something like one AS-level*or* a fourth A-level.
gollark: Hmm, that's quite a lot longer than "high school" here.
gollark: The only vaguely practical class my school offers at "high school" age (16-18, right?) is "cooking", as part of the complementary studies carousel thing, which I'm not actually doing.

References
  1. Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de Radio FM. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2015-06-09. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.
  2. Valdivieso, Ricardo. "Así nació y se reprodujo la radiodifusión en Campeche". El Sur. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
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