XELT-AM

XELT-AM

City	Huentitán el Bajo, Guadalajara, Jalisco
Branding	Radio María
Frequency	920 kHz
First air date	April 27, 1944
Format	Catholic religious
Power	10 kW day 1 kW night[1]
Owner	Televisa Radio (Radio Tapatía, S.A. de C.V.)

XELT-AM is a radio station on 920 kHz in Guadalajara, Jalisco. It is known as Radio María and carries a Catholic religious format.

History

XELT signed on April 27, 1944, on 840 kHz, owned by J. H. Tostado Lomelí. It was later acquired by the Unidifusión group, making it sister to XEAD, XEHL, XEJE and XEBA.

In 1987, Unidifusión split in two; Francisco Javier Díaz Romo picked up XEZZ, XELT, XEBA-AM-FM and XEHL-AM-FM and operated them as Radio Comerciales de Jalisco. In 1992, Radiópolis, now known as Televisa Radio, bought the stations to mark its first holdings outside of Mexico City.

In 1992, the station became an early grupera format station known as La Sabrosita; this ended when XEBA-FM was relaunched as Ke Buena the next year and absorbed many of its DJs, and XELT remained with a tropical format. After a brief run as news-talk Frecuencia Libre, XELT became known as "Radio Escucha", with a strong schedule of local programming that rivaled even XEWK. This lasted until 1998, when the highest-rated programs moved to XEWK and the station picked up romantic music as RadioAmor.

In 2002, XELT flipped to religious music as Radio Oasis; today it carries Radio María programming.

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