XEVFS-AM

XEVFS-AM/XHSEB-FM
City San Sebastián/Las Margaritas, Chiapas, Mexico
Broadcast area Chiapas; part of Guatemala
Branding La Voz de la Frontera Sur
Frequency 1030 kHz
91.7 MHz
First air date 27 April 1987
Format Indigenous community radio
Power 10,000 watts (AM, daytime only)[1]
Class B (AM), AA (FM)
Transmitter coordinates 16°18′55″N 91°58′54″W / 16.31528°N 91.98167°W / 16.31528; -91.98167
Callsign meaning Voz de la Frontera Sur
San SEBastián
Owner CDI – SRCI
Webcast XEVFS-AM
Website XEVFS-AM

XEVFS-AM/XHSEB-FM (La Voz de la Frontera Sur – "The Voice of the Southern Border") is an indigenous community radio station that broadcasts in Spanish, Tojolabal, Mam, Tseltal, Tsotsil and Popti (otherwise known as Jakaltek) from Las Margaritas in the Mexican state of Chiapas. It is run by the Cultural Indigenist Broadcasting System (SRCI) of the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples (CDI).

History

XEVFS signed on April 27, 1987.

The broadcast facilities of XEVFS were seized by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in their January 1994 uprising and used to transmit rebel messages.

In December 2016, the CDI obtained an FM frequency, XHSEB-FM 91.7, to convert XEVFS into an AM-FM combo. FM transmissions began by January 2018.

References

  1. ↑ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de Radio AM. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2015-06-18. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.


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