XHFCE-FM

XHFCE-FM (Radio Huayacocotla: La Voz de los Campesinos – "The Voice of the Campesinos") is an indigenous community radio station based in Huayacocotla, a community of some 4000 inhabitants in the mountainous north of the Mexican state of Veracruz.

XHFCE-FM
CityHuayacocotla, Veracruz, Mexico
Broadcast areaNorthern Veracruz
eastern Hidalgo
BrandingRadio Huayacocotla
SloganLa Voz Campesina
Frequency105.5 MHz
First air date15 August 1965
FormatIndigenous community radio
ERP10,000 watts[1]
ClassC1
Transmitter coordinates20°31′18.7″N 98°29′29.5″W
Call sign meaningFomento Cultural y Educativo
Former call signsXEJN-OC
OwnerFomento Cultural y Educativo, A.C.
Webcasthttp://radiohuaya.iberopuebla.edu.mx:8000/xhfce.m3u
Websitehttp://www.fomento.org.mx/radio

It began broadcasting, with a permit on 2390 kHz, a short wave frequency, on August 15, 1965 as XEJN-OC ("OC" for onda corta), using a 500 W transmitter. On February 14, 2005, the Secretariat of Communications and Transport (SCT) granted the station a legal permit after 27 years of negotiations, assigning it the call sign XHFCE-FM and an FM frequency of 105.5 MHz.

In its early years, the station's programming focused on adult literacy and numeracy efforts before evolving toward a more general community-radio format: local information, regional cultural dissemination, agricultural news, campesino rights. It carries programming in both Spanish and the local indigenous languages.

References

  1. Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de Radio FM. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2015-06-25. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.
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