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.
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Broadcast area | Northern Veracruz eastern Hidalgo |
Frequency | 105.5 FM |
Branding | Radio Huayacocotla |
Programming | |
Format | Indigenous community radio |
Ownership | |
Owner | Fomento Cultural y Educativo, A.C. |
History | |
First air date | 15 August 1965 |
Former call signs | XEJN-OC |
Call sign meaning | Fomento Cultural y Educativo |
Technical information | |
Class | C1 |
ERP | 10,000 watts[1] |
Transmitter coordinates | 20°31′18.7″N 98°29′29.5″W / 20.521861°N 98.491528°W |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen live |
Website | fomento |
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.
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edit- ^ 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.