XHRCA-FM

XHRCA-FM
City	Torreón, Coahuila/Gómez Palacio, Durango
Broadcast area	Comarca Lagunera
Frequency	102.7 MHz
Branding	FM Tu
Programming
Format	Urban
Ownership
Owner	Multimedios Radio ; (Radio Informativa, S.A. de C.V.)
History
First air date	April 2, 1952 (concession); 1994 (FM)
Former call signs	XEOB-AM, XETAA-AM/XHTAA-FM, XERCA-AM
Former frequencies	1490 kHz (1952–1966); 920 kHz (1966–2020);
Technical information
Class	A
ERP	600 watts
HAAT	231.83 m
Transmitter coordinates	25°31′25.8″N 103°27′18.0″W / 25.523833°N 103.455000°W (FM); 25°34′52.9″N 103°28′48.1″W / 25.581361°N 103.480028°W (AM)
Links
Website	www.multimedios.com/radio/programas/fm-tu-1027-fm-torreon

XHRCA-FM is a radio station serving the Comarca Lagunera of Torreón, Coahuila and Gómez Palacio, Durango. Broadcasting on 102.7 FM, XHRCA is owned by Multimedios Radio as FM Tu with an urban format.

History[]

Logo as Planeta, used until 2019

The concession for XERCA-AM was awarded in April 1952 to Radio Torreón, S.A. The station was known as XEOB-AM—the second station to use the call letters in the Comarca Lagunera, after a previous station in Gómez Palacio—and operated on 1490 kHz. The original concessionaire was Clemente Serna Martínez, founder of Radio Programas de México.^[2] The station changed its call letters to XETAA-AM in 1965, complementing then-sisters XETB and XETC, and moved down the dial to 920 kHz in 1966.

In 1992, XETAA was transferred to Promotora Radiofónica de la Laguna. Two years later, it became an AM-FM combo, one of 80 authorized at the time, with the sign-on of XHTAA-FM 102.7. In 1998, the callsigns were changed to XERCA-AM and XHRCA-FM (the latter previously used by Mexico City station XHFAJ-FM). In 2015, XHRCA and 24 other radio stations were folded into Grupo Radio Centro, a business owned by the same family as GRM.

On October 29, 2019, Multimedios Radio assumed operational control of XHRCA and relaunched it as FM Tu with an urban format, similar to XHFMTU-FM in Monterrey. On January 8, 2020, the station presented the Federal Telecommunications Institute with the surrender of its 5,000-watt AM facility in Gómez Palacio, remaining on FM only.^[3]

References[]

^ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de Radio FM. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2015-10-03. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.
^ Ceballos Azpe, Juan (2015-02-13). "Breve historia de la radio". Noticieros GREM. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
^ RPC: #046803 AM Surrender — XHRCA-FM

External links[]

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[mexico-inf-FM-1] Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de Radio FM. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2015-10-03. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.

[2] Ceballos Azpe, Juan (2015-02-13). "Breve historia de la radio". Noticieros GREM. Retrieved 2015-10-31.

[3] RPC: #046803 AM Surrender — XHRCA-FM

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