XHFCE-FM
| City of license | Huayacocotla, Veracruz, Mexico |
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| Broadcast area | Northern Veracruz, eastern Hidalgo |
| Branding | Radio Huayacocotla |
| Slogan | La Voz de los Campesinos |
| Frequency | 105.5 MHz |
| First air date | 15 August 1965 |
| Format | Indigenous community radio |
| ERP | 10,000 watts |
| Former callsigns | XEJN-OC |
| Webcast | http://radiohuaya.iberopuebla.edu.mx:8000/xhfce.m3u |
| Website | http://www.fomento.org.mx/radio |
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.
It began broadcasting, with a permit on 2390 kHz, a short wave frequency, on 15 August 1965 as XEJN-OC ("OC" for onda corta), using a 500 W transmitter. On 14 February 2005 the Secretariat of Communications and Transport (SCT) granted the station a legal broadcasting licence after 27 years of negotiations, assigning it the call sign XHFCE-FM and a very high frequency (FM) slot 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
- ¿Quién es “La voz de los campesinos” en Sierra Norte de Veracruz?
- Entregan permiso a Radio Huayacocotla en la banda de FM
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