XEITE-AM

XEITE
City	Mexico City, Mexico
Branding	Radio Capital
Frequency	830 kHz
First air date	1940
Power	25,000 watts (day) 5,000 watts (night)^[1]
Class	B
Callsign meaning	Imagen TEcnologías (owner 1999-2004)
Owner	Grupo Radio Capital (CapitalMedia) (Radiodifusoras Capital, S.A. de C.V.)
Sister stations	XECH-AM
Website	XEITE-AM

XEITE-AM is a radio station in Mexico City, broadcasting on 830 kHz.

History

XELA-AM

XELA logo

XELA-AM was founded in 1940 in Mexico City with a classical music format. For many years it was one of the few sources of classical music available to ordinary Mexican citizens. XELA was able to acquire quality sound recordings from the United States, England and France, even though it started with a very low budget, through an exchange program for Mexican music recordings. The station was acquired by Grupo Imagen in 1963.

From the 1970s to the mid-1980s, the station simulcast on XELA-FM 98.5. That station was split off in the mid-1980s.

The station was threatened with closure in 2000, but protests by listeners from laborers to the intelligentsia keep it open for a while longer. Their slogan was "Buena música desde la Ciudad de México!" ("Good music from Mexico City!").

XEITE-AM

In 1999, XELA was sold to Imagen Tecnologías, who in 2002 brokered its airtime and dropped the classical music format for sports, as "Estadio W 830" (a format now found on XEX-AM) and changed the callsign to XEITE-AM. The change resulted in protests from the station's dedicated listeners; some famous Mexican cultural luminaries, including Elena Poniatowska, José Luis Cuevas, Vicente Quirarte and Víctor Hugo Rascón, formed the "National XELA Rescue Committee" (or CONAREXELA) on July 10 of that year.^[2] The group sought for the Instituto Mexicano de la Radio to take over the station, but IMER refused, saying it would incorporate that format into its own XHIMER-FM 94.5.

In 2004, the station was sold to Grupo Radio Capital (now known as CapitalMedia). The Radio Capital format originally included news and sports programming, but more contemporary music was added in 2008.

References

↑ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de Radio AM. Last modified 2015-08-14. Retrieved 2014-12-23.
↑ Anasella Acosta Nieto, Instituyen el Conarexela, bandera de la sociedad civil, La Jornada 10 July 2002

Correa, Guillermo (2002) "El rescate de XELA: exige la comunidad intelectual al gobierno" (XELA's rescue: intellectual community's demand from government) Proceso Cisa Comunicacion e Informacion (Oct 6, 2002): pp. 86–89;
Alatorre, Antonio et al. (Oct 2002) "Días de radio: la desaparición de la XELA ha reducido al mínimo la oferta de huena música en la radio mexicana, avasallada por una oralidad buera: Seis radioescuchas refinados participan en una especie de oración fúnebre por la estación que los educó y preparó para afrontar la estridencia del mundo" (Radio days: XELA's closure has been a blow to music radio broadcasting in Mexico: Six devoted listeners sing the praises of a radio station that was part of their lives" Letras Libres 4(46): pp. 56–58;

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Radio stations in Mexico City

By AM frequency	XEWF 540 XEOC 560 XEPH 590 XENK 620 XEDTL 660 XEN 690 XEMP 710 XEX 730 XEABC 760 XERC 790 XEITE 830 XEUN 860 XEW 900 XEQ 940 XERFR 970 XEOY 1000 XEQR 1030 XEEP 1060 XETUL 1080 XERED 1110 XEJP 1150 XEFR 1180 XEB 1220 XEL 1260 XEDA 1290 XENET 1320 XEQK 1350 XECO 1380 XEBS 1410 XEEST 1440 XEAI 1470 XEDF 1500 XEUR 1530 XEINFO 1560 XEVOZ 1590 XEUACH 1610 XEARZ 1650 XEANAH 1670

By SW frequency	XERTA 4800 XEOI 6010 XEPPM 6185 XEYU 9600

By FM frequency	XHRED 88.1 XHM 88.9 XEOYE 89.7 XEDA 90.5 XHUIA 90.9 XHFAJ 91.3 XHFO 92.1 XEQ 92.9 XEJP 93.7 UAM Radio 94.1 XHIMER 94.5 XHSH 95.3 XHUPC 95.7 XEUN 96.1 XEW 96.9 XERC 97.7 XHDL 98.5 XHPOP 99.3 XHMM 100.1 XHSON 100.9 XEX 101.7 XHMVS 102.5 XERFR 103.3 XEDF 104.1 XHEXA 104.9 XHOF 105.7 XHDFM 106.5 XEQR 107.3 XHIMR 107.9

HD Radio	88.1-1 88.1-2 90.5-1 90.5-2 90.5-3 90.9-1 91.3-1 91.3-2 93.7-1 93.7-2 94.5-1 94.5-2 94.5-3 97.7-1 97.7-2 103.3-1 103.3-2 103.3-3 103.3-4 104.1-1 104.1-2 104.1-3 104.1-4 105.7-1 105.7-2 105.7-3 107.3-1 107.3-2 107.9-1 107.9-2 107.9-3

Dark stations/frequencies	XERMX 5985/9705/11770/15430/17765 (Radio México Internacional; now Internet-only) XHFM 94.1

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