XHFCE-FM explained

XHFCE-FM
City:Huayacocotla, Veracruz
Area:Northern Veracruz
eastern Hidalgo
Country:MX
Branding:Radio Huayacocotla
Airdate:15 August 1965
Frequency:105.5 FM
Erp:10,000 watts
Format:Indigenous community radio
Coordinates:20.5219°N -98.4915°W
Class:C1
Callsign Meaning:Fomento Cultural y Educativo
Former Callsigns:XEJN-OC
Owner:Fomento Cultural y Educativo, A.C.

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 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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