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.