XHFCE-FM

Infobox Radio station
name = XHFCE-FM


city = Huayacocotla, Veracruz, Mexico
area = Northern Veracruz, eastern Hidalgo
branding = Radio Huayacocotla
slogan = La Voz de los Campesinos
airdate = 15 August 1965
frequency = 105.5 MHz
erp = 10,000 watts
format = Indigenous community radio
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former_callsigns = XEJN-OC
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webcast = [http://www.sjsocial.org/fomento/proyectos/xhfce.html XHFCE]
website = [http://www.sjsocial.org/fomento/proyectos/xhfce.html XHFCE]
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XHFCE-FM ("Radio Huayacocotla: La Voz de los Campesinos" – "The Voice of the Campesinos") is an indigenous community radio station based in Huayacocotla, a town of some 5000 inhabitantes 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.

Location map
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References

* [http://www.sjsocial.org/fomento/proyectos/plantilla.php?texto=radio ¿Quién es “La voz de los campesinos” en Sierra Norte de Veracruz?]
* [http://www.etcetera.com.mx/pagpermisone52.asp Entregan permiso a Radio Huayacocotla en la banda de FM]