Cuaderno En Frecuencia: March 24
Add another to the HEEP; a Guerrero town gets a spark; catching up with some university station news
It has been quite quiet. The IFT Pleno has not released new meeting agendas in several weeks. But there’s enough to cobble together a Cuaderno this week.
Escape In Progress
Escápate al Paraíso is starting to get serious about building those IFT-4 AM stations, which have come on the air with little fanfare in the last year or so.
XEHEEP-AM 650 began broadcasting earlier this month:
Chilapa Gets a Spark
After the August 2021 closure of XHSUR-FM in Chilapa de Álvarez, Guerrero, it has fallen to pirates to hold the fort for broadcasting in the city. And one of them is also daring to do what nobody else is there: bring people the news.
El Sur has the story of a new morning newscast, Informativo Atenas, which airs on La Chispa de Guerrero (89.1). The hour-long program went on the air February 20.
XHSUR’s closure was a particular blow in Chilapa because newspapers have not been distributed there since 2018 due to violence.
University Station Miscellanea
- XHUTX-FM 99.5 Tlaxcala is the latest station divulged to be a victim of Article 114 of the LFTR. The IFT Pleno resolution declaring its renewal filing to be late was approved in September but not disclosed until this week’s RPC upload. It could appear in the special window of the 2024 PABF for filing in late 2023 if the station does not end up having an Article 90 problem. There is time to resolve the issue: the station’s concession expires on August 1, 2024.
- The Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco has been authorized to reclaim the call sign XHUJAT-FM for what has been XHCPEK-FM 96.1 in Villahermosa, per the March INE catalog update. The XHCPEK call letters only had a lifespan of two months.
Updated to add the detail that XHUTX’s concession expires August 1, 2024, which was inadvertently omitted from the original story.
