XHFCE-FM

XHFCE-FM

Huayacocotla, Veracruz, Mexico
Broadcast area	Northern Veracruz eastern Hidalgo
Frequency	105.5 MHz
Branding	Radio Huayacocotla
Programming
Format	Indigenous community radio
Ownership
Owner	Fomento Cultural y Educativo, A.C.
History
First air date	15 August 1965
Former call signs	XEJN-OC
Call sign meaning	Fomento Cultural y Educativo
Technical information
Class	C1
ERP	10,000 watts
Transmitter coordinates	20°31′18.7″N 98°29′29.5″W
Links
Webcast	http://web.archive.org/web/20160304002653/http://radiohuaya.iberopuebla.edu.mx:8000/xhfce.m3u
Website	http://www.fomento.org.mx/radio

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 broadcasting license 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.

External links

• La Voz Campesina Facebook

References

• ¿Quién es “La voz de los campesinos” en Sierra Norte de Veracruz?
• Entregan permiso a Radio Huayacocotla en la banda de FM