XHFCE-FM

XHFCE-FM
City Huayacocotla, Veracruz, Mexico
Broadcast area Northern Veracruz
eastern Hidalgo
Branding Radio Huayacocotla
Slogan La Voz Campesina
Frequency 105.5 MHz
First air date 15 August 1965
Format Indigenous community radio
ERP 10,000 watts[1]
Class C1
Transmitter coordinates 20°31′18.7″N 98°29′29.5″W / 20.521861°N 98.491528°W / 20.521861; -98.491528
Callsign meaning Fomento Cultural y Educativo
Former callsigns XEJN-OC
Owner Fomento Cultural y Educativo, A.C.
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.

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