XHPNK-FM

Radio station in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico

25°45′40.76″N 109°00′00″W / 25.7613222°N 109.00000°W / 25.7613222; -109.00000

XHPNK-FM is a radio station on 103.5 FM in Los Mochis, Sinaloa. It is owned by Grupo Radio Centro and is known as Radio Variedades with a romantic format.

History

XEPNK-AM 880 received its concession on November 19, 1980. The 5,000-watt daytimer was owned by Felipe García de León. In the mid-1980s, García de León traded XEPNK to Grupo OIR in exchange for XEOS and XEHX radio in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora.^[2] The concession transferred to Radio y Televisión de Sinaloa in 1993, around which time XEPNK boosted its power to 10,000 watts day and 2,000 night.

In 2011, XEPNK moved to FM as XHPNK-FM 103.5.

In 2016, after Grupo Radio México transferred operational control of the station to Radiorama, XHPNK changed names from La Rancherita to Romántica as part of a frequency shuffle of formats at the cluster. GRC, GRM's successor, resumed operating the stations in February 2019, with XHPNK becoming Radio Variedades, the former name of XHCW-FM 96.5.

On March 10, 2021, the Federal Telecommunications Institute denied an application for the renewal of XHPNK-FM's concession for failure to pay the final installment of its fee to move to FM.^[3]

References

^ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de Radio FM. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2016-04-26. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.
^ Anaya, Sergio (22 May 2011). "Cerecer: Una trayectoria brillante en la radio cajemense". InfoCajeme. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
^ "Resolución mediante la cual el Pleno del Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones niega la prórroga de vigencia de tres concesiones para operar y explotar comercialmente frecuencias de radiodifusión sonora para uso comercial" [Resolution by which the Plenary of the Federal Telecommunications Institute denies the renewal of three concessions to operate commercial radio stations] (PDF) (in Mexican Spanish). Federal Telecommunications Institute. March 10, 2021. Retrieved August 6, 2021.