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MIX 106.5 streams English-language hits from the 80s and 90s to Mexico City, the fifth format for a frequency that cycled through romantic, ballad, and ranchera identities before Grupo ACIR took over in 1995.
Tumbado al 100 streams corridos tumbados, the genre Natanael Cano named in 2019 and Peso Pluma took global, whose narco-corrido lyrics have led ten Mexican states to ban live performances even as it dominates streaming charts.
Romántica 1380 in Mexico City has run under at least six different names and formats since its 1934 founding as XEMX-AM, before Grupo Audiorama's romantic ballad format finally stuck for good in 2006.
AMOR Solo Pop streams Spanish-language pop ballads as a digital arm of Amor, Grupo ACIR's romantic music brand that traces back to a single Veracruz radio purchase by Francisco Ibarra in 1963.
XEOC-AM launched in 1958 as Radio Chapultepec, its call letters spelling out founder Federico Obregón Cruces's name, before cycling through pop and Regional Mexican rebrands under Grupo Radio Digital and returning to its original identity in 2012.
Broadcasting as XEQ-FM 92.9 in Mexico City, La KeBuena has spent three decades turning banda, grupera and norteño into the sound of the capital's streets.
Next FM is a Mexico City online radio station built around "música que no sabías que querías escuchar", pairing 80s and 90s alternative deep cuts with indie and experimental rock for a Generation X audience, run by named hosts like El Gallito Inglés rather than an automated feed.
Radio Centro 1030 (XEQR-AM) began in 1931 as the broadcast voice of Mexico's ruling party before Francisco Aguirre Jiménez transformed it into "the station of the Mexican family" and built Grupo Radio Centro around it. Today it streams Spanish ballads, boleros, and classic oldies from Mexico City.
Founded on March 8, 2003, by academics Gabriela Warkentin and Juan Carlos Henríquez at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Ibero 90.9 is a hand-curated alternative station that plays no algorithms, no commercial playlists, and answers to no advertisers. It is, as its own manifesto puts it, an antídoto contra el silencio intolerable.
