Some radio stations are launched by media groups. This one was willed into existence by a town. La Más Perrona is the community radio station of Tarandacuao, a small municipality in southeastern Guanajuato, Mexico, and its story is pure grassroots: it started life as a pirate signal and fought its way to a legitimate licence. Today it broadcasts on 1670 AM under the call sign XECSCA, owned by the civic association Tarandacuao Pueblo de Abundante Agua, playing regional Mexican music and serving the people who built it.
From Pirate Frequency to Licensed Voice of the Town
The station's origin is genuinely a David-and-Goliath tale. Its predecessor operated as a pirate station on 105.5 FM before a community-radio application was filed in May 2017 and an AM frequency was finally approved in December 2018. XECSCA went on air properly in January 2019, holding a social concession, the category Mexico reserves for non-commercial, community-run broadcasters.
That status matters. It means La Más Perrona answers to its listeners, not to advertisers, and exists to promote local culture, share information relevant to the community and broadcast regional Mexican music.
The Sound of the Mexican Heartland
The "La Más Perrona" name is a well-known badge across Mexican radio for high-energy, proudly regional programming, and the playlist delivers exactly the genres that soundtrack life in the heartland.
- Banda, the brass-heavy powerhouse of trumpets, trombones and driving percussion, the sound of celebrations and fiestas across the region.
- Norteña, instantly recognisable from its accordion and bajo sexto, upbeat and made for family gatherings and dances.
- Ranchera, the more sentimental heart of the format, full of love, loss and the imagery of the Mexican countryside.
- Community programming, the local news, announcements and voices that make the station the town's own noticeboard as much as its jukebox.
Why a Town Builds Its Own Radio Station
Tarandacuao sits in the far southeast of Guanajuato, near the Michoacán border, and its name reflects an indigenous heritage of "abundant water", the same phrase the founding association took for itself. Small towns like this rarely register on the national media map, which is exactly why a community station is so valuable. It carries the events, the music and the everyday life of a place that commercial radio overlooks. When residents tune into La Más Perrona, they are hearing themselves reflected back, in their own accent, with their own music.
Small Station, Real Heart
What La Más Perrona offers is something the slick national networks cannot manufacture: authenticity. This is a station run by and for a specific community, broadcasting the regional Mexican canon with the unfiltered energy that gave it its name. For outside listeners, it is a window into the living musical culture of provincial Mexico, far from the tourist track and all the better for it.
Why It's Worth Your Time
If you love banda, norteña and ranchera, or you are curious about the real grassroots of Mexican radio, La Más Perrona is a treat. It is the rare station with a founding story worth telling, a pirate broadcast that became a licensed community voice, and the music has all the brass-fuelled joy you could want. Press play and you are dropping into a fiesta in a Guanajuato town square.
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