Radio Los Compadres streams banda, ranchera, sierreño and mariachi free on Radio Shuffle, broadcasting at 107.5 FM from Témoris, a mountain town tucked inside Chihuahua's Sierra Madre Occidental. It runs around the clock under a social-community concession, mixing regional Mexican music with local news, sports and entertainment for one of the hardest-to-reach corners of northern Mexico.
A Station Built for the Sierra, Not Just the Town
Radio Los Compadres carries the callsign XHSCBC-FM and holds a concesión de uso social comunitario granted by Mexico's Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, the same licensing track used for small, locally run outlets that exist to serve a community rather than turn a profit. That status shapes everything about the station, from its reliance on volunteers to its programming, which leans on NotiSierra, a homegrown news segment covering the Sierra Tarahumara region, alongside sports coverage and the banda, ranchera, sierreño and mariachi that dominate the playlist, according to a profile of the station.
Broadcasting From One of the Chepe Railway's Most Dramatic Stretches
Témoris sits in the municipality of Guazapares, a settlement whose fame has little to do with radio and everything to do with trains. The town hosts the so-called tres niveles, a three-tier engineering feat on the Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico, better known as El Chepe, where the line loops through bridges, viaducts and a tunnel to gain elevation as it climbs the canyon wall. The Santa Bárbara bridge and the 937-meter La Pera tunnel sit right there, and the Témoris to Bahuichivo stretch of track is widely considered the single most spectacular run on the entire route through the Copper Canyon. A station broadcasting out of a town built around that kind of engineering challenge is, by definition, serving listeners who live somewhere remote enough that getting a railway through at all counted as a regional triumph.
Local News Under the Name NotiSierra
Keeping a community informed in a place this isolated is not a small task, and Radio Los Compadres treats its NotiSierra segment as a core part of its identity rather than a side feature squeezed between songs. For listeners scattered across the Sierra Tarahumara, a region cut up by canyons and mountain roads, a local station carrying local news is often a more reliable source of daily information than anything broadcast out of a distant city.
A Playlist Rooted in the Sound of Northern Mexico
The station's music identity sits squarely inside the regional Mexican tradition, a family of styles that includes banda's brass-driven dance music, the accordion-and-guitarrón sound of ranchera, the harder-edged sierreño style associated with the mountain regions it is named for, and the horn-led mariachi that remains one of Mexico's most internationally recognized musical exports. Playing all four side by side reflects the kind of broad, generationally inclusive programming that small community stations in rural Mexico tend to favor, giving older ranchera fans and younger sierreño listeners a reason to tune in to the same signal.
Listen to Radio Los Compadres Free on Radio Shuffle
Tune in to Radio Los Compadres on Radio Shuffle, no account, no app, no fee. Press play and hear regional Mexican music broadcast from one of the most dramatic stretches of railway in North America.