Voces 92.1 streams news, talk and local programming from Acapulco, Guerrero, on a frequency with one of the more restless format histories in Mexican radio. Under the call sign XHACD-FM, the station has spent more than fifty years cycling between music and talk, national syndication and local voices, before landing on the format it carries today.
An AM Concession From 1972
The station's roots go back to January 25, 1972, when it received its original concession as XEACD-AM 550, a 500-watt station first owned by Ruben Nava del Villar Sánchez. Within five years it had been sold to Radio Mundo de Acapulco, running under a Radio Mundo-style format modeled on Mexico City's XEN-AM. It stayed an AM station for nearly four decades before clearing for the FM band in 2010 as XHACD-FM 92.1, run by Grupo Audiorama Comunicaciones under parent company Grupo Radiorama.
Four Formats in Nine Years
The FM years brought a run of format changes that would be unusual for most stations to survive intact. From 2016 the frequency carried Los 40's pop format, before switching in 2017 to Retro FM, a Spanish classic hits format that arrived as part of a wider split between Audiorama and Televisa Radio. That lasted until November 2019, when the station dropped music entirely for the national talk programming of Heraldo Radio. Heraldo's run ended on July 1, 2021, at which point the frequency shifted to the locally produced news and talk format it still carries as Voces.
A Talk Station in a City That Leans on Its Radios
Local news and talk radio carries particular weight in Acapulco, a city that found out in the most direct way possible what happens when modern communication fails. When Category 5 Hurricane Otis struck in October 2023, it knocked out power and cell service across the region, and communications and the highway into the city were wiped out almost overnight. In the aftermath, radio broadcasting became one of the few channels still able to reach residents, with amateur operators and local stations helping people locate relatives and pass along basic information when phones and internet simply stopped working. It is the kind of moment that underlines why a locally staffed talk format, over a syndicated national feed, still matters on the Acapulco dial.
Five Decades, One Frequency
Voces 92.1 is a reminder that a radio frequency and its format are two very different things. The 92.1 signal in Acapulco has carried Radio Mundo standards, Los 40 pop, Spanish retro hits and national talk radio over the decades, all before settling into the locally produced news and talk programming it broadcasts under Voces today.