XHOPE-FM

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XEOPE-AM/XHOPE-FM
File:Ponte EXA 89.7 logo.png
Broadcast area Mazatlán, Sinaloa
Branding Exa FM
Frequency 630 kHz
89.7 MHz
First air date March 26, 1945
1994 (FM)
Format Pop/hits
Power 1 kW day/0.5 kW night[1]
ERP 15 kW[2]
Callsign meaning Oscar Pérez Escobosa
Affiliations MVS Radio
Owner Grupo Promomedios
(Radio Emisora Occidental, S.A.)
Sister stations XHERJ-FM

XHOPE-FM 89.7/XEOPE-AM 630 is a combo radio station in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. It carries the national Exa FM format from MVS Radio.

History

XEOPE received its first concession in March 1945. Then known as XETK, it broadcast on 630 with 1000 watts day and 250 watts night.

In 1972, Oscar Pérez Escobosa bought XETK along with XESA-AM in Culiacán.[3] He already owned XERJ-AM in Mazatlán, which had begun operations in 1940, and he also founded XHMZ-TV channel 7. Pérez founded Grupo Promomedios, which continues to own the rechristened XEOPE/XHOPE (named in his honor) as well as the FM successors to those stations.

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