XHVQ-FM

XHVQ-FM

Culiacán, Sinaloa Mexico
Frequency	96.9 FM
Branding	Vibra Radio
Programming
Format	Regional Mexican
Ownership
Owner	Vibra Radio (Radio XHVQ, S. de R.L. de C.V.)
History
First air date	May 15, 1964 (AM) June 2012 (FM)
Former call signs	XENP-AM, XENSM-AM, XEVQ-AM
Technical information
Class	B1
ERP	25 kWs[1]
Transmitter coordinates	24°49′56″N 107°24′17″W / 24.83222°N 107.40472°W / 24.83222; -107.40472
Links
Webcast	Listen live
Website	vibra.red

XHVQ-FM is a radio station on 96.9 FM in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, known as Vibra Radio.

History

Logo as Amor used from 2017 to 2021

XENP-AM 830—also known as XENSM—received its concession on May 15, 1964. It was originally located in Navolato and owned by Salvador Águilar Montenegro, whose family owned several local gas stations,^[2] operating as a 1,000-watt daytimer. Within several years, the call sign was changed to XEVQ-AM, and station operations moved to Culiacán. By the 1980s, XEVQ was owned by Radio y Televisión del Noroeste and operating with 5,000 watts. In the 2000s, it added 1,000 watts at night.

XEVQ was aproveed to migrated to FM in 2011 as XHVQ-FM 96.9 and came to air in June 2012 and abandoned the "La Grande de Sinaloa" name and format to go using the Amor romantic format.

In June 2021, XHVQ-FM and its sister in Mazatlán, XHMAT-FM 99.5, withdrew from Grupo ACIR, changing to Vibra Radio on June 22, 2021. The stations' parent companies were then sold.

In January 2023, Vibra was the only radio station to not changed from pop to Regional Mexican format, all other Vibra owned stations in the city airs its grupera format until it was adopted in 2024.

References

1. Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de Radio FM. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2016-04-26. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.
2. Oropeza, Rosario (March 24, 2015). "XENSM, hoy la VQ, de Navolato a Culiacán" (in European Spanish). Retrieved January 18, 2021.