Branding La H First air date 1921 | Frequency 1420 kHz | |
City San Nicolás de los Garza-Monterrey, Nuevo León Format Cumbia and vallenato music Power 5,000 watts day
400 watts night | ||
XEH-AM is a radio station on 1420 AM in Monterrey, Nuevo León. It is owned by Grupo Radio México and carries a format of cumbia and vallenato music.
History
XEH is among Mexico's pioneering radio stations, tracing its roots to Constantino de Tárnava's 1921 experimental transmissions of TND ("Tárnava Notre Dame"), the first radio station in Latin America, named for the University of Notre Dame in the United States where he studied electrical engineering. The station went through several calls as Mexican callsign allotments changed, finally settling on XEH around the time of its first formal concession in 1932. Around this time, XEH began branding itself as "The Voice of Monterrey Since 1921".
In 1962, de Tárnava sold XEH to Mario Quintanilla, owner of XEFB radio and television. The next year, XEH-FM on 93.2 MHz, an FM counterpart to XEH-AM, was authorized, though it would change its calls to XHQQ-FM by the end of the decade. The XEFB-XEH radio cluster was ultimately sold off to what is now Grupo Radio México.