City Salina Cruz, Oaxaca Slogan La voz del sur Format Public news and music | Branding Estéreo Istmo First air date 1985 | |
Frequency 96.3 MHz
(also on HD Radio) | ||
XHSCO-FM is a radio station in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca. Broadcasting on 96.3 FM, XHSCO-FM is owned by the Instituto Mexicano de la Radio and broadcasts a news and music format under the name "Estéreo Istmo".
XHSCO-FM broadcasts in HD.
History
In the early 1980s, PEMEX began exploring the idea of constructing a radio station in the Istmo region, home to many oil facilities, in order to connect the region and the petroleum industry. In 1982, the frequency of 96.3 MHz was assigned, and XHGAS-FM came to air in 1985. However, PEMEX, which programmed 96.3 FM with music for 10 hours a day, could not keep the station on air. Longer and longer periods of time off air endangered the station's permit, and in 1987 PEMEX gave the station to IMER. IMER changed the station's format to one of news and information, for a region relatively isolated from political and economic centers. In 1989, IMER changed the station's callsign to the current XHSCO-FM and introduced its current branding and format.