XHOK-FM

XHOK-FM is a radio station on 90.9 FM in Monterrey, Nuevo León. It is owned by Grupo ACIR.

XHOK-FM
Frequency90.9 MHz (HD Radio) [1]
BrandingAmor
Programming
FormatRomantic
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
June 19, 1948 (concession)
May 2018 (FM)
Former call signs
XEOK-AM
Former frequencies
950 kHz (1948-1950)
920 kHz (1950-1990)
900 kHz (1990-2019)
Call sign meaning
O-K sounds like (Carlos Roa Montes de) OCA
Technical information
ClassA
ERP2 kW
HAAT-11.2 m
Transmitter coordinates
25°41′30″N 100°14′37″W[2]
Links
WebcastXHOK-FM
Websiteamorfm.mx/programacion-amor-90-9-monterrey/

History

XEOK-AM received its concession on June 19, 1948. It broadcast initially on 950 kHz (soon moving to 920) and was owned by Carlos Roa Montes de Oca, who also built a studio-transmitter link for XEOK in the FM band in the late 1950s. XEOK was sold to Radiodifusión Regiomontana, S.A. in 1963, which boosted its power to 1 kW by the 1980s. In the 1990s, XEOK moved from 920 to 900 kHz which allowed a further power increase to 10,000 watts. ACIR concessionaires have owned XEOK since 2000.

For most of the late 2000s and 2010s, XEOK was a news/talk outlet known as "La OK". With ACIR only owning one station in Monterrey, XEOK was selected for second-wave AM-FM migration and signed on XHOK-FM 90.9 in May 2018. In June, the station took on the Radio Disney format, much like its Guadalajara sister station, XHEMIA-FM.

ACIR and Radio Disney parted ways at the end of 2019. Most of the Radio Disney stations were to change to a similar pop format from ACIR known as Match FM, but ACIR opted to flip XHOK to romantic and place XHOK in its Amor network in December.

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