XHWM-95.3 FM

XHWM, RADIO WITH IMAGE of San Cristóbal de Las Casas

XEWM–XHWM is the radio station that gave rise to Grupo Suprema Radio. Almost 50 years ago, on the afternoon of Monday, July 7, 1969 to be precise, the first hertzian waves emitted by the XEWM in the 640 KHz of the Amplitude Modulated band filled the Jovel Valley. In those moments with only 250 watts of power, enough to cover with quality the small and diaphanous valley in which this old-fashioned San Cristóbal de Las Casas is based.

In those days the Mexican radio spectrum was very clean, very few radio stations made an appearance on the tuners in our homes. At night it was time to listen to radio with acceptable clarity, stations from the center of the country such as XEW, XEB or XEQ, which brought us music, programs and voices with good ringing and very well accepted by the audience in these directions. It was to recognize in those voices the purity of the diction and the elegance in the handling of our language.

In the line of time, the birth of WM was framed between two great world events: the antenna began to rise on October 12, 1968, just at the moment that the president of the republic inaugurated, in Mexico City, the XIX Olympic Games and the second event was that when the world anxiously awaited the first moon landing by a human, Apollo XI would touch the lunar surface exactly two weeks after WM released its first notes on the air. For that occasion, XEWM made its first international link, this time with VOA (Voice Of America) to bring our people the details of the epic moon landing. What better omen than this frame of reference in time.

On Christmas Eve of the year 2000, he gave WM its first sister, the XHCRI, in the 91.5 megahertz of the Modulated Frequency band. XHCRI thus became the first FM radio station in our city. Together with its old sister XEWM in the AM band, XHCRI in the FM band, they have had the honor of being the pioneers of radio in San Cristóbal de Las Casas. These events consolidated the idea of ​​creating the Grupo Suprema Radio, with the firm purpose of continuing to make a difference in radio.

46 years away, if we look into the depths of time, WM finds herself warmly wrapped in history. A history of successes and failures yes; but of commitment with the immediate society, of solidarity with our community, of loyalty with the radio listener, of support for commerce, of inspiration for the new generations, simply a genuine history of communication. WM is proud not only of the service it provides to the San Cristobalense society and its surroundings, but also of the quality of its listeners and advertisers.

The WM has been and will continue to be the voice of the Coletos, a conciliatory and penetrating voice not only here but throughout the world, today we are the voice with the most presence on the radio. The memories of half a century are already recorded in many places and attest to the stupendous participation that WM has had in them. The impact has been in all areas of our society, we have grown along with it. Thus, technological development brought us automated telephony, television, home video, high-fidelity audio, mobile telephony and, of course, the Internet. What else will come? Whatever it is, the challenges have been our best incentive, we will always take them with pleasure because we have the honor of being the friendly image of sound.

Technological changes demand evolution in the old radioelectric communication spaces, so XEWM had to migrate to XHWM, in 2011 it closed a cycle and stopped transmitting in Amplitude Modulation for 640 kilohertz and now you saw Frequency Modulation from 95.3 megahertz . In Mexico, the radio spectrum occupied by AM will be used for other communication services, so little by little all AM stations in the country will have to migrate as well.