Grupo ACIR

Grupo ACIR is a Mexican media company specializing in the operation of radio stations, established in 1965.

Grupo ACIR was founded on June 8, 1965, when Francisco Ibarra bought the XEDQ-AM (Radio Alegría) station in San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz.

The distinctive feature of Grupo ACIR compared to its competitors was to provide a comprehensive sales, programming, engineering and legal advice service in all its stations.

It is in 1976 when Grupo ACIR Nacional is created, an organization destined to manage and market the group's stations throughout the country.

With the arrival of new technologies, in 1983, the Radio Capital station located in Mexico City, became the first to play music with compact discs on the air.

In 1992 LP records were used for the last time at Grupo ACIR stations and the distribution of compact discs began.

Acir Radio Noticias, a total information system, with Ana Patricia Candiani and Jesús Martín Mendoza Arriola.

Likewise, Efrén Flores highlighted with Investing in Mexico, the first program specialized in economics and finance on Mexican radio.

In 2004 Grupo ACIR created the Radio Tráfico Total concept, reporting on road and traffic matters every 15 minutes.

Also in 2004, Grupo ACIR, organized a massive concert in the Mexico City: El Megaconcierto, breaking attendance records by bringing together more than 120,000 spectators in the Zócalo of Mexico City in its first two editions, on April 17 and October 24 and 145,000 more in the editions of 2005, April 16 and October 20.

In the same year, the group sold to Sipse Radio the stations XHMT-FM 98.5 and XHYU-FM 100.1 in Mérida, Yucatán, and XHROOC-FM 101.7 in Chetumal, Quintana Roo.

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Current logo since January 7, 2020, in replacement of the Mexican version of Radio Disney .