Radiópolis
It is the former radio division of Televisa, which spun its stake off to Corporativo Coral, S.A. de C.V., in 2020 to focus on its core television and telecommunications businesses.
XEW-AM, founded by Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta, came on air September 18, 1930 and immediately became the country's most important broadcaster.
Several repeaters of XEW were built in the late 1940s and early 1950s,[1]: 54 including XEWK-AM in Guadalajara, two XEWA-AM stations in Monterrey and San Luis Potosí, and XEWB-AM in Veracruz.
1992 saw the acquisition of the former Radio Comerciales de Jalisco stations in Guadalajara owned by Francisco Javier Díaz Romo, including XEBA-AM-FM, XEHL-AM-FM, XELT-AM and XEZZ-AM.
The first, journalist Ricardo Rocha, had been tapped in 1995 to revive the radio station division but was seen to be using Radiópolis as a "trampoline" into the television industry.
The Federal Competition Commission recommended that Televisa sell some stations,[5] and ultimately, three months after the announcement, talks ended, in a surprise to markets.
Analysts suggested regulatory hurdles, dissent within the Aguirre family which owned Radio Centro, and a dispute over GRC's valuation as reasons for the sale falling apart.
[7] With its bid to buy GRC frustrated, Televisa next targeted another of its main rivals, Grupo ACIR, which at the time was Mexico's largest owner and operator of radio stations.
[9] Three months later, however, the Federal Competition Commission unanimously denied the bid, saying that the combination of ACIR-Radiópolis with the nation's dominant television broadcaster would have given Televisa an unfair advantage in securing advertisers.
The IFT-4 radio auction saw Televisa victorious in Puerto Vallarta, where it launched XHPTOJ-FM in May 2019, and Ensenada, where it holds the concession for XHPSEN-FM 96.9.
However, Televisa also sold two stations, XEBA-AM[13] and XEHL-AM,[14] to TV Zac, S.A. de C.V. On July 17, 2019, Televisa announced the sale of its 50 percent share in Sistemas Radiópolis, S.A. de C.V., to companies controlled by Miguel Alemán Magnani, owner of the Interjet airline.
