XEDW-AM
{{short description|Former radio station in Minatitlán, Veracruz, Mexico}}
{{Infobox radio station
|name=XEDW-AM
|city=Minatitlán, Veracruz | country = MX
|frequency={{frequency|1260|kHz}}
|airdate={{start date|1936|7|1}}
|last_airdate={{end date|1969|9|5}}
|former_frequencies = 1150 kHz (1936–1941)
|owner=Héctor Silva Canto
|operator=Daniel Schacht Pérez
|sister_stations = XEKM-AM
|power=250 watts
}}
XEDW-AM was a radio station in Minatitlán, Veracruz, Mexico. The station broadcast from 1936 to September 5, 1969—13 years beyond the expiration of its concession—when it was closed by a federal government inspector.
History
XEDW was awarded its concession on July 1, 1936. The 20-year concession was made to Héctor Silva Canto. The station broadcast on 1150 kHz{{cite news|work=Radex|date=May 1937|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radex/Radex%20109%2037%2005.pdf|title=North American B.C. Stations By Frequencies|access-date=August 20, 2019|page=75}} until moving to 1260 khz with the adoption of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement on March 29, 1941, where it operated with 250 watts.{{cite news|url=http://dof.gob.mx/nota_to_imagen_fs.php?codnota=4761751&fecha=17/03/1975&cod_diario=205096|page=13|work=Diario Oficial de la Federación|date=March 17, 1975|title=RESOLUCIÓN por medio de la cual se condena a los sucesores del extinto Héctor Silva Canto, a la pérdida en favor de la Nación, de las obras e instalaciones, así como muebles e inmuebles afecto a la estación radiodifusora comercial XEDW, de Minatitlán, Ver., así como al pago de la multa por violaciones a la Ley respectiva.|access-date=August 20, 2019}} The concession expired on June 30, 1956, without being renewed.
On September 5, 1969, XEDW was visited by Víctor Hernández Castillo, a federal inspector from the Directorate General of Telecommunications, and ordered closed. The person who presented himself as the operator of the station, Daniel Schacht Pérez, replied one day late to a letter asking him to show cause why the station should not be permanently closed. (Schacht owned XEKM-AM a radio station in the same city.) As a result, in a resolution dated February 16, 1972 but not published in the Diario Oficial de la Federación until March 17, 1975, the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation decreed the closure of the station and ordered it to pay a fine of 5,000 pesos.{{r|dof}}
The 1260 khz frequency in Minatitlán was opened to new commercial bidders on October 18, 1976, as XEMTV-AM.{{Cite news|url=http://dof.gob.mx/nota_to_imagen_fs.php?codnota=4852399&fecha=18/10/1976&cod_diario=208622|work=Diario Oficial de la Federación|title=ACUERDO que declara susceptible de explotarse comercialmente el Canal 1260 KHz. en Minatitlán, Ver.|page=12|date=October 18, 1976|access-date=August 20, 2019}} Oscar Bravo Santos was the only applicant to file for the frequency on time, and his XEMTV-AM signed on October 14, 1983.{{cite web|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/INTERNATIONAL/Medios-Publicitarios/MPM-2007-12.pdf|title=XEMTV/XHMTV|work=MPM Medios Audiovisuales|date=December 2007|access-date=August 20, 2019|page=260}}