{{short description|Classical radio station in Mexico City}} {{Infobox radio station | name = XHIMER-FM | branding = Opus 94 | logo = | city = [[Mexico City]] | country = MX | frequency = 94.5 [[MHz]] | airdate = {{start date and age|1986|7|4|p=y}} | format = Classical music | erp = 100 kW {{mexico-inf|FM|access-date=December 17, 2014}} | haat = {{convert|-33.77|m|ft|sp=us}} | class = [[list of broadcast station classes#FM|C1]] | coordinates = {{coord|19|16|10.1|N|99|13|59.4|W}} | former_callsigns = XHCPDO-FM (2023) | owner = [[Instituto Mexicano de la Radio]] | webcast = [http://player.fullviewplayer.com/p_imer.php?pid=330&t=1418855680240 XHIMER-FM] | website = {{URL|imer.mx/opus/}} }} '''XHIMER-FM''' is a radio station in the [[Mexico|Mexican]] capital [[Mexico City]]. The station is owned by the [[Instituto Mexicano de la Radio]] (IMER) and broadcasts a classical music format under the brand name Opus 94. The transmitter site is located in Ajusco south of the city.

==History== In the 1970s, the [[Instituto Politécnico Nacional]] ceded its rights to 94.5 FM to the [[Secretariat of Public Education]] so the SEP could move Radio Educación ([[XEEP-AM]]) to FM. However, the money was not available for the SEP to build the station, and so the proposal was stalled.<ref>{{Cite news|lang=es|first=Gabriel|last=Sosa Plata|url=http://blogs.eluniversal.com.mx/weblogs_detalle18634.html|title=La nueva FM para Radio Educación|work=El Universal|date=June 25, 2013|access-date=December 19, 2014|archive-date=December 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220020836/http://blogs.eluniversal.com.mx/weblogs_detalle18634.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Opus format began on 710 AM ([[XEMP-AM|XEMP]]) in 1983. That same year, 94.5 FM, the last full-power FM frequency available in Mexico City, was put up to attract noncommercial permits. Several groups — the IPN and IMER among them — jockeyed for the station, with IMER winning. Opus moved to the new 94.5 XHIMER-FM on July 4, 1986, when 50&nbsp;kW transmissions commenced.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imer.mx/opus/acerca-de-opus/|title=Acerca de Opus – Opus 94, 94.5 FM}}</ref> The station received authorization for a power boost to 100&nbsp;kW in 1991, but IMER was not able to install a transmitter capable of outputting 100&nbsp;kW until 1999.

The concession for XHIMER-FM lapsed effective April 13, 2023, due to failure to file a timely renewal. The [[Federal Telecommunications Institute]] granted a new concession, which initially bore the template call sign XHCPDO-FM, which was changed back to XHIMER-FM along with those for five other stations whose concessions were lapsed and reawarded.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://repositoriodocumental.ine.mx/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/154373/crt-10so-2023-10-27-p4.pdf|publisher=[[Instituto Nacional Electoral]]|date=October 27, 2023|title=DÉCIMO INFORME MENSUAL DE ACTUALIZACIÓN AL CATÁLOGO NACIONAL DE ESTACIONES DE RADIO Y CANALES DE TELEVISIÓN|trans-title=Tenth Monthly Report of Update to the National Catalog of Radio Stations and TV Channels|lang=es}}</ref>

==Format== Opus 94 primarily broadcasts classical music. The station broadcasts concerts of the [[Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra]].

The station used to broadcast in [[HD Radio]];<ref>http://hdradio.com/mexico/estaciones HD Radio Guide for Mexico</ref> this transmission was formally launched on September 17, 2012. Its HD2 signal was co-owned [[XEB-AM]] and its HD3 was Jazz Digital, all of which became silent in early-2020 due to operating costs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2019/06/26/crisis-en-la-radio-publica-mexicana-estaciones-sin-locutores-y-renuncias-bajo-protesta-sacuden-al-imer/|title=Crisis en la radio pública mexicana: estaciones sin locutores y renuncias bajo protesta sacuden al IMER|date=June 26, 2019|website=infobae}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://plumasatomicas.com/desarme/cultura/cortes-presupuestales-del-imer-cancelan-4-emisoras-que-esta-pasando-en-la-radio-publica/|title=Cortes presupuestales del IMER cancelan 4 emisoras: ¿qué está pasando en la radio pública?|first=Nora|last=Muñiz|date=June 26, 2019|website=Plumas Atómicas}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

{{IMER}} {{Mexico City Radio}}

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