Editing XET-AM

{{short description|Radio station in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico}}
{{about|AM 990 "La T Grande" in Monterrey, Nuevo León|AM 640 near Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas|XETAM-AM}}
{{Infobox radio station
| name = XET-AM
| logo = File:XET-AM LaTGrande logo.png
| city = [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]]
| country = MX
| branding = La T Grande
| frequency = [[990 AM]]
| translator = 
| repeater = 
| airdate = {{start date|1930|3|19}}<ref name="fowler"/>
| format = [[News radio|News]], [[soap opera]]s, [[Regional Mexican]]
| language = Spanish
| power = 20.000 [[watt]]s{{mexico-inf|AM|accessdate=2014-07-02}}
| haat = 
| class = B
| coordinates = {{coord|25|38|48.8|N|100|18|46.7|W}}<ref>[https://rpc.ift.org.mx/vrpc/pdfs/220915-TECNICA-010991.pdf RPC: Change in Transmitter Location - XET-AM]</ref>
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| former_callsigns = 
| former_frequencies = 
| affiliations = 
| owner = [[Grupo Multimedios|Multimedios Radio]]
| licensee = Radio Triunfos, S.A. de C.V.
| sister_stations = '''Radio:''' [[XEAW-AM]]; [[XENL-AM]]; [[XHERG-FM]]; [[XET-FM]]; [[XETKR-AM]]; [[XHTKR-FM]]; [[XHJD-FM]]; [[XHLUPE-FM]]; [[XHPJ-FM]]; [[XHAW-FM]]; [[XHITS-FM]]<br>'''TV:''' [[XHAW-TDT]]
| webcast = {{listenlive|https://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/api/livestream-redirect/XETAM_SC}}
| website = {{url|https://www.mmradio.com/estaciones/la-t-grande-xet-990-am-monterrey}}
}}
'''XET-AM''', nicknamed '''La T Grande''', is a [[commercial radio|commercial]] [[AM broadcasting|AM]] [[radio station]] on 990 [[kHz]] at [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]], Mexico.<ref name="mexico-inf-AM"/> It is part of [[Multimedios Radio]]'s Monterrey station cluster.  The [[transmitter]] is located in [[San Nicolás de los Garza]], near Monterrey.<ref>[https://fccdata.org/?lang=en&mex=FER044273CO-105117&mexsvc=AM FCCdata.org/XET-AM]</ref>

==History==

XET went on the air in March 1930 as Monterrey's second radio station after [[XEH-AM|XEH]]. It was founded by [[Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=de la G |first=Enrique G. de la |date=December 4, 2011 |title=XELA: Crónica de una muerte |url=https://letraslibres.com/revista-mexico/xela-cronica-de-una-muerte/ |access-date=2022-04-11 |website=Letras Libres |language=es-MX}}</ref> and eventually became a [[border blaster]] targeting the United States in English with a 50,000 watt signal. Studios were located at Galeana and Hidalgo streets. In the 2000s, it reduced its power to 20,000 watts. Azcárraga later sold the station to Cervecería Cuauhtémoc.

The [[Carter Family]] worked at the station in its early years, performing their [[country music]] and [[bluegrass music]].  As the station could be heard at night in the parts of the United States, XET helped the Carter Family's music became well known. In February 1939, over the air live, [[Sara Carter]] dedicated the song ''[[I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes]]'' to her long-lost boyfriend Coy Bayes. On February 20, 1939, Sara Carter and Coy Bayes married at [[Brackettville, Texas]].<ref name="fowler">{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DdHi3dbIJRQC | title = Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves | first1 = Gene | last1 = Fowler | first2 = Bill | last2 = Crawford | edition = Revised | publisher = [[University of Texas Press]] | location = Austin, Texas | year = 2002 | isbn = 0-292-72538-8 | page = 203 }}</ref>

In the 1970s, Grupo Estrellas de Oro, the predecessor to Multimedios Radio, acquired XET.

==Further reading==
*Mass Media Moments in the United Kingdom, the USSR and the US, by Gilder, Eric. - [[Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu]] Press, Romania. 2003 {{ISBN|973-651-596-6}}

==References==
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[[Category:Radio stations established in 1930]]
[[Category:Multimedios Radio]]
[[Category:Radio stations in Nuevo León]]

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