XHSRO-FM

XHSRO-FM is a station in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. It broadcasts on 92.5 FM from Cerro el Mirador and carries the La Mejor regional Mexican format from MVS Radio. In 1965, Joaquín Vargas Gómez, the founder of MVS, was driving in a car in the United States and was surprised by the increased sound quality available on the then-new FM band. The quality available on FM inspired him to start a new FM radio station in Monterrey. On April 15, 1967, XHSRO-FM, the first stereo FM radio station in Mexico, hit the air. While FM radio had already entered the Mexican market on stations such as the short-lived XHFM-FM and XEOY-FM, both in Mexico City, XHSRO and its format would help to encourage the development of FM radio across Mexico. The format chosen by Várgas Gómez for this pioneering venture was dubbed Stereorey, for stereo and Monterrey. It consisted of contemporary music in English. It promptly began to expand; the second city to get Stereorey was Guadalajara, XHRO-FM 95.5. Then came Mexico City with XHV-FM 102.5, while the fourth Stereorey station was León, on XHSO-FM 99.9.