{"id":2533,"date":"2025-09-01T09:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2025-09-01T09:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:27:58","slug":"university-radio-stations-and-public-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/university-radio-stations-and-public-life\/","title":{"rendered":"University Radio Stations and Public Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Juan Larrosa, September 2, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

University radio stations are media outlets with the capacity to offer new voices and perspectives to the public life of a community. In this piece, I address the topic in light of good news: since August 20, Radio ITESO has been on the air at 95.1 FM.<\/p>\n

In Mexico\u2014and probably younger listeners may not recall this\u2014throughout practically the entire 20th century, we lived under a system of mass communication, namely radio and television, highly controlled by the federal government and administered undemocratically by a handful of families who became the post-revolutionary aristocracy of the country. This is the story of how the television empires of Televisa and, later, TV Azteca emerged in the late nineties, along with most of the country\u2019s radio networks. (For more, see: La lucha por las telecomunicaciones en M\u00e9xico II: la integraci\u00f3n al mundo postindustrial.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Since the 1980s, there have been multiple efforts by civil society, academia, and social organizations to transform that communication system. After years of struggle and political changes, new regulations were sought for educational projects. It was not until the 2013 telecommunications reform that a new legal framework was established, allowing non-commercial radio stations to access concessions.<\/p>\n

That reform arrived late: the broadcasting model was already worn out, with shrinking audiences and a declining business model. Nevertheless, it opened the door to various projects, including public, university, and community radio stations, as well as those run by Indigenous peoples. Within this new landscape, ITESO has joined by offering an alternative on Guadalajara\u2019s radio dial. (For more, see: El medio subutilizado: la radio tapat\u00eda.)<\/a><\/p>\n

Radio ITESO represents an opportunity to listen to voices that are typically underrepresented in commercial radio, and to share content that cannot be heard elsewhere on the dial.<\/p>\n

I will not delve into the details of the ITESO case itself, as I work at the university and there is a conflict of interest on my part in writing about this. It will be up to society and the community of Guadalajara to judge the quality of the content. What I do want to emphasize is the historical framework: having a new university radio station is excellent news for the diversity of the city\u2019s radio landscape.<\/p>\n

For my part, I wish my colleagues at ITESO the utmost success in this endeavor, and to the listeners, meaningful moments of companionship and reflection.<\/p>\n

\n

This text was originally read on the NTR Radio newscast broadcast on September 1, 2025, and hosted by journalist Sergio Ren\u00e9 de Dios Corona.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Juan Larrosa, September 2, 2025 University radio stations are media outlets with the capacity to offer new voices and perspectives to the public life of a community. In this piece, I address the topic in light of good news: since August 20, Radio ITESO has been on the air at 95.1 FM. In Mexico\u2014and probably younger listeners may not… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,147,148,146],"tags":[171,173,184],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guadalajaras-communication-system","category-monopolies-and-communication","category-neoliberalism","category-the-telecommunications-battle-in-mexico","tag-structure-of-guadalajaras-newspapers-industry","tag-telecommunications-war","tag-televisa-en","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":393,"url":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/guadalajaras-newspapers-structure-1990-2010\/","url_meta":{"origin":2533,"position":0},"title":"Guadalajara\u2019s Newspapers Structure: 1990-2010","author":"Juan S. Larrosa-Fuentes","date":"7 January, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In 2012 I defended my masters dissertation within the University of Guadalajara. This dissertation is devoted to the understanding of a local communication system, such as the newspapers of Guadalajara. This has been a long task and I am still working on this research process. \u00a0 After presenting my dissertation\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Guadalajara's Communication System"","block_context":{"text":"Guadalajara's Communication System","link":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/category\/guadalajaras-communication-system\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Abordajes al estudio de la comunicaci\u00f3n","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Larrosa.Estructura-de-la-prensa-generalista-en-Guadalajara-1990-2010.Final_-e1462748179852.jpg?fit=776%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Larrosa.Estructura-de-la-prensa-generalista-en-Guadalajara-1990-2010.Final_-e1462748179852.jpg?fit=776%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Larrosa.Estructura-de-la-prensa-generalista-en-Guadalajara-1990-2010.Final_-e1462748179852.jpg?fit=776%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Larrosa.Estructura-de-la-prensa-generalista-en-Guadalajara-1990-2010.Final_-e1462748179852.jpg?fit=776%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1295,"url":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/analyzing-spatialization-in-newspapers-production-a-case-study-of-guadalajaras-daily-press\/","url_meta":{"origin":2533,"position":1},"title":"Analyzing Spatialization in Newspapers\u2019 Production: A Case Study of Guadalajara\u2019s Daily Press","author":"Juan S. Larrosa-Fuentes","date":"22 September, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From 1990 to 2010, Mexican newspapers\u2019 ownership structure changed because of globalization, digitization, and financial crises. This process coincided with the technological convergence of newsrooms. Thus, this case study employs the concept of spatialization to investigate how digital technology was used to concentrate resources and thus, to concentrate Guadalajara\u2019s (Mexico)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Guadalajara's Communication System"","block_context":{"text":"Guadalajara's Communication System","link":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/category\/guadalajaras-communication-system\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Especializaci\u00f3n de los peri\u00f3dicos","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Larrosa.Temple-Research-Forum-2016.jpg?fit=1067%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Larrosa.Temple-Research-Forum-2016.jpg?fit=1067%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Larrosa.Temple-Research-Forum-2016.jpg?fit=1067%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Larrosa.Temple-Research-Forum-2016.jpg?fit=1067%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Larrosa.Temple-Research-Forum-2016.jpg?fit=1067%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":715,"url":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/18-anos-de-gobiernos-panistas-en-jalisco\/","url_meta":{"origin":2533,"position":2},"title":"18 Years of PAN’s Party Government in Jalisco","author":"Juan S. Larrosa-Fuentes","date":"9 May, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"In February 2013, QITESO: Critical Media Analysis and Public Policy and Management Master\u2019s of ITESO University, convened various professors and scholars to conduct an initial analysis and balance on the eighteen years of government of the PAN in Jalisco. After this collective work of analyzing the PAN as a political\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Electoral Campaigns in Mexico"","block_context":{"text":"Electoral Campaigns in Mexico","link":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/category\/political-communication\/electoral-campaigns-in-mexico\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ChFvfKPWwAAgx0v-1.jpg-large-copy-1-e1462810138987.jpg?fit=500%2C388&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1217,"url":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/the-decline-of-the-industrial-press-guadalajaras-newspapers-history-1991-2011\/","url_meta":{"origin":2533,"position":3},"title":"The Decline of the Industrial Press: Guadalajara’s Newspapers History (1991-2011)","author":"Juan S. Larrosa-Fuentes","date":"17 June, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Larrosa-Fuentes, J. S. (2018). The Decline of the Industrial Press: Guadalajara\u2019s Newspapers History (1991-2011). In M. E. Hern\u00e1ndez Ram\u00edrez (Ed.), Mexican Studies on Journalism: Takeoff and Institutionalization (pp. 189\u2013244). Guadalajara: University of Guadalajara. This text presents a review of the political and economic history of the newspapers that circulated in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Journalism"","block_context":{"text":"Journalism","link":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/category\/journalism\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Estudios sobre periodismo en M\u00e9xico","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Captura-de-pantalla-2018-06-17-a-las-11.07.12.png?fit=1200%2C978&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Captura-de-pantalla-2018-06-17-a-las-11.07.12.png?fit=1200%2C978&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Captura-de-pantalla-2018-06-17-a-las-11.07.12.png?fit=1200%2C978&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Captura-de-pantalla-2018-06-17-a-las-11.07.12.png?fit=1200%2C978&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Captura-de-pantalla-2018-06-17-a-las-11.07.12.png?fit=1200%2C978&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1190,"url":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/urban-catastrophes-and-collective-memory\/","url_meta":{"origin":2533,"position":4},"title":"Urban Catastrophes and Collective Memory","author":"Juan S. Larrosa-Fuentes","date":"26 April, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In recent months I published an article that analyzes and interprets how Mexican journalists commemorated\u00a0an urban catastrophe. This article, which was originated in Carolyn Kitch's Social Memory class at Temple University, explains the ways in which journalists use different concepts and practices to commemorate a tragic event. On April 22,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Guadalajara's Communication System"","block_context":{"text":"Guadalajara's Communication System","link":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/category\/guadalajaras-communication-system\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Primera plana, El Informador. 22 de abril de 1992.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Informador.04.23.1992.02-copy.jpg?fit=1200%2C935&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Informador.04.23.1992.02-copy.jpg?fit=1200%2C935&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Informador.04.23.1992.02-copy.jpg?fit=1200%2C935&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Informador.04.23.1992.02-copy.jpg?fit=1200%2C935&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Informador.04.23.1992.02-copy.jpg?fit=1200%2C935&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":520,"url":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/a-critique-of-the-mexican-broadcasting-and-telecommunications-legal-system-from-a-local-perspective\/","url_meta":{"origin":2533,"position":5},"title":"A Critique of the Mexican Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legal System from a Local Perspective","author":"Juan S. Larrosa-Fuentes","date":"5 September, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A new Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Act was enacted in Mexico in July of 2014. This Act is the outcome of different political and economic disputes in Mexico, such as the control of the radio and television industries, as well as the the control of political communication and journalism. Therefore,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Media Observatories"","block_context":{"text":"Media Observatories","link":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/category\/media-observatories\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Informe.final_.2014.jpg?fit=765%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Informe.final_.2014.jpg?fit=765%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Informe.final_.2014.jpg?fit=765%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Informe.final_.2014.jpg?fit=765%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsnc-ER","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juan-larrosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}