Radio Universidad (Chihuahua)  Radio Universidad is the radio service of the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. It broadcasts on XHRU-FM 105.3 FM and XHERU-FM 106.9 FM. The first graduates of the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua had not yet graduated when the permit for XERU-AM 1310 kHz was issued on May 21, 1957. Then-rector Luis Raúl Flores Sánchez was one of the important exponents of the cultural radio project. The UACh radio station also received a shortwave counterpart, XERUU at 6140 kHz. The original studios were located in the Fine Arts Building, on what is today Campus 1, while the transmitter tower was on property belonging to the Instituto Tecnológico de Chihuahua. The two locations were connected by a studio-transmitter link prone to failing in high winds. Early programming included some initial efforts at distance education, such as the "radio schools" program that saw programs being transmitted over shortwave to small communities without their own schools. Four hours a day, five days a week were devoted to the "radioescuelas", while the rest of the station in the 1960s and early 1970s included a wide variety of musical programming. Meanwhile, the transmitter was moved closer to the Fine Arts Building, on land that would later be used to construct the university gym. In the summer of 1972, a strike at UACh's preparatory unit would lead to the station going off the air and not returning until 1989; the 1972 strike also marked the definitive end of the shortwave service. On November 14, 1989, XERU-AM returned to the air after an absence of more than 17 years. Radio Universidad now had new studio facilities in a different building; the transmitter was also relocated. After a forced closure that began in July 1993 and came about due to technical problems and the need to restructure the station's departments, Radio Universidad returned on April 9, 1994 with the slogan "A New Signal for You" ("Una Nueva Señal para Tí") and a more modern programming concept. In the 1990s, the UACh, understanding that the radio station needed to be modernized, began to seek a permit to operate an FM radio station. The official request for a permit was made in November 1997, and the official permit was issued on September 2, 1998, for XHRU-FM 105.3, with 3 kW ERP.