98.9 LOS40 (Veracruz)

LOS40 98.9 (XHWB-FM) is a radio station on 98.9 FM in Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico. It is owned by Radiópolis and carries its Los 40 format.

The station traces its roots to XEWB-AM, which received its concession on January 25, 1956. It originally broadcast on 760 kHz with 5 kW day and 1 kW night, operated by Radio Golfo, S.A. In the 1960s it began operating on 900 AM as a co-channel booster to co-owned XEW-AM in Mexico City, with 50,000 watts daytime and 5,000 nighttime, a role it shared with the two XEWA-AM stations on 540 kHz in Monterrey and San Luis Potosí.

By the 1980s it ran 50,000 watts at all hours with a directional nighttime pattern, though in the 2000s it returned to a lower nighttime power of 10 kW. The AM-FM migration required reinventing XEWB, with its extensive service area, as a local station primarily serving central Veracruz; it adopted the Los 40 Principales format at that time. The AM station has since been shut down and dismantled.