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Is La Mejor Still on?
- Thread starter Mrtejano
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Not getting any trace of La Mejor where I am, just the usual mix of KMAZ and K273CD (Chinese language.). As for Country that might be KMKS, but I haven’t heard anything from them since Hurricane Harvey. Been wondering if they took some damage and are on reduced power.
It was likely KMKS. I picked them up earlier this month in Spring... that station gets out pretty darn well if the weather's right.
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AnyHuman
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Maybe the Chinese decided to play soccer.
Maybe they didn't own streaming rights to the game, so put music on the stream as substitute programming until it ended, as stations that carry American professional sports play-by-play have to do.
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AnyHuman
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Really? Interesting. That's too bad many sports stations are AM, so we have to listen on crappy AM quality audio to the games unless we pay for a streaming app or service.
Agree, but the streaming rights to MLB, NFL, NBA, etc. belong to the leagues, not the radio flagship or its affiliates. Been that way for quite a few years now. I remember websites in the late '90s listing links to streams of stations that were breaking the rules. WIRY in Watertown NY was streaming Yankees games for nearly a full season after every other station had shut its stream off during games.
I checked KTBZ 94.5 HD-2 earlier today, which is the origination for La Mejor. Nothing but dead air.
It's back on KTBZ-HD2.
So that brings the total back to three analog and two HD Regional Mexican stations. If you think that number seems high, then you'd be surprised to find out that we are actually seeing a 5yr low for Reg Mex formats in Houston.
During this time last year, Houston had FIVE regional Mexican stations in analog (SEVEN if you count KNLY & KNTE.....EIGHT if you count KOVE and it's former overlapping playlist) and one in HD (KLOL-HD2).
Remember that the term "Regional Mexican" is a construct invented by Non-Hispanic record retailers for the purpose of organizing the bin displays and separator cards in record stores (remember them?). Since most of them did not understand the language or the genre, they figured that the music from the different parts of Mexico could all be put in a section named after the regions or their genres.
After a while, the term became generic in the US. A predominantly norteña music station is Regional Mexican. An all ranchera and mariachi station is Regional Mexican. A mostly banda station is Regional Mexican. There are oldies regional formats, and all current ones, too.
So where it may appear that there are many Regional Mexican stations, there actually may be one each of the many subsets of the format.
Well, when you get to specifics, what is KLTN's specialty? KTJM? KQQK? I'm assuming they all cover different regions of Mexico and Latin America with very little crossovers?
KQQK is mostly Norteño and some Grupero and a few Tejano songs too.
KTJM is mostly Banda and some rancheras and maybe one or two tejano songs every blue moon.
KLTN has become more of a talk show station during the week. But aside from that they’re playing some of the same songs as LA RAZA is.
Norteña used to be from NE México, Banda from Sinaloa, Mariachi from Jalisco and the Bajio, etc. Now there is not much regional differentiation in Mexico as to appeal. However, stations will lean norteña, or banda. Oldies stations will play rancheras and old norteña. And so on. Plenty of songs cross over.
Regional Mexican is pretty much a 100% creation of Mexican artists. There are big regional hybrids in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, but the interest goes no farther today except for a few crossover songs.
KLTN does play a very current list, as does KTJM. They both have blends that change according to what the hits are. KQQK is more norteña. KLTN is, though, mostly a talk station in the daytime hours.
Norteña is going through a weak period; all the new hits are banda. It's not a good moment to do that format.
I'd love to have just one Regional Mexican station in any of the varieties here in Connecticut. I've always enjoyed the sounds of Mexican popular genres, even if I don't understand most Spanish, while the ultra-rhythmic Caribbean genres and the homogenized Hispanic CHR leave me cold. But I'd imagine the demographics of Connecticut's Hispanic population make that impossible, unless someone wants to put it on an LPFM or an HD subchannel. Wallingford, which is in my area, has a little Mexican community (mainly employed by a big chemical plant off Route 5), complete with restaurants, grocery, taqueria and clothing store, but Puerto Ricans and Dominicans are dominant in the bigger cities.
ThatVoice22
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Sorry to be picky, but that amounts to --- Music called "Regional Mexican" is from either Non-Hispanic record retailers, or from Mexican artists . . . take your pick.
You are taking things out of context.
In one discussion, the issue was the name itself, "Regional Mexican". The name was created by non-Hispanic US record retailers.
In the other discussion, I was addressing the generalization about the music "across Latin America". Regional Mexican music (called, properly, "grupera") is nearly 100% created by Mexican and Mexican heritage artists.
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