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New Owner for AM 1190/FM 107.5

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KeithE4

Laura Madrid, who has worked for KNUV/K298CK for 15 years, is the station's new owner. She is the first Latina immigrant to own a radio station in Arizona. She is originally from San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora.

www.azcentral.com

Laura Madrid becomes first Latina immigrant in Arizona history to own radio station

Laura Madrid made history last month when she purchased La Onda 1190 AM / 107.5 FM, Arizona's Spanish-news radio.
www.azcentral.com
 
Glad to read she's beefing up local coverage. The translator's coverage aint too shabby, but KNAI's triple translators beat it. Nothing about the sales price in the article, or online. ???
 
KeithE4 said:
Laura Madrid, who has worked for KNUV/K298CK for 15 years, is the station's new owner. She is the first Latina immigrant to own a radio station in Arizona. She is originally from San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora.

www.azcentral.com

Laura Madrid becomes first Latina immigrant in Arizona history to own radio station

Laura Madrid made history last month when she purchased La Onda 1190 AM / 107.5 FM, Arizona's Spanish-news radio.
www.azcentral.com
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$500,000. https://radioinsight.com/headlines/211018/station-sales-week-of-7-23/

Worth noting the translator is NOT included in the sale. Nor is the tower site, which admittedly is hard to see being developed because of the land configuration.
 
DrAkbar said:
Ouch! No translator, and no land for three stick for a half mil? That's prime warehouse/distribution land and the current owners know it. Wonder where 107~Five is headed?
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Though it's in Tolleson, it's also adjacent to residential and a city operations facility. Across the street is Tolleson Union High School. I can't really see it as warehouse land.
 
Sammi Brie said:
Though it's in Tolleson, it's also adjacent to residential and a city operations facility. Across the street is Tolleson Union High School. I can't really see it as warehouse land.
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Still, at $500k, you'd expect to see the real estate in that deal.

The new owner seems to have the requisite passion for radio. I hope she does well.
 
I noticed KNUV relays a Radio Fórmula block (AM 1500) from México City during weekday mornings. (I remember the old XERH Radio Seis as the same, albeit earlier AM 1500... "Con la mejor música tropical". XERH was relayed on shortwave/25 meters into the early 1970s and quite listenable in the States.)
 
RF101 said:
I noticed KNUV relays a Radio Fórmula block (AM 1500) from México City during weekday mornings. (I remember the old XERH Radio Seis as the same, albeit earlier AM 1500... "Con la mejor música tropical". XERH was relayed on shortwave/25 meters into the early 1970s and quite listenable in the States.)
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Yeah, they have a lot of Radio Fórmula. I've heard Mexican electoral PSAs air straight through at times.
 
Sammi Brie said:
Yeah, they have a lot of Radio Fórmula. I've heard Mexican electoral PSAs air straight through at times.
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That is a very interesting programming decision. In LA, when doing a Spanish language talk format on KTNQ, we did extensive content research and found that the only news about Mexico that immigrants wanted to hear was about things that materially affected the extended family: earthquakes, fires, explosions, storms, hurricanes.

The interest in political, social and economic news was very limited. Verbatim quotes were things like "I left that behind to make a new life" or "that's why I left and I don't want to hear about it".

Bilingual second generation Mexican Americans, we found, had zero interest in Mexican news, saying things like "maybe my dad is interested but I am not from there".

Further proof of that has been seen in border markets where in the past when all stations were shown in the ratings the border Radio Fórmula stations did well on the Mexican side but did not show up or showed 0.1 and the like on the US side.
 
The translator sale to Family Radio consummated today.

Notably, Lance Venta said on Facebook in July that he thinks this purchase is the beginning of the end for the KVCP-KPHF time share, with one of the operators to move to 107.5.
 
In my previous job in 2021, I had the opportunity to meet the owner of this license and her team was really excited about the acquisition and this project is a shame what they are describing. From hermosillo some content was produced in Spanish
 
DavidEduardo said:
Bilingual second generation Mexican Americans, we found, had zero interest in Mexican news, saying things like "maybe my dad is interested but I am not from there".
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It is something that I explained to my previous boss, that there was no interest in generating news content, except with a point in a city like Hermosillo, but he ignored me. pure waste of time, money and logistics
 
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