I'm curious to know why 1280 is currently a Mexican station. I don't know who would tune in to am for that format when the same thing is on two pretty much crystal clear stations in Denver 96.5 kxpk la tricolor and 87.7. Why not just work on improving the signal range of the fm translator on 97.7. They should sell the am and work on building the fm signal to compete with the other spanish stations in Denver.
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What was the first radio station you grew up listening as a kid?
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It's not a "Mexican Station". It's an American station. "Mexican" is a nationality; there are as many or more formats on radio in Mexico as there are in U.S. markets, so you have to be more specific or just say "Spanish language".
I have not listened to 1280 so I don't know what format it has, but the description shows it different from the equally different KXPK and 87.7 formats... both of which are NOT the same; they have different formats in the Spanish language.
And again, those stations are not in Spain, so they are not "Spanish stations". They may broadcast in the Spanish language, but each has a very separate and different format.
Would you call all the stations that broadcast in English "American stations"? Or "English stations"?
Sorry David what I was referring to by mexican was the regional mexican radio format that entravision airs. This is also the assigned format for 1280 KBNO que bueno which is owned by Latin Communications.
There are multiple "Regional Mexican" formats. In fact, that name is never used IN Mexico. It is called "grupera" there and there are versions that favor rhythmic/cumbia music, norteña music, banda and related music and even oldies favoring ranchera music.
Formats are not "assigned" although for the ratings stations are forced to pick one of very few Spanish language alternatives.
On FM, Entravision has both La Suavecita and Tricolor. One is modern "Regional Mexican" and the other is more traditional with oldies going back 30 years or more.
Thanks for this clarification I appreciate your vast wealth of knowledge on this subject mr. Eduardo and will try to be mindful of this in the future if referencing these stations.
There were a few, but the one I remember most clearly was Atlantic 252. It signed-on when I was four and went silent when I was 16.
Kiss 102 is the other one I recall, being a little baby raver dancing around to the cool dance music sounds from Manchester.
Kiss 102 is the other one I recall, being a little baby raver dancing around to the cool dance music sounds from Manchester.
I forgot to mention I was in the Hickory area when I heard WXLY play The Big Bopper. One would think WMYI would have gotten that far even with its old signal.
No to all. I almost never listened to talk radio back in the day. Wish I had heard Berg to see what the fuss was about, but it was only after he was killed that he was on my radar at all.
CKLW am until I was 10 - after that moved closer to Chicago so it was WLS am.
One of the great Top 40 stations, as was WLS. While Dick Biondi was still with us (passed last year, may he RIP) a semblance of the great 89 WLS lived on in WLS-FM 94.7.
The station's own website says KBNO has been a Spanish-language station for more than 50 years ("La primer estación en español de Colorado, con más de 50 años de trayectoria, sirviendo el área de Denver.") though the reference probably includes the original instance of the station's identity at 1220. The 1280 frequency was part of Great Empire's great "Radio Ranch" mistake, KBRQ, which was sold in 1987; at some point after that, the AM was spun off what had been an AM/FM combo. In any event, KBNO (at 1280) has been a Spanish-language station for at least a couple decades now.
The FM translator suffers from the same problem as the other FM translators based at Lookout Mountain: anemic coverage anywhere east of downtown. The translator is at maximum power for a translator, 250 watts. KXPK broadcasts with 100,000 watts and covers most of the metro. KBNO's translator barely covers Denver and probably doesn't cover much of Aurora well, where there's a substantial Spanish-speaking population (not all of whom are of Mexican origin, to be sure). Of course, both signals are promoted on the air.
I don't know enough about Spanish-language musical formats in the United States to characterize what the station is doing. It does seem to be heavily personality-focused. The station itself says "música regional Mexicana". I get an older-skewing vibe from it, but that's an impression only.
“Regional Mexican” is an Anglo-American construct. Record retailers who knew no Spanish and even less about Latin music needed to have some kind of categories for the growing sales of music to Latinos.
They could not tell Mariachi from Norteña and the other Mexican styles. So one told them that some was from central Mexico and others from Northern or western zones. So they called it Regional Mexican. In Mexico, it is never called that.
So there are many format variants, based on age of music or the style. The name is almost as generic as “pop”.
This is a toughie. I THINK it might've been the then-WXRK when it was a rhythmic-leaning CHR as 92.3 Now (having heard about it on the backside of city buses which might've been the only places I've seen ads for them in) or the mainstream WHTZ.
Here's an example of one of the ads that was on buses, taken from a June 2011 capture on Google Maps:
106.7 Lite FM, that's when I started to listening to that radio on the school bus when I was 4 year old back then
I used to bounce around, but my main stations was Q93 (WQUE 93.3 New Orleans when it was adult top 40) and Z94FM KZZQ Galliano, La (album oriented rock) (Now WTIX-FM94.3) .Sometimes I would listen to KXOR-FM 106.3 Thibodaux (Before EMF destroyed it) . On sunday night KHOM-FM 104.1 Houma (now KVDU) had a show called Yesterday Once More (around late 70's to Early 80's). It was the music, news. and current events of a spotlighted year from the 40's through the early 70's.
Sunny 106.5 (KOOI)
Mix 93.1 (KTYL)
101.5 KNUE
105.7 KYKX
96X (KKTX)
Mix 93.1 (KTYL)
101.5 KNUE
105.7 KYKX
96X (KKTX)
For me, it was either WBLS or the original WKTU in the late 1970s. WBLS was riding high with Frankie Crocker in afternoon drive and PDing, while WKTU was in its "Disco 92" era with afternoon driver Paco being the main voice I remember the most.
Then I discovered AM. My father told me I could listen to Yankees games when they weren't on television, so post-switch WABC was the first AM station I heard. Then came WNYC, because they had a kids show in afternoons before All Things Considered or sundown sign-off. WCBS introduced me to news radio and left the most indelible mark as a youngster.
Then I discovered AM. My father told me I could listen to Yankees games when they weren't on television, so post-switch WABC was the first AM station I heard. Then came WNYC, because they had a kids show in afternoons before All Things Considered or sundown sign-off. WCBS introduced me to news radio and left the most indelible mark as a youngster.