After seeing a post with a video from last week about oldies on 1090, with some saying they are still hearing religious Catholic, I decided to tune in to 1090 today, starting around Noon. They were playing a mix of some pop, with obscure pop/soul songs that I didn't know, with a streaming demo for Barix being played every few songs. Around 2:20 they broke with a legal ID, an English PSA from the same guy who is Production Director for the Local Media San Diego stations, then two spots or PSAs in Spanish, then back to the music. At exactly 3 PM they started an Oldies show in English, with an English speaking jock, jingles for 1090 AM, and I heard a sweeper for "The Mighty 1090 AM." The jock sounds live and pretty good. He goes by the name "El Chingon." This is only a part time format with the oldies, so I don't know if this is stunting, a temporary placeholder, or ????.... but it appears the religious format is GONE. Sound quality is loud and sounds pretty good, although some overmodulation.
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God bless Lou (Mrs. Wolfman). All those old tapes are financing the rest of her days.
Appears to be a 4 hour block (3 to 7pm) leased out by host El Chacon. Lots of different jingles and sweepers, and included a prize giveaway to a dog show, given to a caller from West Covina. And lots of R&B flavored Oldies reminiscent of the old 1110 KRLA.
Interesting to see if this expands to more hours.
Interesting to see if this expands to more hours.
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I was thinking the same thing. Something definitely happened to Monte Maria. They lasted a little over a month. I think the format is good and somebody paid for a good jingle package and sweepers which tells me that this is either leased time and he did all the work, or they are looking to make this a permanent (or permanent for now) format. The earlier programming seemed to just be a jukebox of random, mostly unknown songs and that "copyright" message every so often from Barix streaming. I listened to the first hour of Wolfman Jack as well and that seemed to be leaning more on late 70s and early 80s tunes, while the El Chingon show seemed to be mostly 60s and early 70s with some late 70s and a couple of 80s.
It's very reminiscent of the old XPRS of the 70s and 80s when I was a kid (and KRLA) but the mix I am hearing today seems to be more mainstream oldies with more variety, while the old time format leaned heavily on Hispanic appeal and Soul.
I can't wait to see the ratings boost that this contest gets them!
I hope you don’t have a ruff time finding them!
Odd that they are going in reverse when compared to the ethnic and demographic trends in the market.
Someone posted an unscoped aircheck of noon to 5pm this Thursday (9/12) on archive-dot-org. The oldies start at the 3 hour mark:
XEPRS 1090 AM - Septiembre 12, 2024 : Núcleo Radio Monterrey : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Aircheck de XEPRS 1090 AM en Playas De Rosarito, Baja California con planta transmisora en Rancho Del Mar con la programación musical en inglés de DMD2...
archive.org
XEPRS became all-Spanish in the daytime in the mid-70's while running the Wolfman and paid programs at night. Daytime was handled in a time brokerage agreement, similar to more recent LMA deals, with the late Teddy Fregoso. At some point (and I can ask my wife who did the afternoon shift there) when they went Spanish regional Mexican 24/7 but I really don't want to wake her from her Saturday sleep-in after a terrible week of 115° and over temperatures!
BTW after Wolfman Jack, it was back to the Spanish Catholic Monte Maria which was still going after 10pm. So it's still there, but barely, probably only at night.
Question about the DJ's name. So it's El Chingon (as in 'The Badass')? On air I thought it sounded like 'Chacon' maybe his last name.
Sounds like someone was running the barix audio over ip test channel that exists for people to make sure the box is working before they program it for their needs
We have one station up here that runs that late evenings/overnights.. and has for years.. thinks its a music service/network feed and cant be convinced otherwise that its not
We have one station up here that runs that late evenings/overnights.. and has for years.. thinks its a music service/network feed and cant be convinced otherwise that its not
I heard the Barix program on local black gospel station KRIZ overnight one night. There were liners for some music service out of Switzerland. Odd mix of pop and R&B I hadn't heard before. Every now and then the 'Barix' jingle would appear. I figured somebody hit the wrong button somewhere at the station / or on the remote computer that runs it.
That “music service” out of Switzerland IS the Barix box test channel.
And that means likely that the Barix box feed that the station was broadcasting dropped connection and went over to this as a back up
Ah, makes perfect sense now. Thanks for that explanation. The music was actually a cool mix.
I just looked Barix up. Barix is out of Switzerland, so yes, it all figures.
Barix boxes have 3 lines in their set up for URLs.. these URLs are the programming youd hear on air.
Many stations will have 2 sources, their main pgm feed in option 1.. and some will have a back up feed in option 2 of the same programming in option 1
And sometimes, not often, but it happens, theyll leave the test channel in....... its way they know somethings up if they hear that on air... as i dont think theres way to tell, unless you listen at the moment it happens on air.. or if it happens before the source goes on air... that things are not on option 1
7:33 am on 10/23 - (note that this thread did get quiet)...just turned on 1090 to hear what was going on ...and it's definitely promoting the AM Oldies thing. I had it on a little yesterday and "Snap Your Fingers" by Joe Henderson played... it played again a little earlier this morning. "El Chingon" (maybe that's wrong) gave out a phone number yesterday for requests and stuff.
Slight issue here- a lot of the songs they're playing are stereo, but only one channel is feeding the transmitter. "Hitchin' A Ride" which played yesterday sounded really strange with much of the vocal obscured by the instruments. Can't figure out where all of this is coming from-but the phone number is a 619 number. They're running TV spots promoting Wolfman Jack on the CBS affiliate. No website, no other socials explained.
Slight issue here- a lot of the songs they're playing are stereo, but only one channel is feeding the transmitter. "Hitchin' A Ride" which played yesterday sounded really strange with much of the vocal obscured by the instruments. Can't figure out where all of this is coming from-but the phone number is a 619 number. They're running TV spots promoting Wolfman Jack on the CBS affiliate. No website, no other socials explained.
619 is the area code for most of San Diego County.
no website or socials? That's not quite a death knell these days, but it will certainly damage you big time these days no matter your format if you dont have them up and running at launch and arent promoting them heavily.
You are seeing TV ads for XEPRS Oldies on KFMB Channel 8? Those I have got to see!
It sounds like Monte Maria programming is still there, as of 9:30am.
EDIT: BTW, the 1090 signal quality is very poor this morning. Must be running on reduced power.
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