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1090 XEPRS Has Gone Back to Oldies Plus Wolfman - L.A. Daily News

TheBigA said:
The more I see this, the more I start asking legal questions. I saw a comment in RadioInk from Ed Salamon asking that question. He was PD at a station where most of those DJs worked. If he's asking those kinds of questions, perhaps there's a legal issue here. I know the Wolfman estate syndicates his old shows. But how about those other people? Dead men may not sue. But how about MG?
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its been discussed somewhere..... A family member of Tuna's even commented, they are syndicated his dads old stuff and MG Kelly is maybe voicetracking.. OR he is still self syndicating his 60s/70s countdown shows
 
once again, like WFME.. equis e pe erre ese prob. has more people talking about it here then it has listeners over the air
 
michael hagerty said:
Look, I get the jokes about dead DJs, but Charlie Tuna, The Real Don Steele and Wolfman Jack might actually be better jocks in their current condition than a lot of what's out there alive and breathing now.
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It may be a generational thing, too, though I'm a bad judge of that since I somehow wound up with Generation X musical tastes. What I can say is that by the time I was 13 (1970), I found many Top 40 DJs to be somewhat embarassing to listen to. The skits, the jokiness, the aggressive projection of high energy all were wearying. I just wanted them to shut up. Where I was living at the time, I didn't have any rock options on FM, so I just put up with it. Then my family moved to a more metropolitan location and, pretty quickly, I discovered FM and the more laconic style and gravitated to that.

On a related note, I never got the whole mystique with Wolfman Jack.

(somehow this had sat in a browser cache for two days, hence the rather out-of-sequence posting)
 
radiofan2023 said:
He’s literally a millionaire, that’s how.
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A million dollars won't get you very far in renting and running a 50,000 watt radio station. I would not take that on even if I had $20 million!
 
Important to note that what is being streamed is not the same as the over the air signal from 1090 AM. The app is playing oldies with Wolfman Jack, but the over the air signal of 1090 AM is some Spanish language talk. So is the oldies only during certain hours on 1090 AM?

P.S. How did they get Wolfman Jack to advertise the very much current weekend morning fishing show on 1090 AM? Some sort of AI recreation of his voice?
 
asugeorge1 said:
Important to note that what is being streamed is not the same as the over the air signal from 1090 AM. The app is playing oldies with Wolfman Jack, but the over the air signal of 1090 AM is some Spanish language talk. So is the oldies only during certain hours on 1090 AM?

P.S. How did they get Wolfman Jack to advertise the very much current weekend morning fishing show on 1090 AM? Some sort of AI recreation of his voice?
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Right now the OTA Oldies programming is limited to 7-9am, and from Noon to 7pm. The rest of the hours are Spanish Catholic Monte Maria. This will supposedly change sometime in the future to more Oldies programming. So yeah it's a confusing mix of Spanish language Catholicism and the greatest hits and DJ's of all time!

In a way, it's a lot like 1090 was back in the 70's with the Soul Express followed by the preachers.
 
KilowattKat said:
Right now the OTA Oldies programming is limited to 7-9am, and from Noon to 7pm. The rest of the hours are Spanish Catholic Monte Maria.
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Sounds like the station has pre-existing contracts with the Spanish programming, and they have to let it run its course.

That's what happens at a brokered station. They don't program like a typical radio station, but rather by whoever has paid for the time.
 
DavidEduardo said:
A million dollars won't get you very far in renting and running a 50,000 watt radio station. I would not take that on even if I had $20 million!
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Be careful, the costs of the operation are in Mexican pesos, which if a comparison is made with the normal costs in the US, they are much lower, simply with the electrical issue and the unionized positions.
 
exbloguero said:
Be careful, the costs of the operation are in Mexican pesos, which if a comparison is made with the normal costs in the US, they are much lower, simply with the electrical issue and the unionized positions.
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I know the costs fairly well. Back in the late 60's Panchito Aguirre offered me the Program Director position for the up-to-then simulcast FMs of Organización Radio Centro when they were going to move them all to the Torre Latinoamericana. Then, In the 70's Rogerio Azcárrage wanted me to manage his radio group and I have followed the industry there ever since, for decades even being an associate member of the CIRT. And my wife spent a decade with XEPRS doing middays before moving to KTNQ. And Teddy Fregoso, the composer and bullfighter and radio person who rented XEPRS was our dear friend until his death a few years ago.

Sidebar: in the 70's, to manage a station I had to be a Mexican citizen. I asked Rogerio about that and he said, "That is fine. You were born in Cananea, Sonora, and we can get your birth certificate here in a couple of days". So whenever I hear "Carcel de Cananea" I have to laugh!
 
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