For the record, there are no towns named San Luis Rio located in the U.S. However, I did find three San Luis's: San Luis, CO; San Luis, NM; and San Luis, AZ. That last one is located directly across the Mexico-Arizona border from San Luis Rio (I'm not going to try to guess which of the accent marks to use here though I humbly thank @K.M. Richards for supplying them) Colorado, Sonora, Mexico and has the largest population of the three. While I haven't been to the Arizona San Luis (it's the southern endpoint for U.S. Route 95), I'm quite sure that the Mexican AM and FM outlets are received much better there than in Yuma.
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Rest of Arizona KBLU AM 560 Silenced: Yuma’s 80+ Year Radio Legacy Ends
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For the record, there are no towns named San Luis Rio located in the U.S. However, I did find three San Luis's: San Luis, CO; San Luis, NM; and San Luis, AZ. That last one is located directly across the Mexico-Arizona border from San Luis Rio (I'm not going to try to guess which of the accent marks to use here though I humbly thank @K.M. Richards for supplying them) Colorado, Sonora, Mexico and has the largest population of the three. While I haven't been to the Arizona San Luis (it's the southern endpoint for U.S. Route 95), I'm quite sure that the Mexican AM and FM outlets are received much better there than in Yuma.
The locals on both sides just call it " San Luis".
"San Luis Río" is (despite being grammatically incorrect) "The Saint Louis River". The Mexican border town near Yuma is the city of San Luis on the Colorado River. Or "San Luis Río Colorado".
Likely still more Canadian snowbirds than 2020-21, where it was illegal for Canadians to travel
With the very likely exception of XHLPS-FM, the northernmost broadcast facility in Mexico, whose transmitter site is in Col. Ladrillera, Baja California, about even with Yuma's 24th St. (County 10th St.) It's 3 kW @ 48m HAAT, which is quite underclass for a Class B station. If it had a coverage area that filled its 65 km statutory coverage area*, it'd serve the eastern half of Mexicali. Map from CPCREL:
XHDY-FM Ciudad Morelos BC (run as part of the OIR SLRC cluster) is a slightly overclass B1 (CPCREL lists its ERP as 25.903 kW) and equidistant from Yuma and SLRC. It reaches about 71,000 more listeners within Mexico per CRT figures. Its US-site coverage is about the same.
* In Mexico, FM stations are given a statutory coverage area by class, defined typically as a radius from reference coordinates for the locality. Class A (3 kW): 24 km. Class AA (6 kW): 28 km. Class B1: 45 km. Class B: 65 km. Class C1: 72 km. Class C: 92 km. Class D (50 watts): 5 km. Some stations, particularly new-insert noncoms, are restricted-A stations with statutory radii of less than 24 km.
What I was thinking of when I wrote that was San Luis Rio Colorado's AM outlets: the now discontinued 1080 (which was daytime only then), the 1260/1270 outlet (I heard that one on both frequencies on my trips through Yuma), 1350, 1450 (now 1460), and 1520 (which may have been a daytimer as well) stations. But you're right. With the possible exceptions of the stations at 89.5, 102.5 and 107.9, the San Luis Rio Colorado FM stations did not have good signals in Yuma.
The tower for XHLPS looks empty as of August 2025
From the Radioland mobile app...
Using the coordinates for downtown central Yuma, these are the receivable FM signals with a dBuV/m reading of 60 or higher. The last number is the exact dBuV/m reading.
88.1 KCFY - 78
88.9 KAWC - 62
89.5 XHRCL - 61
90.1 K211DD - 62
91.9 KVRM - 76
92.5 KYVD-LP - 68
93.1 KLJZ - 94
93.9 XHLBL - 74
94.7 K244CZ - 70
95.1 KTTI - 92
95.9 KUKY - 65
98.3 XHMIX - 78
99.9 KYMZ - 86
100.9 KYLK (KQSR) - 80
101.5 KRJY-LP - 76
102.5 XHLPS - 79
103.1 K276F6 - 67
104.5 KCEC - 70
105.5 XHCMS - 59 (just below)
107.1 XHDY - 75
107.9 XHSLR - 89
Using the coordinates for downtown central Yuma, these are the receivable FM signals with a dBuV/m reading of 60 or higher. The last number is the exact dBuV/m reading.
88.1 KCFY - 78
88.9 KAWC - 62
89.5 XHRCL - 61
90.1 K211DD - 62
91.9 KVRM - 76
92.5 KYVD-LP - 68
93.1 KLJZ - 94
93.9 XHLBL - 74
94.7 K244CZ - 70
95.1 KTTI - 92
95.9 KUKY - 65
98.3 XHMIX - 78
99.9 KYMZ - 86
100.9 KYLK (KQSR) - 80
101.5 KRJY-LP - 76
102.5 XHLPS - 79
103.1 K276F6 - 67
104.5 KCEC - 70
105.5 XHCMS - 59 (just below)
107.1 XHDY - 75
107.9 XHSLR - 89
KLJZ is one of the smallest 100kw signals i know of.., 82 feet height above average terrain, 135 feet off the ground.. but the News Director tells me 93.1 out performs what the maps say by quite a bit when shes been driving
KBLU-AM has been sold by EDB VV License LLC to Approval Coach Broadcasting LLC for $ 50,000.00. It will be in local ownership in Yuma.
the buyer is a mortgage broker in yuma.
when the a.m. went off the air, the local morning host moved a studio of his own into the mortgage brokers office that has been doing his show on Facebook.
They have enough equipment included in the contract of the sale that they could go back on the air any day now, but the lease on the tower site is near nearly $3000 a month
Russ Clark.
This article from March, talks about how he continued the morning show online.
560 KBLU Ceases Operations Nearly 90 Years
At 6:30 PM on Saturday evening, the station went silent as El Dorado Broadcasters ended the news/talk format.
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Russ Clark.
This article from March, talks about how he continued the morning show online.
560 KBLU Ceases Operations Nearly 90 Years
At 6:30 PM on Saturday evening, the station went silent as El Dorado Broadcasters ended the news/talk format.
yup. my contact in yuma filled me in on some other stuff.
She said she’ll let me know when it comes back on
Probably the same News/Talk format, and show line up as before?
that’s the general assumption.
He's going to learn the hard way about the economics of running a standalone AM station in a depressed market.
Lets just say scuttle butt around town is its an ego project and theyre to the right side of the aisle that pacific is to the left... everything but our message be damned
He's the First Vice chairman of the Yuma County Republican Committee. Guess he wants to be the John Catsimatidas of Yuma!
Something like that