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Mightier 1090 goes Almighty 8/1

Sammi Brie said:
In Mexico, religious associations (a type of incorporated society) cannot own broadcast stations, either on their own or through an intermediary. Nor can religious ministers (who are registered with the government).

Technically, permission from RTC is needed to air religious programming on any station, but for the last decade or so, this has been a pass-through with no real bite.

That has not prevented stations from
  • Leasing their entire airtime to religious associations, which avoids the ownership issue. (Commonly these are commercial AMs)
  • Being awarded to individuals and turning up as religious stations, sometimes in highly related ownership. (Commonly non-commercial social FMs)
    • Sometimes these are in the community and indigenous services!
  • Being awarded to civil societies and turning up as religious stations
  • Successfully applying to program, on their own, a new subchannel whose name and logo are a trademark held by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God
Remember, this is a station that has been leased and not directly operated for many years, so another lessee makes sense.
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XENK is not ESNE Catholic, it's still the same nostalgic music format, and still owned by RASA. The writer of this blog says 2 unknown guys from Tijuana bought the station. That was the only info provided when it was written back in January. So none of this makes sense.
cadenarasa.com

Radio 6.20 AM (CDMX)

Página web oficial de Radio 6.20 AM (CDMX)
cadenarasa.com cadenarasa.com
 
JTJoe said:
San Diego radio fulltime:
1450 KFSD JP2 Catholic Radio
1000 KCEO Relevant Catholic radio

needs 1090 as well????
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And there's 1040 KURS ESNE Spanish Catholic. Add to that the multitude of signals doing Christian English/Spanish. So yeah, there is a lot of soul saving going on here in San Diego.
 
JTJoe said:
San Diego radio fulltime:
1450 KFSD JP2 Catholic Radio
1000 KCEO Relevant Catholic radio

needs 1090 as well????
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Pero esta emisora de radio hablará en español.
 
KilowattKat said:
So yeah, there is a lot of soul saving going on here in San Diego.
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Catholics aren't so much into "soul saving" as are the evangelicals. Mostly, Catholic-formatted radio is designed to be more akin to fellowship, like the members of your parish.
 
JTJoe said:
San Diego radio fulltime:
1450 KFSD JP2 Catholic Radio
1000 KCEO Relevant Catholic radio

needs 1090 as well????
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According to Wikipedia, KFSD Escondido 1450 is off the air. 1000 KCEO Relevant Radio is English-language Catholic programming so not really a competitor to XEPRS.

And these days, ethnic and religious broadcasters can more easily take over a station since prices have dropped. As said above, if the other two sports stations serving San Diego are FM 97.3 and a 50,000 watt AM station at 760, it stands to reason that 1090 is going to struggle. Now a Catholic group has come along saying, we'll pay you to take over your station. No more struggle.

I used to enjoy listening to 1090 approaching midnight. They'd have to cut off the ESPN programming to play the 2 1/2 minute "El Himno Nacional" which is required at 12 and 5 a.m., even for English-language stations aimed at U.S. listeners.
 
KilowattKat said:
XENK is not ESNE Catholic, it's still the same nostalgic music format, and still owned by RASA. The writer of this blog says 2 unknown guys from Tijuana bought the station. That was the only info provided when it was written back in January. So none of this makes sense.
cadenarasa.com

Radio 6.20 AM (CDMX)

Página web oficial de Radio 6.20 AM (CDMX)
cadenarasa.com cadenarasa.com
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The people who ran it made a really surgical split of the Radio 620 programming from the station, so it's hard to notice that this also exists now:

La Guadalupana – ¡Estación del Gran Milagro!

esneradio.com esneradio.com
 
Maybe someone didn't read far enough into Wikipedia's history of 1450. Or possibly that section was just edited. As of this moment, it states "the station is on the air, May 2021."
 
KFSD is English as well. Who runs Guadalupe Radio, on 87.7 FM? Is that also Spanish Catholic? So, if you add those and AM 1090 after tomorrow, that's two English Catholic broadcasters that are mostly relegated to North County, and three Spanish Catholic broadcasters in South County.

I also heard a rumor this morning that XEWW/690 might be interested in returning to English sports, likely filling the ESPN hole vacated by 1090, unless one of the other two sports stations snaps that up. Isn't there also TUDN, a Spanish sports network?
 
powers said:
KFSD is English as well. Who runs Guadalupe Radio, on 87.7 FM? Is that also Spanish Catholic? So, if you add those and AM 1090 after tomorrow, that's two English Catholic broadcasters that are mostly relegated to North County, and three Spanish Catholic broadcasters in South County.

I also heard a rumor this morning that XEWW/690 might be interested in returning to English sports, likely filling the ESPN hole vacated by 1090, unless one of the other two sports stations snaps that up. Isn't there also TUDN, a Spanish sports network?
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Tuesday June 11, 2024

325-NEW-20230530-00001

GLR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LLC

This application filed by GLR Southern California LLC, subsidiary of H & H Group USA LLC, is for a Section 325c Permit to deliver afull range of English language programming primarily consisting of syndicated news, talk shows and sports programs, along with paidadvertising, to Mexican radio station XEWW-AM in Rosarito, Baja California Norte, Mexico. XEWW-AM operates on 690 kHz at 77 kW(day) and 50 kW (night). We are exercising our discretion to refer the application to the relevant Executive Branch agencies for their views on any national security,law enforcement, foreign policy or trade policy concerns. See Process Reform for Executive Branch Review, IB Docket 16-155, Report andOrder, 35 FCC Rcd 10927 (2020).

325-STA-20230530-00002

GLR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LLC

This application filed by GLR Southern California LLC, subsidiary of H & H Group USA LLC, is for a Section 325c Permit to deliver afull range of English language programming primarily consisting of syndicated news, talk shows and sports programs, along with paidadvertising, to Mexican radio station XEWW-AM in Rosarito, Baja California Norte, Mexico. XEWW-AM operates on 690 kHz at 77 kW(day) and 50 kW (night).We are exercising our discretion to refer the application to the relevant Executive Branch agencies for their views on any national security,law enforcement, foreign policy or trade policy concerns. See Process Reform for Executive Branch Review, IB Docket 16-155, Report andOrder, 35 FCC Rcd 10927 (2020)

 
powers said:
KFSD is English as well. Who runs Guadalupe Radio, on 87.7 FM? Is that also Spanish Catholic? So, if you add those and AM 1090 after tomorrow, that's two English Catholic broadcasters that are mostly relegated to North County, and three Spanish Catholic broadcasters in South County.

I also heard a rumor this morning that XEWW/690 might be interested in returning to English sports, likely filling the ESPN hole vacated by 1090, unless one of the other two sports stations snaps that up. Isn't there also TUDN, a Spanish sports network?
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1700 XEPE is now a TUDN affiliate. Last time I checked XEWW was silent, so something could be happening there.
 
KilowattKat said:
1700 XEPE is now a TUDN affiliate. Last time I checked XEWW was silent, so something could be happening there.
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I didn't know about XEPE. Thank you. I was scanning the AM dial today and 690 was on-air in Spanish (talk or news format - my understanding of Spanish is not the greatest, save taking some Spanish classes in high school and college and the few months I worked at Z-90 in the Tijuana facility in 1989.)
 
Signal Geek said:
Maybe someone didn't read far enough into Wikipedia's history of 1450. Or possibly that section was just edited. As of this moment, it states "the station is on the air, May 2021."
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Here's the second sentence from the KFSD Wikipedia page. "It is owned by Raul Caro and Stephen Beuerle, through licensee IHS Media, and is currently off the air."

I see the second-to-last page in the history section says "The station is on the air, May 2021."

It lists the language as "Spanish" and the format as "Spanish Catholic." But here on Radio Discussions, you say the station is on the air and airing English language Christian talk and teaching programs?
 
Gregg. said:
It lists the language as "Spanish" and the format as "Spanish Catholic." But here on Radio Discussions, you say the station is on the air and airing English language Christian talk and teaching programs?
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I heard them today in Santee. The Spanish "Guadalupe Radio" is an old format which has since moved to FM 87.7 in Los Angeles and San Diego (two different stations on the same frequency). Here is their current website: Player which shows that the programming is on AM 1450 in Escondido as well as 93.7 in San Diego (I didn't know about that translator).
 
Don't know when this happened (after the election?), but 105.7 XHPRS is back to music as "Suave 105.7". It's described as Spanish Classic Hits.
 
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