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Spanish 540 w/ English music?

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Lawppy

Hopefully a fellow DX'er can help me identify this mystery station.

I was DX'ing around 7:30 AM (11-3-07) when I heard a Spanish station on 540 with English music. It faded up at the end of an unknown song with a liner saying something to the effect of 'Radio Musica' followed by David Bowie's 'Young Americans'. As it slowly faded back into the static I was able to hear another station ID.

Does anybody have any ideas on this station? I heard this from Southern Michigan!
 
Lawppy said:
I was DX'ing around 7:30 AM (11-3-07) when I heard a Spanish station on 540 with English music. It faded up at the end of an unknown song with a liner saying something to the effect of 'Radio Musica' followed by David Bowie's 'Young Americans'. As it slowly faded back into the static I was able to hear another station ID.
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English music would be very rare on a US Spanish station, making me think this is likely to be XEWA in San Luis Potosí, SLP, México. 7:30 is not that far after local sunrise in Michigan, and it would be mostly a darkness path to SLP.

At 150 kw, XEWA is also the strongest thing on 540, and it's format, called "W Radio" is quite eclectic.

In general, the playin gof English music is very common in Latin America.
 
http://www.wradio.com.mx/programacionam.asp

This is the programme guide to XEWA, which could confirm or deny the what you heard. When you add the hour time difference between Mexico and Southern Michigan, you'll find that 7 am translates to the last hour of "musica Latina", which makes it unlikely that they played any English music, but stranger things have happened. A go0gle search shows no station with that name at 540 on the dial. XEWA can easily make it into southern Michigan at this time a year. I've heard it much further away on less than sophisticated equipment.
 
Lawppy said:
Does anybody have any ideas on this station? I heard this from Southern Michigan!
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I wouldn't rule out XEWF from Tlalmanalco, near Mexico City. According to Fred Cantu's Mexican Radio TV site it's a simulcast of "Ke-Buena 92.9." It looks like the music for the FM wouldn't match, but I'm not sure the info about the simulcast is current. Seems like a tight fit with a co-channel powerhouse like XEWA but XEWF supposedly runs 20,000 watts day and 2,500 night and I'd assume they might be directional, at least at night. Just a thought, but maybe you really were hearing XEWA, like I do here in Texas.
 
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