I guess after 10 years it's okay to 'fess up to something. At Hot Country 99.3(XHCR), we did play the Mexican National Anthem at 5AM everyday. The thing is, we played a 26 second edit of it and immediately followed with the Star Spangled Banner. It got the job done.
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What happened to Califormula Radio Group?What is the history of XHLTN 104.5?
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Great story. No one can say you didn't play the Mexican National Anthem, even if it was only 26 seconds. And at 5am, not Midnight.
Did your station also put a bad sounding radio on one side of the room tuned to a Tijuana AM station and leave a mic open on the other side of the room at 10pm Sundays when you were required to air El Hora Nacional? I know some English-language stations did this, or may still do this, so a listener thinks his American station is off the air and he's just picking up a distant Mexican station in its place.
Did your station also put a bad sounding radio on one side of the room tuned to a Tijuana AM station and leave a mic open on the other side of the room at 10pm Sundays when you were required to air El Hora Nacional? I know some English-language stations did this, or may still do this, so a listener thinks his American station is off the air and he's just picking up a distant Mexican station in its place.
Gregg said:
I saw that being done at Z-90, which was Califormula's only English-language station at the time. Don't know if they did it later with Hot Country.
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DavidEduardo said:
If I remember correctly, Magic 92.5 had their offices in National City in the 90's.
The last times I saw the original owner of 92.5, Jose Luis Rivas Marentes was in an office they had on Third Ave & F in Chula Vista. I remember Jose Luis Rivas Marentes had purchased a Peters Productions format in the 80's which Paul Schafer (the father of automation) pitched and I closed the "international sale." A month later Rivas Marentes dropped the Soft Rock format from Peters to rent the transmitter to Willie Morrow. The station was labeled either Urban or Churban.
The Diaz Romo family owns Radio Comerciales but the five original stations in Guadalajara were called "Las Cincos Ondas de la Alegria" when more stations were acquired the name Radio Comerciales was born. There was a spat between the family members and Las Cinco Ondas de La Alegria and Radio Comerciales became separate entities.
Victor sure had the right idea $$$$$ targeting both the US and Mexico audiences. With the Diazes no longer involved with programming XHLTN it has lost the classiness and excentricity that Victor and Martha brought along. IMHO.
Lupita said:
That brings back memories. In '75 I went to SD to sign for "Music for the Two of Us" from Peters Productions for one of the stations I was managing in PR. Ed Peters was very hospitable, even taking me out to see the whales that were cruising by San Diego... the only time I ever saw one.
I always thought that "La Cinco Ondas de la Alegria" was the marketing position for the Radios Comerciales, S.A., properties. One was marketing, the other was the corporate name. The times I visited them in the early and mid-70's, they were all together in the same building.
Yes, the heirs split the stations into 3 groups. For quite a while, they divided the crescent shaped building into three "townhouses" with separate entrances, and they put concrete walls in the halls that used to connect them.
Of course, the ratings are much better now, and under the new corporate banner with a sales force in Mexico City, the national business there is much improved. On the US side, while the market as a whole is off about 33% from 2005, XLTN is only off about 20%... so they could arguably be said to be billing much more than they ever did before.
Gregg---Hot Country 99.3 aired El Hora Nacional Sunday nights at MIDNIGHT. The show was recorded and played from the TJ studio.
This may be an old thread, but going back to your unknown XLTN song, the most closest song I found is Venezuelan singer Delia Dorta - Que Equivocado.
Take a look here, uploaded this year:
Second one, different version.
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There was XHIS and XHERS and I know there were plans for an XOURS but it never got off the ground. But to digress, as I mentioned in another post, I thought XLNC was an outstanding Classical station...it really is missed!
I miss it too. I believe XLNC was the only bi-lingual Classical FM station in America. Pieces were announced in both English and Spanish.
I also enjoyed their special emphasis on Hispanic composers.
Yes, that's it! Thanks for posting....
(This must be my lucky day in terms of identifying songs. Earlier today, on another website, someone identified a *Chinese* song that I had heard on the shortwave radio, all the way back in 1981.)
ETA: I'm not surprised I haven't heard of this singer. Most of the Spanish music I listened to came from Mexico; a few songs from Spain. There's not as much "interchange" as there is between the English-speaking countries, in terms of music.
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