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So that's the weak Spanish on 690 (rx in Boise Idaho)
It's Spanish. PSN is Primer Sistema de Noticias, roughly translates to "A method of talk to learn and experience the news". And as mentioned, it is simulcast on all those frequencies, and now AM 690. Apparently, Mexico has no ownership cap when it comes to radio. It's all owned by Jaime Bonilla, the former governor of Baja it's basically a mouthpiece for his political party and agenda.
"Primer Sistama de Noticias" is "First News Network". "Sistema", "Circuito", "Red" and "Cadena" all translate in this context into "network" in English.
Is XEWW now a simulcast of XEW Mexico, D.F?
This is correct — there is no ownership cap in Mexico.
These are about the last people that needed another AM station. But I suppose that's what happens when people start looking at June 2024 with puppy-dog election eyes.
I will miss music on it
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I thought those stations all had different spoken word formats, most of them either talk or sports stations carrying programs from radio stations in Mexico City. They were a way for Tijuana residents to hear programming from the capital market. So I guess those Mexico City simulcasts are gone.
According to Kilowatt Katt, all these stations along with 690 are simulcasting the same programming? And it's programming favoring the political party of former Baja California Governor Jaime Bonilla in advance of next year's elections?
I thought those stations all had different spoken word formats, most of them either talk or sports stations carrying programs from radio stations in Mexico City. They were a way for Tijuana residents to hear programming from the capital market. So I guess those Mexico City simulcasts are gone.
According to Kilowatt Katt, all these stations along with 690 are simulcasting the same programming? And it's programming favoring the political party of former Baja California Governor Jaime Bonilla in advance of next year's elections?
There are other talk formats in Tijuana, including the Radio Fórmula formats and several other full or partial news and talk stations. It is very common in Mexico even for pop music formats to have morning, news or news and talk blocks even with no music.
It's not all the same programming. But a lot of it is.
PSN (Media Sports de México, S.A. de C.V.) directly owns XESS, XEAZ (which it bought from Radio Centro), XEC (which it bought in a complicated and disputed transaction from the Enciso family), and XEPE, plus XHPRS-FM 105.7. It is leasing XEXX 1420 and now, apparently, XEWW-AM 690. There also is the silent XESDD 1030.
They have done TV for years, but only recently did they buy Tijuana's XHBJ-TDT 45. It has a 45.2 subchannel that mostly consists of radio simulcasts.
Oh, and Bonilla has railed against his successor—from the same party! He said she wasn't interested in the office and instead she'd rather dance and make TikTok videos, turning the Baja California state government into a cartel.
Since 2006 (when they began broadcasting as a cable channel and having only two radio stations), PSN has historically been supportive of the Mexican Left, although since last year it has begun to harshly criticize the decisions of the current governor of Baja California (Marina del Pilar) and the mayor of Tijuana (Montserrat Caballero)
Remember that, in Latin America the concept of “left” is not the same as in the USA. Political parties represent social issues more than the US norm of economic ones.
That's interesting...perhaps you could take a moment elaborate?
XEWW 690 site as visible on Google Earth and Fybush.com is interesting.
Although what you see at XEWW is visually similar to what you see at dozens or hundreds of AM stations in the US, there is diversity in AM site environments.
Each owner has their own view.
Although what you see at XEWW is visually similar to what you see at dozens or hundreds of AM stations in the US, there is diversity in AM site environments.
Each owner has their own view.
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PSN website is here: En Vivo | Ultimas Noticias de Hoy | PSN Noticias
45.2 is running a loop that includes a promotional ad for a new FM signal in one Mexican City.
45.2 is running a loop that includes a promotional ad for a new FM signal in one Mexican City.
I've never put this into words, as in each nation the concept is different.
Start out with "20 nations divided by a single language" as a working definition for Latin America, and then mix in some nations like Chile that are nearly "First World" economies and others like Nicaragua and Venezuela and Honduras that are horribly "Third World" with vast suffering and poverty.
Governments and political parties are first based on the socioeconomic base they represent: rural or urban, coastal or highlands, middle class or working poor or rural agrarian workers. In some, like Ecuador, Perú and Bolivia, indigenous or "criollo".
In politics, it is very easy to spot parties based on how much they plan to take from the rich and give to the poor; that is the destruction of Argentina in a nutshell. As a British politician said, eventually you run out of money to take away from the rich and everyone is poor.
The biggest difference is in the wider separation of the poor and the rich and the control of the economy by the richest. And, in the Caribbean basin, the difference has to do with shades of Black and in the rest of Latin America, the amount of Indigenous heritage.
I'm not a cultural anthropologist nor a sociologist, although those were my college co-majors along with business. What is to me the biggest contrast with the US is that when in Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and other places I have worked people were never focused on skin color. In fact, only with recent obsessions with that in the USA have I realized how many different "shades of human" I have as friends and past associates who I never thought of as of a different color but just as "friends".
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