Cuaderno En Frecuencia: June 28
Monterrey Calle 35 Poniente AM receives technical approval; Tec Sounds Radio turns 25; Radio Fórmula teases something big in Nogales
XECSGH-AM Gets Parameters
Edeysi Yolisela González Roblero’s XECSGH-AM 1570 Monterrey has received technical approval for daytime broadcasting in a document released this week but dated March 1. The site doesn’t look like a normal AM plant; it’s in a residential area in Col. Las Torres. For which 20 kilowatts is a fairly high power level.
This station is a Calle 35 Poniente station, which means evangelical Christian programming is highly likely. There’s a better chance of that than nighttime broadcasting for this facility with XERF-AM Ciudad Acuña still a thing.
Will Calle 35 Poniente be more zealous about building out a new social AM than many of the others were about their recent awards last year?
Tec Sounds Radio Turns 25
Staying in Monterrey, a big anniversary has approached for one of the city’s private university radio stations. It’s XHTEC-FM 94.9 Tec Sounds Radio, which celebrated 25 years of broadcasting on May 4. The station currently has 35 programs on the air, all produced in-house, and also broadcasts on YouTube.
XHEHF Teasing Big Change
Rising from the ashes? Flames? Phoenix imagery is being shared by Nogales’s XHEHF-FM (Trión), which is really unusual for Radio Fórmula.
The teasers include themes of rebirth, a phoenix, and flaming wings. What gets my attention most is the second teaser, “Llegó el momento de volvernos uno”. In Radio Fórmula — and this is not a change in operator — that makes me think of the old Radio Uno regional format that the company had on XEDF-FM Mexico City. That’d fit with the whole flames vibe. It’d also be a rebirth for the company, which fits with teaser lines “Resurgir del eco del pasado”. (I don’t think this brand was ever used in Nogales, but I could be wrong…)
