What’s Behind Door Number 5?
Monday sets up two big format announcements, and there’s more news on Tijuana’s XEPRS
Forgive me for sounding like an Abbott and Costello routine for a moment, but two apparent format flips loom on Monday. In one, we know what’s coming and, apparently, where on the dial. In the other, we know where the change will take place but not what is in store.
Mexico City: Lokura FM Rock Announcement
On Monday afternoon, Lokura FM Rock — one of the Capital Media Lokura formats — advised “rock devotees and connoisseurs” to save the date for 9am on Monday, August 5:
Lokura FM Rock is not a mystery, but if it is getting a Mexico City FM frequency, where it could possibly be going is.
Capital Media only owns one CDMX station: XEITE-AM 830, which has been leased to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and is (as an AM outlet) probably not an apt destination for any music station. Yet the way is clear as of today. Radio Omega has been advising its listeners that it will be switching entirely to become Unife Radio, a function in the Universal México app (and online), and would cease to air on XEITE effective August 1. So this is the likely option.
If it were to ever come to an FM, the maybe 105.3. Radio Chilango hasn’t said it’s going away, but Lokura FM Rock and the interim 105.3 Digital programming that was aired when XHINFO came back under Henkel control are tightly related — so much so that when XHNAQ-FM Querétaro became the first Lokura FM Rock station, it recycled the old 105.3 Digital Facebook page for its own!
Guadalajara: Not Feeling the Vibe
In the other, Grupo Audiorama is tossing its electronic and dance music format on XHVOZ-FM 107.5 Guadalajara, installed in 2021, out to sea. Generic liners, some parodying other local stations, have been put in place. Liners have been counting down to the Monday launch of a new format.
While We’re Here…
More information surfaced Wednesday on what Monte María Radio is doing with XEPRS-AM in Tijuana. They will not be the full-time programmer, but they will provide nearly two-thirds of the programming to be aired on the station.
Monte María will broadcast weekdays from midnight to 7am, 9am to noon, and 7pm to midnight. On weekends, they will broadcast from 3pm to 7am. This schedule gives them 62.5% of the weekday airtime and 66% of the weekend airtime of XEPRS-AM.
This leaves other programming — possibly continuing sports programming — to air from 7–9am and 12–7pm on weekdays and 7am–3pm on weekends. The Mightier 1090 website is no longer functioning.
