XEN-AM
| Broadcast area | Mexico City |
|---|---|
| Branding | La 69 |
| Slogan | Es noticia |
| Frequency | 690 kHz |
| First air date | 1925 |
| Format | News radio |
| Power |
100,000 watts (day) 5,000 watts (night)[1] |
| Class | B |
| Owner |
Grupo Radio Centro (Radio Sistema Mexicano, S.A.) |
| Website | http://la69.mx/ |
XEN-AM (branded as La 69) is a radio station based in Mexico City and airing a news radio format on 690 kHz. The station is owned by Grupo Radio Centro.
History
XEN-AM started as CYS, on 710 kHz. The station was owned by General Electric Mexico from 1925 to 1930.
For most of 1930 from February 5 to the end of the year, the station, by then known as "Radio Mundial XEN" and bearing its current callsign, offered something never before provided on radio: a constant all-news service. Radio Noticias was owned by Félix F. Palavicini, a journalist who acquired the station at the start of the year.
The earliest concession for XEN-AM was awarded to Cervecería Modelo, S.A., in 1934. At that time the station still broadcast on 710 kHz. The next year, the station was transferred to Guillermina Pontones de del Conde, and later it moved to 690 kHz.
By the late 1990s it offered lounge music and newscasts under the name Ondas del Lago.[2]
In 2001, Grupo Radio Centro bought the indebted station, disaffiliated it from the Cadena RASA system and converted it to a news format. The purchase was made possible because the previous year Radio Centro had sold 1320 AM and 1560 AM to Infored.[3] However, this station offers very little unique programming, with its most important programs being a simulcast of a two-hour block of Radio Red featuring Jacobo Zabludovsky and a program with José Alberto Barranco Chavarría. Radio Centro's news programs are more prominent on XERC-AM 790 "Formato 21", an all-news station, and XERED-AM/XHRED-FM "Radio Red".
References
- ↑ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. . Last modified 2015-04-28. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ↑ Aparece el primer boletín del año de creadores de la radio, La Jornada 6 February 2001
- ↑ Radio Centro Form 20-F filed in the United States, 2009
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