A format change is coming in Tijuana in which sports programming receives a red card and Catholic radio accesses XEPRS-AM 1090.

It’s the end of an era for XEPRS-AM in Tijuana. On Thursday, August 1, it will flip to Catholic radio from Monte María Radio, a Tijuana-based Catholic media ministry. The Mightier 1090 sports radio format that has been using the frequency will cease after just under four years on the air.

The Mightier 1090 launched August 17, 2020. It revived sports radio on the frequency after the financial problems of Broadcast Company of the Americas forced The Mighty 1090 off the air, first off XEPRS and then off a webstream, in April 2019. Its programming consists of local and national sports talk, including ESPN Radio since January 2022. Bill Hagen has programmed the station under what at the time was reported to be a five-year lease with its owners, the Bichara family (Interamericana de Radio).

The first announcement of the Monte María change was made by the Catholic group on July 19. As of the writing of this article, no programming or social media on The Mightier 1090 has indicated the forthcoming change. An attempt to contact Bill Hagen was unsuccessful as of press time.

For Monte María, this is a big move up for a group whose roots lie in radio. Padre Rayito founded the ministry in 2001 after being a fill-in on a religious radio program on XEXX-AM 1420. Monte María then went on to broadcast the Mass for Radio Fórmula’s XEKAM-AM 950, later growing to program 12 hours a day. In 2005, a television ministry was added, initially on San Diego’s low-power channel 61 and later with a slot on Sky in Mexico.
https://medium.com/en-frecuencia/catholic-radio-goes-clear-channel-sports-shut-out-cb887c4a0381

En Frecuencia to DXing.info FB group (2024-07-28)

Radio Caroline
The Spirit of the 70s returns for another three day special broadcast this August.
Presenters who were part of the team that brought you the magic of Europe’s 1st Album station from the Mi Amigo during the 1970s will be stepping aboard the Ross Revenge to relive those days one more time.
Join Tom Anderson, Nigel Harris, Roger Mathews, Martin Fisher, Mike Stevens, Bob Lawrence and Cliff Osbourne along with Marc Jacobs of Radio Mi Amigo for three days of great music and one or two surprises too.
Tune in on 648kHz AM and on-line from 7am on Friday 2nd August through to 9pm on Sunday 4th August.
And see also https://radiocaroline.co.uk/#mi_amigo_schedule.html

Nico from Gouda HOL (2024-07-20)

Radio Caroline North July.
Our next Radio Caroline North broadcast [648 kHz] is between 13th-14th July, live from our radio ship Ross Revenge.
You’ll hear some great music from the 60s to early 90s – plus a chance to win some goodies from our Web Shop, courtesy of Barry Gilder from Saffron Walden, Essex.
Listen on 648 AM across England, The Netherlands, Belgium and beyond, on 1368 AM in the North/North-West courtesy of our friends at Manx Radio, worldwide online here via our Caroline North Player, on smart speakers and the Radio Caroline app.
We’d love to hear from you during the broadcast via memories@radiocaroline.co.uk and remember, it’s the only email address that gets you straight through to our ‘North’ broadcasters.
https://radiocaroline.co.uk/#caroline_north_schedule.html
https://radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html

Nico from Gouda, HOL (2024-07-08)

Radio Results Network has flipped two of its three Conservative Talk stations on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Oldies.
1320 WDMJ Marquette and 1450 WMIQ Iron Mountain are both running Local Radio Networks’ 1960s/70s based “Superhits” network.
The Talk programming remains on 600 WCHT/93.5 W228DQ Escanaba.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/274239/pair-of-upper-peninsula-ams-flip-to-oldies/

Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2024-07-07)

Radio Caroline North June

Our next Radio Caroline North broadcast is between 22nd-23rd June, live from our radio ship Ross Revenge.
You’ll hear some great music from the 60s to early 90s – plus a chance to win some goodies from our Web Shop, courtesy of The Sutton Staithe Hotel.
Listen on 648 AM across England, The Netherlands, Belgium and beyond, on 1368 AM in the North/North-West courtesy of our friends at Manx Radio, worldwide online here via our https://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/caroline_north_player/player.html?v=1718632127261 on smart speakers and the Radio Caroline app.
We’d love to hear from you during the broadcast via memories@radiocaroline.co.uk and remember, it’s the only email address that gets you straight through to our ‘North’ broadcasters.
The programme of this can you now find on https://radiocaroline.co.uk/#caroline_north_schedule.html

Greetings of Nico from Gouda, the Netherlands (2024-06-17)

Akashvani North Eastern Service, formerly known as All India Radio, North Eastern Service, established in 1990 in Shillong, connects the 8 North Eastern States through diverse programmes. Since its inception, it has fostered harmony among the North Eastern communities through a blend of news, music, and spoken word in various languages and tribes. The programmes are constantly evolving to meet listener demands.
The North Eastern Service will be revamping its programmes starting June 15, 2024, catering to all age groups in the North East with talks, interviews, features, and music. Fixed timings and days have been allotted to programmes for children (every Sunday at 1pm), youth (Wednesdays at 6:45pm), women(Saturdays at 1pm), senior citizens (Mondays at 1:30pm) and labourers (Fridays at 9:30pm). Snippets from NE (daily at 7:30am), Success stories, Start up of the month (4th Saturday of every month)and Listeners feedback (1st Sunday of the month @2:30pm in Hindi and 2nd Tuesday of the month at 8:35am in English) are also being introduced, to engage a wider audience.

Tune in to Akashvani North Eastern Service daily from 6 am to 10:30 pm IST on MW 864 kHz, FM 100.1 MHz, “Newsonair” mobile app, or DTH to be a part of our programmes.
We look forward to any feedback from our listeners and well wishers. Furthermore, we welcome scriptwriters for our spoken word programmes and artists who sing in any language/dialect of the North East including western music. The songs may be modern, folk or devotional etc.
For more information contact us on the email ID: shillong.nes@prasarbharati.gov.in
(AIR NES, Shillong)

Alokesh Gupta to dxindia iog (2024-06-17)

Audacy News/Talk 870 WWL New Orleans/105.3 WWL-FM Kenner LA has announced a new deal that will extend their partnership with the NFL’s New Orleans Saints, while adding the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans to the station.

WWL will carry all games from both franchises along with pre and post-game coverage and weekly shows for each franchise. The stations has been home of the Saints since 1995 and previously carried the NBA franchise from 2012 to 2015. The Pelicans move back to WWL following a five year stint on Coastal Broadcasting of Larose Sports “ESPN New Orleans” 100.3 KLRZ Larose.
More here https://radioinsight.com/headlines/271198/wwl-extends-rights-deal-with-new-orleans-saints-adds-nbas-pelicans/

Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2024-06-05)

Former pirate radio structures in the Thames estuary to feature on Radio 4 next week.

Interesting blurb on the BBC web site about the upcoming Radio 4 “Open Country” programme (30 May at 3 pm) on the Thames forts.
Martha Kearney visits Whitstable to discover the fascinating and mysterious story behind Guy Maunsell’s sea forts at Shivering Sands. Built in the second world war as air defences, these towers can still be seen from the shoreline, although they are now in a state of disrepair.
Martha discovers their incredible and strange history. Once home to up to 265 soldiers, these huge metal boxes on stilts later became the base for a broadcasting revolution. In the 1960s, pirate stations such as Radio City, Invicta and the short-lived Radio Sutch (run by the musician and parliamentary candidate Screaming Lord Sutch), broadcast from the sea forts to huge audiences who wanted to hear the latest pop and rock records.
Tom Edwards and Bob Leroi are two of the DJs with fond memories of their time aboard the sea forts at Shivering Sands, but there is also a darker history. David Featherbe’s father was lost at sea after visiting the Red Sands fort and foul play was suspected. These mysteries and the forts imposing physical architecture fascinate historian Flo McEwan and many artists such as Stephen Turner and Sue Carfrae.
Today the forts lie empty and are slowly being lost to the sea, but they remain a source of inspiration to artists and photographers, as Martha discovers.
(via Richard Gedye, bdxc-news 2024-05-21)

Glenn Hauser, WOR iog (2024-05-21)

And it will be repeated on Saturday, 1 June, at 06:07 BST (05:07 UTC). It will be available to listen again and download as a podcast. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001znl8)

Richard Langley to WOR iog (2024-05-22)

Civic Media has flipped Liberal Talk 1400 WRJN/99.9 W260CV Racine and 98.1 W251BU Kenosha WI back to Full Service Oldies.

WRJN had shifted to Liberal Talk in June 2023 following its acquisition by Civic Media. With the change, the station is now positioning as “Local News and Timeless Hits”. The local morning show hosted by Don Rosen remains in place. Rosen returned to WRJN last fall after previously serving as PD/morning host from 1991 to 2014. Longtime Milwaukee personality Cindy Huber joins as midday host, with former WRJN host Curt Vollman returning to host afternoons. Terry Havel and Rick Johnson will also join the station over the next few weeks.

WRJN will also continue to feature “Music of the Stars with Lou Rugani” on Sunday evenings and air Milwaukee Brewers baseball, Green Bay Packers football, along with University of Wisconsin and local high school sports. Civic Media notes that its Liberal Talk programming continues to be heard in the Milwaukee market on 540 WAUK Jackson/101.1 W266DR Waukesha.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/268751/wrjn-returns-to-full-service-oldies/

Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2024-05-14)

580 CHAH Edmonton to carry football commentary in Punjabi.
CHAH 580 Radio Sursangam is a relatively new Punjabi station that began testing on 24th July 2020.
Steve Whitt reports that Edmonton Elks have signed a game commentary contract with the
station. Elks play in the Canadian Football League (this is American, not Association, football) club
and the news is on CFL’s Elks website. If one were lucky enough to hear sport commentary in
Punjabi on 580kHz then the Edmonton station would be a good candidate!

Medium Wave News May/June 2024 via WOR iog (2024-05-07)