XEN-AM
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| Broadcast area | Mexico City |
|---|---|
| Branding | La 69 |
| Slogan | Es noticia (It's news) |
| Frequency |
690 kHz 91.3 FM HD2 XHFAJ-FM |
| 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.
XEN-AM can be heard in HD on XHFAJ-FMHD2.[2]
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.
Beginning in the 1950s and until the early 1990s, it carried a world music format as Radio Mundo. In 1993, the station switched to a sports format as Radio Sportiva.
By the late 1990s it offered lounge music and newscasts under the name Ondas del Lago.[3]
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.[4] However, this station does not have any unique programming, only airing a simulcast of the two-hour midday newscast of Radio Red which was hosted by Jacobo Zabludovsky until his death on July 2, 2015, being substituted by Juan Francisco Castañeda (although it originated on XEN, before moving to Radio Red in 2004), which is looped throughout the day and on weekends, and a program with José Alberto Barranco Chavarría called "Entrelíneas" that since July 4, 2016 is also simulcast on Radio Red. Another program, a seven-hour morning talk show hosted by Nino Canún, was cancelled in August 2014. The station's only original material are cultural capsules aired on commercial breaks, having little to no advertisers outside of public service announcements.
References
- ↑ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de Radio AM. Last modified 2016-03-31. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ↑ http://hdradio.com/mexico/estaciones HD Radio Guide for Mexico
- ↑ 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