[IRCA] Fw: [NRC-AM] El Paso trip, Part I

["Neil Kazaross" <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Neil Kazaross 
To: am@xxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] El Paso trip, Part I


Good to have positive confirmation that Cd Acuna is on 650 since I have had that La Nueva Radio slogan from a station on my western BOGs that fades in a good 30 minutes too early to likely be Sonora or Sinaloa, but the only mention of anything pertaining possibly to that area was of the "frontera".  I have noted this from time to time for two seasons.  73 KAZ Barrington IL
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Callarman 
  To: NRC List 
  Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 10:00 PM
  Subject: [NRC-AM] El Paso trip, Part I


  I did a lot of taping on the car radio and in the motels on my trip to El Paso to watch my Oregon State Beavers amazing comeback victory over the Missouri Tigers, and I offer a few preliminary notes on what I've heard and taped.

  I spent the first night out in Del Rio and taped hour-long air checks from all the BCB'ers except XERF and all the FM stations ... and there was some information that's new ...

  XERCG-650 is definitely on the air, with religious programming, including preacher programs and the Mexican equivalent of contemporary Christian music. It was on the air past midnight CST on Wednesday night, December 27, and on the air before 6 a.m. December 28, as were all the Ciudad Acuña AM stations. XERCG's slogan is "La Nueva Radio." I haven't yet transcribed the full station ID, but the Del Rio phone book indicates the station is owned by the González family who have XEKD-1010, XEDH-1340, XHRG-95.5. Neither XERCG-650 nor XEAE-1600 "Texano Hits," that's been listed in MPM for several years, were on the air when I was in Del Rio in 2002; a cellphone conversation with a sister-in-law in the car last year, asking her to check 650 and 1600, brought no sign of any signals there for her; and 1600 remained a blank this past week for me in Del Rio. It is my suspicion, based upon FCC and SCT data bases that XEAE is the old call for XERCG, and that it may at first have been on 1600 but is now on 650. SCT shows XERCG on 1600 and nothing on 650; MPM shows XEAE on 1600 and nothing on 650, and FCC data base shows XEAE on both frequencies and no listing for XERCG call. But what's actually on the air is definitely XERCG-650.

  XEVK-1010 appears to have new slogan, "VK-Uno."

  John Callarman, Krum, TX


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