[IRCA] Great mariachi music on XED

["John Callarman" <JohnCallarman@xxxxxxx>]

As The Krumudgeon sits keyboarding information for Mexican log update and works on Baja California, where there is a lot of conflicting information, I link via the Radiorama website  http://www.radiorama.com.mx/secciones.php?sec_id=32&ent_id=6<about:blank>  to streaming audio from XED. Fred Cantú has for a couple of years identified XED's slogan as "Radiorama Siglo XXI" while at the same time MPM has shown XED as "W Radio." It's both. Full ID's show "Radiorama XXI" as primary slogan, but time checks are given "Aquí en W Radio, Mexicali." 

But the most fun is the grand, old-style mariachi music that's playing this Sunday afternoon, much of which dates back to the parallel big band era, north of the border. Wish I had the locotur's deep voice!

The Radiorama site links to affiliates' programming all over México, and is the most reliable with the fewest drop-outs on my dial-up set-up. Also fun are the Distrito Federal links with which one can connect via Fred Cantú's site. These give us some good practice on our Spanish for those elusive ID's.

And speaking of off-air monitoring, I actually listened a little last night. Since I've been here in Texas, I've not added anything on 1260 kHz, but have noted in passing XEL, with its female-oriented talk programming, dominating at night ... but I've also heard the Ojinaga station squeak through once (and maybe again last night if it was the one that left the air with the Mexican National Anthem just a bit before 0400 UTC. I had earlier squeezed out a couple of slogan IDs and some commercial content from a third XE, "La Mexicana," leading me to believe it was XESA in Culiacán, Sinaloa, and, after the s/off station left, heard a good XESA full ID ... but haven't yet connected my recording equipment since reorganizing the den. 

Qal R. Mann, Krumudgeon
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