XEKAM-AM (950 kHz) is a radio station in Rosarito, Baja California, serving the Tijuana-San Diego area. It has a Spanish language news/talk radio format. It mostly carries Radio Fórmula programming from Mexico City.
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| Broadcast area | San Diego-Tijuana |
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| Frequency | 950 kHz (HD Radio) |
| Branding | Radio Fórmula |
| Programming | |
| Format | Spanish News/Talk |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| History | |
First air date | November 10, 1961 |
| Technical information | |
| Class | B |
| Power | 20,000 watts day 5,000 watts night |
| Links | |
| Website | radioformulabc |
XEKAM is a Class B station. By day, it is powered at 20,000 watts. But to reduce interference to other stations on 950 AM, it reduces power at night to 5,000 watts.[2] XEKAM broadcasts using HD Radio technology.[3]
History
editThe station received its concession on November 10, 1961. The original call sign was XEGM. It was owned by Gustavo Faist Morán's Difusoras del Valle, S.A., and broadcast with 2,500 watts of power. By the late 1960s, XEGM had increased its power to 10,000 watts days and 5,000 watts nights.
In the late 1980s, the call sign was changed to XEKAM. During this time, XEKAM (frequently referred to in US media as XEK-AM, though the actual XEK-AM was in Nuevo Laredo) was programmed from the United States. It had studios in Hollywood, California. It shut down for a time in 1992 after failing to obtain the necessary FCC permits to originate programming for air on a foreign station.[4]
XEKAM, at the time, was airing a news-talk format in English. Programs included the first talk show devoted to gay issues in the area as well as San Diego Gulls hockey games. When the station was forced off the air, the Gulls went without a radio partner for a month.[5][6] The loss of U.S. programming sent the station into a tailspin and off the air. Employees went unpaid and the locks at the station's U.S. offices were changed.
In 1998, the concession for XEKAM was transferred to a Radio Fórmula subsidiary.
References
edit- ^ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de Radio AM. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2015-06-20. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.
- ^ FCCdata.org/XEKAM
- ^ "Stations - México". HD Radio.
- ^ Puig, Claudia (February 7, 1992). "Station Regroups After FCC Action". The Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Haddad, Dana (February 14, 1992). "Radio Conflict with FCC Knocks Gulls Off the Air". The Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Hadded, Dana (March 18, 1993). "Gulls Sign Defenseman, Three Others". The Los Angeles Times.
External links
edit- Radio Fórmula
- Facility details for Facility ID 158849 (XEKAM) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
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