XEAZ-AM

Radio station in Tijuana, Baja California

Tijuana, Baja California
Mexico

Frequency1270 kHzBrandingLa RomanticaProgrammingFormatRomanticOwnershipOwner

Primer Sistema de Noticias
(Media Sports de México, S.A. de C.V.)

History

First air date

1948Technical informationClassBPower500 watts^[1]

XEAZ-AM is a radio station in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, broadcasting on 1270 AM. It is known as La Romántica with a romantic music format.

History

XEAZ received its concession on April 17, 1948. The station was originally owned by Fernando Sánchez Mayans.^[2] It may have signed on as early as December 20, 1947, as a border blaster where programs were recorded at studios in San Diego before being broadcast from the Tijuana transmitter.^[3] Its Tijuana studios were in a building that burned in a December 1951 fire, which claimed 41 lives.^[4]

In the 1980s, the station's Notitrece newscasts were the highest-rated in Tijuana.^[5] During the January 1993 Tijuana floods, the station opened its microphones to provide non-stop coverage and air demands for aid and food in the wake of the devastation caused. Employees pulled up to 18-hour shifts. The non-stop coverage from XEAZ, one of the city's smallest stations, led to praise from El Universal's Tijuana correspondent and an article in the San Diego Union-Tribune.^[6]

Radiodifusoras Capital acquired XEAZ in 2005^[2] and sold the station to Grupo Radiodigital Siglo XXI, which soon merged with Grupo Radio México.

In 2015, XEAZ and 24 other radio stations were folded into Grupo Radio Centro, a business owned by the same family as GRM. GRC leased and then sold the station to PSN in 2021.

References

^ Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de Radio AM. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2015-08-05. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.
^ ^a ^b Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (October 16, 2009). "Título de refrendo de concesión para continuar usando comercialmente una frecuencia de radiodifusión, que otorga el Gobierno Federal, por conducto de la Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes, en lo sucesivo La Secretaria, en favor de Radiodifusoras Capital, S.A. de C.V., en lo sucesivo El Concesionario, al tenor de los siguientes antecedentes y condiciones" (PDF). Registro Público de Concesiones (in Spanish). Federal Telecommunications Institute.
^ "Recorders to Take Air". Broadcasting. December 1, 1947. p. 81. ProQuest 1014896963.
^ "Holiday Party Fire---41 Killed; Festival Ends in Tragedy at Tijuana". San Francisco Chronicle. Associated Press. December 24, 1951. p. 1.
^ Gandelman, Joe (April 14, 1986). "Tijuana radio show doesn't pull punches". The San Diego Union. pp. B-1, B-3 – via GenealogyBank.
^ Romero, Fernando (January 18, 1993). "Riding airwaves to Tijuana's rescue". San Diego Union-Tribune. p. B-1.