XEOY-AM is an AM radio station in

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. It is a Class A

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station broadcasting on 1000 kHz. XEOY carries newscasts and contemporary music in English from the 1980s to the present day. KNWN in

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and XEOY-AM share Class A status of 1000 AM.

History

XEOY was founded on February 10, 1941 by Ignacio Díaz Raygosa and Jose Iturbe Umantour; Raygosa was the grandson of former Mexican president

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, while Umantour's grandfather was

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, the finance secretary for most of the Porfiriato. The first broadcast of XEOY-AM was the Ninth Symphony by

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. In 1942 it was sold to Guillermo Salas Peyró, who gave the station its long-running name of "Radio Mil" (Radio Thousand), after its position on the dial. From XEOY-AM, Núcleo Radio Mil was formed, adding

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590,

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1380,

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1410 and

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1530 to the fold. From the 1950s onward, XEOY's format imitated that of

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, with general interest and family programming, as well as recorded music. August 28, 1957, saw XEOY branch out onto FM with XEOY-FM, originally on 100.5 MHz and later on 100.9 MHz. In 1961, that station became classical music "Estereomil"; it was swapped with XEBS-FM in 1967 to move to 89.7 MHz (now

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), while 100.9 FM is now

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(still owned by NRM). In 1980, XEOY-AM became the first AM radio station in Mexico to broadcast in

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; the SCT would not help stations broadcast in stereo until 1990. In May 2006, the station switched from its traditional oldies musical format to a primarily talk outlet, focused around promoting tourism and Mexican traditions. In 2017, the name was changed from Radio Mil to Mil AM, at which time the talk programming began to be phased out and replaced with a musical format again, now consisting of Spanish-language pop from the 1970s to the 2000s, including three daily hours dedicated exclusively to

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and

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. XEOY retook its original name of Radio Mil on November 1, 2020. After 80 years, on June 7, 2021, Radio Mil came to an end and XEOY became a simulcast of

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"Stereo Cien".

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