XEAW-AM is a radio station located in
Monterrey, Nuevo León
Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is anc ...
, Mexico, with 10,000 Watts, owned and operated by
Multimedios Radio
Multimedios Radio is the radio division of Grupo Multimedios, operating 31 radio stations in northern and central Mexico.
Multimedios traces its history to the founding of XEAW-AM in the late 1930s.
Stations
Monterrey, Nuevo León
Multime ...
and currently simulcasts
XHAW-FM's La Gran AW romantic format. The station also transmits the Telediario newscasts from co-owned
Multimedios Televisión
Canal 6 (alternately known as Multimedios Televisión) is a network of Spanish language television stations primarily concentrated in northeastern Mexico and the southwestern United States. The system is part of Grupo Multimedios. The flagship st ...
. XEAW-AM broadcasts on a frequency of
1280 kHz.
History
The XEAW-AM callsign first appeared on a
border-blaster radio station located in
Reynosa
Reynosa () is a border city in the northern part of the state of Tamaulipas, in Mexico. It is also the municipal seat of Reynosa Municipality.
The city is located on the southern bank of the Rio Grande in the international Reynosa–McAllen Metr ...
,
Tamaulipas
Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas), is a state in the northeast region of Mexico; one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entiti ...
, across the
Rio Grande (Río Bravo) from
McAllen, Texas
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, USA. In the 1930s the station came under the control of Dr.
John R. Brinkley who became famous for both his controversial treatments of
sexual dysfunction
Sexual dysfunction is difficulty experienced by an individual or partners during any stage of normal sexual activity, including physical pleasure, desire, preference, arousal, or orgasm. The World Health Organization defines sexual dysfunction as ...
and his operations of
XER and
XERA at
Villa Acuña (modern-day
Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila
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Ciudad may also refer to:
*La Ciudad (archaeological site), Hohokam ruins in Phoenix, Arizona
*La Ciudad, district of Durango City, Mexico
*''La ciudad'', novel by Mario Levrero 1970
*La Ciudad ''The City'' ...
), opposite
Del Rio, Texas
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History
The Spanish established a small settlement south o ...
.
Meanwhile, in Monterrey, XEX-AM on 1310 kHz started up in 1934; in 1937, Jesús Dionisio González (El Heraldo del Comercio, S.A.) bought the station from Don Federico Zertuche. The first transmission over XEX was a baseball game from Mexico City. In the early 1950s, the government requested the XEX callsign to build a national network, and in turn the station received the new callsign XEAW; at the same time, the station moved to 1280 kHz. In 1968, the Estrellas de Oro group expanded to a television station,
XHAW-TV channel 12.
See also
*
Border blaster
A border blaster is a broadcast station that, though not licensed as an external service, is, in practice, used to target another country. The term "border blaster" is of North American origin, and usually associated with Mexican AM station ...
– a list of super-power radio stations located on the international border of Mexico facing the United States.
*Dr.
John R. Brinkley – brief biography and history of
XER and
XERA.
External links
*"Wolfman Jack's old station howling once again." – ''Dallas Times Herald'', January 2, 1983. – primarily about
XERF
XHRF-FM () and XERF-AM () are radio stations in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico. Originally only on the AM band, XERF is a Mexican Class A clear-channel station transmitting with of power. Now branded as ''La Poderosa'', XHRF-FM and XERF-A ...
but also includes background information on the border-blasters.
*''Border Radio,'' by Fowler, Gene and Crawford, Bill. Texas Monthly Press, Austin. 1987
*''Mass Media Moments in the United Kingdom, the USSR and the USA,'' by Gilder, Eric. – "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu Press, Romania. 2003
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References
Radio stations in Monterrey
Multimedios Radio
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