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XETV-TDT is a television station located in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, broadcasting programs from Canal 5 and NU9VE. Its terrestrial signal also covers the San Diego, California area across the international border in the United States. The station is owned by Grupo Televisa, and its technical operations and transmitter facilities are located at Mount San Antonio in Tijuana.
XHAS-TDT is a television station in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, carrying Canal 66. It is owned by a Mexican company whose largest single investor is Entravision Communications, a U.S.-based operator of radio and television stations with radio and television stations in San Diego, including Univision affiliate KBNT-CD, and a similar interest in Milenio Televisión affiliate XHDTV-TDT. The transmitter is on Mount San Antonio in Tijuana.
KSCA is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Glendale, California and broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area. KSCA is owned by TelevisaUnivision, and it airs a Regional Mexican radio format. The station has studios and offices on Center Drive in West Los Angeles. KSCA's transmitter is on Mount Wilson.
XHITZ-FM is an English-language Top 40 (CHR) radio station. It is licensed to Tijuana, Mexico, and broadcasts to the San Diego-Tijuana radio market. The station is owned by Comunicación XERSA, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican company. An American company, Local Media San Diego, holds 49% of the concession. LMSD pays a fee to use the frequency and programs the station. The studios, in the Sorrento Valley neighborhood of San Diego, are home to two other Mexican FM stations broadcasting in English, classic alternative-formatted XETRA-FM and rhythmic AC-formatted XHRM-FM. LMSD also wholly owns U.S.-licensed KFBG.
XHLTN-FM is a commercial radio station in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, broadcasting on 104.5 FM. It is owned by Grupo Imagen and carries its Radio Latina format. The station came on air in 1970.
XHLNC-FM is a noncommercial radio station in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico, on 104.9 FM. It broadcasts to the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area from a transmitter on Cerro Bola. XHLNC-FM airs a Regional Mexican format and is branded as La Número Uno.
All-news radio is a radio format devoted entirely to the discussion and broadcast of news.
Canal 6 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 station of Multimedios is XHAW-TDT located in Monterrey, Nuevo León. Programming features locally produced news, sports, children's shows and general mass appeal variety programming. On weekdays, the network produces around twenty hours of live daily programming, with lesser amounts during the weekends and holidays.
XERCN-AM is a Spanish and English oldies and classic hits radio station in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. It's known as Rasa 1470, it is owned by Grupo Uniradio and operated by Radio Cadena Enciso.
XHUAN-FM is a public radio station licensed to Tijuana, Baja California, owned by IMER, Mexico's public radio network. Like the Public Radio stations in the United States, IMER presents a variety of discussion and music programs.
XHFAJ-FM is a radio station on 91.3 FM in Mexico City. The station is owned by Grupo Radio Centro and carries a Top 40 (CHR) format known as Alfa 91.3.
WNOW "La Z" is a radio station broadcasting a Regional Mexican format licensed to Mint Hill, North Carolina, United States. The AM frequency is currently owned by Noberto Sanchez's Norsan Group, through licensee Norsan Media LLC.
Mexico uses four time zones:
XEWW-AM is a radio station licensed to the Rosarito/Tijuana area of Baja California, Mexico. XEWW airs a Spanish language talk format.
Radio Bilingüe is a non-profit public radio network with Latino control and leadership, is the only United States national distributor of public radio programming in the Spanish language. It is based in Fresno, California.
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 stations whose broadcast areas cover large parts of the United States, and United States border AM stations covering large parts of Canada. Conceptually similar European broadcasting included some pre-World War II broadcasting towards the United Kingdom, "radio périphérique" around France and the U.S. government-funded station Radio Free Europe, targeting eastern Europe.
XETRA-FM, branded as 91X, and sometimes identified as XTRA-FM, is an English-language radio station licensed to Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. It airs an alternative rock radio format. The studios and offices are on Cornerstone Court in San Diego's Sorrento Valley neighborhood. The station is one of three Mexican outlets programmed by Local Media San Diego LLC, along with XHITZ-FM and XHRM-FM, in which an affiliated company owns a 49 percent non-voting stake; LMSD also owns KFBG. It is Mexico's first Alternative radio station, and has influenced other radio stations to create the Spanish-language rock radio format in 1994.
XEQK-AM is a radio station in Mexico City. Broadcasting on 1350 AM, XEQK-AM is owned by the Instituto Mexicano de la Radio and broadcasts a tropical music format under the brand name Tropicalísima 1350.
Radio in Mexico is a mass medium with 98 percent national penetration and a wider diversity of owners and programming than on television. In a model similar to that of radio in the United States, Mexican radio in its history has been largely commercial, but with a strong state presence and a rising number of noncommercial stations in the 2000s and early 2010s. In August 2015, there were 1,999 legal radio stations, almost 75 percent of them on the FM band.
The Dirección General de Radio, Televisión y Cinematografía, known by its acronym RTC, is an agency of the Mexican Secretariat of the Interior (SEGOB). It rates films and television programs broadcast in the country, and it also manages the time allotted to the government on broadcast television and radio stations, including the production and distribution of La Hora Nacional, a weekly program heard on all radio stations in Mexico.
