I’ve been writing about Mexican radio for seven years now. It is a topic area that can occasionally be dull in stretches but, when taken as a whole, never fails to find something new. In my time writing En Frecuencia, dating to July 2014, these are some of the wildest stories that have been on the radar just from the past year:
- The sale of a station group, which was public knowledge but not announced to its own employees
- Two stations (both this year) straight up saying “we quit” for financial reasons, and a third doing so because the power supply fried them
- An AM station was ordered to remain in service for the benefit of two people
But nothing has been quite like the honest-to-goodness Mexican standoff that developed last Wednesday and is still raging. A plucky alternative music station and the business magnate that owns the frequency they lease are at loggerheads so bad the latter has set up his own station on the same frequency.