XEWG-AM

XEWG-AM (1240) is a radio station in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. XEWG is known as Radio Crystal and is owned by Grupo Siete.

XEWG-AM

Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua Mexico
Broadcast area	El Paso–Juárez
Frequency	1240 AM
Branding	Radio Crystal
Programming
Format	Regional Mexican
Ownership
Owner	Grupo Siete (Emisiones Radiofónicas, S.A.)
History
First air date	1941
Technical information
Power	1,000 watts[1]
Links
Webcast	Listen live
Website	radiocrystal.mx

History

The concession for XEWG was awarded to Carlos Méndez Jauregui in 1941 and then sold to Francisco Núñez Rivera in 1958 and Estela Vega Padilla in 1964. Vega Padilla was the housekeeper and friend of Richard Eaton, owner of the United Broadcasting Company in the United States, who had loaned her the money to run the station; when the two had a falling out over profits in Mexico, she fled in 1970 with a child entrusted to her care by Eaton. The station was then sold to a company called Escarga.^[2] In 1985, Radiodifusora Centauro del Norte bought the station; in turn, it was transferred to the current concessionaire in 2006.

In February 2020, XEWG added to its Bengala Regional Mexican format—the last Grupo Siete station using the name—by airing daytime Catholic religious programming branded as Radio Guadalupana, produced by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Juárez, from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekdays and to 1:30 p.m. on weekends. This was later dropped as the station became known as Crystal 1240.

XEWG as Bengala

References

1. Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Infraestructura de Estaciones de Radio AM. Last modified 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2015-08-18. Technical information from the IFT Coverage Viewer.
2. "United Broadcasting Company, Inc., U.b.c. Sales, Inc., And their Officers and Richard Eaton, Plaintiffs-appellants, v. Jay J. Armes, Defendant-appellee, 506 F.2d 766 (5th Cir. 1975)". Justia Law. January 20, 1975. Retrieved 2021-12-24.