"Mike" wrote in message
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On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 18:29:09 -0500, Rich Wood
wrote:

Last time I heard a Mexican-originated U.S. programmed signal, I do
believe it was 690...and I believe those PSAs take the form of tourism
promotions for the Mexican government, in English, of course.

You can thank Ed Noble (a personal friend of then President Jose Lopez
Portillo) for eliminating (for a while) the shortwave-delivered
Mexican Hour in favor of Tourism PSAs for the border stations.

Yet, according to David, the Mexican National Hour is once again heard
even on English-language U.S. targetting stations like XETRA. I'm
surprised that the government of Vicente Fox hasn't eased up on it.


I am not sure about XETRA. I know XEPRS does run the Hora Nacional, but
there may be a dispensation based on relationships for XETRA that still
prevails. Ed Noble was owner of what was Mexico's largest ad agency, Noble &
asociados, and a very influential man.