RON MADER'S UNUSUAL MEXICO LINKS
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Journalist and savvy webmaster Ron Mader sifts through the web to find the most interesting and unusual Mexico-related websites. Ron is the webhost of the popular Planeta.com: Eco Travels in Latin America website -- http://www.planeta.com -- and has written about the internet since the early 1990s.

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MEXICO CALLING - RADIO ON THE WEB

ZONA LATINA
MEXICO RADIO-TV
SECRETARIA DE COMUNICACIONES Y TRANSPORTES
OTHER WEBSITES
STATION PLAYLIST

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For the past few years radio aficionados have turned to the Internet to tune in to favorite stations across the country and across the globe. Those interested in listening to live broadcasts of Mexican radio can turn down the receiver and preset URLs instead of AM or FM frequencies. If you want to listen to web-based broadcasts, you will need special software on your computer. It's as simple as downloading Real Player, www.real.com, or Windows Media, www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/, available in free and pay versions. Once this software is installed, you'll be tuning in to small stations with equal ease as media giants. Choose from ranchera to cumbia, news programs to sports-it's time to put on your headphones.

ZONA LATINA

www.zonalatina.com
/5 Stars

This website is a perennial favorite for Latin American media and marketing professionals. The site boasts an extensive collection of web resources: 850+ newspaper links, 1,250+ magazine links, 800+ radio links and 700+ television links. There is no finer index, and the site is updated daily. The collection of radio links, www.zonalatina.com/Radio.htm, is a blast and is supplemented by an assortment of features, www.zonalatina.com/Zlmednew.htm#RADIO.

MEXICO RADIO-TV

www.mexicoradiotv.com
/5 Stars

Veteran Texas broadcaster Fred Cantu has compiled this index of radio and television stations. Mexico City, www.fredcantu.com/mexicoradiotv.htm, is highlighted, but the website covers the country from Aguascalientes, www.fredcantu.com/listagua.htm, to Zacatecas, www.fredcantu.com/listzaca.htm. The website solicits feedback and replies are delivered promptly-always a good sign!

SECRETARIA DE COMUNICACIONES Y TRANSPORTES

www.sct.gob.mx
/5 Stars

Who's in charge of Mexican radio? Every station is registered with the Communications and Transportation Secretariat, which boasts a content-rich, though decidedly bland, website. There is a handy site map, www.sct.gob.mx/mapa_pagina/index.htm, and the search engine is easily accessed from the top right hand corner. It takes some digging to go beyond the airport and highway information to find the interactive maps of AM, www.sct.gob.mx/satelital/am/, and FM, www.sct.gob.mx/satelital/fm/, radio stations. Details include station frequencies, ownership and broadcast locations.

OTHER WEBSITES

Border Radio Quakery
www.wfmu.org/LCD/GreatDJ/Brinkley.html Before there was Internet spam, there was radio spam. This feature documents a little-known chapter in the history of Mexico-U.S. relations from the 1930s when 500,000-watt giant WER broadcast questionable health care advice such as the usefulness of goat gonad injections.

TV Radio World
www.tvradioworld.com
Comprehensive indexes of online TV and radio stations and an attractive design make this site a media junky's dream. You'll be compiling your own station playlist in no time! Be sure to consult the Mexico index, www.tvradioworld.com/region1/mex/Radio_TV_on_Internet.asp.

What's Next for Real Audio?
www.planeta.com/ecotravel/period/greg/realaudio.html Planeta.com feature by technology journalist Greg Green reviews the trends.

STATION PLAYLIST

Here is a sampling of stations you can listen to on your computer.

Ciudad Victoria - XHUNI: Radio Universidad
www.radiouni.uat.mx

Puebla - XHORO: Radio Oro
www.radiooro.com.mx

Guadalajara - XHBIO: Fiesta Mexicana
www.promomedios.com

Merida - XERUY: Radio Universidad
www.uady.mx/sitios/radio/index.html

Mexico City - XEUN: Radio UNAM
www.unam.mx/radiounam/

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