[HCDX]: Medium Wave news from Uruguay

["Horacio A. Nigro" <hanigro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Medium Wave news from Uruguay:

URUGUAY:1410, CX 44 Emisora del Siglo, Montevideo, has been bought by the
Montevidean morning journal "La Republica" which will be renamed as "Radio
Libre". The station will be starting with this new ownership in the coming
month of July. 
The multimedia project, claims to be an "alternative to the dominant
communication" in words of his General Director Dr. Federico Fasano Mertens.
They will add to it an existing FM outlet, 89.7 MHz in La Paz, Dept. of
Canelones -near Montevideo- which will be launching on next August or
September with the name "FM Libre", as well as an evening paper "Primera
Plana" and a company for production of TV programmes.
CX 44 was Radio Panamericana for several years and after Uruguay reconquer
of democracy in 1984 was the voice of "ex- guerrilleros" of Leftist "MLN
("Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional - Tupamaros", but was closed by White
Party administration of President Dr. Lacalle, when the station got involved
with tragic episodes around the expatriation of Basque ETA members living in
Uruguay to Spain.
The station was then owned by a journalist identified with the White Party
and renamed Emisora del Siglo, but has not been a succesful commercial venture.

(Source: Uruguayan paper "La Republica", May 25, 2000, Montevideo, adapted
by Horacio A. Nigro, Montevideo)

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73 de Horacio,


Horacio A. Nigro
Montevideo - Uruguay
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