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The Mighty 1090 is an on-air slogan for two AM radio stations broadcasting on the 1090 kHz frequency in North America: KAAY , Little Rock, Arkansas, from the 1960s to mid-1980s XEPRS-AM , a border blaster licensed to Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico but serving San Diego, California
The Mighty 1090 former logo used from 2012 to 2015. XEPRS has also carried San Diego Toreros men's basketball, San Diego State Aztecs college football and basketball, and the San Diego Gulls AHL hockey, and has aired a few games for the Anaheim Ducks, the Gulls' parent club.
Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton is an American sportscaster and radio talk show host based in San Diego, California.He was co-host of the "Hacksaw and Hayworth" show on from 6:00am–9:00am Pacific Time Monday through Friday on XEPRS-AM, known on-air as "San Diego's Sports Leader, The Mighty 1090" and he worked alongside producers Bobby Wooldridge and Alex Padilla.
With the 2013–2014 season, Aztec football and basketball games began airing on XEPRS-AM (The Mighty 1090). KOGO carried San Diego Padres baseball games from the team's debut in the National League in 1969 through 1978. Padres games again were heard on KOGO in the early 2000s, before losing the rights to 1090 XEPRS in 2003.
Sileo was hired by San Diego's "The Mighty" 1090 AM XEPRS in February 2014 to do a morning show from 6am-9am Monday through Friday. Decades earlier, Robert Weston Smith also known as "Wolfman Jack," hosted the morning show on "the Mighty 1090" from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s and was featured in the George Lucas movie American Graffiti.
The station boasted "50,000 watts of Boss Soul Power". That station continues to broadcast under the call sign XEPRS-AM. XERB also had an office in the rear of a small strip mall on Third Avenue in Chula Vista, California just 10 minutes from the Tijuana–San Diego border crossing. The Wolfman was rumored to actually broadcast from this ...
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As XTRA Sports was the only local sports talk show in San Diego, the void and laid-off staff essentially gave Lynch a "ready-made radio station" to pick up. [3] He and a partner from Noble established the Broadcast Company of the Americas and started Mighty 1090. [3]