standards format known as "The Surf", which aired on newly rechristened XESURF-AM and on KSUR (1260 AM) in Los Angeles. The station spent much of the mid-2000s simulcasting that standards format until February 2004, then oldies until February 2005, and then adult standards again until October 2006. In October 2006, the station ended its simulcast and flipped to a country music format. Although San Diego had country music on KSON-FM 97.3 and KUSS 95.7, Saul Levine sought to fill the void created when KZLA-FM 93.9 in Los Angeles dropped the country music format. The XESURF signal reaches Orange County, which Levine called "the center of country music listening." The country format was simulcast with KKGO starting on December 1, 2006. When KKGO and the country music format moved to 105.1 FM in February 2007, the format was still simulcast on XESURF. In May 2007, the station split from the simulcast to air classic country music as "540 The Zoo." On November 27, 2007, XESURF changed formats yet again, to a news/talk format simulcast from KGIL (1260 AM). After KGIL dropped the talk format on August 27, 2009, XESURF temporarily carried an oldies format until changing to Spanish-language programming that September. In March 2010, the concession was transferred to a Mexican company named Radio Rys, S.A. de C.V. It is owned by members of the Alonso Coratella family, which also holds the Mexican concessions for Entravision Communications's three Mexican stations, including XHAS-TDT and XHDTV-TDT in the Tijuana area. Notes References Radio stations in Tijuana 1991 establishments in Mexico Radio stations established in 1991 Christian radio stations in Mexico