2018, it was reported that the Bichara family, owners of Interamericana de Radio, as well as stations in Monterrey and McAllen, Texas, was not happy with its relationship with BCA. The Bicharas began looking for a new operator for the station for $100,000 a month in rent, or $11 million to buy the station. At the same time, Jaime Bonilla Valdez's Media Sports de México had halted BCA's program supply to two stations it owned in a rent dispute. On April 10, 2019, XEPRS replaced BCA's sports format with a simulcast of one of the Bichara family's McAllen stations, KJAV 104.9. The BCA-operated webcast aired ESPN Radio programming for the remainder of the day. The webcast resumed carrying "Mighty 1090"'s local sports shows on April 11. In several tweets, Andrés Bichara revealed that BCA had not paid its rent for XEPRS in four months and that issues between BCA and the Bicharas had dated back three years. BCA shut down the "Mighty 1090" audio stream on April 29, 2019. XEPE also halted its broadcasts of ESPN Radio, leaving the San Diego-Tijuana market without an ESPN English-language affiliate. "The Mightier 1090" In April 2020, Bill Hagen, owner of an advertising agency in Flagstaff, Arizona, signed a five-year lease with XEPRS owner Interamericana de Radio and announced plans to relaunch the station as "The Mightier 1090" with a mix of talk, sports and lifestyle features. On August 12, XEPRS begun stunting with a loop of the station's "History of 1090". The loop featured the history of the frequency and some of the station's eras with Wolfman Jack "The Soul Express", and its prior "Mighty 1090" existence, while also taking pot shots at a previous management running it into the ground. The loop also promoted the newly relaunched station as "the first radio station in the cloud, with no studios". The station, operated by SportsGrid, launched at 9 a.m. on August 17. XEPRS carries SportsGrid programming, The Rich Eisen Show, Scott Kaplan, and SportsMap programming. On January 10, 2022, XEPRS added programming from ESPN Radio, including its live NFL, MLB, and NBA play-by-play broadcasts. XEPRS added The Jim Rome Show to its afternoon lineup on June 2 that year; the show's previous San Diego affiliate, KWFN, dropped it in February. See also Border blaster American Graffiti Dan Sileo Wolfman Jack XERF-AM XHPRS-FM XEPE-AM References External links Official website XERB tribute site XPRS Los