Radio in Mexico The Little Radio Reporter

Javier Audirac works at Jalisco Radio in Guadalajara, Mexico. Even as a child, he “worked” as a radio reporter, broadcasting wrestling matches and lots of music from his nursery.
 

My love story with the radio began when I was four years old. My father had given me a portable turntable with a horn speaker. We had loads of records at home of classical music, jazz, rock, music in Spanish, and several children’s albums that people had been giving me since I was little.

When I was eight, I would spend hours shuttered up in my room, putting on songs and pretending I was the one introducing them on the radio. We lived in Mexico City then; I was listening to the AM stations, La Pantera, Radio Éxitos, Radio Capital – those are the ones I remember the most. They were my inexhaustible inspiration. José José, Twisted Sister and Charlie Parker all co-existing. We were all happy together.

My fictional shows also included wrestling matches. I had my own toy wooden ring with ropes made of twine, and every weekend we would visit Mexico’s Lucha Libre (wrestling match) arenas where after every show the prize was a mask and plastic wrestling figures. That is how I was able to watch Cien Caras (“Hundred Faces”) fight Rayo de Jalisco Jr., playing with those masks, several years prior to what happened in reality. It was the same for Capo de Lagos, the greatest winner of all time.