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General manager Bruce Walton, however, said he feels Diaz's major complaint was that he wasn't making enough money under the lease agreement, which called for San Diego Radio to pay him a flat monthly rate (how much, he won't divulge), and that the "mole people" incident was an excuse to break the contract more than anything else. "Almost immediately after the signing of the contract on Aug. 1 of last year (Z90 had previously been a Spanish -language station with the call letters XHIS), Victor Diaz began demanding more money from us outside of what was in the contract," Walton said. "Then about four months ago, we exercised an option we had to take over one of his other stations. Please see RADIO, Page 12 Continued from Page 1 coming in and taking over, but we disagree." Diaz, who lives in La Jolla, said the reasons he took back the station are chiefly its poor showing in recent Arbitron ratings books (the station scored anemic 1.2 and 1.6 percentage shares of overall listenership in the two most recent three -month ratings periods, as opposed to rival KGB-FM's 7.6 and 7.9) and San Diego Radio's insistence on referring to the station, on the air, as emanating from San Diego rather than Baja California, which doesn't rest well with the Mexican government's SCT, its counterpart to the FCC.

"We had many other disagreements with them, too," Diaz said. "We want to do a professional job, and we will, as soon as we find people who can do it." And then, there's the infamous "mole people" incident, which Diaz said was the spark that prompted his action on Saturday. On his June 8 morning show, Z90 deejay Bill Hergonson, also the late station's program director, read a humorous Copley News-owned Wireless Flash report that a tequila-drinking German anthropologist claimed to have discovered a tribe of "mole people" living in the sewers of Mexico City. That item went by, apparently unnoticed, but when Hergonson repeated parts of the broadcast two weeks later, Diaz received a complaint from Mexican authorities who were outraged over an apparently racist second-hand account they had been given of the broadcast. The account implied that the people of Mexico are so poor they have to live in the sewer.

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