FOUNDER OF XLNC1 RADIO



VICTOR DIAZ (1942-2004) ~ AN APPRECIATION


“His vision of radio was to be an instrument of education.”
-- Alejandro Diaz, Son of the Station’s Founder

Victor Diaz was an innovator, a rebel, a true visionary, and he brought classical music to the masses in San Diego and Northern Baja California when he founded the radio station XLNC1. As a passionate lover of classical music, he felt that anyone could learn to appreciate this art form. To make classical music accessible to as wide an audience as possible, he began XLNC1 as an internet radio station in 1998, streaming the great classics 24 hours a day at www.XLNC1.org. The station began broadcasting at 90.7 FM on February 14, 2000 and moved to 104.9 FM in 2008. Since the station’s inception, there has been an enthusiastic response not only from Southern California and Northern Baja, but from around the world, even from as far away as Antarctica. A scientist from McMurdo Station on Ross Island, Antarctica wrote: “Your music warms our laboratory as we search for fossils in the 34 million-year-old sediment cores recovered from the bottom of the Ross Sea by the Cape Roberts Project. What a delightful gift you provide the whole world.”




Victor Diaz’s vision was to create XLNC1 Radio as a bi-national station to educate audiences in both Mexico and the United States about classical music. It is the only classical music radio station in the world that broadcasts in both English and Spanish.