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For a time, Don Kelley, Wolfman Jack's business partner and personal manager, acted as the West Coast agent for the planned new Radio Caroline, but the deal eventually fell apart. As a part of this process, Wolfman Jack was set to deliver the morning shows on the new station.
Border blaster — a list of super-power radio stations located on the international border of Mexico facing the United States of America; John R. Brinkley gives more details about the career of this "doctor". Wolfman Jack gives more details about the career of this disc jockey who was featured in the 1973 movie American Graffiti.
In the early 1960s, Robert Weston Smith (better known as Wolfman Jack) was living in Del Rio, Texas and appearing on the 250,000-watt "border blaster" radio station XERF (1570 AM), just over the Rio Grande in Ciudad Acuña. In 1964, after several violent incidents at XERF's transmitter, Smith and partner Marvin Kosofsky (called "Mo Burton" in ...
XEPRS-AM: This is the radio station, formerly known as XERB, featured in the George Lucas movie American Graffiti starring Wolfman Jack as the disc jockey. He moved to this station following his work on XERF. XHPRS-FM: This is the FM counterpart to XEPRS-AM. XETRA-FM; XETRA-AM; XEAK-AM; XELO-AM
George has said that he is a lifelong fan of Wolfman Jack. WXRB, (one of the first non-commercial all-oldies radio stations in North America) features a 24/7 automated all- oldies format, in stereo, focusing on the years 1954–1979, similar to the original "R-KO-matic" (pronounced "ARKO-matic") automated music format at WRKO-FM and WROR (now ...
Notable U.S. radio disc jockeys of the period included Alan Freed, Wolfman Jack, Casey Kasem, [25] and their British counterparts included the BBC's Brian Matthew and Alan Freeman, Radio London's John Peel, Radio Caroline's Tony Blackburn, and Radio Luxembourg's Jimmy Savile. [26] [27] Radio DJ Alan Freed on New York City's WINS (AM) in 1955.
Wolfman Jack was moved into an early afternoon block, and was eventually eliminated altogether, along with other channel fixtures such as the Sonic Sound Salute, Sweet Sixteen Music Machine countdown, and Chickenman. The classic PAMS jingles were edited to remove references to XM Radio, or jingles not referencing XM were used.
WKWN features programming from Fox News Radio, Salem Communications and Westwood One including Mike Gallagher, and Todd Starnes. [2] Alongside sister station WFLI, WKWN airs Dick Bartley's Classic Hits, The Wolfman Jack Radio Show, The Rick and Bubba Show, Dick Clark's Rock, Roll & Remember, and American Top 40 The 70's with Casey Kasem.