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A border blaster is a broadcast station that, though not licensed as an external service, is, in practice, used to target another country.The term "border blaster" is of North American origin, and usually associated with Mexican AM stations whose broadcast areas cover large parts of the United States, and United States border AM stations covering large parts of Canada.
XEG-AM (1050 kHz) is a Class A clear channel radio station in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. [1] Its transmitter is in Guadalupe, Nuevo León. [3] XEG was known as a border blaster in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. [4] [citation needed] It now uses the name La Ranchera de Monterrey and broadcasts a Classic Ranchera radio format. [2]
The facilities of the old border blaster XERA, which had been created by John R. Brinkley, were confiscated by the Mexican government in 1939, and Villa Acuña did not have another high-power station until February 22, 1947, when the Compañía Radiodifusora de Coahuila, S.A., headed by Ramón D. Bósquez and Arturo González, signed XERF-AM on the air on 1570 kHz.
XERB was sold to Interamericana de Radio, S.A., in 1950. [5] 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 ...
XERA is a radio station in Mexico, broadcasting on 760 AM in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. The station's callsign was most famous for its use on a border blaster at Villa Acuña, Coahuila. XERA also broadcasts on FM at 101.5 MHz. It is not licensed for this frequency; the only FM station on the frequency in Chiapas is XHDB-FM in ...
In 1947, XERF-AM was founded in Villa Acuña, [10] which would begin a new generation of border blaster radio stations including XERB and XETRA in Tijuana, Baja California. While border blasters usually programmed in English, they had to meet the requirements of their Mexican concessions, including broadcast of La Hora Nacional and the Mexican ...
XERB-AM/XHRB-FM is a radio station in Mexico, broadcasting on 810 AM and 89.9 FM ... The first station to carry the XERB callsign was a border blaster on 1090 kHz in ...
The XEAW-AM callsign first appeared on a border-blaster radio station located in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, across the Rio Grande (Río Bravo) from McAllen, Texas, USA.In the 1930s the station came under the control of Dr. John R. Brinkley who became famous for both his controversial treatments of sexual dysfunction and his operations of XER and XERA at Villa Acuña (modern-day Ciudad Acuña ...