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- From 1935 to 1939, XERA was the call sign of a border blaster licensed to Ramón D. Bósquez Vitela in September 1935 to Compañía Mexicana Radiodifusora Fronteriza in Villa Acuña, Coahuila.
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XERF was the classic border blaster station with its own collection of outlandish and unsavory programs. One of its stars was American disk jockey Bob Smith, who created the radio persona “Wolfman Jack” on XERF beginning in 1962.
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 ...
XER (1932–1933), licensed to Villa Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, was John R. Brinkley's first high-powered "border-blaster" radio station. It first came on the air in 1932. It was shut down by the Mexican authorities in 1933 and the Villa Acuña Broadcasting Company was dissolved.
Nov 20, 2019 · “He built XERA, the first border blaster (soon to be joined by at least a dozen others) cranking out all kinds of egregious nonsense all over the western world,” Brock said. “The border blaster is the direct ancestor of AM radio—lots of tunes, lots of lies, lots of selling.”
After getting her start on border radio, Lydia Mendoza was awarded the prestigious National Medal of Arts in 1999. Another border blaster had the call letters XERF. Established later than Brinkley's XERA, this "X" station played an essential role in the advent of rock and roll.
In late 1941, Mexican authorities closed XERA and had dismantled the station by early 1942. In 1947, a new border-blaster, XERF, began broadcasting from the old XERA building. During its earliest years, XERF was under the control of Ramon D. Bosquez, Don Howard, and Walter Wilson.
Nov 21, 2006 · Dr. John R. Brinkley, originator of the "goat gland transplant" as a sexual rejuvenation treatment, opened XER (later called XERA) in Villa Acuña, Coahuila, in 1931. Brinkley later bought XED, changing the name to XEAW.
