RW> TW> Border Blasters   
      
   RW> RW>> "As was the case between the 1930's and the 1970's, some border   
   RW> RW>> blaster stations in areas near larger American border cities such as   
   RW> RW>> San Diego are leased out by American broadcasting companies and air   
   RW> RW>> English-language programming targeting American audiences. The   
   RW> RW>> American side leases the station from the Mexican station   
   RW> RW>> owners/licence holders and feeds programming from their American   
   RW> RW>> studios to the Mexican transmitters via satellite."   
      
   RW> TW> In the 50's I used to listen to a Mexican Border Blaster across the   
   RW> TW> border from Western Texas. Do Not recal the X cal sign though.   
      
   RW>Certainly you've heard of XERB with Wolfman Jack at the microphone during   
   RW>that era. Before it was XERB, it was XERC. Those two were across the Rio   
   RW>Grande from Larado, TX. BTW, Wolfman Jack owned the XERB call and when the   
   RW>Mexican gov't removed him from the air to do their own programming (which   
   RW>was like his), they failed to keep the audience Wolfman had and they went   
   RW>belly up.   
      
   That was one of the Border Blasters that I could get at night up in   
   Great Falls Montana.   
      
   RW>When I was a teen and living in Illinois, there was a Border Blaster heard   
   RW>there that was located across the river from Del Rio, TX...that was before   
   RW>the Chicago and Rockford stations picked up on the Rock & Roll music that   
   RW>they had been playing in Del Rio...btw, Del Rio is due west of San Antonio   
   RW>and is considered to be part of South Central Texas. West Texas is all   
   RW>that which is north of Austin and west of Abelene.   
      
   I could get that station also.   
   I also rembember the Day of WLW in Ohio. AM 700 with a 500 KW signal   
      
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