of U.S. stations, the Mexican border blasters could be heard over large areas of the U.S. from the 1940s to the 1970s, often to the great irritation of...
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The Border Blasters are a Texas-based roots group composed of primary band members Todd Jagger and Jimmy Ray Harrell. The band calls their sound "Cowboy...
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the border-blasters. Border Radio by Fowler, Gene and Crawford, Bill. Texas Monthly Press, Austin. 1987 ISBN 0-87719-066-6 Mass Media Moments in the United...
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XERA-AM (section The border blaster)
the border-blasters. Border Radio by Fowler, Gene and Crawford, Bill. Texas Monthly Press, Austin. 1987 ISBN 0-87719-066-6 Mass Media Moments in the United...
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Pirate radio in North America (section Border blasters)
the border. The traditional border-blasters were AM radio stations; though there are numerous FM radio and even television stations along the border that...
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the border-blasters. Border Radio, by Fowler, Gene and Crawford, Bill. Texas Monthly Press, Austin. 1987 ISBN 0-87719-066-6 Mass Media Moments in the...
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XHRF-FM (section The 1959 border blaster)
"The Best Darn Story of the Whole 20th Century" — web page about XER, XERA, and XERF "The X Factor" — transcript of episode about the border blasters from...
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the border-blasters. Border Radio by Fowler, Gene and Crawford, Bill. Texas Monthly Press, Austin. 1987 ISBN 0-87719-066-6 Mass Media Moments in the United...
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the border-blasters. Border Radio, by Fowler, Gene and Crawford, Bill. Texas Monthly Press, Austin. 1987 ISBN 0-87719-066-6 Mass Media Moments in the...
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Debra Rae (April 29, 1982). "The Blasters: The Blasters". Rolling Stone. No. 368. pp. 54–55. Weisbard, Eric (1995). "Blasters". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks...
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station across the U.S.-Mexico border from Del Rio, Texas, whose high-powered border blaster signal could be picked up across much of the United States...
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platforms. The term had been used previously in Britain and the US to describe unlicensed land-based broadcasters and even border blasters. For example...
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gel ball blasters. There have been numerous reports in QLD and SA of persons being charged and arrested for misuse of gel ball blasters. As the gel beads...
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XEPN were the call letters of a border-blaster radio station licensed to Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico. It broadcast initially on 885 kHz with a power...
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Dave Alvin (category The Blasters members)
former and founding member of the roots rock band the Blasters. Alvin has recorded and performed as a solo artist since the late 1980s and has been involved...
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The Mexico–United States border crisis is an ongoing migrant crisis in North America concerning the illegal migration of people into the United States...
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artists, including the Flesh Eaters, Green on Red, John Doe, the Divine Horsemen, X, and the Blasters. Chris D. as Jeff Bailey Chris Shearer as Chris Dave Alvin...
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City of license (section The border blaster)
stations in the system would be identical. All-Channel Receiver Act Border blaster Rimshot (broadcasting) Duopoly (broadcasting), also known as a twinstick...
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Norman G. Baker (category Critics of the Catholic Church)
cancer in the 1930s. He operated radio stations KTNT in Muscatine, Iowa and the border blaster XENT in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. Baker was also the creator...
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in 1932, many of them followed Brinkley's model, opening their own border blasters in Mexico. By 1932, 11 such stations had opened, including XENT, XERB...
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FM. XEBC was the former call sign of a border-blaster radio station licensed to the Tijuana / Rosarito area of Baja California, Mexico. The original XEBC...
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known as border blaster and those of the radio périphérique, where the audience supposedly accidentally receiving a broadcast is actually the intended...
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90.5. XEAK were also the original call letters of a border-blaster radio station licensed to the Tijuana / Rosarito area of the Mexican state of Baja...
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XEROK is the dominant Class A station on 800 AM, a Mexican clear channel frequency. The station had a colorful history as a border blaster, aiming its...
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50,000 watts day and night, earning it the distinction of being a border blaster in the eyes of some. In the 1980s, XEFW cut its power back to 10,000...
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effective radiated power of 100,000 watts. It is considered a border blaster, covering the majority of San Diego County, as well as southwestern Riverside...
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Manu Dibango (category Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in France)
2007) Past Present Future (BorderBlaster, 2011) Ballad Emotion (Konga Music, 2011) Balade en Saxo (EGT, 2014) African Soul - The Very Best Of Manu Dibango...
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Ciudad Acuña (category Mexico–United States border crossings)
government. In 1947, the government of Mexico licensed XER, the 100 kW super-power border blaster run by Ramon D. Bosquez. They used the old XERA facilities...
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country are called "border blasters". These are primarily Mexican AM stations operating at very high power on clear channels to reach the American Southwest...
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Fandango! (redirect from Heard It on the X)
copyright on the song in 1975. The song "Heard It on the X" was written about the influence of a Mexican border blaster radio station, X-Rock 80. The station...
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