• 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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  • 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. 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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  • "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...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • probably have fallen into complete obscurity except for fact that Mexican border blaster XEAK decided to play it in 1961—in fact, they played it over and over...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    similar regulations to the Brinkley Act. Consequently, Radio Luxembourg, like Mexican border-blasters, had to either use studios at the station in Luxembourg...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • Philadelphia, WRKO in Boston, and eventually reaching as far north as Canadian border blaster CKLW in Windsor, Ontario (targeting metro Detroit area). As a result...
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