Border blaster

Broadcast station that, though not licensed as an external service, is, in practice, used to target another country.

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Pirate radio

Radio station that broadcasts without a valid license.

In 1926 WJAZ in Chicago, Illinois challenged the U.S. government's authority to specify operating frequencies and was charged with being a "wave pirate". The station responded with this February 1926 publicity photograph of its engineering staff dressed as "wave pirates".

Consequently, XERF and many other radio stations in Mexico, which sold their broadcasting time to sponsors of English-language commercial and religious programs, were labelled as "border blasters", but not "pirate radio stations", even though the content of many of their programs could not have been aired by a US-regulated broadcaster.

Wall of Voodoo

American rock band from Los Angeles, California, United States.

A single, "Mexican Radio," about border blaster radio stations, became an international hit, peaking at #18 in Canada, #21 in New Zealand and #33 in Australia.

John R. Brinkley

American quack.

Operating room at the Brinkley Hospital, Milford

1920 newspaper item highlighting "Billy", the "First Goat-Gland Baby"

Minnie Brinkley holding John Richard Brinkley III

He was also, almost by accident, an advertising and radio pioneer who began the era of Mexican border blaster radio.

Wolfman Jack

American disc jockey.

In 1963, Smith took his act to the border when the Inter-American Radio Advertising's Ramon Bosquez hired him and sent him to the studio and transmitter site of XERF-AM at Ciudad Acuña in Mexico, a 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.

KHJ (AM)

Commercial radio station that is licensed to Los Angeles, California.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the station competed with three other local stations with similar formats: KFI, KTNQ, and Tijuana-based border blaster XETRA-AM (The Mighty 690).

Carter Family

Traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956.

A. P., Maybelle, and Sara Carter (L–R) in 1927

Birthplace log cabin of A.P. Carter at the Carter Fold at Maces Springs, Virginia now Hiltons, Virginia

A.P. Carter General Store Museum at the Carter Fold at Maces Springs, Virginia now Hiltons, Virginia

In the winter of 1938–39, the Carter Family traveled to Texas, where they had a twice-daily program on the border radio station XERA (later XERF) in Villa Acuña (now Ciudad Acuña, Mexico), across the border from Del Rio, Texas.

Pembina, North Dakota

City in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.

Fort Daer of the HBC and across the Pembina River on the right old Fort Pembina built by the NWC (painted by Peter Rindisbacher in 1822)

Preparing Red River ox cart at Pembina, North Dakota, for trip to St. Anthony Falls, Minnesota

Fort Pembina and Red River ox carts, c. 1870

A hardware store in Pembina, North Dakota.

The station was a border blaster primarily targeting Winnipeg from as close to the border as possible; when simultaneous substitution rules took effect in the early 1970s, Canadian interests bought the intellectual property of the station and relocated it to Winnipeg, where it was relicensed by the Canadian government as CKND-TV channel 9, and has operated there ever since.