According to the Wolfman’s autobiography, not only was the station attacked by armed banditos. Imus died Friday morning at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in College Station, Texas, after being hospitalized since Christmas Eve, according to a statement issued by his family. I caught a few of Wolfman Jack's tame, syndicated oldies shows in the la. Thus began the Wolfman Jack Border Radio Shootout Saga wrote Border Radio authors Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford, a semi-apocryphal tradition, the true origins of which are forever lost in the hard, baked sands of the Coahuilan desert. That's what callsigns are for - proving a stations legitimacy, assuming that the callsign is genuine. Rhythm and Blues compilation produced with enhanced audio courtesy of Daniel Bruno. Mexican station had the callsign XERF (XE being a recognised prefix allocated to Mexico by international agreement) would indicate that it was not a pirate. Many Americans who were living there at the time, listened to NIRT. In 1965, Wolfman Jack moved to XERB (1090 AM), another power-pumping clear-channel radio. These clips are from a radio station in Tehran, Iran way back in 1977. That would apply to radio hams and broadcast stations alike. Afterwards, Wolfman Jack went south of the border to XERF-AM in 1964, a super-powerful radio station in Mexico that was reaching millions of listeners across North America and filling its air time with U.S.-based preachers selling all sorts of religion.

> Im curious what everyone thinks of the currently syndicated > WOLFMAN JACK show which is actually classic rebroadcasts his > legendary show. After the movie, he did various advertising campaigns and over 40 network TV. Wolfman On The Radio Just what Oldies DOESNT need these days- another thing to tie the format to Happy Days. I take your point, nevertheless I feel it's rather insulting of the BBC to label a station a 'pirate' merely because it transmits (or transmitted) to another country in the way that Luxembourg and Atlantic 252 did.īeing a radio amateur, a pirate station in my book is one that does not have a licence. A raspy and gravelly voice that had howled and yipped over the XERF-AM Mexican station which broadcasted at 250,000 watts, more than five times the power allowed on any American radio station in the 1960s and made him one of America‘s most recognized personalities. The nearest equivalent here is Radio Luxembourg or Atlantic 252 who were legal, but aimed their programmes into the UK Wolfman Jack was the stage name of the hugely popular disc jockey in the 1960s and 1970s who came to prominence in the United States on Mexican radio stations including a stint with XERB-AM, which broadcast into North America and beyond with 250,000 watts five times more powerful than any U.S. No, the World Service transmits from 'other countries', it's a global broadcaster.

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