NPR had a piece this morning on 'border radio', a phenomenon of the 60s and 70s, when Mexican radio stations, ignoring FCC spectrum and power issues, stomped US stations operating in the same frequency segment.
The most famous of these was, of course, XERB. It had as its late night DJ a gentleman named Robert Weston Smith, whose on-air moniker was Wolfman Jack. Rico used to hear him, occasionally, when the ionospheric skip brought XERB as far north as San Francisco.
The Wolfman died, alas, on 1 July 1995 at the age of 57.
Rico says there'll never be another like him...
06 July 2008
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