Border Radio

by Gene Fowler
Category: "Arts and Entertainment"
Pages:453
Year of Publication:2002
Date Added:02/21/2021
Date Read:12/04/2022
Notes:From the 1930s to the 1980s, powerful radios stations broadcast from just over the Mexican border with powerful transmitters that could reach all over the United States and even to foreign countries. The purpose was to avoid U.S. laws and regulations. The stations specialized in quack medicine and other money-making schemes, shady preachers, and country music. It was on border radio that Wolfman Jack got his start, ushering in the modern concept of disc jockeying.
My Rating: 5

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Review - Border Radio

There was a good book in here somewhere, but it was hidden within pages and pages of detail, side trails that told stories having little or nothing to do with radio, and long lists of performers' names. It took me a long time to get through and because it jumped around so much, I often had no idea who I was reading about.

Reviewed by Roger on 2022-12-04 18:20:06

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