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Dave wrote:

Wolfman moved on, as all radio gypsies must, to another border blaster
in a marsh by the Tijuana River, with a dead shot up to Los Angeles,
and
yet another emisadora muy grande. This was XERB, Rosarito Beach, BC.
XERB's signal could hold its own with such L.A. giants as KFI and KNX,
and certainly had no trouble whatever shooting up the Central Valley as
depicted by George Lucas. It was perfect setup for the Wolfman. Now the
mystery man with the huge voice and the good music could own California
at night, and inspire everyone. The rest is history, and more than one
great movie.

He did a stint at XERA 91X (91.1) serving SoCal from Tijuana for awhile
back in the 80's, which was a fairly progressive station quite popular
in the San Diego smsa.

That's XETRA.

At the time they IDed in Spanish as XERA-FM sin la letra "T"

No, they didn't.

I seem to remember their AM plant identifying in the early 70's as XTRA
(un-id?) The first AM stereo broadcast in some strange precursor of the
Kahn system (independant sidebands, you could listen in stereo using two
radios tuned to either side of the carrier)

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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That's XETRA.

At the time they IDed in Spanish as XERA-FM sin la letra "T"

No, they didn't.

I seem to remember their AM plant identifying in the early 70's as XTRA
(un-id?) The first AM stereo broadcast in some strange precursor of the
Kahn system (independant sidebands, you could listen in stereo using two
radios tuned to either side of the carrier)

That was how Arbitron, which couldn't (and still can't) accommodate calls of
more than 4 letters, listed them in the book... but they always ID'ed as
XETRA when they had to... most of the time it was "Extra" which is a name
that goes back to Gordon McLendon's early efforts at all news... "Extra News
over Los Angeles." That was the first all news station serving a US market,
around 1960, although the format was invented in Cuba around 1948.

When the news format failed, in part due to the border restrictions on
sending US programming to a foreign transmitter (thanks to Doc Brinkley)
they did Top 40 and Beautiful Music for the next two decades.