Border blaster

A border blaster, in contrast to an international broadcast station, is a licensed commercial radio station that transmits at very high power to the United States of America from various points along the Mexican border with that country. There have been many such stations licensed by Mexico's Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT) using transmitters with an output far in excess of licensed commercial stations located within the USA. In 1973 the border blaster XERB became world famous when George Lucas featured the station as the source for the musical soundtrack of his motion picture American Graffiti.

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International broadcast station - Radio station - United States of America - Mexican - 1973 - XERB - George Lucas - American Graffiti

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The United States and Mexico signed, on November 9, 1972, in Washington, DC, an "Agreement concerning Frequency Modulation Broadcasting in the 88 to 108 MHz Band". It may be inferred, that since then, at least in the FM band, power levels and frequency assignments have been set by mutual agreement.

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November 9 - 1972

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