- XEAW-AM
XEAW-AM are the call letters of a news/talk formatted radio station located in
Monterrey ,Nuevo León ,Mexico , with 10,000 Watts, owned and operated byGrupo Multimedios . The station also transmitts simultaneosly the Telediario newscasts fromMultimedios Television .XEAW-AM are also the call letters of a border-blaster radio station located in
Reynosa ,Tamaulipas ,Mexico , across the Rio Grande (Río Bravo) fromMcAllen ,Texas , USA. In the 1930s the station came under the control of Dr.John R. Brinkley who became famous for both his controversial treatments ofsexual dysfunction and his operations of XER and XERA atVilla Acuña (modern-dayCiudad Acuña, Coahuila ), opposite Del Rio,Texas .ee also
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Border blaster – a list of super-power radio stations located on the international border of Mexico facing the United States of America.
*Dr.John R. Brinkley – brief biography and history of XER and XERA.References
*"Wolfman Jack's old station howling once again." – "Dallas Times Herald", January 2, 1983. – primarily about XERF but also includes background information on the border-blasters.
*"Border Radio," by Fowler, Gene and Crawford, Bill. Texas Monthly Press, Austin. 1987 ISBN 0-87719-066-6
*"Mass Media Moments in the United Kingdom, the USSR and the USA," by Gilder, Eric. – "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu Press, Romania. 2003 ISBN 973-651-596-6
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