[Dixielandjazz] AM radio

[Don Kirkman]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:40:20 -0800, Randy Fendrick wrote:

>Don't take this wrong but wasn't that  the station from Del Rio Texas, 
>which was actually in Mexico, and during the late 1950s trying to sell 
>autographed copies of pictures of our Saviour, Jesus Christ?  That is 
>how it was advertised.  I remember hearing that story when I was in the 
>Navy School of Music in Washington during the late 1950's.  Pat Orres 
>who some of you might know from your navy days used to tell a rather 
>funny story about that station.

>On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 02:03 PM, Don Kirkman wrote:

>> On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:59:04 EST, JimDBB@aol.com wrote:

>>> In a message dated 1/9/03 11:09:49 AM Central Standard Time,
>>> dingle@baldwin-net.com writes:

>>>> Indeed, many of us caught the late nights live broadcasts from NY 
>>>> with some
>>>> good jazz bands to hear.
>> [...]

>>>> I still have an old Philco radio, tube type, that I had in college 
>>>> in E.
>>>> Lansing, MI that could pull in about every major station in NY, N.O.,
>>>> Denver, Houston, and the famous Del Rio station in Mexico . . . A 

>>>> We were fortunate enough to live in those times. But then I am not 
>>>> un happy
>>>> to be still kicking today, even if no longer as likely to receive 
>>>> anything
>>>> of much musical (jazz) merit on AM.

>> I'm witchu, Don.  I think XELO and some of the other Mexican stations
>> existed solely to sell stuff to USians on those powerful clear channel
>> stations.  :-)

Maybe this is part of the confusion; I was responding in part to Don
Ingle's earlier post but doing it by way of Jim Beebe's response to him.

I believe XELO (later XTRA, I think) was in Baja California and was
mostly music.  All the big signals pushing schlock were along the Texas
border, as best I can remember at my age.
-- 
Don
donkirk@covad.net