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Brinkley took advantage of Mexican broadcasting laws to operate his transmitters at anywhere from 250,000 to 1,000,000 watts while American broadcasters were limited to 50,000 watts. Consequently, his stations could be heard all over the Western Hemisphere. As XERF, broadcast power was nominally held to 250,000 watts (still mighty strong), but it is said on some late nights the engineers cranked it back up to 1,000,000 watts.
When Brinkley was hounded out of business in the 1940s, the studios were taken over by a mysterious ownership that used the station to broadcast country music and rhythm and blues with advertisements for baby chicks and "Prayer Cloths with River Jordan Holy Water". The station was noted for broadcasting Tex-Mex and Zydeco music at a time when even rhythm and blues stations ignored them.
Internationally famous disc jockeyFor other meanings of DJ see DJ (disambiguation). A disc jockey (often DJ or deejay is an individual who selects and plays pre-recorded music for the enjoyment of others. In circles and cultures where reggae and related musical styles are prevalent such a Wolfman JackWolfman Jack ( January 21, 1938- July 1, 1995) was the stage name of a disc jockey hugely popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Born Robert Smith in Brooklyn, New York, he came to prominence in the United States in the 1960s as a disc jockey on Mexican radio st broke out nationally when he worked there for a legendary time in the 1960sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around.
ZZ TopZZ Top is a rock band, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s, from Texas. The band members are Billy Gibbons (vocals and guitar, of Moving Sidewalks), Dusty Hill (guitar, of The American Blues) and Frank Beard (drums, of The Cellar Dwellers, The Hustlers, celebrated the station in their song, "I Heard It On The X".