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The Pickard Family first received national attention soon after their appearance on WSM. Around 1928, following auditions in Detroit, NBC contracted the family for their own show, The Cabin Door. [3] Through the 1930s the group toured around North America, performing on radio shows and syndicated broadcasts across the country. [1]
The Border Blasters are noted for their easy-going on-stage camaraderie coupled with tight harmonies and raw, rootsy musicianship. The band takes their name from the high-powered radio stations along the US/Mexico border that broadcast an eclectic mix of country, folk, blues, gospel and quirky advertisements around the world beginning in the ...
A border blaster is a broadcast station that, though not licensed as an external service, is, in practice, used to target another country.The term "border blaster" is of North American origin, and usually associated with Mexican AM stations whose broadcast areas cover large parts of the United States, and United States border AM stations covering large parts of Canada.
The Border Blasters; Borderline (band) Boyd and Wain; Breaux Brothers; The Briarwood Singers; Bright Eyes (band) Brightblack Morning Light; The Brothers Four; Brown Bird;
A marching band out of a church on Detroit's east side has helped hundreds of young people earn scholarships. Detroit marching band, percussionists, dancers funded by program founder’s 9-5 job ...
This was due to their excessive use of power which was necessary to reach their intended audience in American cities far north of the border. The traditional border-blasters were AM radio stations; though there are numerous FM radio and even television stations along the border that broadcast to the U.S. from Mexico, the power of FM stations ...
Seduce (band) Shotgun (funk band) The Sights; The Silent Years; The Sillies; Sky (American band) The Skylarks (vocal group) Slingshot (band) Snow Strippers; Solid Frog; The Spinners (American group) Sponge (band) Squid the Whale; SRC (band) SSM (band) Stevie Wonder's Superego; The Stooges; The Suicide Machines; The Supremes
A key objective for the United States was that, in exchange for receiving clear channel assignments, Mexico would eliminate the high-powered English-language "border blaster" stations that had been directing their programming toward the U.S. and causing significant interference to U.S. and Canadian stations. [6]