City Villa Acuña, Mexico First air date August 18, 1932 Language(s) English | Broadcast area North America Format Talk | |
Branding Sunshine Station between the Nations | ||
XER (1932–1933) are the call letters of a famous border-blaster radio station licensed to Villa Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, upon license application of Dr. John R. Brinkley of the U.S. state of Kansas. It first came on the air in 1932. It was forcibly shut down by the Mexican authorities in 1933 and the Villa Acuña Broadcasting Company was dissolved.
History of XER
XER called itself the Sunshine Station between the Nations and it broadcast 735 kcs., on the AM band from Villa Acuña, Coahuila. The owner of XER was Dr. John R. Brinkley of Kansas who moved to Del Rio, Texas, where he established a management company called Villa Acuña Broadcasting Company. It first signed on August 18, 1932 with a 50 kW transmitter and claimed 75 kW erp via an omindirectional antenna. The engineering was by Will Branch of Fort Worth who had engineered WBAP for Amon Carter, owner of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. For a brief period, XER-AM was licensed for one million watts, but XER was shut down by the Mexican authorities on February 24, 1933 and the Villa Acuña Broadcasting Company of Del Rio, Texas, U.S. which had managed the station was dissolved.
The callsign XER-AM later moved to a station in Linares, Nuevo León, which migrated to FM and is now XHR-FM.