Cotolo Chronicles

"The men and women who created border radio were frontiersmen of the ether, imaginative experimenters who came to la frontera seeking freedom from the restrictions of the American media establishment. By building huge transmitters and testing new and untried formats, these pioneers created a proving ground for many of the technical, legal, and programming aspects of today's broadcasting industry, and they managed to be quite entertaining as well."

On Aug. 24, Bill Crawford, half of the authorship of Border Radio, a journal of the "virgin communication wilderness," much like Internet's alternative broadcasting in the new millennium, will be our guest from border-radio territory.

"This book is a collection of just some of these tales, the chronicles of a few amazing individuals who made their way to the tall antennas rising from the rugged countryside of northern Mexico and left their mark on the mysterious, elusive, and always entertaining sliver of the American electromagnetic spectrum designated by the letter X." (Photo of XERF, highlighting the towers of 250,000 watts of power.)

Join Bill and the great ghosts of the X, including Dr. Brinkley, Wolfman Jack and the folk and country music heroes of yesteryear on Aug. 24.

Coming soon on Wild Bunch Radio --
Cotolo Monthly, a talk magazine with alternative broadcasting's veteran mouth, is an interactive show where the audience is the engine. Talk to Cotolo on the Wild Bunch chat/IM, ask him questions, call him names, tell him what you are thinking and feeling exclusively on Wild Bunch Radio on the first Friday of every month. Starting Sept. 1.