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Pirate radio at AllExperts |
 | | While Mexico issued radio station XERF with a license to broadcast, the power of its 250,000 watts transmitter was far greater than the maximum of 50,000 watts authorized for commercial use by the government of the United States of America. |
 | | Consequently, XERF and many other radio stations in Mexico which sold their broadcasting time to sponsors of English-language commercial and religious programs, were labeled as "border blasters", but not "pirate radio stations", even though the content of many of their programs were in violation of US law. |
 | | In Europe, in addition to adopting the term free radio, supportive listeners of what had been called "pirate radio" adopted the term offshore radio, which was usually the term used by the owners of the marine broadcasting stations. |
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