border blaster

English

Noun

border blaster (plural border blasters)

1. A broadcast station used to target listeners in another country, despite not being licensed to do so.

   Hyponym: X station

   • 2004, Jesse Walker, Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, page 197:

     Not long after the feds started regulating radio, Mexico's megawatt border blasters—high-powered stations planted just south of Texas and California—started beckoning. The FCC couldn't control them […]