airtime on XERF, In early , station employees who had been seeking back wages for 13 years, since the gunfight, won a victory in Mexican court, and Montes was appointed the sole administrator of XERF. With the advent of FM stereo radio broadcasting, interest in the static-prone mono AM signals of XERF began to wane and its signal was switched from the RCA transmitter, which was never paid for and which consistently kept breaking down, to a new transmitter. Its program schedule consisted of primarily religious shows, and it did not broadcast during the day. Brief rebirth in the In , Bob Smith (Wolfman Jack) ran into a radio engineer friend named Mike Venditti, and he told Venditti that no one had been able to get XERF back on full power with its old RCA transmitter, because RCA did not have any manuals relating to the equipment. Venditti then approached González with a business proposition. Love 16 In exchange for restoring the main RCA transmitter to active duty, Venditti asked González to lease him the daytime hours from to . Because the station was only operating on a fraction of power from the transmitter, XERF was not on the air during the day. At night, XERF reverted to its sponsored format of mainly American religious programs. Venditti succeeded in getting the old transmitter to work, and at first, his new station Love 16 (a name taken from the 1570 AM frequency) broadcast an English language format composed of a mixture of soft rock, oldies, middle-of-the-road, country, and Big Band music, along with hourly ABC News newscasts. This format did not sell and soon Love 16 was programming a modern Christian music format. That did not work either. Michael Venditti was a member of The Word Outreach Center, a Non-Denominational Church in Del Rio during this time. The church was pastored by Michael Kyle, a native of Del Rio and longtime broadcaster himself, having worked in both local radio stations and with Paul Kallinger. Michael Kyle worked an air shift at the station in Mexico when the format went to all music. Before Venditti pulled the plug on Love 16, it attracted a lot of publicity in the Texas press concerning the rebirth of XERF as a real border blaster. Texas Night Train Another group from the Dallas and Fort Worth area then replaced Bill Mack with a nightly taped program