Radio Agricultura was influential in making Mexican music popular in rural areas of Chile. Radio Agricultura won notoriety and influence because, along with the Chilena, Cooperativa and Minería radio networks, it opposed the government of Salvador Allende and supported the military coup and later military regime of Augusto Pinochet. Its transmissions were famous for their coverage of the coup of September 11, 1973 and its military bands that were heard on national radio and television throughout Chile. Also in the 1970s the dictatorship shut down smaller radio stations thought to be sympathetic with the former Allende administration.