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Liberty 90.1 - Auston, Texas

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Had a chance to visit Austin this week. In between errands, I visited the broadcast site of the "pirate" station -- Liberty 90.1. Here's a video clip shot on my phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_saDi4JKXc0

Interesting situation. For want of a better word, this pirate station is apparently Alex Jones' "flagship." The people that own the apartment complex where this broadcast is taking place don't deny that they believe in the messages being churned out by the station, but distance themselves from the broadcast itself. Their position is that they are simply landlords and that a third party has rented out a closet for equipment and the space for the tower. Apparently they don't even have access to the equipment. Their tenant has put his own lock on the door.

This, however, didn't stop the FCC from issuing the landlords a $15,000 fine. See KXAN News clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs_sOoDrEx8

Last summer, at the Texas Association of Broadcasters convention, I listened to an unknown gentleman ask the Texas FCC enforcement agent what's going on with this pirate station. The agent admitted that this station has operated for over five years from various locations. Listen to his words here... https://soundcloud.com/power104/fcc-steve-lee-at-tex-assn-broadcasters

In other words, every time the FCC starts the legal process to shut it down, the people who actually run the station move their transmitter to a new location. In the meantime, the landlords who rent property to the people who run the station are the ones getting hit with fines. Fines, mind you, that no one has paid, and the FCC is making no effort to collect.

Things that make you go "hmmmmm..."
 
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Had a chance to visit Austin this week. In between errands, I visited the broadcast site of the "pirate" station -- Liberty 90.1. Here's a video clip shot on my phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_saDi4JKXc0

Interesting situation. For want of a better word, this pirate station is apparently Alex Jones' "flagship." The people that own the apartment complex where this broadcast is taking place don't deny that they believe in the messages being churned out by the station, but distance themselves from the broadcast itself. Their position is that they are simply landlords and that a third party has rented out a closet for equipment and the space for the tower. Apparently they don't even have access to the equipment. Their tenant has put his own lock on the door.

This, however, didn't stop the FCC from issuing the landlords a $15,000 fine. See KXAN News clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs_sOoDrEx8

Last summer, at the Texas Association of Broadcasters convention, I listened to an unknown gentleman ask the Texas FCC enforcement agent what's going on with this pirate station. The agent admitted that this station has operated for over five years from various locations. Listen to his words here... https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B38Q6D-a_CluNm1GUG9nY19KQmc/view?usp=sharing

In other words, every time the FCC starts the legal process to shut it down, the people who actually run the station move their transmitter to a new location. In the meantime, the landlords who rent property to the people who run the station are the ones getting hit with fines. Fines, mind you, that no one has paid, and the FCC is making no effort to collect.

Things that make you go "hmmmmm..."
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So did you meet Alex Jones? I would love to hang out with him...but then He tries to get arrested so much I wouldn't want to share the back seat of a police car with him.
 
Nope. Just visited the broadcast site. I don't know where Alex Jones is.
 
There is truly something odd with this duck. The FCC has raided pirate stations in the past in Central Texas and shut them down permanently. Yet Alex Jones can do what he wants, when he wants, where he wants and the FCC never touches him...just a few fines to people who own the property he uses. And I really do want to know how many of those fines have been collected.
 
I was surprised how easy it was to find the location. It took about 30 seconds of searching to find the address on the Internet.
You can easily view the antenna on Google Street View taken in August of 2013.
The address puts you directly in front of the building with trees in the way so you have to move to the "left" a click or two and then zoom in for a better view.

1127 E 52nd St
Austin, Texas
Street View - Aug 2013
 
TGunn said:
So did you meet Alex Jones? I would love to hang out with him...but then He tries to get arrested so much I wouldn't want to share the back seat of a police car with him.
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Nope but I know the Nadler-Olenicks. I go to Austin City Council meetings from time to time.
 
Well folks, looks like the winds of change are blowing. Alex Jones' flagship Liberty 90.1, a pirate station that has operated and thrived for over 5 years with everything but the blessing of the FCC, is gonna have to find a different channel. CALVARY CHAPEL OF TWIN FALLS, INC. just received a construction permit to move their Christian translator to the frequency. Due to a shortage of usable frequencies, and interference on 89.1, the FCC has authorized K206CF to move 90.1 K211FZ, Austin, Texas. Where's Liberty going? Only time will tell...
 
Or 90.1 will ignore the CP and stay on air?

They could always move to 101.9?
 
I was in Austin the other day... The pirate and translator have swapped frequencies. Both were on air last time I checked.

A note about CSN translators... There was a CP for 106.3 in San Antonio to move to 106.1, but I can't find it anymore. I fear they missed the deadline.
 
I was in Austin the other day... The pirate and translator have swapped frequencies. CSN is on 90.1, and Liberty is now 89.1. That's according to how they were Saturday evening.

A note about CSN translators... There was a CP for 106.3 in San Antonio to move to 106.1 to stop interference from the San Marcos K-Love repeater, but I can't find it anymore. Did they miss the deadline?
 
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