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Arrrrrr!!! K-Love is mad at the 96.7 pirate!

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Banned
From Taylor at Radio-Info

K-Love’s new Big Apple FM is complaining about interference – from “open and notorious” pirate “Jamminz Radio.”

Educational Media Foundation tells the FCC “this pirate station is having a significant impact on the reception [of what is now WKLV] in portions of its service area.” It has a very good idea where the pirate’s hiding out – “in East Orange, New Jersey, specifically near South Maple Avenue and Sussex Avenue, west of the Garden State Parkway.” Only “Jamminz” isn’t hiding. EMF claims that “Jamminz Radio’s programming is…open and notorious.” The K-Love folks paid Cox $15.5 million and put their contemporary Christian network “K-Love” format on the former WCTZ, Port Chester NY at 96.7. That was going into the Memorial Day weekend, and now EMF asks the FCC to “immediately take actions to terminate ‘Jamminz’” – also on 96.7. The pirate's running commercials and operating a website that contains contact information for potential advertisers, here. Of course there’s a Facebook page, for “New Jersey’s #1 hottest Jamaican radio show on 96.7 FM.” EMF’s attorney David Oxenford asks the FCC to “take all steps necessary to cause Jamminz Radio to immediately cease illegal operations.” K-Love has another friend in high places they can summon – the New Jersey state law that confers extra enforcement powers on local authorities.
 
They may need to become creative if they want to get Jamminz to stop.

There are many methods that can be effective, but are somewhat intrusive.
Can someone be found liable for doing their best to insure that laws are observed?

IOW, If K-Love can short out the coax of Jamminz, can Jamminz legally sue K-Love for a transmitter replacement?
If a visiting jamminz "fan" turns out to be a KLove employee with a 8 lb sledgehammer and beats the xmttr to smithereens,
isn't that just part of the whole pirate lifestyle?
Just how far can a private individual or corporation go to protect their allocation or property?
 
Sounds like Jamminz is actually serving their community. Hmmmmm......novel idea.
 
Tom Wells said:
IOW, If K-Love can short out the coax of Jamminz, can Jamminz legally sue K-Love for a transmitter replacement?
If a visiting jamminz "fan" turns out to be a KLove employee with a 8 lb sledgehammer and beats the xmttr to smithereens,
isn't that just part of the whole pirate lifestyle?
Just how far can a private individual or corporation go to protect their allocation or property?
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I think the question is, if accomplished, will the K-Love employee survive out of East Orange and make it back in one piece?
 
K-Love's best course of action is to send its engineer to change the pirate's frequency. It's like the principal of a school telling a drug dealer to sell drugs elsewhere rather than across the street from the school if the cops won't arrest him.

Maybe K-Love can get a booster in Newark to drown out the pirate. They need the booster because there's interference within their protected contour...from the pirate.
 
Nick said:
K-Love's best course of action is to send its engineer to change the pirate's frequency. It's like the principal of a school telling a drug dealer to sell drugs elsewhere rather than across the street from the school if the cops won't arrest him.

Maybe K-Love can get a booster in Newark to drown out the pirate. They need the booster because there's interference within their protected contour...from the pirate.
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Then W244AS would have to be rescinded. Crazy enough, I pull in K-Love all the way from Shrewsbury everyday, where the signal for the translator used to be strong until the PNC.
 
Nick said:
Maybe K-Love can get a booster in Newark to drown out the pirate. They need the booster because there's interference within their protected contour...from the pirate.
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Newark is not within WKLV-FM's protected contour.
 
This situation may be the FCC's "Pirate Perp Walk" opportunity. Let's hope they have the good sense NOT to waste it.

It's a chance to get other federal agencies, like Immigration, and local law enforcement in on the act. It's an opportunity to get the media to focus attention on these Jamaican illegals.

I can see the TV news reports now as "officers" raid the studios of these illegal, and possibly foreign, broadcasters who are interfering with a licensed "Christian" radio station.

It's time for the FCC to hit a pirate with everything it's got in its arsenal, and set an example.

The heat is on this time. With lawyers for the damaged station owners not likely to take anything but complete elimination of pirate signals on the frequency as an adequate solution. This will be true even if the bad guys are broadcasting from outside the licensed station's protected contours which relate only to other licensed stations. It could be easily proved that these illegals are denying the station potential listeners it might otherwise have. That is damage.

If the pirates aren't made to disappear, the licensed station would have grounds to sue the FCC for malfeasance, or NOT doing its job of regulating the airwaves, and damages could be very substantial in a case like this.

The FCC bureaucrats can't let that happen, because heads will roll at the federal agency if it does.
 
K-Love should be jammed out of every market they're in. There's no need for anyone to buy up several translators in a geographic area like they have done in many areas, wasting valuable space on the fm band.
 
And they can be jammed out... particularly in NYC! Competitors should paint them as the out of town satcasters they really are.

In truth, EMF has cast a net to siphon off donation from the existing CCM and religious stations in the market.

Paint em as who they really are, outsiders from California, who are NOT local and are unable to relate to the local NY culture and marketplace.

Other than having a local fundraising representative, they are not really there.
 
Since everyone knows where these knuckle-dragging 'pirates' are, maybe EMF should acquire the services of a 'shadow team' to do a bit of targeted high-power jamming in East Orange for awhile. Perhaps that would get the FCC motivated to enforce at least the most egregious flouting of their own rules. Or maybe it will take the pirate letting slip a 'fleet expletive' for the FCC to finally get motivated. Is anyone monitoring these fools?
 
If this is just a lack of enforcement, then I'd be very surprised. A pirate who has the cajones to run a station that powerful, that out in the open, take advertising, and even use RDS is either very, very lucky, or knows someone on the inside. Besides, the FCC isn't going to do anything unless it involves EAS problems, tower lights, or some other easy to enforce violation they can pin on a broadcaster they know has the funds to pay the fine. Pirates have no money and often can disappear very easily. Most if not nearly all NAL's go ignored and fines are never collected. The FCC is just like every other bloated government agency now with so much being done by so few people, there is no way anything could get done in a timely or efficient manner.

Still, even without a license, I'd say this pirate does have a community and apparently they like what he's doing. Enough that he's stayed on air this long. K-Love seems to be a bit jealous.

And for the record, I generally don't have a problem with pirates as long as they don't A) step on any other signals, or B) steal revenue. Sounds like this guy is doing both, so he's just asking for whatever he gets. If anything at all.
 
I just checked and the pirate from East Orange is still on 96.7 as usual. They were off the air earlier today. 99.9 has had a pirate in this area for many years so that is nothing new.
 
Paint em as who they really are, outsiders from California, who are NOT local and are unable to relate to the local NY culture and marketplace.
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Given the format of K-Love, I simply offer the observation that Jesus Christ knows how to relate to any culture, in any marketplace, any time, any day.
 
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