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Could a pirate station fill the WILD void?

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diamondj

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I would think one of the many pirate stations would pick up the WILD format. There are at least a couple of English language pirates like 99.7 (Radio Hyde Park) broadcasting gospel music and Choice 102.9 broadcasting Caribbean music.
 
A pirate station would be cool, but how long can you listen to sea shanty stuff?
 
diamondj said:
I would think one of the many pirate stations would pick up the WILD format. There are at least a couple of English language pirates like 99.7 (Radio Hyde Park) broadcasting gospel music and Choice 102.9 broadcasting Caribbean music.
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The prevalence of pirate radio stations in Boston is proof positive that there is a disconnect between the actual audience in the city and who the radio stations are targeting.
 
>>99.7 (Radio Hyde Park)

When classical moves to 99.5, I wonder if Nassau will ask the FCC to throw those guys off for squatting so close to the freq of the legit station (not sure if Greater Media has already tried to take action)...

A friend of mine in Methuen listens to Lost and Found/WMBR all the time and was upset a few years back when a pirate at 88.1 in his area showed up. He called the FCC and they were soon gone. While we all kind of fantasize about what it would be like to run a "no rules" radio station offering something different, if such a station causes no interference, not a big deal--but being so close to a legit station (even one whose
stick is way up in Andover) just isn't right.
 
The prevalence of pirate radio stations in Boston is proof positive that there is a disconnect between the actual audience in the city and who the radio stations are targeting.
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Definitely some truth here, but it's not all that. A lot of pirates are Haitian and there's a long tradition of pirate radio in Haiti. Licensed stations, by definition, are never going to totally overcome that. Hell, you should see the infighting between the various Haitian pirates...it's pretty nasty.

A lot of foreign countries, especially non-"Western" countries have a lot of traditions with pirate radio because there's no such thing as "commercial" free market licensed radio; lots of times it's state-run radio and that's it. So there's an inherent distrust of any non-pirate radio that draws in immigrant listeners.

Still, I have been vaguely surprised some commercial outlet hasn't tried to market themselves as a "pirate radio" outlet that's all French Creole language, targeted directly at the Haitian immigrant population. My guess is that demo isn't considered valuable enough to advertisers to be worth it.
 
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