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FCC Issues Pirate Warnings To Sixteen NY/NJ Property Owners

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GOOD and it's about time! Main problem is that once these ones cease operations (if they even do) there are plenty more ready, willing and able to step in and turn on their equipment (subpar and not compliant I would imagine in most cases) that they have easily secured online to broadcast illegally... I'm all for "having a voice" but do it the legal way as every other "legal" station has to date... It is interesting though that we are always reading about the decline of radio listening and yet there is still the great desire to broadcast on the FM band whereas on the internet everyone has a voice, globally and legally.
 
88.9 Bronx NY – New Covenant Christian Church & Joseph Alexander - Google Streetview of Antenna
87.9 Newark NJ – Antoine Mercius & Aceline Mercius - No full Address
88.5 Irvington NJ – Samuel Merceus Special Needs Trust - Nothing Visible on Streetview
91.7 Maplewood NJ – Bernard Mede & Anne L. Mede - Google Streetview of Antenna
99.3 Paterson NJ – Cesar M. Espejo - Nothing Visible on newest Streetview in 2018
91.9 Brooklyn NY – Crown Heights LLC - Nothing Visible on Streetview
101.7 Bronx NY – Andrea Coke & Patrick Green - Google Streetview of Antenna
99.7 Brooklyn NY – Bernadette C. Booker - No Full Address
98.9 Brooklyn NY – AFAI Rockaway Corp. and Abdul Salem Mused - Google Streetview of Antenna
 
Just musing here, born in Brooklyn and went to H.S. there.
How many of these properties are rental / lease arrangements?
Are there any standard apartment buildings on that list? Just the ground-level store frrontages? I only see asterisks such as 'one church' and '3 LLC's. Photos of the 16 places would help, no?
Now I'm not standing up for the pirates in the least. From a somewhat disappointed perspective and example, I found it disturbing to hear that an understaffed FCC was understandably uneasy about Eliot Nessing a joint and confiscating equipment in neighbourhoods that didn't speak FCC. So the Feds substituted going after the owners of the property. That seemed safer.
And I'm not a big fan of landlords, either. But while a $2,000,000 notice certainly sounds as though it's meant to be a deterrent, it also says that some innocent folks might really get pranged here.
The phrasing about property owners 'knowingly' and 'turning a blind eye' is certainly a no-no warning -- a first notice. But the wording also infers that such owners would have to prove a negative if confronted. Non-knowledge of a law being violated is one thing ; non-knowledge of someone ELSE violating a law is quite another.
And of course, questioning any actual sponsors is another sticky plight ; another story ; another post .......
 
Someone who owns the property where the transmitter site is would be undeterred. The FCC will have a hard time actually collecting the fines.
 
NickD said:
Someone who owns the property where the transmitter site is would be undeterred. The FCC will have a hard time actually collecting the fines.
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No, they would be frightened. The FCC now has federal authority to impose fines, and if unpaid, can get a lien on the landlord's property.
 
Seems to me that if more people had HD radios, the HD subchannels would be great for the types of ethnic programming broadcast by most pirate stations. Does anyone know approximately how much it would cost to lease an HD subchannel in New York?
 
Barry said:
Seems to me that if more people had HD radios, the HD subchannels would be great for the types of ethnic programming broadcast by most pirate stations. Does anyone know approximately how much it would cost to lease an HD subchannel in New York?
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Likely the cost would be much more than those stations can afford. I'd guess well above $10 k a month.

The little pirates that do sell advertising are going after the local market and restaurant and dry cleaner. If you give them a near full-market signal, they are competing with the other major stations for agency and large direct accounts and I doubt they would know how.
 
Barry said:
Seems to me that if more people had HD radios, the HD subchannels would be great for the types of ethnic programming broadcast by most pirate stations. Does anyone know approximately how much it would cost to lease an HD subchannel in New York?
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Then they would then have to pay for the music the are broadcasting, to a now smaller audience.
 
speer360 said:
Then they would then have to pay for the music the are broadcasting, to a now smaller audience.
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Good point. I doubt any of those pirates are paying writer/composer or label/artist rights. Likely not paying taxes, either.
 
speer360 said:
95.9 Brooklyn NY – WIRA Associates - Google Streetview of Antenna
102.1 Orange NJ – Michael A. Simms & Gracia F. Simms - Google Streetview of Antenna
97.5 Brooklyn NY – RochPark Realty LLC - No View
88.5 Saint Albans NY – Rita Joseph - Google Streetview of Antenna
90.9 Irvington NJ – Joseph Frantz & R&R Management LLC - No View
107.9 Brooklyn NY – Elizabeth O. Ojofeitimi - No View
100.7 Brooklyn NY – Newkirk 2215 LLC - Google Maps of possible antenna
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What format of music/talk do these stations broadcast???
 
Radi0411 said:
GOOD and it's about time! Main problem is that once these ones cease operations (if they even do) there are plenty more ready, willing and able to step in and turn on their equipment (subpar and not compliant I would imagine in most cases) that they have easily secured online to broadcast illegally... I'm all for "having a voice" but do it the legal way as every other "legal" station has to date... It is interesting though that we are always reading about the decline of radio listening and yet there is still the great desire to broadcast on the FM band whereas on the internet everyone has a voice, globally and legally.
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Do we see a localism "war cry"???
 
radiofan2023 said:
The FCC can impose fines but the DOJ has to file lawsuits to try to get the money, like with this example:

www.justice.gov

Department of Justice Files Suit to Recover Forfeiture Penalty for Nearly 5,000 Illegally Spoofed Robocalls

Wednesday, the Department of Justice served a complaint filed against a Montana man to recover a $9.9 million penalty imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for nearly 5,000 unlawful and malicious “spoofed” robocalls.
www.justice.gov www.justice.gov
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Most of them ignore this.
 
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