FREE RADIO----Legal in Italy and Greece, and South America

[midwestclubber]

Now, if I lived in any of these countries, I would definatly put a FMer on the air. Its not Illegal to run a Free Radio station in these places, in fact alot of the established stations that have been on the air for years, have never been licensed. I read that the FM Dial was so Kaotic in some places in Italy and Greece, because there are litterally hundreds of stations, fighting over the same Frequency, and coverage area. Some stations spaced only 1 khz apart from each other

 

[cornbelt]

> Now, if I lived in any of these countries, I would definatly
> put a FMer on the air. Its not Illegal to run a Free Radio
> station in these places, in fact alot of the established
> stations that have been on the air for years, have never
> been licensed. I read that the FM Dial was so Kaotic in
> some places in Italy and Greece, because there are
> litterally hundreds of stations, fighting over the same
> Frequency, and coverage area. Some stations spaced only 1
> khz apart from each other
>
When I was in Greece, the FM band was extremely tight in Athens; in particular I remember two stations being spaced 92.0 and 92.3

Unless the ownership laws have been changed in the last year or two, I was told by a local that FM stations (in theory) had to be licensed, and that an entity could only own 1, and they had to be Greek citizens. AM was still gov't stations only from what I was told. I don't know about the particulars of unlicensed broadcasting, but I wouldn't be surprised if either the letter of the law or the enforcement of the law was lax for unlicensed FM operations with how crowded the dial seemed.

 

[JasonW]

I wonder if their enforcement emphasis is opposite that in the US, aggressively busting low-power AM stations but letting most unlicensed FMs slide? -- JasonW

> > Now, if I lived in any of these countries, I would
> definatly
> > put a FMer on the air. Its not Illegal to run a Free
> Radio
> > station in these places, in fact alot of the established
> > stations that have been on the air for years, have never
> > been licensed. I read that the FM Dial was so Kaotic in
> > some places in Italy and Greece, because there are
> > litterally hundreds of stations, fighting over the same
> > Frequency, and coverage area. Some stations spaced only 1
>
> > khz apart from each other
> >
> When I was in Greece, the FM band was extremely tight in
> Athens; in particular I remember two stations being spaced
> 92.0 and 92.3
>
> Unless the ownership laws have been changed in the last year
> or two, I was told by a local that FM stations (in theory)
> had to be licensed, and that an entity could only own 1, and
> they had to be Greek citizens. AM was still gov't stations
> only from what I was told. I don't know about the
> particulars of unlicensed broadcasting, but I wouldn't be
> surprised if either the letter of the law or the enforcement
> of the law was lax for unlicensed FM operations with how
> crowded the dial seemed.
>

 

[Tom_Desmond]

> I read that the FM Dial was so Kaotic in
> some places in Italy and Greece, because there are
> litterally hundreds of stations, fighting over the same
> Frequency, and coverage area. Some stations spaced only 1
> khz apart from each other

When I was last in Italy (four years ago, in Rome), the FM dial was indeed very congested. I spent an evening tuning through the FM band and counted over sixty stations that I could receive with reception good enough to be listenable. So my experience does seem to match up with what you have heard.