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Fybush: Hot 97 (87.7) raided, shut down

dumber than a box of hair said:
Don't be so quick to assume that Touch will never be taken down. As I stated above, the wheels of the FCC grind slowly.
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I have to agree, it took four months of 97.9X complaining about the 97.5 pirate in Scranton, but it got taken down.

I'd give Touch a few months till it's gone.
 
WNTIRadio said:
Touch keeps going because of the Governor and Mumbles Menino appearing on the station and giving it protection.
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I'm surprised they get away with it. At the very least, you'd think their political opponents would have a field day with it.

"Tell Mayor Menino and Governor Patrick to stop supporting criminal organizations..."
 
" He founded TOUCH106.1 FM , which operates as a private nonprofit and has clashed with the Federal Communications Commission, with two others in 2005. He said he is leaving the radio station this week. "

They call it a "private nonprofit that clashed with the FCC".

Gee, I wonder why?
 
If it's been there since 2005, it's not going anywhere soon. The wheels of the FCC grind slowly, but 7 years is ridiculous.
 
WNTIRadio had good info re: pirates--radiation, etc.

>>Those PSA's can be downloaded by anyone, especially the ad council ones and the govt. ones. That's not a true indicator that they knew of the station. I think they were using them to fill out "commercial" breaks and sound "professional".

You have some low power stations like the 1640 community info station in Peabody which can
be heard in several towns. All they run is PSAs--but if there's a snow emergency (I know, not
this year) they tell people (signs all over Peabody mention them). The 1640 though is a legal
LP-AM station, operating within power limits. So is the 1640 run by Centre Cong. Church in
Lynnfield (I attended the funeral of a good friend there recently), which talks about events for
the Tower School, etc. It pushes a few blocks. And it's very legal.

What isn't so legal are stations in Boston that you can pick up in Danvers on Rt 1--that are
NOT licensed. Yes, maybe they can get away with it if local pols feel they are serving the
community, or if few complaints are received --but maybe the FCC will eventually shut it down.
(No, I wasn't picking up 106.1 on Rt 1 but the 87.7, when they were on, did come in.)

Datz Hits got shut down because they (99.7) were first-adjacent to WCRB and they were interfering with aircraft radio. In the case of Touch here are their neighbors:
105.7 WROR Framingham
106.1 WCOD on the Cape
106.3 WFNQ in Nashua
(see range approx.: http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WFNQ&service=FM&status=L&hours=U )
etc.
If you look up WCOD on radio-locator you see the blue fringe circle winds up around Quincy or
so. They figure they aren't really affecting WCOD all that much or nobody has complained.
Have any WROR listeners complained? If it were "Touch 105.9" maybe it would have been
knocked off. (Does anyone remember that when "Hot 97", the one that just got raided,
announced they were going on they said they'd be on 97.1? Oh yeah, right, first adjacent
to WTKK! That would not have happened.)
 
If the FCC thinks someone will get hurt if Touch 106.1 is shut down it will not happen.
And this is why it is still on the air.
 
If the FCC wants to shut down a pirate radio station they have to get a court order no judge in his right mind will give you one if they think someone's going to get hurt. We all know people in that area will go nuts.
 
carmen said:
i have heard Hot97 on 87.9 intermittently after 87.7 has been MIA. think they were messing w/ a backup transmitter or so. i think there is a 2 week lag due to sealed-indintments and so on, so nothing is on http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/rfo/ActAct.html to confirm it is indeed a 'bust' rather than an equipment failure. i still think Hot97 NYC should sue them into oblivion iff nothing else
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Perhaps it wasn't the FCC rhat was behind the raid.
 
MickeyD said:
Perhaps it wasn't the FCC rhat was behind the raid.
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good idea. OSHA show up w/ a laundry list of field-strength readings exceeding RF-exposure limits on grounds of nearby elementary schools or public parks? maybe the Mayor or other ads were sold as part of a sting operation to prove earnings that taxes have not been paid upon. maybe well-dressed lawyers from Radio-One or whoever owns Hot97 branding with a signed-and-delivered iron-clad IP theft case...

@DJCHUBBYCHUB is on some online-streaming thing, no mentions the now-unmentionable i guess,.
 
LAUROJRM said:
Don't know why Touch 106.1 is still on the air. I do know Mayor Menino, and Gov Deval Patrick was on there few times.

Big city 101.3 is still on the air, as well as 105.3 to name a few. There's also Choice 102.9. All can be heard in and around Dorchester, Mattapan, and parts of Roxbury areas.
If you have computers, I believe all broadcast LIVE online
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Big City 101.3 has the best case against the claim (if any) of interference, since the WFNX fill-in transmitter was once allowed on that very frequency.
 
HHH said:
Big City 101.3 has the best case against the claim (if any) of interference, since the WFNX fill-in transmitter was once allowed on that very frequency.
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i would at least be a little paranoid, the past 2 years have meant a high-profile station being taken off the air, and Big City is basically the biggest one standing now at least signal wise if not stature (imo)

i mean they could throw us for a loop and bust 107.5 or something next, i mean who listens to that? i actually heard a guy do a prolongued crituque of all the other radio stations on there for an entire hour, in kreyol. put my own researchy-tendencies into perspective. he even helped me ID 94.9.. (Radio superstar)
 
Big City 101.3 has the best case against the claim (if any) of interference, since the WFNX fill-in transmitter was once allowed on that very frequency.
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101.3 was only allowed as a translator because WFNX was willing to accept the interference as it was for their own use. No one would ever be granted a translator in Boston on that frequency.
 
Does Big City currently interfere with WFNX? I doubt it.
Could WFNX get a translator on 101.3 now and translate WFNX-HD2? That could be a path to legality for Big City if they lease that HD2
 
Nick said:
Does Big City currently interfere with WFNX? I doubt it.
Could WFNX get a translator on 101.3 now and translate WFNX-HD2? That could be a path to legality for Big City if they lease that HD2
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There is no WFNX HD-2 since they don't broadcast in HD.
 
Johnster said:
101.3 was only allowed as a translator because WFNX was willing to accept the interference as it was for their own use. No one would ever be granted a translator in Boston on that frequency.
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If a translator window opens in Boston, 101.3 would be up for grabs. Or if someone wanted to try moving into the city, they could do this. 2nd adjacent translators exist all over the country on different owners. As long as their is 40db of seperation between the signals, (desired to undesired interference), a 101.3 translator could easily pop back in without a peep from WFNX.

Look at the 99.1 and 99.5 in nearby Albany as an example.
 
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