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Globe: Black station tuning out static (Touch 106)

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"Unlicensed TOUCH-FM facing FCC fine, and more"

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2008/06/12/black_station_tuning_out_static/

Listeners may help pay the 17k FCC fine...btw it mentions "100 megahertz" (sic) at one point.
I think they mean "100 watts". The article mentions that some efforts are being made to
break down the buffers between frequencies (if not for those, the FCC could, for example,
open up 106.1 as a legit freq. in Boston)

>>A bill currently in the US House of Representatives, the Local Community Radio Act, would bring relief to the hundreds of small radio stations that have been waiting for years to secure a license
 
oops, didn't see it was posted already (I needed to refresh my cache!) Anyway, I wouldn't hold out much
hope for Touch to get a legal license, not unless another station in town (...WILD? there was talk) was
selling. Note at end of article it talked about them getting police permits for a block party. Yes...it's
called obeying the law, something they don't do with the transmitter :)
 
Let's hope that they triple that fine, then seize the equipment,
and shut it down. Permanently. Send a message, loud and clear...
 
Since this comes under the Federal juristiction, why not do what they do with suspected drug dealers and child porn distributors? The swat team clears the building, the equipment is confiscated and the person is arrested. THEN he stands trial and if found guilty sent to jail. If he's found innocent, he goes free and petitions the Feds' for s equiment back. He may get it back, someday. This business of "fining" people doesn't seem to work. In a suspected meth lab, they would beat the door down.
 
boston needs a fm station that caters to the black community maybe some one should work with them and help them get a part 15 or a non commercial
 
max88 said:
boston needs a fm station that caters to the black community maybe some one should work with them and help them get a part 15 or a non commercial
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It would be great if people in the community could organize and put up a number of LEGAL Part 15 stations and network programming on them. It would take a large number of them to cover the area, because a LEGAL Part 15 FM wouldn't cover much more than a radius of a couple of blocks at best. Pirate stations like "Touch" would never be satisfied with lowering their power to comply with Part 15, but if they could coordinate a number of Part 15 repeaters all over the neighborhood, that's one way they could serve some of the community legally.

As previously posted (many times), there are no legitimate non-commercial frequencies available in the metro-Boston area for any new full-power or LPFM stations under current FCC regulations.
 
I remember when that station was put on, they have a very unique sound, and I can clearly see that by the length of there stop set they are getting money, I that they have learned thre lesson and pay there fine, and can come to some type of agreement with the fcc
 
KDRadio said:
I that they have learned thre lesson and pay there fine, and can come to some type of agreement with the fcc
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I can tell you exactly what type of agreement the FCC will accept: Shut down the transmitter and never turn it on again until the owner has an FCC station license.

Broadcasting without a license is contrary to federal law...Section 301 of the Communications Act. What part of this do so many people not understand?
 
I think it is pretty sad that the black community does not have a local and legal radio outlet they can call their own. Kendall Nash, the former owner of WILD would be very upset to see what has happened to the station he put his heart and soul into. His wife believed she was preserving the station when she sold it to the black owned Radio One group. For a variety of reasons, including poor management they have proved to be less than interested in serving the local minority community.

However, there are several well healed minority business people who should step up to the plate and buy AM 1090 and give something back to the community.

Until that happens an illegal station is not the answer.
 
max88 said:
boston needs a fm station that caters to the black community
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Well, I think Boston needs a fm station that caters to the irish community.

wavelength9 said:
I think it is pretty sad that the black community does not have a local and legal radio outlet they can call their own.
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I think it's pretty sad that the irish community does not have a local and legal radio outlet that they can call their own....
 
MAx88, I have personally presented and explained options on ways that people on this board could get a legal urban ac station going. I have not seen any reply's to those postings. I would think if a city needs something that badly people would band together and make it happen?
 
spilot113 said:
max88 said:
boston needs a fm station that caters to the black community
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Well, I think Boston needs a fm station that caters to the irish community.

wavelength9 said:
I think it is pretty sad that the black community does not have a local and legal radio outlet they can call their own.
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I think it's pretty sad that the irish community does not have a local and legal radio outlet that they can call their own....
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Actually, as for Irish programming, at least there are a number of Irish programs legally buying airtime on various brokered stations around the area. They get sponsors, too.

Why aren't more urban programmers doing that, instead of pirating? The only one that I know of is "Super Soul 1600" on WUNR for two hours a couple of nights a week (if that's even still on?).

(Yes, I know about the all-Irish WTKK HD-2, but not many people have receivers for that yet...)
 
Why? Because that would take actual work and effort. Heaven forbid
they risk any of their own money to find out that the public
at large is not clamoring for this... Satisfying a handful of malcontents does not
a format make...
 
When it come to communication, Boston is always a basket case. Late with Cable TV,Late with CHR/R( WWKX R.I. sign on long time ago before 94.5),No FM Spanish station ( Providence has one )Late with Country ( R.I. had one long time ago ). Major city taking a backseat to a small market. If Providence get a legal Urban A/C before Boston, That will be a real major slap in the face of The Boston Awful Radio dial .
 
If Providence get a legal Urban A/C before Boston, That will be a real major slap in the face of The Boston Awful Radio dial .
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How so?
 
rapking said:
When it come to communication, Boston is always a basket case. Late with Cable TV,Late with CHR/R,No FM Spanish station Late with Country Major city taking a backseat to a small market.
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It's long been the case that many major markets watch what is going on and catching on inthe suburbs and smaller markets as a 'test' before they put it on the air in Boston.

They will often look around before they change the direction of a station, put the value of a station at risk, or invest the money it takes to sucessfully launch a new format.

It has nothing to do with being a "basket case"...it has to do with the amount of risk and capital involved in a major market.
 
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