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Hot 97 (87.7) off the air
- Thread starter robotique
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static. will have to check their twitter @hot97boston in a minuteStill down as of 2 PM EST. Nothing has been posted on their Facebook or Twitter.
I think they are just having technical difficulties (bad transmitter, power problems, etc) as the stream is still up.
...this brings up a question.
In a pirate situation where the transmitter is at one location being fed by an internet connection and the studio is at another.... is the FCC only going to shut down the transmitter site? If the studio site in this scenerio is a legit production studio for internet radio and recording, can the FCC touch it?
In a pirate situation where the transmitter is at one location being fed by an internet connection and the studio is at another.... is the FCC only going to shut down the transmitter site? If the studio site in this scenerio is a legit production studio for internet radio and recording, can the FCC touch it?
robotique said:
I would guess not unless they have the authority from Congress to confiscate all equipment that was used for an illegal transmission. I thought they only had the right to take the transmitter and antenna.
The FCC licenses transmitters, not studios. The don't have jurisdiction over the internet stream, either.
Are they still off? I'm out of town this weekend, otherwise I'd check myself.
Honestly, some guy running a watt or 2 in his neighborhood to entertain his friends doesn't bother me all that much... Hell, it's how a lot of us engineers got out start, tinkering with a home brew transmitter in our teenage years.
BUT, when you're running high power 24/7 and taking ad and underwriting revenue away from legitimate businesses (they did that to a noncomm client of mine) then you're in the territory of complete criminal. Is anyone paying taxes on that income? I'd love for someone to go after them from the IRS route. That would be far more effective than the FCC. The IRS still cares about their primary function, unlike the broadband internet wranglers at the FCC now.
Honestly, some guy running a watt or 2 in his neighborhood to entertain his friends doesn't bother me all that much... Hell, it's how a lot of us engineers got out start, tinkering with a home brew transmitter in our teenage years.
BUT, when you're running high power 24/7 and taking ad and underwriting revenue away from legitimate businesses (they did that to a noncomm client of mine) then you're in the territory of complete criminal. Is anyone paying taxes on that income? I'd love for someone to go after them from the IRS route. That would be far more effective than the FCC. The IRS still cares about their primary function, unlike the broadband internet wranglers at the FCC now.
They are still off the air as of today. However they posted this on Facebook: "Our technicians are working hard on resolving signal issues however until it gets resolved we encourage you to listen on Hot97Boston.com!"
Yes, the funeral home ad they did!
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MickeyD
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WNTIRadio said:
Touch FM is still doing that
I just heard that the reason they are off the air is because they were raided. They took the transmitter and antenna but since the studio is technically legal and is in a different location they left it intact.
Will have to look up on the diymedia.net site to see if they were issued warnings in past, etc.
On THIS page ( http://diymedia.net/fccwatch/eadtable11.htm ) for example, it lists a fine issued on
May 17, 2011 in which Robert Brown and Lloyd Morris were assessed $15,000 for the illegal on 99.7--and it says 4 days before then, the same two individuals' operation was raided.
The same page lists visits and postal-issued notices to pirates in Nashua (87.9) and Manchester (105.1--one of the "free state" stations, the other being in Keene)
The listing for the raid of Datz Hits says: "A civil action has been brought seeking forfeiture of the equipment." It says there was interference with aircraft radio; that the equipment had been at a different address before; repeated warnings, etc.
http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/News_Releases/DOC-306853A1.html
File under Ice Cold 97 (87.7)
On THIS page ( http://diymedia.net/fccwatch/eadtable11.htm ) for example, it lists a fine issued on
May 17, 2011 in which Robert Brown and Lloyd Morris were assessed $15,000 for the illegal on 99.7--and it says 4 days before then, the same two individuals' operation was raided.
The same page lists visits and postal-issued notices to pirates in Nashua (87.9) and Manchester (105.1--one of the "free state" stations, the other being in Keene)
The listing for the raid of Datz Hits says: "A civil action has been brought seeking forfeiture of the equipment." It says there was interference with aircraft radio; that the equipment had been at a different address before; repeated warnings, etc.
http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/News_Releases/DOC-306853A1.html
File under Ice Cold 97 (87.7)
I went on their facebook and said word had it they had been raided.
Posts:
>>Ok. I thought it was MY stereo. I've unplugged it, checked speakers, moved wires. Finally, it clicked to change the dial (I never do). Lo, and behold, other bs stations are coming through. Where is my Hot 97 Boston. No joke, be straight- are ya'll gone, or are you comin' back?
>>Youv'e been off air since yesterday.... :-/...where are you guys?
Posts:
>>Ok. I thought it was MY stereo. I've unplugged it, checked speakers, moved wires. Finally, it clicked to change the dial (I never do). Lo, and behold, other bs stations are coming through. Where is my Hot 97 Boston. No joke, be straight- are ya'll gone, or are you comin' back?
>>Youv'e been off air since yesterday.... :-/...where are you guys?
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MickeyD
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Mike said:
If I were 94.5 I would have hired the guys that run it 87.7 if that was the case. When a pirate beats the crap out of you it is time to either hire them or fire the PD and or GM.
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