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Most pirates sound the same

You're missing 99.3 The Joynt, the pirate station that actually tried to hire people. It broadcasts from Newark, like the rest of them, and covers 5 miles despite 99.1 and 99.5. It's not on all the time.
There's a pirate on 99.7 that plays hip hop.
Many frequencies have multiple pirate stations on them.
I've grown to like the beat of Caribbean music by listening to the pirate stations.
People are complaining about six stations playing Britney Spears, there are far more stations playing Caribbean rhythms.
How come no rock, country, dance, German, smooth jazz, or oldies pirate stations?

The Funny Clown Circus doesn't shut them down even when licensed stations complain.
I have had my former high school station WWPH 107.9 complain about the brand new 107.9 pirate station in Elizabeth that manages to interfere with WWPH, no response from the FCC.
I've called Pulse 87 complaining about the 87.9 pirate interference, the DJ said that many people have called Pulse 87 and complained for months about the interference.
Why can't the electric company shut off the power to the places with pirate stations?
 
Nick said:
How come no rock, country, dance, German, smooth jazz, or oldies pirate stations?
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Over a year ago around Linden, I picked up a Polish language pirate on 96.7, and was playing Polish Hip-Hop, and found a haitian pirate station on 96.1. The polish pirate was rumored to be broadcasting from the Polusa Nightclub in Roselle, while the haitian station was strong somewhere near the Linden train station. BTW, didn't someone do a dance pirate on 95.3 in Princeton, and is it still on? Never got a chance to check it out.
 
I'd love to start a pirate station ;D but I'd make it Free Form/Alternative and use old WDRE,Y100 and WHFS imaging liners. With so many Hip Hop/Urban formats on legit radio these days who needs a pirate for it??
 
radioman148 said:
Are there any other pirate formats other than caribbean music or rap?
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I'm in Brooklyn and I've never heard any. All the pirates here are hip hop or caribbean and carry powerful signals right through the borough knocking out every other rimshot signal in their path!
 
There are probably more Caribbean pirate stations receivable in Newark than there are in any point in the Caribbean nations.
 
funny....all the pirates in LA got shut down in the last few years. The most notable was a dance station near the west hollywood area. Go figure, it's the dance station that gets shut down. Maybe NYC is just too big for the FCC to find anyone.
 
Neel Mehta said:
funny....all the pirates in LA got shut down in the last few years. The most notable was a dance station near the west hollywood area. Go figure, it's the dance station that gets shut down. Maybe NYC is just too big for the FCC to find anyone.
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See, my point exactly, all pirates that broadcast dance, alternative, or any other genre except caribbean and hip hop get shut down within a week. The FCC has found locations of these pirates but al they are doing is sending memos out instead of raiding them. What gets me though is Streetz 96 has videos up on youtube with their dj's broadcasting from nightclubs and the FCC can't get them?
 
Other formats than Rap & Caribbean? Hmm, let me think....

WKOB AM 1200 (1kw!) was a pop (not sure) music station in New Britain in the mid-70's, they were shut down by the FCC
I have heard of stations in the midwest from as far north as Chicago down to Texas that do a talk radio format, most that GCN stuff, actually, I think that might even be coast to coast.

I know of a certain pirate station that used to air Off the Hook & Off the Wall from 2600 Magazine during the week then on Sunday morning Glen Hauser, Communications World from the VOA and DXing with Cumbre.

Religion seems to also be a very popular pirate format with many stations actually being run by Churches, I know I read somewhere once where a certain Church made the claim that because it was being done in God's name that they had the right to do it without a license and even posted links for other Churches on how to set up a station, it was very similar to this website ( http://www.freewebs.com/franitzasab/ ), but without the disclaimer.
 
radioman148 said:
Apparently the complaints are more numerous when a pirate does dance.
The corporates don't like that.
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Hmm..doesn't that send a message that maybe dance CAN make an impact on the FM dial?
 
Well, since we are on the topic of dance pirates, someone in Binghamton is doing a dance/electronica pirate on 97.7 already calling themselves "Hot 97" their signal is strongest in Binghamton's east side and this s*** is HOT!
 
There are other formats. 105.5 seems to be gospel. A small pirate on 102.3 in Queens seems to broadcast in Yiddish. Some pirates at the lower end of the dial broadcast in Spanish, as does the powerful pirate on 94.5. 90.1 seems to be a religious station, in Spanish. And one of the longest-running pirates, 91.9, which is usually on in the evenings, seems to have a mix of programming ranging from hip-hop to, at times, country music (yes, country!).
 
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