My Thoughts on the FRSD Raid

[hipman]

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When there are legitimate broadcasters ignoring the needs of the communities they are serving, people go elsewhere for the kind of stuff they need, such as web blogs, music downloads, streaming Internet, and news websites to learn about issues and genres of music that the legits are completely pushing aside in favor of more of the same kind of irrelevant music and news that's overplayed or overreported.

As for the local pirate broadcasters, I feel for you, as you provided programming and information to fill in certain niches that the legits wouldn't cover.

As for the legit broadcasters, the threat of pirate broadcasting is more than fearing that it could cause alternate or adjacent channel interference with their legitimate licensed-broadcasters

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[Crusty_Bob]

> Read it all here:
>
> http://www.sandiegoradionews.com/0100.htm
>
> comments accepted via e-mail.
>
> excerpts:
>
> When there are legitimate broadcasters ignoring the needs of
> the communities they are serving, people go elsewhere for
> the kind of stuff they need, such as web blogs, music
> downloads, streaming Internet, and news websites to learn
> about issues and genres of music that the legits are
> completely pushing aside in favor of more of the same kind
> of irrelevant music and news that's overplayed or
> overreported.
>
> As for the local pirate broadcasters, I feel for you, as you
> provided programming and information to fill in certain
> niches that the legits wouldn't cover.
>
> As for the legit broadcasters, the threat of pirate
> broadcasting is more than fearing that it could cause
> alternate or adjacent channel interference with their
> legitimate licensed-broadcasters
>
> Read the rest here.
> http://www.sandiegoradionews.com/0100.htm
>
> d.t.
>




Quite a rant and much anti-Mexico as it is anti-corporate radio.

Love the "take that, Diaz!"

You realize, of course, he's dead?

Victor Diaz, by the way, was a big proponent of reducing the adjacent channel separation for FM.


Pirate radio, LPFM and even Victor Diaz's sucessful efforts to gain new frequencies such as that used by XLNC, are objected to by other broadcasters not because they really care about interference to other radio services or even to themselves: what they fear is anything that will further dilute the audience - radio broadcasting is really narrowcasting. Your thinking about "screw Mexico" is right in line with what San Diego broadcasters tried to do for years (and some still do).

If you want "hard-hitting commentaries on the world issues" that are reflective of screw Mexico, you might want to check out http://www.radiowhite.com/

 

[davideduardo]

Re: Good Riddance to Scofflaws

>
> Quite a rant and much anti-Mexico as it is anti-corporate
> radio.
>

All in all, a pretty sick article.

Mexico has a regulatory board. There is a method for resolving international disputes. It works most of the time. Mexico has as music a right to use the specturm as the US does. KPFK is not protected except in its theoretical confirming class B contour, not the grandfathered contour.

Pirates do not, with rare exceptions, provide any service. Most are a way for the owner to broadcast a better mix of punk, altrnative, rock, hip hop or some other favorite music style. Most have cheap equipment that radiates all kinds of off frequency products, and nearly never have proper monitoring equipment. They often interfere with aviation and other services, and ar frequently mismatched to thier antennas. Generally, the don't meet zoning and RFI requirements. They never have bussiness permits or use permits.

I have tracked at least a dozen pirates over the years, and proudly say I have gotten more than half of them closed down. The one I did not track was the one that caused a plane I was in to have to abort a landing at MIA, due to interference on the aviation band by a Haitian pirate. I later listened to it, and learned how to swear in Kreyole.

 

[ibezdechi]

Re: Good Riddance to Scofflaws

> Pirates do not, with rare exceptions, provide any service.
> Most are a way for the owner to broadcast a better mix of
> punk, altrnative, rock, hip hop or some other favorite music
> style. Most have cheap equipment that radiates all kinds of

David Gleason, I congratulate for for you having taken an inch to finally acknowledge that corporate radio which is over-researched, lacks diversity and plays the same material over-and-over ad nauseum. Corporate radio does not need to make mega mega profits. Just like Home Depot and other big companies have over-expanded and as a result have put customer service in third place after profits, consumers eventually have voted with their pocketbooks.

The decentralization and monopolization of radio broadcasting in the United States has resulted it never recovering from being mired in an economic miasma. Advertising is soft, the stock prices of these broadcasting behemoths are down, and revenue growth rates are much lower than those of earlier years. Only when corporate radio stations get out of the format strangleholds (nooses) they have put themselves will pirate radio not thrive.

 

[k9ez]

Re: Good Riddance to Scofflaws

> > Pirates do not, with rare exceptions, provide any service.
>
> > Most are a way for the owner to broadcast a better mix of
> > punk, altrnative, rock, hip hop or some other favorite
> music
> > style. Most have cheap equipment that radiates all kinds
> of
>
> David Gleason, I congratulate for for you having taken an
> inch to finally acknowledge that corporate radio which is
> over-researched, lacks diversity and plays the same material
> over-and-over ad nauseum. Corporate radio does not need to
> make mega mega profits. Just like Home Depot and other big
> companies have over-expanded and as a result have put
> customer service in third place after profits, consumers
> eventually have voted with their pocketbooks.
>
> The decentralization and monopolization of radio
> broadcasting in the United States has resulted it never
> recovering from being mired in an economic miasma.
> Advertising is soft, the stock prices of these broadcasting
> behemoths are down, and revenue growth rates are much lower
> than those of earlier years. Only when corporate radio
> stations get out of the format strangleholds (nooses) they
> have put themselves will pirate radio not thrive.
>


PUH LEEEZ, Pirates have always existed even when radio was in it glory. All it is is some people that want to play THEIR music, because they cant hear it anywhere else. The glorification of pirates has always interested me.

To me, pirates are people just too lazy to try and get a license. In other words, they are not willing to put together a business plan, or a business deal with an owner of a station.

 

[davideduardo]

Re: Good Riddance to Scofflaws

> > Pirates do not, with rare exceptions, provide any service.
>
> > Most are a way for the owner to broadcast a better mix of
> > punk, altrnative, rock, hip hop or some other favorite
> music
> > style. Most have cheap equipment that radiates all kinds
> of
>
> David Gleason, I congratulate for for you having taken an
> inch to finally acknowledge that corporate radio which is
> over-researched, lacks diversity and plays the same material
> over-and-over ad nauseum. Corporate radio does not need to
> make mega mega profits. Just like Home Depot and other big
> companies have over-expanded and as a result have put
> customer service in third place after profits, consumers
> eventually have voted with their pocketbooks.

You did not get the sarcasm in "better mix" obvously.

Some of the pirates I have heard are simply excuses to play dirty lyrics and swear on the air.

At the end of the day, whatever they do... dirty lyrics or reading the bible, they are illegal.

I'm glad your interests are in radio, not in banking. (more sarcasm)

 

[DoctorWu]

Re: Good Riddance to Scofflaws

Right on. A pirate broadcaster is no different than the guy who rolls through stop signs or drives 95 on the freeway - he thinks he's above the law because he's "special".

To quote Charles Schultz, "It takes all kinds... but some kinds we could do without."

- Doc

> To me, pirates are people just too lazy to try and get a
> license. In other words, they are not willing to put
> together a business plan, or a business deal with an owner
> of a station.
>