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New York Pirate Radio

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BJSteigner

This is an article from Radio and Records AND the FCC

The FCC on Friday (Aug. 8) issued a $10,000 fine to Jean Idalbert of Brooklyn, N.Y., for operating an unlicensed radio transmitter at 90.9 FM.

The FCC sent him a notice of apparently liability on April 29 and said Friday that there is evidence that he received the notice but failed to respond. He must send the U.S. Treasury a check or money order.

Is this a protest or what? I wonder why these pirates are operating? Is there a protest against commercial radio nobody knows about?

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There's actually an underground "business" going on with these pirates.

We have a LOT of these pirates operating in the Bronx and I hear advertisements for local establishments (beauty salons, etc.) I would think these pirates aren't advertising these places for informational purposes! LOL. I would think money is getting exchanged. No protest or anything of that nature.
 
For a $10,000 fine a person could purchase quite a few Part 15 AM transmitters and probably cover the Bronx LEGALLY. I bet there's at least one pirate causing harmful interference to a licensed station in the area.

Now what do you think the chances are that this pirate will have his fine reduced?
 
Bill DeFelice said:
Now what do you think the chances are that this pirate will have his fine reduced?
Click to expand...

A better question is, "now what do you think the chances are that this pirate will ever bother paying a dime?"
 
I love the gov't- send a check or a money order...no trials, guilty till proven innocent???? WTF....


590buddy ;D
 
This station, or other pirates at 90.9 in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn, have been interfering, on and off, with WFMU (91.1) and WFUV (90.7) for a few years. Many of them are Caribbean stations. They would probably claim that many of their listeners don't have access to the Internet, and therefore need FM stations to serve their needs, but they shouldn't splatter all over licensed stations. Particularly not non-comms.

So the FCC really can't do anything other than fine them, over and over again? I don't see anything in the news stories about the FCC seizing Idalbert's equipment. Did they? Didn't the FCC do this in the past? What has gone wrong with the FCC if they can't seize the equipment of pirates that interfere with legit stations? Not that I'm a huge fan of the FCC, but if they can't do anything to stop the pirates effectively, then theoretically, what's to stop pirates from appearing all over the dial and making the entire FM band completely unlistenable?

Last time I was in Brooklyn, an 89.7 pirate was interfering with WKCR (89.9) and an 89.3 pirate was messing up WSOU (89.5) and WFDU (89.1). There were tons of others, but some of them had the decency to operate in relatively open spots in the commercial part of the dial, like at 99.9, instead of picking on little stations like WFMU.

Out here in NJ, a persistent 90.1 FM pirate, "Roadblock Radio," messes with WKCR in western Newark and Irvington. I've also heard a Latin pirate at 102.5, directly adjacent to the legitimate WWFS at 102.7, though I'm not sure how much interference it actually causes to WWFS. There are many other pirates who are sensible enough to use a more "open" frequency like 104.7 or 107.9.
 
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