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Pirate on 104.5 around Granite Falls?

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eacalhoun1

I was around Granite Falls (just nw of Hickory) today and stumbled upon "Homegrown Radio" on 104.5? I at first thought I had picked up on some excellent reception of J104.5, WHAJ from Bluefield, WV. The station sounds great--great music from the 70s and 80s, agency PSAs, automated time checks, and even a solicitation to run local PSAs by emailing [email protected]
I got a great signal back to almost Rutherford College and spotty good signal around Valdese.
This evening at home just SW of Morganton, I tried the station and picked up spotty fair to weak signals and even heard a local announcer -- he sounded live but it could've been automated. I can find no record of an LPFM on 104.5 in this area.

Eric
 
I saw it on All-Access this morning, which referred to the story in the Hickory Daily Record -

http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2009/mar/06/loss-radio-station-death-family/#comments

My original post was June 10 and I don't know how long he was on prior to that -- I don't make it to Granite from Morganton too often. If he was on a year, is that the life expectency of a pirate? Well, not this THIS guy. In the article, he says he was NOT a pirate. However, there's something interesting here and this seems to be typical of other pirates I read about. They seem to have many listeners who find the pirate's programming enjoyable because it's different(than the current radio fare). So, can the legal stations learn something from this -- especially big corporate radio?
 
I have grown to despise the names associated with stations, each metropolitan area has it's own "Magic", "Mix", "Sunny", etc... I am so old fashioned that I cling to call letters...
BUT...Pirate Radio has a ring to it...
 
Kent Dorsey said:
I have grown to despise the names associated with stations, each metropolitan area has it's own "Magic", "Mix", "Sunny", etc... I am so old fashioned that I cling to call letters...
BUT...Pirate Radio has a ring to it...
Click to expand...

www.pirateradio1250.com

Fully legal and licensed!
 
Hey Eric!
Just for the record, I never said "I wasn't a pirate"..... I said "I didn't like that term" We did everything by the rules but were denied time after time for years. And yes, we were on the air for way over a year and everyone in this town loved us. We had plenty of studies done to find the "Right" frequency and were very succesfull. Why did we do it? We did it for the people, nothing else. All announcements were free..... just ask any of the business owners in town. We promoted the fund drives for our shriners so they could help the children, promoted local food drives for the poor, Shipped supplies to our troops in afghanistan and Iraq and we were proud to be a part of this great community.The people in this area were thirsty for "Real Radio" and thats what they got. We did what they said couldn't be done and are extremely proud of ourselves. We paid our dues and have no regrets. If Tom Long from WHKY hadn't turned us in, we could have went for an extremely long time. And Tom, The "FOIAR" we recieved from the FCC named YOU completely. Why? What did we or anyone in our town ever do to you? [EDIT] I bet you wont even be able to "GIVE" away your airtime in Granite Falls now. They hate you up here. Also For the record, My address is printed on here and If you ever want to "Talk" about any of this, just look me up. I'm not hard to find.
To all the other folks on here that I know and love very much, Thank you all for your concern, thoughts, prayers, and technical advice.
We still have ALL of our equipment, generators, transmitters and in the event of any type of local emergency.... you will be hearing us "live" again.
And yes Eric, Corporate radio could learn a few things from what we did.
Eddie


[EDIT-inflammatory]
 
As I mentioned before the phrase “pirate radio” is no longer being used and is not politically correct. In today’s society we now call them “undocumented Radio Stations”.
This is a good term because it doesn’t infer that someone is doing anything wrong and God forbid hurt their feelings.
::)
 
mp3RadioGuy said:
As I mentioned before the phrase “pirate radio” is no longer being used and is not politically correct. In today’s society we now call them “undocumented Radio Stations”.
This is a good term because it doesn’t infer that someone is doing anything wrong and God forbid hurt their feelings.
::)
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Oh, good, we're being politically correct now.

A big band/standards station near Charlotte used to air a show with old commercials. I think the man in charge didn't understand just what was going on, because they had this "Pirate Radio Report" or whatever it was called, and a "cool" female announcer who had fans.

I don't think "Undocumented Radio Report" would have quite the same edge. I wonder if this show's still on anywhere?
 
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