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Pirate Radio Station in Weslaco Texas

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islandfocus28

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So the wife and I made a trip to Nuevo Progreso Mexico last week and while driving through Mercedes, TX I came across 95.7 on my radio. I usually use Radio Locator to search stations in the area we are traveling to so I can tune in and listen to those stations but I did not see a 95.7 FM listed in Weslaco but the man on the air kept mentioning Radio Emanuel in Weslaco. I figured it must be a new LPFM that wasn't listed on Radio Locator yet but When we got back home I did a Google search for 95.7 Weslaco and I found the station. It appears to be an unlicensed pirate station. It's run by someone named Rev. Rosalio Martínez of the church Templo Eben-Ezer in Weslaco.

http://www.ebenezerweslaco.org

http://emanuelradio.org

This guy Rosalio Martinez has to know what he is doing is illegal. According to the website it says he is a co-founder of Radio Vida there in Weslaco. If that's true he knows he needs a license. I wasn't going to post anything about this but yesterday I came across another Spanish church running a pirate station in Mathis, TX on 95.3 FM I just think it's really ironic that all these churches do stuff like this. It's rather disheartening.
 
I don't know about this particular station but I can bet you half the Spanish churches running illegal operations don't know what they are doing. There are people out there who will sell broadcasting equipment to them and say hey you can have a station if you can set this up... Crooked, I know. But the corrupt sellers and engineers never get caught, it's always the ignorant broadcasters who get in trouble from the FCC.
 
Its not disheartening. Communication laws used to limit ownership of stations, and with a wide diversity of owners you had good programming. Now practically all of the stations in this country are owned by Iheart ClearChannel, Cumulus, or Cox. From city to city they play the same crap, and most often programming doesn't even originate locally. I have visited several pirate stations, and more often than not they are doing a great job programming from their community to their community.
 
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