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Pirates in Brockton

argytunes said:
I've often wondered what keeps a pirate radio station alive?

Is it a cash grant from an anonymous source? An advertiser from a foreign country? I doubt the funds are obtained from a PBS Pledge Drive?

Anybody with an idea or two? ???

argytunes
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In 89.3s case they play beaucoup adverts.Listen at sign off some day.wonder how much they get?
 
argytunes said:
I've often wondered what keeps a pirate radio station alive?
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Many of them air paid local advertising (commercials), some may also solicit or collect some donations from the local community, but I think that a large part is that owners and staff are basically doing it as a hobby on the side, and most have other regular jobs. I doubt many staffers at pirate stations, if any, are paid, and they don't pay for the licensing and legal issues of legitimate stations, so overhead is relatively low, and many are probably covering the stations expenses at least partially with their own personal money from other jobs or sources.
 
Radio Free Vermont (late 90s, 96.5 in Rutland VT) would run PSAs...and ads (including one for a
golf driving range in nearby Clarendon)
 
I've often wondered what keeps a pirate radio station alive?
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Often it's the work of one or two people who pour far too much of their own time & money into it. A few run fundraisers, not always on the air...benefit concerts are not uncommon. Others actually have the gall to sell ad time or lease air time. The latter is a real problem as many of the small and mid-sized legal AM's around here depend on that leased time revenue to stay afloat, and the pirates are undercutting their rates left and right. Pirates can do that since they don't need to worry about, you know, all the niceties of being legal. Like EAS equipment costs, tower lights, tower proofs, etc.
 
some of these stations are claiming to be low-power FMs...well, legit LPFMs are not allowed to run advertising from what I've heard--yet some have solicited/run ads...
TouchFM 106.1 has an "LP" in their logo...but are not a legit LPFM

http://www.touchfm.org
 
>>The radio interference "created a serious safety issue" by preventing air traffic controllers from communicating with private aircraft

so much for "it's just people trying to serve the community".
Noticed more than a few pirates on the upper end of the AM dial yesterday about 5 pm on Rt 128
in Reading--one of whom wasn't even in the expanded band: AM 1580, with a particularly strong
signal. And while 1650 is normally Logan Airport Info Radio, I think I heard a pirate on that freq.
Fine 'em, jail 'em if you have to...breaking the law, pure and simple. Maybe someday the FCC could
set up a spectrum of the radio dial where pirates could put out power to their hearts' content
WITHOUT causing interference to legit stations (doubt it though)
 
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