Pirates represent at Boston Caribbean Carnival

[ciao99]

The Pirates were representing at Saturday's Caribbean Carnival in Boston.

Big City-FM had it's own float. A massive crowd gathered around it as it made it's way towards Franklin Park. The crowd got so big that the parade had to stop momentarily to gain control. All was well in the end. The Big City logo was also present on a float promoting a reggae concert featuring Shaggy.
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The Vibe 105.3 also had a float, although I know less about this one, and it didn't gather as much attention as Big City.
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Choice FM was strangely absent.

 

[SonicOverload]

I'll save WLYNgm the trouble of having to cut and paste his comment:

There is no justification for pirates - ever. It is always wrong, always illegal -
and a slap in the face of legitimate stations and those people trying to make a living
working in the 'biz. Make the pirates walk the plank - and alert immigration along the
way, just in case... Pirates are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

 

[ciao99]

I'll save WLYNgm the trouble of having to cut and paste his comment:

There is no justification for pirates - ever. It is always wrong, always illegal -
and a slap in the face of legitimate stations and those people trying to make a living
working in the 'biz. Make the pirates walk the plank - and alert immigration along the
way, just in case... Pirates are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

What I saw on Blue Hill Ave on Saturday were people passionate about their favorite radio station. This was organic community radio.

The corporate lackies that troll this forum should take note. Tell me, how can you corporate honchos with your nationally owned radio stations and corporate backed budgets be threatened by a pirate radio station with no budget and a weak signal that barely covers the city? Easily: because it's locally oriented radio that is actually serving its listeners. People recognize it and they love it.

 

[raccoonradio]

Serving listeners? Maybe. But without authorization. Yeah, pirate radio is romantic. It's like that
Christian Slater movie where he starts up a pirate radio station. Hard Harry's back on the air.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0100436/

I'm sure some 11 year old kid would love to drive a car, even though he's not old enough to drive. So
what! Give him the keys. And let those community folks run a radio station illegally, and immigrants
work under the table (thus depriving the Commonwealth of possible tax dollars). Who needs rules
and laws?

Let me know what your favorite radio station is; I'll go down the street from you and start a pirate
on an adjacent freq and ruin your reception. Hey, I'm serving the community! (A co-worker of mine
called the FCC when he couldn't hear WMBR, and his fave show "Lost and Found", due to a pirate
near him. Pirates, YEAH baby!)

Oh and by the way, my "big corporate owner" is a 130 watt college station. Hopefully nobody will
set up shop down the street from us and jam our frequency. Pirate radio, baby. Who needs a license?

Have these pirates considered going to a college or low powered AM station, a legit one, and
bringing their programming there? No, that would be obeying the law. Makes too much sense.

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

What I saw on Blue Hill Ave on Saturday were people passionate about their favorite radio station. This was organic community radio.

The corporate lackies that troll this forum should take note. Tell me, how can you corporate honchos with your nationally owned radio stations and corporate backed budgets be threatened by a pirate radio station with no budget and a weak signal that barely covers the city? Easily: because it's locally oriented radio that is actually serving its listeners. People recognize it and they love it.

So, let me see if I have this straight: Just because two pirate radio stations put floats in a parade, that somehow legitimizes them? That makes it OK that they're breaking the law? That proves that they're serving their listeners? Try using some actual logic next time.

Further, your assumption that licensed stations are "threatened" by pirates is a laughable red-herring, and attempts once again to gloss over the fact that these stations are illegal, and their owners face fines and jail time for acting like immature cry-babies because they can't be licensed. Boo-freakin'-hoo. There's all kinds of time available on all kinds of stations for them to buy, to program what they want to program. They have neither the need nor the right to do what they're doing. They're just acting like children...and just like children, when they screw up they will be punished. They also don't seem to understand the rank stupidity of calling attention to themselves by appearing in a parade. The higher their profile, the easier it is for the FCC to get them in their sights.

 

[raccoonradio]

>>all kinds of time available on all kinds of stations for them to buy

or FREE time on college stations. WMWM has served the Hispanic community in Salem/Peabody, etc.
by putting on several shows. Legit shows. Not pirate radio.

 

[Nate Wesley]

Pirate radio is nothing more than a newer form civil disobedience. A nuisance its worst, but not by any means a crisis like raccoonradio and DTABOH are making it out to be. If these pirates want to play the odds with the FCC, let 'em. They''re likely get caught without much help.

However, if the beef is really about what's put on the air, then just change the channel. You know, that time honored advice conservatives give to us liberal weenies who hate talk radio.

 

[raccoonradio]

>>then just change the channel.

...to NPR, liberals How about if someone put up a 2,000 watt signal on 90.7 in Boston and it screwed
up listeners of WBUR? It's just civil disobedience!

 

[WLYNWAZNgm]

Pirates are part of the problem, not the solution

Yea, my parents grew up there. It used to be a nice neighborhood. Look what your "community" has done to it.
Disgraceful on all counts...You have nobody but yourselves to blame...

 

[Eli Polonsky]

They also don't seem to understand the rank stupidity of calling attention to themselves by appearing in a parade. The higher their profile, the easier it is for the FCC to get them in their sights.

Doesn't the FCC already have (at least) those two particular pirate stations well "in their sights"? They know exactly where they're broadcasting from, and I believe they have issued them both "warnings" at their origination points. These stations are banking on the fact that any further action by the FCC is usually deeply mired in bureaucracy and inertia, and as long as the "official" threats remain empty and it seems that nothing is going to happen to them, it doesn't make much difference how much they publicize themselves in the community.

 

[WLYNWAZNgm]

just a matter of time...

Somebody will remind the local FCC field office shortly...

 

[Finn]

Re: Pirates are part of the problem, not the solution

Yea, my parents grew up there. It used to be a nice neighborhood. Look what your "community" has done to it.
Disgraceful on all counts...You have nobody but yourselves to blame...

and this has what to do with radio??

 

[rapking]

Re: Pirates are part of the problem, not the solution

Yea, my parents grew up there. It used to be a nice neighborhood. Look what your "community" has done to it.
Disgraceful on all counts...You have nobody but yourselves to blame...

O my god ! A shootout happan near The State House ! Murders in Norton ! Highways are falling apart ! My Parents grew up here, on planet Earth . Look what we had done to the 3rd Rock ! Pirate radio has its fan base . Most People who listen to these Pirate Radio Stations , Dont know that these stations are Braking the Law ( And if they know , Who Care's ) . I love Pirate Radio !

 

[ciao99]

I'm a Soca Junkie

Yea, my parents grew up there. It used to be a nice neighborhood. Look what your "community" has done to it.
Disgraceful on all counts...You have nobody but yourselves to blame...

O my god ! A shootout happan near The State House ! Murders in Norton ! Highways are falling apart ! My Parents grew up here, on planet Earth . Look what we had done to the 3rd Rock ! Pirate radio has its fan base . Most People who listen to these Pirate Radio Stations , Dont know that these stations are Braking the Law ( And if they know , Who Care's ) . I love Pirate Radio !

Thanks for that post Rapking. My grandparents were from Planet Earth too. Look what they've done to it. They've polluted it. The icecaps are melting, global warming is in full swing. They've bulldozed farmland for minimalls, Mc Mansions, self storage units, and parking lots for gas guzzlers. There goes the neighborhood!

I also love Pirate Radio. Listen to the soca, it's such positive music. None of the negativity in the hip hop that corporate radio pushes on the population. Soca is so refreshing and upbeat, even those with 2 left feet can't help but dance to it. Give it a try WLYNgm. Put away those negative thoughts that consume you and get lost in the rhythm.

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

Re: I'm a Soca Junkie

O my god ! A shootout happan near The State House ! Murders in Norton ! Highways are falling apart ! My Parents grew up here, on planet Earth . Look what we had done to the 3rd Rock ! Pirate radio has its fan base . Most People who listen to these Pirate Radio Stations , Dont know that these stations are Braking the Law ( And if they know , Who Care's ) . I love Pirate Radio !

Thanks for that post Rapking. My grandparents were from Planet Earth too. Look what they've done to it. They've polluted it. The icecaps are melting, global warming is in full swing. They've bulldozed farmland for minimalls, Mc Mansions, self storage units, and parking lots for gas guzzlers. There goes the neighborhood!

Brilliant. Laws are being broken all over the place, so let's break a few more! What's to stop another pirate from planting themselves right on top of your favorite pirate and obliterating their signal? How p***ed off would you be if that happened? After all, anarchy ought to be the rule, by your reckoning. Let's just wipe all the laws off the face of the earth! They just get in the way of everyone doing what they want to do! Let's all turn into uncivilized beasts!

Cliff's Notes: Where does it end?

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

Doesn't the FCC already have (at least) those two particular pirate stations well "in their sights"? They know exactly where they're broadcasting from, and I believe they have issued them both "warnings" at their origination points. These stations are banking on the fact that any further action by the FCC is usually deeply mired in bureaucracy and inertia, and as long as the "official" threats remain empty and it seems that nothing is going to happen to them, it doesn't make much difference how much they publicize themselves in the community.

It's rank stupidity to paint a target on yourself. What they want is a LOWER profile, not a higher one. If you want the FCC to ignore you, or at least assign you a lower priority in the grand scheme of things, you don't call attention to yourself, and you don't deliberately thumb your nose at them. If these people don't want to be smacked in the behind like spoiled children, they ought to start acting like adults.

 

[raccoonradio]

>>A shootout happan near The State House !

Happan? happened.

>> Braking the Law

like using a car's brake?

>>Who Care's

That's right, Care's is the plural of "care" so we use an apostrophe. As in, "I have two radio's in this
room"
Then again, we have a "mayah" who isn't a "fancy talkah" (sic, via pronunciation) so maybe I shouldn't nitpick