The FM Band is full!

[DToTheJ]

Of course, the FM band is full... Why do you think Cumulus is trying to sneak into the back door with 106.3 to enter the NYC DMA?

 

[oaktree]

Um, because they can, damn it! LOL

 

[nd2023]

Legal stations have such a complicated process of moving a station into a market. A pirate station just needs to turn on its transmitter to get into the market.

 

[oaktree]

And they don't have penny stocks to contend with. Pirates use "dubloons"! They also say "Arrrrrrr!" a lot. And "matey", too!

 

[d21ofnj]

Some of these pirates can't speak english such as 87.9 (wich is why Pulse is in danger) 90.1, 99.9, 102.5, and 104.7. Sure, they are all in Newark and the Oranges, but let's say if one of these was a dance or alernative station. My feeling is those formats will be raided.

 

[nd2023]

Well, I had a dance pirate station back in 2005, running only a few watts, and I lost interest in it when the transmitter broke. I now more than ever, want to raid 87.9, sell its transmitter, and donate the proceeds to Mega Media. They're responsible for the loss of perfectly good Pulse 87 reception in Newark.
Pirate stations also don't have the FCC to deal with, they can curse all they want, the FCC does nothing.

 

[d21ofnj]

Speak of which with La Kalle going to 96.3 and Streetz 96 being on 96.5, maybe you will vision a war in Newark between Hip hop and Raggaeton or whatever La Kalle is now, or all the hispanic fans can tune to 102.5 since Stretz will bleed through La Kalle's new home

 

[stationless listener]

Of course, the FM band is full... Why do you think Cumulus is trying to sneak into the back door with 106.3 to enter the NYC DMA?

Are you sure it's 106.3 and not 103.9? ???

 

[magicjellybeans]

I say that when pirates are caught, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Their operations interfere with legitimate broadcasters who pay big bucks for the licenses. The FCC should also confiscate their equipment.

Bruce

Waste of your tax dollars!

 

[davideduardo]

I say that when pirates are caught, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Their operations interfere with legitimate broadcasters who pay big bucks for the licenses. The FCC should also confiscate their equipment.

Waste of your tax dollars!

When I was on an inbound flight about to land at MIA, and the plane suddenly full-powered and climbed within a couple of miles of the outer marker, and the pilot later announced that some kind of illegal FM was cutting off critical aviation band communications, I could not disagree more.

Pirates are a major threat to all kinds of emergency communications. I favor decapitation to confiscation, though.

 

[davideduardo]

Speak of which with La Kalle going to 96.3 and Streetz 96 being on 96.5, maybe you will vision a war in Newark between Hip hop and Raggaeton or whatever La Kalle is now, or all the hispanic fans can tune to 102.5 since Stretz will bleed through La Kalle's new home

Kalle is tropical.

 

[davideduardo]

Of course, the FM band is full... Why do you think Cumulus is trying to sneak into the back door with 106.3 to enter the NYC DMA?

All of Westchester County is in the New York MSA, so 106.3 is already in the NY metro... it is just moving closer to the City.

The PPM only has an MSA. There is no TSA. And DMA defines the TV market, not the radio market.

 

[davideduardo]

I would love to have spent this summer helping to shut down all the pirates in this region.
But I could give the FCC the exact coordinates of the pirate station's antenna and the exact ERP and they will do nothing. Maybe they'll send a courtesy letter politely asking them to shut down or else they might get fined within 100 years.

I have seen, and been part of, getting several pirates shut down in LA. Engineers from several stations triangulated and located the transmitter sites and identified the exact address, and then notified the FCC. In one case, a pirate was on the adjacent channel to local KMZT, and the FCC got them off the air in about 48 hours. Several others were gone in a few weeks.

"There's a pirate in Brooklyn on 107.7" is not going to cut it.

 

[nd2023]

I could dream about the FCC shutting off a pirate station on a first adjacent within 48 hours. That sort of stuff never happens on this coast.

 

[stationless listener]

Look to corruption as an explanation. Maybe those Caribbean pirates have a ton of money in which to bribe the right officials in exchange for them looking the other way with that playing of the annoying bacc-anal music. As we've seen recently in NJ, anything is possible.

On a more serious note, this is completely unfair to people who want to listen to legit stations on those frequencies. If you want to listen to WFAS on the car radio, for example, after 6 PM then you're out of luck, depending on where you are in the city.

 

[oaktree]

I favor decapitation to confiscation, though.


Priceless, David! Sheer brilliance! Thank you.

 

[nd2023]

It's not corruption, its laziness.
I would suggest starting at the bottom of the dial and shutting down the pirates one by one, 87.9 goes bye bye first.

 

[d21ofnj]

It's not corruption, its laziness.
I would suggest starting at the bottom of the dial and shutting down the pirates one by one, 87.9 goes bye bye first.

Yea, but even then, they will still come back, and then more. Look at 104.1 I pulled from Bloomfield, their slogan was #1 for caribbean and hip-hop. At the same time, it's funny they consider themselves #1, when there are 30 other pirates playing the same format and they are a noob.

 

[nd2023]

It's not corruption, its laziness.
I would suggest starting at the bottom of the dial and shutting down the pirates one by one, 87.9 goes bye bye first.

Yea, but even then, they will still come back, and then more. Look at 104.1 I pulled from Bloomfield, their slogan was #1 for caribbean and hip-hop. At the same time, it's funny they consider themselves #1, when there are 30 other pirates playing the same format and they are a noob.

Elite Radio 97.5 is self-proclaimed New Jersey's #1 Radio Station!
At least there are more Caribbean stations than CHR stations in this state and surrounding markets.
Brand new Newark pirate this week: 103.3

 

[robotique]

It's not corruption, its laziness.
I would suggest starting at the bottom of the dial and shutting down the pirates one by one, 87.9 goes bye bye first.

Yea, but even then, they will still come back, and then more. Look at 104.1 I pulled from Bloomfield, their slogan was #1 for caribbean and hip-hop. At the same time, it's funny they consider themselves #1, when there are 30 other pirates playing the same format and they are a noob.

hahaahhaha. exactly - telling people you're number one doesn't make you number one. and by what standard are they measuring themselves??