-Operating for 12 years.
-Massive following (No one know what their following is)
-"Legitimate" guests
-Fill the hole in the market.
None of which change the fact that they are operating illegally.
Are we heading further into an era where people proclaim "the rules/laws don't apply to me"?
Because I have been speeding for 12 years, does that mean I should be allowed to continue to do so?
Heres the thing...I am happy with the station. Obviously, its illegal and anything that happens to them within the confines of the law is fair game. Period. I get it, they get it- but we/they do not really care.
No damage is being done to other stations or basic city functions. No one is truly being harmed you can extrapolate and try to imagine what damages they're doing but that's really not what this is about. People on this board and other radio stations who fear thewy are losing listeners are the only people who care-truly. This is why WGBH seem sympathetic to them because they writing as best they can from the normal person POV. THis is why they hav e candidates on the air. THis is why the FCC only shows up once every few years. It just honestly not a big deal, illegal for sure but why arre you choosing to side with big corporations rather than the interests of your fellow statespeople?
Leaving this station alone would be a good exercise in selective enforcement-many people here are acting like the radio police because they don't like scofflaws-I get it. But I cannot understand the hate the station gets. I honestly beleive if youve been speeding for 12 yeares and havent caused an accident then yes you hsould be allowed to keep speeding. In fact my guess is that you do occasionally speed and have been doing so for much more than 12 years. FIre works are illegal-yet every year on the Esplanade...
. It is the enforcement of nonessential violations like these that further STRENGTHEN anti-law-enforcement feelings amongst black people, and ultimately STRENGTHEN the station. Hunting down landlords is an incredibly inefficient use of taxpayer money-attempting to shut this station down again is a waste of taxpayer money.
The reality of the situation is these people pay a fee to various people in the Dorchester area to be able to set up shop at any time/anywhere. This is what I have heard from people on the street who are involved in Boston's Hip Hop scene (Producer/DJs). As long as its JAMN 945 and HOT969 serve as the hip hop outlets this will happen. FCC is bringing one bucket to a flood.
Yes they have a large following OF COURSE. THeye got 10s and thousands of likes and you can ehre them all the time in Boston south of the Pike in the booming cars. Infinitely more often than JAMN-infact i have a friend who works in the finance sector on State Street. We grew up on B87 - hes the one who messaged me telling me they were back on air and prompted me to come to this board, unsurprisingly people are willing to try to put an end to what hasd become/is becoming a part of the city's culture for better or for worse... we can extrapolate from their twitter and Facebook numbers which would indicate theyre roughly half as popular as WAAF and much more popular than WKAF,
