Category: pirate/free radio

The title pretty much sums it up. It goes down on Saturday in an event called 100,000 ANTENNAS – FREE RADIO MANIFESTATION. Here’s some background from Indymedia: The Dutch government’s recently implemented Zerobase Radio Frequency Policy is designed to control and regulate free use of the ether by commercial radio stations. On May 23 this…

DIYMedia notes that a former Tampa, FL pirate broadcaster is running for city council in that city, even using his acts of civil disobedience as a campaign asset. Hey, if George Bush can pirate a presidency, then at least a radio pirate should be able to win an election fair-and-square.

Less than a week after being raided by the FCC, John at DIYMedia reports that Berkeley Liberation Radio is back on the air. He also notes that “While the FCC has conducted at least three enforcement actions within the last three weeks, the good news is at least three new microradio stations have signed on…

p>A Westword article details the quick life and death of a pirate rap station in Denver that played local music when the local commercial urban station wouldn’t. It looks like the station wasn’t particularly clandestine. They apparently were just visited by field agents who served a “written warning” (probably a “notice of apparent liability”) but…

I just received an e-mail on the IMC-Audio list that says the California unlicensed FM station Berkeley Liberation Radio (BLR) was raided by the FCC this morning “confiscating all equipment (leaving only headphones and microphones). The local Field Office refuses to comment, referring phone calls to the Enforcement Bureau in Washington (which has gone home…

This takes some major balls — the Institute for Applied Piracy reports on Sydney Indymedia that they jammed commercial stations in that city for 10 minutes this morning with an anti-World Trade Organization report. A “mini-ministerial” of the World Trade Organization is meeting in that city this weekend. Recall that the anti-corporate-globablization movement really came…

Just a quicky, thanks to a post on the Free Radio Network’s Grapevine — Doug Brewer, who operated the Tampa, FL based “Party Pirate” unlicensed low-power FM station, until being shut down a year and a half ago, has been hit by the FCC again, according to this “ORDER OF REVOCATION AND OF FORFEITURE” from…