Category: pirate/free radio

I just got an email from DJ Johnny Silver of Iron Action Radio. You may recall that I first posted about Nyack NY’s radio pirate back in January, when he was publicizing two dramatized videos about himself and his station. He says he’s finishing up the “3rd part in the series of films based on…

Just two weeks after Free Radio San Diego was busted, Jake alerts me that the FCC just sent a warning letter to the operators of 106.9 FM in San Diego, which rebroadcasts the internet station Radioactive San Diego, where Jake does his Lying Media Bastards program. According to SD IMC, the letter delivered yesterday demands…

V-Man from Free Radio Santa Cruz interviewed Free Radio San Diego founder Bob Ugly today. There aren’t too many other details about the raid, since nobody was at the station. But it’s interesting to hear Bob’s reaction — he says they were pretty much expecting the raid, though we don’t know if there was any…

And so another high-profile pirate meets the FCC, along with federal marshals. According to Free Radio San Diego’s website and a post to SD-IMC, the station was raided this morning. Details are few at the moment, but nobody was at the station at the time, and apparently the feds “broke the locks on their doors,…

If it’s true that the Florida pirate bust that I posted about a little while ago is really the first arrest under the new Florida law, then it would seem that the law isn’t having quite the intended effect. Although, according to a RadioWorld report a non-commercial station manager in Boynton Beach says that “The…

According to the Sun-Sentinel, agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested two men for running two unlicensed radio stations in Ft. Lauderdale. They are charged with state felonies, based on Florida’s anti-pirate-radio law passed last year. Florida is the first and only state with such a law on the books. And by all…

Wednesday’s FCC raid of rfb doesn’t seemed to have affected the positive support for the station in the city of Brattleboro. The local paper chimes in with cautious support for the station, without necessarily endorsing unlicensed broadcasting as a whole, nor letting the FCC off the hook: Granted, the station operated outside the law. Simply…

According to today’s Brattleboro Reformer, free radio brattleboro’s lawyer, James Maxwell plans to file a motion for the FCC to be held in contempt of court for Wednesday’s raid on the station. The article only hints around what justifies contempt in this case. I figure the reasoning will hinge on the fact that the FCC’s…

An article in today’s Brattleboro Reformer repeats most of the details contained in the station’s press release, but also has an eyewitness account of when the FCC and Federal Marshals hit the station early in the morning when it wasn’t staffed: Brooks House resident Joe Dever noticed something going on in rfb’s rented space Wednesday.…

I didn’t see this coming, since, as John pointed out, Radio Free Brattleboro’s case with the FCC is still pending in court, and the Feds only recently asked for a summary judgement. In fact, last year, the judge in the case ruled against the FCC’s request for an injunction to shut down the station while…