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Category: pirate/free radio

  • Radio Zapote May Not Be Evicted

    Following up on a post last week about the possible eviction of Mexico City free radio station, Radio Zapote, from the School of Anthropology and History: Global Indymedia has a feature on the situation, along with photos and audio interviews in Spanish, with a summary in English. Now it seems there are conflicted opinions at…

  • Low-Power Radio in New England and Mexico

    The Boston Phoenix features a an overview of some low-power stations, licensed and unlicensed, that have operated in New England over the last ten years or so, including Radio Free Brattleboro and the recently departed Allston-Brighton Free Radio. Volunteers from RFB were on the radioshow back in Oct. 2003 and Jan. 2004 when they started…

  • Recent Radio Shows Online: Howard Feld on Translator Trafficking; Stephen Dunifer Discusses Free Radio Camp and Unlicensed TV

    The last two mediageek radio shows are both on-line and definitely worth a listen if you’ve been following the FM translator trafficking scandal, or interested in free radio and TV. mediageek 3-25-05: Free Radio Workshops on Tour On this program we talk with Stephen Dunifer, of Free Radio Berkeley, about their upcoming Radio Camps, offering…

  • Preserving the Sounds of Pirate Radio

    In a brief music news piece, the Boulder Daily Camera reports (bugmenot passwd) that 400 hours of shows and “Live at Studio Free” sessions from the departed Boulder Free Radio are going to a new online stations called The Boulder Sound. The article lists the webstream address as http://stream.thebouldersound.com:8501/listen.pls but I got nothing there. The…

  • Repeat After Me: “Podcasting is NOT Pirate Radio”

    I realize that mainstream commercial broadcast radio is so horrifically homogenized, payola-ridden and unlistenable that any alternative seems underground by comparison. But, please, can we stop comparing ‘net based audio to pirate radio? An article on podcasting from the Mercury News is being syndicated all over the place, and like so much other press covering…

  • DC Pirate Visited by FBI?

    According to a post on DC Indymedia, pirate station WSQT was visited by persons identifying themselves as agents of the “Bureau,” leading station operators to believe they were with the FBI.

  • DJ Johnny Silver Answers

    I’ve posted twice about DJ Johnny Silver, who is operating unlicensed Iron Action Radio in Nyack, NY, and recently received some publicity in his local newspaper. In my posts I expressed concern about unlicensed operators pursuing widepublicity, given that it increases the risk of a bust. Silver read my posts and sent me a thoughtful…

  • Boulder Free Radio Gone for Good

    John reports that KBFR’s Monk confirms that the station–busted last week by the FCC–is off the air for the good, and may be mounting a defense in court.

  • More Publicity for Pirate DJ Johnny Silver

    Last week I posted about DJ Johnny Silver and his Iron Action Radio, about which two highly dramatized short films have been made and posted to the web. His public visibility in home town Nyack, NY has gone up a notch with a local newspaper profile of the man and his station. Frankly, it makes…

  • Boulder Free Radio Shut Down

    As of yet I have scant details, but according to a post on the blog run by KBFR’s founder, Monk, the station was shut down by the FCC on the 11th: The station was shut down, again, yesterday in the late afternoon. One year, to the day (Jan 11th) from the last FCC visit. Apparently…