Comments to an article about small town pirates...

Pirates, a more extreme version of Part-15 ideology?

People are disillusioned with the state of affairs on the radio, with national networks that really don't talk to them or play music that they might like. Unless you're the lightest listener who likes to have noise come out of the radio instead of silence, or haven't given up on radio completely, it's easy to think something is wrong with radio. Now with the state of technology, and knowledge about it, it's not that hard to do something about it.

The same statement could be made for someone who wants to do Part-15 radio, but maybe doesn't want the responsibility of a bigger signal, the risk, or to take the time to do a higher profile station. I read sites and articles about radio all the time, and there are people who are saddened by programming on the radio to downright ticked off at national networks, and they remember how good radio was when they were growing up.

I wouldn't be surprised with anyone running a pirate station, anyone who is involved in radio, exposed to the technology all the time could do it. I've heard stories of broadcast engineers who ran pirate stations, also CBers, hams, DJs.

Boomer

Also cops giving you a ticket when they do the same thing and are invincible.
But part 15 hobbyists living like millionares and claiming poor?

I've been "boycotting" radio for a long time now and just listening to mine except for CHML 900AM from Hamilton Ontario as they have old radio dramas from the 1930s 40s etc. from 10PM to 1AM every day. Even with the original ads too.
But not listening to radio....is this an effective action? The stations don't know if you are listening or not unless a huge segment of the population does it and it's reflected in the ratings when they do the surveys.

Which I think is ironic and funny. Older people like us actually pay the bills because we're more financially stable and our life is more stable.

It's hard to believe that teens and tweens care about mortgage or life insurance or anything about tenants resources and other things dealing with apartment living. Their main concern is the latest fashion designs and trying to keep up with their friends. They might actually care about no contract prepaid cell phones which ones have the most data for the money. Which one's actually have better coverage. But advertising cell phones only isn't really going to do much for your radio station financially.

I've said it before that a discrimination lawsuit needs to be made but at the same time one has to be careful how they would do it. It's illegal to discriminate by age sex or religion but yet isn't that exactly what the big corporate wigs of radio are doing? By not having at least one receivable album rock station in most cities especially where older people live to me is a clear violation of the law. Plus I do believe not having a real country station and I'm not talking about pop tree or wrap tree but real country for the folks who remember the old country artists like Porter Wagoner Charlie Pride and Johnny Cash along with Loretta Lynn and others. These want to be country artist are a conglomeration of wannabe classic rock and for God sake where does rap have anything to do with country? But yet I hear it so doesn't that make it more of a pop rock type format or something similar?

African Americans were able to sue MTV back in the 80s for not playing Earth Wind & Fire. They claim that it was a discriminatory thing against the race. SO2 could the elderly have a nice lawsuit against many of the big radio Giants and probably win the lawsuit if they could prove discrimination against them which in my opinion should not be that hard to do. If they want to go after hobby broadcasters this is something I do think that needs to be done. This way the radio Giants will be held back from monopolizing the airwaves and doing as they damn well please versus what the people really want because I remember in my radio classes part of being a licensee is to provide the public interest convenience and necessity. Nowhere in that claws does it say young people only unless I stand corrected somehow.

Carl...I nominate you for Chairman!