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Post by timinbovey on Jul 2, 2018 23:38:37 GMT
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Post by mark on Jul 3, 2018 0:01:08 GMT
I think it's good publicity for them as if that article appeared in a newspaper where the pirates are it would just get people to tune in. My question is they are concentrated in the New York area and other large urban areas, and on FM, so how do they find space if all those translators are cluttering up the band?
There must be open frequencies around still.
I Like that a caller was from Toronto Canada! But it wasn't me!
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Post by Admin on Jul 3, 2018 1:33:38 GMT
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Post by Boomer on Jul 3, 2018 6:55:49 GMT
I don't know, there are so many facets in the give and take of pirate radio, between the stations, other stations, listeners and the FCC. (I didn't read the article yet)
In older times when it was more of a teen activity with a gang of friends from school, publicity was surely bad, where a station would make the papers and maybe get more listeners in a sudden wave, but the FCC would be on it as soon they got the chance.
Publicity is something that forces the FCC's hand, and to keep order, they had to do something about it. There are claims that the FCC knew that a station was possibly operating for a longer time but hadn't done anything about it until the news report.
Things have changed, it's not the 'Dragnet' or 'Pump Up The Volume' FCC these days, they're cut back, and radio broadcast bands aren't so much of a focus of anyone since we have a bigger communications landscape today.
The broadcasters have changed too, it's not kids playing radio, these guys now are ethnic minorities trying to reach populations that other stations and other media miss out on serving. The New Yorker might inform everyone, but as for helping the stations, I doubt they needed it, so I'm with Jim Henry on this.
There are supposed to be holes in any given area where a FM station could operate at low power, pockets too small to be used by any licensed broadcaster, and even in a jammed radio city like New York, not all frequencies are brimming with full power stations, so someone could possibly go on a frequency with a weaker station that people likely wouldn't be listening to in their area.
Not the best situation, but with FM 'capture effect' the station's interference is more localized than it would be on AM radio. Also there's a NYC school station that goes off air weekends and maybe nights, and pirates are supposed to sign on their frequency when they're gone.
Boomer
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Post by Boomer on Jul 4, 2018 8:14:44 GMT
I wrote about teen pirate radio in earlier times, above, here's one of many articles on it, the phenomenon happened all across the country. Hometown (USA) pirates: Teens brought underground rock 'n' roll to Glens Falls airwaves in the '60s
Dave Covey knew he was coming, and he didn’t go to school that day because of it. He’d been tipped off by a friend at WWSC that the Federal Communication Commission was on to him and his fellow Glens Falls radio pirates who, for three years, had been illegally bringing rock ’n’ roll to the Hometown USA airwaves from an unfinished basement at 10 Wait St.
But when the shiny, black sedan with the FCC logo on the door pulled up to his grandmother’s home and the FCC official rang the doorbell, it became very, very real.
“That day stopped my heart,” Covey said, vividly recalling that May 22, 1964 afternoon that spelled the end of WTMV 650 radio. poststar.com/news/local/hometown-usa-pirates-teens-brought-underground-rock-n-rollBoomer |
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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2018 2:27:14 GMT
Boomer, That was a very enjoyable article. Thanks for posting it. It reminds me of a time in the early 70's when a friend of mine took me to meet a friend of his and see his radio studio. I never got to see the xmtr end of the operation , just their studio. What I most remember is the amount of sound conditioning they did. The ceiling and walls were all covered with rubber carpet padding, and on top of that the rubber padding was covered with cardboard egg containers. It was so effective that I could not even hear myself talk when I was in there. Jim I wrote about teen pirate radio in earlier times, above, here's one of many articles on it, the phenomenon happened all across the country. Hometown (USA) pirates: Teens brought underground rock 'n' roll to Glens Falls airwaves in the '60s
Dave Covey knew he was coming, and he didn’t go to school that day because of it. He’d been tipped off by a friend at WWSC that the Federal Communication Commission was on to him and his fellow Glens Falls radio pirates who, for three years, had been illegally bringing rock ’n’ roll to the Hometown USA airwaves from an unfinished basement at 10 Wait St.
But when the shiny, black sedan with the FCC logo on the door pulled up to his grandmother’s home and the FCC official rang the doorbell, it became very, very real.
“That day stopped my heart,” Covey said, vividly recalling that May 22, 1964 afternoon that spelled the end of WTMV 650 radio. poststar.com/news/local/hometown-usa-pirates-teens-brought-underground-rock-n-rollBoomer |
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