As the old adage goes: “Always be yourself. Unless you can be a pirate. Then always be a pirate.” That certainly applies to the small, but special circle of swashbuckling radio enthusiasts in the ...
The U.K. has a long and lasting history of pirate radio stations. These are stations that were set up on ships and broadcast from international waters. The BBC had a monopoly on the airwaves in the ...
Pirate Radio is the aural equivalent of graffiti. Once in a while, it qualifies as something like art, but more often it’s just blight. Riptide can’t help but emphasize with someone who’s willing to ...
Fabrice Polynice, infamous operator of "Radio Touche Douce," a pirate FM at 90.1 in North Miami, Fla. MIAMI — Fabrice Polynice, the long-time operator of an unlicensed FM radio station at 90.1 MHz ...
PROVIDENCE – Last summer, agents from the New York enforcement bureau of the Federal Communications Commission traveled through a thickly settled section of the Mount Pleasant neighborhood searching ...
It’s the afternoon before the annual West Indian American Day Carnival Parade, which draws some 2 million revelers to Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn each Labor Day. Across the borough, weeks of ...
Business Pirate Radio Stations Explode on YouTube Luke Pritchard and Jonny Laxton were 13 when they met at a boarding school in Crowthorne, England, in 2011. They bonded over a shared love of ...
The FCC has proposed $857,775 worth of fines against seven alleged Massachusetts pirate radio operators running six different stations. The reportedly unlicensed radio stations were investigated ...
NEW YORK — For years, unlicensed FM radio broadcasters have served who they believe are underserved audiences across parts of The Bronx, lower Westchester County, Brooklyn and Queens. Now, thanks in ...