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 ...
LONDON — In 1993, the illegal radio broadcasters at Kool FM came up with a plan to keep the regulators from raiding their studios. In those days, the rooftops of South and East London still bristled ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new radio documentary captures the impact of Irish pirate radio stations in the 1980s. Russell Padmore, who spent 27 years as a BBC correspondent, said he owes his media career to Irish pirate radio ...
The number of pirate radio stations being raided by police has increased by almost 25% in just 12 months. Some 707 stations were raided in 2007 and 881 in 2008, with a 100% conviction rate, according ...
Review of Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age, by Adrian Johns, W.W. Norton & Company, 2011, ISBN-10: 0393068609, $26.95, 279 pages. In last year’s The Master Switch ...
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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 ...
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