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 ...

If you’re driving through the greater Ravenswood area and tune your radio dial to 87.9 FM, you might just enter a sort of radio twilight zone. On tap? Old timey, crime-thriller radio dramas, complete ...

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 ...

A new law in Florida makes operating a pirate radio station a felony carrying a five-year prison sentence. The Federal Communications Commission says the state is a hotbed of illegal operators, but a ...

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 ...

That’s right, folks. Although the FCC does the very best it can to move in an shut down those who would operate as pirates on America’s airwaves, in the case of a station in Granbury TX, L.R. Radio ...

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 ...

The founder of Pirate Cat Radio has returned the station to his native Los Gatos, but this time Daniel Roberts has his paperwork in order. Roberts, who began unlicensed broadcasts from his bedroom as ...

Feb. 14 (UPI) --The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday said it is fining a man $40,000 for pirate radio broadcasting on 90.1 Mhz in Hazelton, Penn. Brigido Danerys Gonzalez was fined under ...

A woman broadcasting an unlicensed FM radio station in North Miami, Florida was fined $20,000 by the Federal Communications Commission after she was issued a second order to cease operations. Nounoune ...

In this letter to the editor, the author comments on Randy Stines’ recent article “FCC Finds Collecting Pirate Radio Fines a Challenge.” Comment on this or any article. Email [email protected]. Your ...