{"id":10786,"date":"2014-09-11T07:53:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T11:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10786"},"modified":"2014-09-11T07:53:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T11:53:19","slug":"brooklyn-pirates-hijacking-the-airwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/brooklyn-pirates-hijacking-the-airwaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn pirates “hijacking” the airwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pirate\"<\/a>Thanks to many of you who sent me a link \u00a0to this article in the New York Post<\/a>. Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

Brooklyn radio fans are fighting a pirate invasion \u2014 demanding a crackdown on illicit Caribbean, Hebrew and shock-jock stations hijacking the airwaves.<\/p>\n

Dozens of unlicensed shows operate in New York City on an average evening and the state is home to 25 percent of the nation\u2019s pirate transmissions, according to the FCC.<\/p>\n

But many radio amateurs aren\u2019t forced to walk the plank. Instead, they find new hideaways for their equipment as FCC budget cuts decrease enforcement.<\/p>\n

There were 46 FCC field actions in New York City in 2013, compared to just 20 through July 31 of this year, government data show.<\/p>\n

Ike, a Sunset Park resident, launched Brooklyn Pirate Watch, a Twitter feed \u2014 @BkPirateWatch \u2014 to track rogue radio transmissions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m fascinated by the pirates,\u201d he said. \u201cEspecially .?.?. their ability to get support from advertisers who .?.?. don\u2019t care that they\u2019re advertising on illegal stations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBrooklyn Pirate Watch\u201d has clocked one pirate at 94.3 FM, where a host shouted for female listeners to tune in while wearing lingerie. There\u2019s also Radyo Independans, a<\/p>\n

Haitian Creole station squatting on 90.9 FM, according to Jersey City indie station WFMU \u2014 which claims its legal broadcasts at 91.1 FM are often interrupted by its illicit rival.<\/p>\n

[…]\u00a0Pirates are going strong because the radio tools are cheap and their audiences are often \u201cway less wired,\u201d WFMU general manager Ken Freedman said.<\/p>\n

Continue reading at the NY Post website…<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love that last quote by WFMU general manager, Ken Freedman. If listeners in Brooklyn, New York are “way less wired” imagine how shortwave listeners are in, say, South Sudan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to many of you who sent me a link \u00a0to this article in the New York Post. Here’s an excerpt: Brooklyn radio fans are fighting a pirate invasion \u2014 demanding a crackdown on illicit Caribbean, Hebrew and shock-jock stations hijacking the airwaves. Dozens of unlicensed shows operate in New York City on an average […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,297],"tags":[3229,3230,1583,3231,4092],"class_list":["post-10786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pirate-radio","tag-am-pirates","tag-brooklyn","tag-fm-pirates","tag-ny-post","tag-pirate-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2NY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20800,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-hidden-den-of-pirate-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":10786,"position":0},"title":"The “Hidden Den” of Pirate Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"August 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Martin Kraft, who writes: Where's the hidden den of pirate radio? 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