{"id":31612,"date":"2018-04-13T06:47:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T10:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31612"},"modified":"2018-04-13T06:47:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T10:47:22","slug":"the-fccs-mission-to-shut-down-pirate-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/the-fccs-mission-to-shut-down-pirate-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"The FCC’s mission to shut down pirate radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Recently, there have been numerous articles regarding FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s efforts to increase pirate radio enforcement. This article in\u00a0The Outline<\/a>\u00a0is a worthy read and features our good friend David Goren<\/a> prominently:<\/p>\n

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The FCC wants pirate radio stations off the air<\/h2>\n

Immigrant communities rely on these unlicensed broadcasts to stay connected to their roots. Now they could lose the signal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On any given night, David Goren can tune into more than 30 underground radio stations from his apartment in Flatbush, Brooklyn. \u201cAbout a dozen of them broadcast in Creole, to the Haitian community,\u201d Goren, a local journalist and producer who researches the city\u2019s pirate stations, told The Outline. \u201cA lot of the stations will air news from home.\u201d In addition to news and politics updates, Goren said, these stations feature Caribbean music that doesn\u2019t get airtime on mainstream stations, advertisements for local businesses, and occasional call-in sessions with immigration attorneys.<\/p>\n

For some immigrant communities across the country, these underground radio stations are an easy way of staying connected to one\u2019s roots. In New York City, there may be\u00a0more unlicensed broadcasters than licensed ones<\/a>. Some of these clandestine broadcasters are small enterprises, while others are full-fledged stations that run advertisements and generate revenue. All of them run the risk of being fined \u2014 or in some states, including New York, New Jersey, and Florida, having their operators\u00a0imprisoned<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 if they\u2019re caught by the Federal Communications Commission.<\/p>\n

[…]A\u00a0map of enforcement actions<\/a>\u00a0on the FCC\u2019s website illustrates the crackdown. The FCC has undertaken 306 pirate investigations since Pai took office in January 2017. The majority of these actions \u2014 210, according to a press release issued by the agency on Wednesday \u2014 were Notices of Unauthorized Operations, warnings from the FCC telling the unlicensed stations to immediately shut down or risk fines and prison time. The release also notes that the FCC \u201ctook more than twice as many actions against pirate broadcasters\u201d in 2017 than it did the previous year. (For the first time since its inception, the agency said, it has begun holding property owners liable for \u201csupporting this illegal activity on their property.\u201d)[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article on The Outline.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, there have been numerous articles regarding FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s efforts to increase pirate radio enforcement. This article in\u00a0The Outline\u00a0is a worthy read and features our good friend David Goren prominently: The FCC wants pirate radio stations off the air Immigrant communities rely on these unlicensed broadcasts to stay connected to their roots. Now […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3781,3,297],"tags":[2128,1241,3791,1583,4092,6973],"class_list":["post-31612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-news","category-pirate-radio","tag-ajit-pai","tag-fcc","tag-fcc-enforcement-bureau","tag-fm-pirates","tag-pirate-radio","tag-the-outline"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8dS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20800,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-hidden-den-of-pirate-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":31612,"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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