{"id":31619,"date":"2018-04-13T07:14:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T11:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31619"},"modified":"2018-04-13T07:14:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T11:14:23","slug":"kcrw-the-rise-of-pirate-radio-station-wbad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/kcrw-the-rise-of-pirate-radio-station-wbad\/","title":{"rendered":"KCRW: The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/lost-notes-kcrw-e1523617622453.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31621\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/lost-notes-kcrw-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SWLing Post<\/em> readers:<\/strong> check out this amazing audio documentary by our friend <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/david-goren\">David Goren<\/a> about the legendary hip hop pirate radio station WBAD. It&#8217;s part of a new series from KCRW called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news-culture\/lost-notes\/outlaws-of-the-airwaves-the-rise-of-pirate-radio-station-wbad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lost Notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>David shares the following note:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Endless thanks to DJ Cintronics, and Dren Starr for sharing their stories. Thanks also to <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/myke-dodge-weiskopf\/\">Myke Dodge Weiskopf<\/a> and Nick White of KCRW for their incredible, skillful work and dedication bringing this to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>If by chance you are not a hip hop fan, I would still encourage you to listen to this compelling two person narrative about people who love music and the lengths they go to put it on the air.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news-culture\/lost-notes\/outlaws-of-the-airwaves-the-rise-of-pirate-radio-station-wbad\/embed-player?autoplay=false\" width=\"738\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news-culture\/lost-notes\/outlaws-of-the-airwaves-the-rise-of-pirate-radio-station-wbad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to listen via KCRW<\/a> or subscribe to Lost Notes via <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=1368608676\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/playmusic.app.goo.gl\/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;apn=com.google.android.music&amp;link=https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/m\/Iu4jviybxls2nxfqdiuw5237otm?t%3DLost_Notes%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWLing Post readers: check out this amazing audio documentary by our friend David Goren about the legendary hip hop pirate radio station WBAD. It&#8217;s part of a new series from KCRW called Lost Notes. David shares the following note: &#8220;Endless thanks to DJ Cintronics, and Dren Starr for sharing their stories. Thanks also to Myke [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,297,1557,288],"tags":[174,1583,6674,6974,342,4092,465,6975],"class_list":["post-31619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pirate-radio","category-podcast","category-radio-history","tag-david-goren","tag-fm-pirates","tag-kcrw","tag-lost-notes","tag-myke-dodge-weiskopf","tag-pirate-radio","tag-radio-documentaries","tag-wbad"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8dZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36919,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/radio-doc-new-york-citys-pirates-of-the-air\/","url_meta":{"origin":31619,"position":0},"title":"Radio Doc: New York City\u2019s pirates of the air","author":"Thomas","date":"April 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post friend, David Goren (the same fellow behind Shortwaveology and the Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map) has just produced and presented a BBC World Service documentary about the pirate radio scene in NYC. 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