{"id":34516,"date":"2018-10-18T05:53:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T09:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=34516"},"modified":"2018-10-18T05:53:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T09:53:12","slug":"pirate-radio-fcc-enforcement-focuses-on-small-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/pirate-radio-fcc-enforcement-focuses-on-small-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio: FCC Enforcement focuses on small markets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: Tom Taylor Now<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The FCC\u2019s busting more pirates in smaller markets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

True, the Dallas office issues two Notices of Unlicensed Operation for an 87.9 in Houston, run out of New Beginnings Fellowship Church. But agents from Dallas also found a pirate FM at 93.5 up in the smallish Texas Panhandle town of Amarillo. (That one was also operated out of a church, the Iglesia Bautista Renovacion Ministerio Internacional.) The spectrum cops from Dallas also detected a 95.9 in Port Arthur, Texas. And out in California, agents from the L.A. office ventured up to Oxnard to respond to a complaint about a 99.1 operating from a business. (It was a business run by Maria Gonzalez, who gets the NOUO.) So while the traditional pirate radio hotbeds in South Florida, the New York City area and Boston get attention, there seem to be more complaints and more investigations in smaller markets. If the \u201cPIRATE Act\u201d that passed the House ever makes it through the Senate and is signed into law, the FCC would be required to make twice-yearly sweeps of the five most active areas for pirates. But it seems illegal FMs may simply be popping up in less-likely places. The equipment\u2019s cheap and you might not get caught. Though one pirate in Miami got nabbed doing something novel \u2013 operating a pirate station out of a parked RV. (Sure keeps the costs down.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read at Tom Taylor Now.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Tom Taylor Now) The FCC\u2019s busting more pirates in smaller markets. True, the Dallas office issues two Notices of Unlicensed Operation for an 87.9 in Houston, run out of New Beginnings Fellowship Church. But agents from Dallas also found a pirate FM at 93.5 up in the smallish Texas Panhandle town of Amarillo. (That […]<\/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":[3781,3,297],"tags":[1241,4806,3791,1583,7029,4092,6372],"class_list":["post-34516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-news","category-pirate-radio","tag-fcc","tag-fcc-anti-pirate-agenda","tag-fcc-enforcement-bureau","tag-fm-pirates","tag-pirate-act","tag-pirate-radio","tag-tom-taylor-now"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8YI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42312,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/fcc-hope-to-hire-pirate-radio-hunters\/","url_meta":{"origin":34516,"position":0},"title":"FCC hope to hire Pirate Radio hunters","author":"Thomas","date":"March 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Inside Radio) Broadcasters would likely call it money well-spent, but it\u2019s still cash coming from the federal government\u2019s hands. 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Word spread quickly about the mysterious unmarked black SUV parked at a highway exit just outside the town of Ward on January 24. In the self-sufficient mountain community perched at 9,500 feet, strangers always attract attention. 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