{"id":36822,"date":"2019-04-05T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36822"},"modified":"2019-04-05T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T12:02:00","slug":"fccs-michael-oreilly-dont-tune-in-to-harmful-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/fccs-michael-oreilly-dont-tune-in-to-harmful-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC’s Michael O’Reilly: Don’t tune in to “harmful broadcasts”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to an SWLing Post<\/em> reader who shares the following letter<\/a> by FCC Commissioner Michael O\u2019RieIly to NYC representatives regarding pirate radio operators.<\/p>\n

This passage is of particular interest–I put one statement in bold:<\/p>\n

“Since your Congressional district is located within or near the most prolific market for pirate radio, I wanted to seek your direct assistance on the issue. Specifically, I respectfully request that you discourage any of your constituents in the greater New York City radio market from facilitating pirate radio activities in any way, including participating in pirate operations, advertising with such \u201cstations,\u201d housing or leasing space to pirate operators, or tuning in to these harmful broadcasts.<\/strong> finally, I would appreciate any information that you or your staff would be willing to share regarding the location of known pirate operations, which will be swiftly directed to the Commission\u2019s Enforcement Bureau for action.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The full letter:<\/p>\n

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Click here to download the full letter as a PDF.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to an SWLing Post reader who shares the following letter by FCC Commissioner Michael O\u2019RieIly to NYC representatives regarding pirate radio operators. This passage is of particular interest–I put one statement in bold: “Since your Congressional district is located within or near the most prolific market for pirate radio, I wanted to seek […]<\/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":[1241,3791,1583,3767,5398,4092],"class_list":["post-36822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-news","category-pirate-radio","tag-fcc","tag-fcc-enforcement-bureau","tag-fm-pirates","tag-michael-orielly","tag-new-york-pirates","tag-pirate-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9zU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53505,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/fm-pirates-fcc-enforcement-sends-letters-to-landlords\/","url_meta":{"origin":36822,"position":0},"title":"FM Pirates: FCC Enforcement sends letters to landlords","author":"Thomas","date":"July 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio World) NYC-Area Landlords Get Pirate Letters (Radio World) FCC Enforcement Bureau traced FM signals after receiving complaints Continuing its efforts to fight illegal broadcasts, the Federal Communications Commission has sent notices to five property owners and managers in and around New York City. 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True, the Dallas office issues two Notices of Unlicensed Operation for an 87.9 in Houston, run out of New Beginnings Fellowship Church. 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