{"id":36919,"date":"2019-04-14T07:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T11:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36919"},"modified":"2019-04-14T07:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T11:50:01","slug":"radio-doc-new-york-citys-pirates-of-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/radio-doc-new-york-citys-pirates-of-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Doc: New York City\u2019s pirates of the air"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SWLing Post<\/em> friend, David Goren (the same fellow behind Shortwaveology<\/a> and the Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map<\/a>) has just produced and presented a BBC World Service documentary about the pirate radio scene in NYC.<\/p>\n

Spoiler alert: it’s amazing–!<\/em><\/p>\n

Below, I’ve included the description and audio links\u00a0from the BBC World Service<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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New York City\u2019s pirates of the air<\/h1>\n

As the workday winds down across New York, you can tune in to a clandestine world of unlicensed radio stations; a cacophonous sonic wonder of the city. As listeners begin to arrive home, dozens of secret transmitters switch on from rooftops in immigrant enclaves. These stations are often called \u2018pirates\u2019 for their practice of commandeering an already licensed frequency.<\/p>\n

These rogue stations evade detection and take to the air, blanketing their neighbourhoods with the sounds of ancestral lands blending into a new home. They broadcast music and messages to diverse communities \u2013 whether from Latin America or the Caribbean, to born-again Christians and Orthodox Jews.<\/p>\n

Reporter David Goren has long followed these stations from his Brooklyn home. He paints an audio portrait of their world, drawn from the culture of the street. Vivid soundscapes emerge from tangled clouds of invisible signals, nurturing immigrant communities struggling for a foothold in the big city.<\/p>\n

With thanks to KCRW and the Lost Notes Podcast episode Outlaws of the Airwaves: The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD.<\/p>\n

Producer\/Presenter: David Goren<\/p><\/blockquote>\nhttps:\/\/open.live.bbc.co.uk\/mediaselector\/6\/redir\/version\/2.0\/mediaset\/audio-nondrm-download\/proto\/https\/vpid\/p076bnpw.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Click here to download New York City\u2019s pirates of the air<\/em> via the BBC World Service.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. Spoiler alert: it’s amazing–! Below, I’ve included the description and audio links\u00a0from the BBC World Service: New York City\u2019s pirates of […]<\/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":[104,327,174,3079,3791,7723,4092,465,362],"class_list":["post-36919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-news","category-pirate-radio","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-david-goren","tag-documentaries","tag-fcc-enforcement-bureau","tag-new-york-citys-pirates-of-the-air","tag-pirate-radio","tag-radio-documentaries","tag-radio-documentary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9Bt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31619,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/kcrw-the-rise-of-pirate-radio-station-wbad\/","url_meta":{"origin":36919,"position":0},"title":"KCRW: The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD","author":"Thomas","date":"April 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post readers: check out this amazing audio documentary by our friend David Goren about the legendary hip hop pirate radio station WBAD. 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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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "FM"","block_context":{"text":"FM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/fm\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Soundboard-Mixer-Microphone-Pirate-Radio-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Soundboard-Mixer-Microphone-Pirate-Radio-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Soundboard-Mixer-Microphone-Pirate-Radio-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Soundboard-Mixer-Microphone-Pirate-Radio-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":31169,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/radio-survivor-exploring-and-preserving-the-brooklyn-pirate-radio-scene\/","url_meta":{"origin":36919,"position":3},"title":"Radio Survivor: Exploring and Preserving the Brooklyn Pirate Radio Scene","author":"Thomas","date":"March 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out this brilliant episode of the Radio Survivor podcast which features our Shortwaveologist friend, David Goren along with John Anderson of Brooklyn College: (Source: Radio Survivor) There are more unlicensed pirate radio stations in New York City than licensed stations. 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