"Technically it's not illegal to be illegal in Massachusetts"--poss. Mass Gov Martha Coakley
Boston used to have black-oriented WILD AM 1090 and WILD-FM 97.7. Radio One sold the FM to Entercom so they could relay Worcester's rock station WAAF 107.3 closer to Boston (now WKAF). The AM station is brokered to China Radio International now, running programming that broadcasts about 20 % of normal volume. (Power the same, volume of the broadcast very faint.)
The verdict is in. Howie has officially declared Deval to be a worse governor than Dukakis. It’s hard to disagree.
I recall Hillary back in the 1990’s wanted to end low power FM station licenses apparently (though not ostensibly) because most of the licenses were granted to church affiliated stations in the South.
I guess this means that Obama hates black people.
Another example of misplaced and wasted government resources. Anybody with a shred of radio knowledge would know that an FM broadcast at 106.1 would be highly unlikely to interfere with any "critical radio communications" relevant to public safety unless the hip hop on WWKX from Woonsocket Rhode Island is somehow essential to public safety in Boston. And even then it is unlikely the 106.1 signal would spill over to WWKX's 106.3 band.
Of all the things the US Attorney in Boston could be looking in to and prosecuting, like whether there were more participants in the terror attacks last year, or illegal immigrants with criminal records who should be deported, or even drug gangs smuggling cocaine into Dorchester, somehow they have decided that a tiny community radio station listened to in a poor African American neighborhood is a "public safety threat".
Apparently they have never been in that neighborhood. The residents and visitors are worried about drugs, gangs, and shootings, not a local radio station.
If the US Attorney's office in Boston has nothing better to do than chase after a community radio station, then it would seem that they have too many attorneys and too large a budget for their needed work. The federal budget needs cutting, their office looks like a good place to start.
Different title, but same subject.
Because it always comes down to that with demonRATS, doesn't it? Would they be defending lawbreaking done by Caucasians....of course not. Just try to imagine any other group of politicians making such a statement.....
Trey Gowdy: ...... 'Today, myself and all other Caucasian members of the committee were dismayed to find out that Elijah Cumming's staff conversed with Lois Lerner regarding 501c4 applicants who identified as Tea Party groups.'
The networks would have to cancel all other programming in order to run that clip 24/7 and parade countless democrats across the screen to excoriate Gowdy for his racist callousness.
I use to love ‘AAF when I was a kid in the 80s
it’s now WKAF? w-calf? loses quite a bit of the edge. then again, I heard them playing rap - RAP!! - when I checked them out on the Internet a couple of years ago. might as well start playing country...
If EVERYONE were allowed to broadcast from anywhere, on any frequency, at any power, the air waves would be a total mess. If a few selected groups (read ‘minorities’) are allowed to broadcast illegally there would be no way to stop others from broadcasting illegally. The “pols” that support an illegal black radio station are simply racist.
I'm all in favor of pirate radio but unless I'm missing something here the government always tries to shut it down, so I don't see the racial angle.