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License? We don't need to stinkin' license!

"You say the 'n-word' over your newscast and see if Al Sharpton's not down here yelling, 'get them off!' What do you think? Try it and see!"

1 posted on 06/16/2008 6:48:19 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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Pirate station admits it’s not legit:
http://www.wrdw.com/crimeteam12/headlines/19857439.html

From the comments: “I FEEL IF U DONT LIKE THE STATION TURN THE DIAL LIKE DJ SHORTDOGG SAID..OKAY MAYBE HE WAS WRONG FOR NOT HAVING LICENSE,HE’S PLAYING WHAT “THE” PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR..(”THE PEOPLE MEANING THE YOUNG/OLD PEOPLE WHO ARE TARGETED BY AMERICA TODAY..I SAY DJ SHORTDOGG JUST GO AHEAD AND PAY THE FINES THEN GET A LICENSE....AND PLAY WHAT YOU ARE PLAYING NOW...GOOOD LUCK 99.9”

Pirate stations like this are popping up all over the
country. Sometimes they are fined by the FCC or there is a raid to shut them down. What part of the word “illegal”
do they not understand?
In one case near Boston, a pirate station was shut down
because it was interfering with aircraft frequencies.
Another Boston station (Choice 106.1) faces $17,000 in
FCC fines. They act like they are a legit station,
boasting (falsely) of the call letters “WTCH” and they
try to help their community...but are still illegal.

Sometimes they interfere with legit stations. Or they
make it tough for those who use FM mini-transmitters
(LEGAL ways of re-broadcasting mp3 players and satellite
radio in your own car) to find an open spot to use.


2 posted on 06/16/2008 6:51:19 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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don’t need NO stinkin’ license, that should say.
There are places on satellite radio where one can hear
foul-mouthed rap if one wishes, but that’s a subscription
service—not the general broadcast band where anyone could
tune in.


3 posted on 06/16/2008 6:53:30 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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For Margo, the license is the tip of the iceberg. More frustrating is the station's heavy use of the 'N-word'. "You say the 'n-word' over your newscast and see if Al Sharpton's not down here yelling, 'get them off!' What do you think? Try it and see!"

Curtailing speech and expression in the name of decency. This is how it always begins. When will people wake up and realize that they have no right to decency on the airwaves?
4 posted on 06/16/2008 6:54:27 AM PDT by arderkrag (Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
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