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.
A couple of years ago, I had forgotten to take my sirius satellite radio on a trip. I was following a friend, who had brought his, and while running through the stations on my radio, ran into one of the comedy channels playing on his. I was about fifty yards behind, but the sound was clear, so I spent the rest of the trip listening to his radio, on mine.