http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2010/DA-10-1908A1.html
>>In the basement, the agents observed radio station equipment, which included an RF amplifier, an FM modulator with a front panel display reading 99.7 MHz, and a power supply.
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist/2007/02/wcrb_pirate_rad.html
>>(A WCRB listener wrote the station): “I look forward to the BSO broadcasts on Saturday night, but since WCRB switched to 99.5 it has been virtually impossible to listen these broadcasts. I live in the Ashmont neighborhood of Dorchester and most of the time the WCRB signal is completely overwhelmed by a gospel/hiphop station which broadcasts on 99.7. I have not heard them actually announce call letters, but they do say they are located in Boston.”
>> (WCRB responds): “Thanks so much for your note. You are not the first person to write us with this concern about 99.7. This is an unlicensed pirate station. We have contacted the FCC with an official complaint, and they are currently investigating this. It’s our hope the interference caused by this pirate station will go away very soon.”
>>(A WCRB listener wrote the station): “I look forward to the BSO broadcasts on Saturday night, but since WCRB switched to 99.5...<<
So it looks like the pirate station was at 99.7 long before the WCRB station “changed” to 99.5 and it was the change to a frequency so near the pirate station that caused the problem.
Someone pointed out that the FCC was originally only authorized to allocate broadcast frequencies. Where did the “licensing” of everything under the sun come in. And just where do they suppose they’re authorized to regulate cable, satellite or the internet? Mission creep, anyone? Or rather, usurpation of power.
Get rid of the three letter agencies and go back to what the FedGov is “authorized” to do by the Constitution only. The FCC should only “coordinate” the use of frequencies. Keep their big, red gov’t. noses out of everything else.