Posted on 02/25/2007 9:59:38 PM PST by ArmstedFragg
Can a former pirate radio operation be legit?
The Pahrump Valley Times of Nevada reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., intervened with the FCC to allow an unlicensed broadcaster back on the air.
More details here: http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2007/Feb-02-Fri-2007/news/12344648.html
Apparently, if you're Harry's bud, you don't need no stinkin' license.
Art Bell?
Same neighborhood.
http://www.moviecitynews.com/arrays/media/2004/blazing_saddles_badges.html
This incident proves that Harry Reid has no respect for the rule of law.
Maybe HR just cut thru the years of red tape to get these guys up and runing legaly.
Happened here, The TEd stepped in to helpa local "community" rdio station get a legit license - minus the years of waiting.
Actually, it sounds like Dirty Harry was right on this one. The Republican congressman shouldn't have turned the guy down.
Can someone explain to me why the hell we need licences to broadcast anyway? What gives the government right to control the airwaves? It's so sad that few people understand the concept of "Right vs. Privalege" that our founding fathers wrote into the Constitution. Of course, they couldn't foresee radio, television, or Fascist Delano Roosevelt.
Artificial scarcity plus large markets equals massive profits. Licenses to print money.
Lucrative employment offers from the broadcasting sector to former FCC commissioners and high level staffers after they leave the agency guarantees continuation of the artificial scarcity and the de facto ownership of the public airwaves by the license holders. Also known as the "deferred bribe" system.
Because without licenses everybody would broadcast on the same frequencies, you couldn't count on hearing anything, and the winner would be the person with the most money to spend on the biggest antenna and amplifiers.
Frequencies in location aren't really different from physical property, and it makes sense to license them like we once sold land to people so multiple people didn't fight to live in the same location.
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