Re: 89.3 pirate goes ID-crazy

["Dan Strassberg" <Dan.Strassberg@att.net>]

A couple of years ago there was a pirate in Hartford on, if I recall, 105.3.
The station was either Spanish or religious and it ran IDs and liners and
sold time. It may even have chosen legal-sounding calls for itself. I heard
that it was running substantial power (something like 100W) and when Uncle
Charlie came knocking, refused to go dark and may even have gone to court to
defend its right to exist. I never heard the station, but I head that it
sounded quite prfessional.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Nelson...WMWM <bobonradio@yahoo.com>
To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Date: Saturday, April 21, 2001 3:48 AM
Subject: 89.3 pirate goes ID-crazy


>As usual the Friday night 89.3 pirate in Beverly is
>back on as I type this (3:50 am)
>and this time they're mixing metal/alternative with
>tapes of legal IDs (really!) from stations like WWWE,
>WOKQ, WBRK, WBIM, WFLZ, WLUP, and more. As if they
>weren't already breaking FCC rules by being on, their
>airing of all the IDs is also illegal, I'd think. Of
>course they do have their own "ID" as well, "89.3
>Tickle Spider Radio".
>
>By the way, if a pirate were to go on and sound as
>professional as possible, I wonder if they'd fool
>the listening public into thinking they were a
>real, licensed station. If a pirate were to give
>fake call letters, play PSAs or ads, etc., they
>just might make people think they're "a new station".
>The late Radio Free Vermont in Rutland was kind of
>like that; they had professional-sounding liners
>("your hometown radio station-- Radio Free
>Vermont, 96.5") and ran PSAs and maybe even ads
>as well....
>
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