SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
from the nobody-had-a-flashlight-(you'll-need-to-RTFA) dept.
FCC tries to make Miami pirate radio station walk the plank
"Pirate radio" in 2017 takes many forms, but here's one: a north Miami couple hosting a transmitter in their backyard shed while a DJ's signal is piped in over the Internet and promoted on Facebook—even after multiple warnings from the government and a gear seizure by the US Marshals. Oh—did I mention the $144,344 fine? Not that anyone's likely to pay it.
Welcome to 90.1 MHz, "Radio Touche Douce," a Haitian music station appearing to be so obviously illegal that it even has the ability to unite the current fractious set of FCC commissioners. It's not even a secret; as the Miami Herald notes, the station is "the pulse of the Haitian music industry in Miami, organizing some of the most popular big-ticket parties while promoting bands and guiding konpa music fans to the next hit." But that doesn't mean it has been easy to shut down.
Here, in statements pulled right from FCC documents, is the story of how Radio Touche Douce has operated for years right under the nose of government investigators—and how the FCC has now upped the ante.
(Score: 3, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 30 2017, @09:27PM (2 children)
Shut 'em down - pirate radio stations piss me off. In this area, the pirates are Mexicans. I really don't give a small damn how many Mexican radio stations there are. But, they need to be assigned a frequency of their own, and USE IT!! Stations that bleed over two stations higher and two stations lower frequencies should be blow to hell and back, with the technicians locked inside. Get licensed, get legal, and operate the station properly, then I'll have no problem with Mexican, Hatian, Cuban, or any other radio station.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 30 2017, @10:09PM (1 child)
I do have a problem with that.
Well, not with the fact that the operator might be of such an ethnicity. What isn't OK is non-English shit on American airwaves. If you want that, put your antenna in a different country.
Multiculturalism is toxic. It is divisive (to use a Hillary campaign word!) and will ultimately cause our nation to be torn apart just as the Roman empire was. Language diversity keeps Papua New Guinea a hopeless country and continues to strongly block success in Africa. We need cultural unity for our long-term survival.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 30 2017, @11:38PM
Este cobarde anónimo es bastante hijo de puta.