It’s the afternoon before the annual West Indian American Day Carnival Parade, which draws some 2 million revelers to Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn each Labor Day. Across the borough, weeks of ...

If you’re driving through the greater Ravenswood area and tune your radio dial to 87.9 FM, you might just enter a sort of radio twilight zone. On tap? Old timey, crime-thriller radio dramas, complete ...

PROVIDENCE – Last summer, agents from the New York enforcement bureau of the Federal Communications Commission traveled through a thickly settled section of the Mount Pleasant neighborhood searching ...

The Federal Communications Commission has taken swift action against three pirate radio operators in Miami, Fla., issuing more than $800,000 worth of fines today. The FCC’s hunt to weed out illicit ...

Commissioner Michael O’Rielly wants to keep the issue of pirate radio on the front burner at the FCC, so he has put forth his own draft of a “pirate radio policy and enforcement statement.” The ...

A woman broadcasting an unlicensed FM radio station in North Miami, Florida was fined $20,000 by the Federal Communications Commission after she was issued a second order to cease operations. Nounoune ...

LONDON — In 1993, the illegal radio broadcasters at Kool FM came up with a plan to keep the regulators from raiding their studios. In those days, the rooftops of South and East London still bristled ...

Where does your mind go when you hear the phrase “pirate radio”? Maybe you think of revolutionaries, deploying broadcasts to subvert an oppressive regime. Or maybe you imagine a raucous boat of rock ...

Troy Dreyfus said there is a stigma associated with AM radio, and Pirate Radio is trying to shun that, officially beginning today. Dreyfus and Pirate Radio co-founder Jonathan Ellerbe, who both are ...

SANTA CRUZ — Skidmark Bob leaned back in his chair behind the makeshift radio studio desk as he assessed the impact of last week’s raid on pirate station Free Radio Santa Cruz by U.S. marshals and the ...

It was 306 miles from West Hartford to Watkins Glen. It was dark. They had a full tank of gas in their friend Harry’s Jeep, pulling a trailer, which had been converted into a radio studio. They had 20 ...