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 ...

As the old adage goes: “Always be yourself. Unless you can be a pirate. Then always be a pirate.” That certainly applies to the small, but special circle of swashbuckling radio enthusiasts in the ...

The FCC has sent a warning to the purported operators of a pirate radio station to cease operations. Where this buccaneer is may surprise some.

The number of pirate radio stations being raided by police has increased by almost 25% in just 12 months. Some 707 stations were raided in 2007 and 881 in 2008, with a 100% conviction rate, according ...

Review of Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age, by Adrian Johns, W.W. Norton & Company, 2011, ISBN-10: 0393068609, $26.95, 279 pages. In last year’s The Master Switch ...

Mike O’Rielly, the FCC’s fieriest fighter in recent memory against the scourge of unlicensed FM radio broadcasters, may no longer be a Commissioner. But, his fight against pirate radio station ...

For Ivan James, pirate radio is not only a major-market problem. He is president of M-4Media, which owns KJVI(FM) in Robert Lee, Texas. His station has been frustrated by a pirate who has been ...

The operators of two unlicensed radio stations in southern New England are facing monetary penalties from the Federal Communications Commission after its agents conducted Boston-area enforcement ...