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Radio pirates are selfish, not cool.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Only someone who runs a digital-only station and has never had to worry about where his funding comes from could support pirate radio the way Wilber Wilberforce of the BBC's 1Xtra does (The Big Question, 22.11.03). When you belong to a parent company with a guaranteed income of 2.7bn [pounds sterling] of public money, who is willing to give you 4m [pounds sterling] of it for your programming, you can be forgiven for being slightly out of touch with the rest of your industry.
The existence of pirate radio is not evidence of unmet demand. If there really was significant demand for what pirate stations do, legitimate radio would do it. Pirate radio doesn't enhance audience choice. By blocking other stations, it restricts choice.
Try telling hundreds of LBC listeners who complain to us about ...
- Clampdown on pirate radio in the Netherlands.(by Agentschap Telecom)(Brief...
- Newspaper article from: EuropeMedia May 6, 2003 700+ words
...Netherlands to date. Launched in March and expected to last a year, 'Project Etherflits' is the agency's attempt at fighting radio pirates, mostly located in the north and east of the country. In the beginning, the agency only reacted to complaints of bad radio...
- 'Pirate Radio' Director Was A Fan First
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- Trite treatment sinks 'Pirate Radio,' despite a compelling Philip Seymour...
- Newspaper article from: The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA) November 13, 2009 700+ words
...Times The roguish history of offshore pirate radio in the United Kingdom is certainly a...inane and dissatisfying new comedy, "Pirate Radio," has little to do with it. As far...the Rolling Stones' "Aftermath," pirate-radio ships were supplying rock music to listeners...
- 'PIRATE RADIO' WILL BUOY YOUR SPIRITS.(Scene)(Movie review)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 13, 2009 700+ words
...height of that decade's fun. And now "Pirate Radio" has arrived, evoking 1966 as the...baby boomers, look no further than "Pirate Radio," in which the sun always shines...realize what Curtis has achieved in "Pirate Radio." For all its irreverence and caustic...
- Everybody loves a pirate; Pirate radio.(New licenses for pirate radio stations)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) December 4, 2004 700+ words
...How and why Ofcom is trying to legalise pirate radio IT PLAYS the sort of new and innovative...it's not a new BBC channel: it's pirate radio. The best evidence of how pirate radio overlaps the BBC's remit is the corporation...
- Funny, informative doc looks at relationship of radio, FCC.(Federal...
- Magazine article from: St. Louis Journalism Review Bishop, Ed July 1, 2007 700+ words
"Pirate Radio USA" Before the American Revolution...without one. The number of so-called pirate radio stations with low-power transmitters...they don't have licenses, these pirate radio stations don't have to abide by the...
- Dial into `Pirate Radio'.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Verniere, James November 13, 2009 700+ words
Byline: JAMES VERNIERE "PIRATE RADIO" Rated R. At AMC Loews Boston...Parker's "The Commitments," "Pirate Radio"arrives on these shores in the...foil government plans to abolish pirate radio, plans headed by blue-nosed...
- Pirate radio stations force four-hour closure of Ben-Gurion Airport
- Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post HAIM SHAPIRO and RAINE MARCUS May 21, 1996 700+ words
...yesterday morning because transmissions of pirate radio stations were jamming their communications...Israel Radio reported that another pirate radio station from the center of the country...they had long warned of the danger the pirate radio transmissions pose to air traffic...
