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 ...

Pirate radio received an unintended boost yesterday with the death of the Federal Communications Commission's plan to license hundreds of low-power FM radio stations. Opposition from the powerful ...

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.

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 ...

A new radio documentary captures the impact of Irish pirate radio stations in the 1980s. Russell Padmore, who spent 27 years as a BBC correspondent, said he owes his media career to Irish pirate radio ...

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 ...

The FCC has proposed $857,775 worth of fines against seven alleged Massachusetts pirate radio operators running six different stations. The reportedly unlicensed radio stations were investigated ...