On 21 Jul 2005 05:21:18 -0700, "k2" wrote:

I remember when I was a youth there used to be loads of FM pirate radio
stations round our way (Sheffield, UK). All the latest underground
tunes were played - no commercial sh*t.

Nowadays there seems to be hardly any. What's the deal with that?

Me and my mates have been considering setting up our own FM station and
we've come across this site:

http://www.broadcastrepublic.co.uk

They look like professionals to us and their prices seem pretty good -
Transmitters from £280 and Complete Broadcast Packages from £600.

Anyone else used them?

Cheers,
k2

This doesn't directly address your question, but a really strange
story showed up in The Progressive. Clear Channel, the owner of about
1,200 radio stations in the U.S., tried to dupe listeners in Akron,
Ohio, by posing as an anti-corporate pirate radio station. "Via audio
trickery, Clear Channel made it sound as though some pirate radio
signals from 'Radio Free Ohio' were bleeding into several of the
stations it owns."

The 'pirate' signals were lashing out at corporate radio, and, of
course, there's no more corporate, conservative, right-wing owner of
radio stations in America than Clear Channel.

Weird.

Bob
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