New York-Area Property Owners Get Pirate Broadcast Warnings
The FCC Enforcement Bureau issued 16 notices of illegal pirate radio broadcasting to landowners in the New York City metro area for apparently allowing illegal broadcasting from their property, the agency said Tuesday. It said fines of more than $2…
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million could follow if it determines the property owners continued to allow pirate broadcasts. It said the notices were to properties identified by field agents as pirate broadcast sources during the bureau's 2022-2023 sweeps of the New York areas. Applauding the notices, NAB said pirate operations "interfere with both licensed broadcast stations and air traffic control systems. In recent years, reductions of FCC field enforcement led directly to increased pirate activity and required Congressional action to provide the additional tools necessary to effectively combat these illegal operators by placing liability on the landowners who facilitate them. With full funding of the 2020 PIRATE Act now in place, NAB looks forward to regular enforcement sweeps that will help maintain order on the public airwaves.”