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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on January 30, 2012, 2358 UTC

Title: Albert Knighten Fights FCC For His Pirate Radio Station
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on January 30, 2012, 2358 UTC

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Mild-mannered community activist Albert Knighten found himself in handcuffs last month when police and federal agents raided his home and shut down a pirate radio station he operated out of a spare bedroom. Supporters say his bare-bones operation filled an important niche in a predominantly black section of Fort Myers, a community whose residents often feel overlooked and underserved by commercial radio.

The retired Navy air traffic controller, now facing a felony charge of operating the station without a license, is front and center in the efforts of a national community radio advocacy group to highlight a law that clears more space on crowded radio dials and gives low-power operators the first opportunity in more than a decade to get licensed...

Full story:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/16/albert-knighten-dunbar-radio_n_1208697.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/16/albert-knighten-dunbar-radio_n_1208697.html)

Title: Re: Albert Knighten Fights FCC For His Pirate Radio Station
Post by: cmradio on January 31, 2012, 0655 UTC

Quote from: ChrisSmolinski on January 30, 2012, 2358 UTC

...filled an important niche in a predominantly black section of Fort Myers...

There's the most likely reason for the bust >:(

Peace!