Radio Caroline was a non-stop pop music station created by Ronan O'Rahilly to compete with the BBC and challenge the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During this morning’s Breakfast Show (March 28), the broadcasting legend staged a brief takeover of the station, to mark 60 years ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Ivan James, pirate radio is not only a major-market problem. He is president of M-4Media, which owns KJVI(FM) in Robert Lee, Texas. His station has been frustrated by a pirate who has been ...

PROVIDENCE – Last summer, agents from the New York enforcement bureau of the Federal Communications Commission traveled through a thickly settled section of the Mount Pleasant neighborhood searching ...

The station was famously raided in 2003, and while most of the staff dispersed after that — including Radio Valencia's Rosenberg, who was also variously on Pirate Cat and FCC Free Radio — the station ...

If you’re driving through the greater Ravenswood area and tune your radio dial to 87.9 FM, you might just enter a sort of radio twilight zone. On tap? Old timey, crime-thriller radio dramas, complete ...

Pirate Radio is the aural equivalent of graffiti. Once in a while, it qualifies as something like art, but more often it’s just blight. Riptide can’t help but emphasize with someone who’s willing to ...

A new law in Florida makes operating a pirate radio station a felony carrying a five-year prison sentence. The Federal Communications Commission says the state is a hotbed of illegal operators, but a ...

It’s the afternoon before the annual West Indian American Day Carnival Parade, which draws some 2 million revelers to Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn each Labor Day. Across the borough, weeks of ...