I was just thinking about how we haven't heard a new pirate radio station in L.A. in a while. The Monkey Man (who formerly broadcasted "Pirate Cat Radio" out of Hollywood) reloacted to San Francisco (where he's also experimenting with pirate TV broadcasts, on channel 13), while legendary KBLT has been off the air for years.
Now comes word, through Radio-Info, that a powerful pirate radio station in the San Fernando Valley has been ordered shut down by the FCC. The station broadcasted in Hebrew over 99.1 FM. From the FCC complaint to pirate broadcaster Yossi Liani:
The Los Angeles Office received information that an unlicensed broadcast radio station on 99.1 MHz was allegedly operating in the San Fernando Valley of California. On October 8, 2005, agents from this office confirmed by direction finding techniques that radio signals on frequency 99.1 MHz were emanating from an apartment residence in Tarzana, California.
The field strength of the signal on frequency 99.1 MHz was measured at 110,000 microvolts per meter (µV/m) at 46.6 meters, which exceeded the maximum permitted level of 250 µV/m at 3 meters for non-licensed devices. Thus, this station is operating in violation of 47 U.S.C. § 301.
The complaint was filed in November, and posters to Radio-Info haven't heard the station in months... so clearly Yossi got the hint.
At least we finally know what Christian Slater has been up to. Good going, "Yossi"!
(By the way, if you're interested in searching for a pirate radio station, here in L.A. they frequently broadcast over 104.7 FM -- including one out of Silver Lake and another from Hollywood.)
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