As the old adage goes: “Always be yourself. Unless you can be a pirate. Then always be a pirate.” That certainly applies to the small, but special circle of swashbuckling radio enthusiasts in the ...

The U.K. has a long and lasting history of pirate radio stations. These are stations that were set up on ships and broadcast from international waters. The BBC had a monopoly on the airwaves in the ...

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 ...

Fans of pirate radio and 60s nostalgia are in for a rare treat as an historic vessel is transformed into a floating radio ship. The Waverley will stream its first live pirate-style broadcast since ...

That’s right, folks. Although the FCC does the very best it can to move in an shut down those who would operate as pirates on America’s airwaves, in the case of a station in Granbury TX, L.R. Radio ...

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 ...

Fabrice Polynice, infamous operator of "Radio Touche Douce," a pirate FM at 90.1 in North Miami, Fla. MIAMI — Fabrice Polynice, the long-time operator of an unlicensed FM radio station at 90.1 MHz ...

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 ...

The FCC has proposed $857,775 worth of fines against seven alleged Massachusetts pirate radio operators running six different stations. The reportedly unlicensed radio stations were investigated ...