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Pirate Radio stations & new LPFM are primarily illegal because Clear Channel/iHeartRadio cannot profit & control the flow of information as well as they do when
by entropea 6y ago
Pirate Radio stations & new LPFM are primarily illegal because Clear Channel/iHeartRadio cannot profit & control the flow of information as well as they do when they have competition. The things Clear Channel hosts, especially on AM, are not even very much different from calling for an attack on the Capitol, having listened to 20+ years (unfortunately) of Rush Limbaugh my grandfather was listening to. You can contact a lot of people on Amateur Radio or CB radio, but it's not illegal because it doesn't compete with big business.
- AlotOfReading 6y agoWhy would clear channel have anything to do with making pirate radio illegal, which it was for decades before the former ever existed?
- entropea 6y agoThe same reason, just replace with that generations Clear Channel lobbyists. FM/AM Radio is extremely anti-competitive.
- jpollock 6y agoPirate Radio stations are illegal because when it was more of a free-for-all, people would transmit at megawatt power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley