These cases date to March 2022 and August 2023
BY Radio World Staff
Published March 4, 2024
Two more property owners have received the FCC’s “pirate radio” letter.
The commission has informed Charles Wyatt that agents from its Atlanta office, acting on a complaint, traced a signal on 87.9 MHz to his property in Greenville, S.C.
That happened in March of 2022. The letter didn’t explain why it took two years for the notice to be issued.
Separately the commission has notified Somerset Maplewood LLC that a signal on 91.7 was traced to its property in Maplewood, N.J. That was in August of 2023.
Both letters inform the owners that third parties who help or enable pirate broadcasts are liable to federal penalties of up to $2.4 million under the PIRATE Act.
The commission recently told Congress that to help fight pirate radio, it had hired four full-time people in fiscal 2023 and was in the process of hiring more.
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