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| FCC targets pirate radio station that broadcasts Alex Jones |
| 2018-08-17 |
| [THEHILL] The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has shut down a pirate radio station known for its broadcasts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The Austin American-Statesman reported Wednesday that the station, Liberty Radio, was hit with a $15,000 fine and at least temporarily pulled from the airwaves. The newspaper reported that a lawsuit filed in federal court in Austin alleged that Liberty Radio had functioned without a license since at least 2013, and had been transmitting from a tower at an Austin apartment complex. Liberty Radio, or LRN.FM, stopped airing on the radio in December, but still streams online. The FCC is charging that the station was also illegally broadcasting on an FM wavelength. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported that Walter Olenick and M. Rae Nadler-Olenick were named as the defendants in the lawsuit, and the apartment complex from which the station was transmitting is linked to them. The Olenicks reportedly told the FCC that they would not pay the fine and would treat any agency representatives as trespassers. Media reports, including the local Statesman, described the station as Jones's "flagship" outlet; NPR reported Thursday that it had picked up the nickname "Alex Jones Radio" over the years. The station does air rebroadcasts of "The Alex Jones Show." However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... station host Danny Sessom wrote in a Facebook post late Wednesday that media reports describing the station as Jones's "flagship" are "actual fake news," noting that Jones didn't broadcast from the station. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 The beauty of the pre-social media internet is that it was flat. That is, anyone could publish a website, and every website existed on the same plane as every other. When Facebook first got started I couldn't understand it. Why would I want to publish anything on a platform that looks as clunky as that when I could set up my own website and have total control over the look and feel of the thing as well as the content. But that's because I'm a techie and setting up a web page would be easy for me. Setting up a web page would be easy for a lot of people because HTML is really not that hard to learn. But I guess if you're a snowflake... |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-08-17 10:54 |
| #4 Suggest a move to Cuban radio space. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-08-17 10:02 |
| #3 To be honest there's a strong case for frequency title holdings to be regulated by the state. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-08-17 09:40 |
| #2 Radio Free America. Who could have guessed there would be a need for one? |
| Posted by: Black Bart Sproing3283 2018-08-17 06:32 |
| #1 I do not give a damn What you think about Alex. And this is not about Alex. Alex pissed me off too before. This is about keeping our lines of comms open: The beauty of the pre-social media internet is that it was flat. That is, anyone could publish a website, and every website existed on the same plane as every other. The hyperlink held us bloggers to account, by directing readers to the source material which they could judge for themselves. All the more reason to listen to them. What happens to them when they have no voice or worse? We need to go back to real RSS again. Before the faceberg came to sink US all or the twitter shitbird came to end US as we were crawling to shore. I want MY Vertical RSS tweetdeck back again. And it is my patent. FU. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-08-17 03:48 |