FCC announces massive pirate radio shutdown

[Nick]

The FCC is planning to respond to every single complaint about a pirate station. Working with law enforcement, they will be raiding every pirate station and seizing all broadcasting equipment. Owners will be fined $10,000 which will automatically be deducted from bank accounts, and they will be immediately arrested. The airwaves in places like Newark, Brooklyn, Boston, Miami, etc will have a lot less interference. The mass raid will most likely take place in a span of only 24 hours. Obviously, they're not going to announce when the raid will be, but it will be sometime soon.

After the mass raid, the FCC will revamp their infrastructure to speed up the shutdown of pirates in the future. Within 24 hours of any complaint, field agents will determine the source of the pirate broadcast and immediately summon the police to raid the station. Raids will happen at any time, even at 3:00 AM on a Sunday night.

[Research_Weenie]

I'm waiting..  so far they're all still transmitting..    nice weather for the 1st of April isn't it?

[Nick]

April fools. This sort of thing will never happen in my lifetime.

[TheBigA]

And ironically, the FCC wants the power to regulate the internet.  No "foolin!"  If they do for the internet what they did to the airwaves, the internet will be bankrupt in 20 years.

[johnbasalla]

Could part of this move be brought on because it seems the commission really wants to license more over-the-air stations, and that's going to be problematic anyway vis-a-vis interference, so they've got to get this riff-raff off the air?

[Nick]

This was a prank. The pirate stations are still broadcasting.

[landtuna]

Well....duh!  Look at the original post date.   

[quadraphonic]

I didn't believe it until I got an email from somebody, and they swore it's true too!

There MUST be something to it!