Activist's 2nd station attempt

[DavidEduardo]

Have pirate from mexico..Could the FCC mess with them down there??

Pirates, as a rule, don't exist in Mexico. The methods of enforcement are rather more drastic, as in the past pirates have been used for revolutionary forces such as during the guerilla period in Chiapas, and such activities are met with extreme force.

The FCC... and any other US Government bureau... has no legal standing in a foreign country. There are methods, of vague effectiveness at best, for the US Govenment to object to the actions of a foreign government or actions within the borders of a foreign nation. 

[charles hobbs]

If this "Activist" group contains, or knows any Mexican citizens, they could (theoretically) license their station in Mexico, and "border-blast" their programming into San Diego...

[DavidEduardo]

If this "Activist" group contains, or knows any Mexican citizens, they could (theoretically) license their station in Mexico, and "border-blast" their programming into San Diego...

Two things, I think, would prevent this (other than the technical issues of available channels):

First, Mexico does not reserve any portion of the FM dial for non-commercial stations, so were there a channel available, the large groups would snap it up.

Second, Tijuana is a top 10 market in Mexico, so a license would have great value (despite the fact that some of the longer-lasting family groups are less than stellar in their administration of stations).

Add in the issues involving the need for legal representation in Mexico City, knowledge of the way the, ahem, system works, and such I really doubt that these folks could ever get a license in Mexico.

In any case, I'm still not quite sure what the group stands for. It's easy to see what they are against, as even their website header graphic is a bunch of people with placards protesting. It will be interesting to see how they develop programming for the license(s) they get in S.D. County. They seem to have a concept of developing programming in a free form, open, group. I'm reminded that a camel is a horse built by a committee. 

[radio-darn]

The bottom line is that there needs to be an alternative voice here in this town. Be it legal or not, I'm all for whatever method they use.

There's this cool new thing called the internet that lets us access every type of voice imaginable, via text, audio and video: you can listen to it at home, at work, in your car, while jogging, etc. It's far better than having a remote, low-powered radio station with little potential to reach any of of its intended audience.

[Mark Jeffries]

The bottom line is that there needs to be an alternative voice here in this town. Be it legal or not, I'm all for whatever method they use.

There's this cool new thing called the internet that lets us access every type of voice imaginable, via text, audio and video: you can listen to it at home, at work, in your car, while jogging, etc. It's far better than having a remote, low-powered radio station with little potential to reach any of of its intended audience.

I'm sure the argument Activist would make is the same that the college radio stations that got sent to the Internet by sales to public radio groups would make:  That you are potentially more noticed as one of a relatively-small group of broadcast outlets than you are as one of a million Internet streams.  (The other argument is that record companies don't service Internet streams, but they do "real" OTA stations.)

[sdwulfdawg]

The bottom line is that there needs to be an alternative voice here in this town. Be it legal or not, I'm all for whatever method they use.

There's this cool new thing called the internet that lets us access every type of voice imaginable, via text, audio and video: you can listen to it at home, at work, in your car, while jogging, etc. It's far better than having a remote, low-powered radio station with little potential to reach any of of its intended audience.

Radio-darn, you mean this new cool thing called the "internets." 

[RadeoEngineer]

The bottom line is that there needs to be an alternative voice here in this town. Be it legal or not, I'm all for whatever method they use.

There's this cool new thing called the internet that lets us access every type of voice imaginable, via text, audio and video: you can listen to it at home, at work, in your car, while jogging, etc. It's far better than having a remote, low-powered radio station with little potential to reach any of of its intended audience.

Radio-darn, you mean this new cool thing called the "internets." 

Intertubes. 

[charles hobbs]

In any case, I'm still not quite sure what the group stands for. It's easy to see what they are against, as even their website header graphic is a bunch of people with placards protesting. It will be interesting to see how they develop programming for the license(s) they get in S.D. County. They seem to have a concept of developing programming in a free form, open, group. I'm reminded that a camel is a horse built by a committee. 

is this the same group that ran a pirate back in 2003? I visited San Diego sometime that year (April? May?) and picked up one of the "Alternative Weekly" papers. In it was an ad, or article (again, forget which) about "Free Radio San Diego" and gave a frequency.

I tuned it in. No talking, just a lot of noisy "punk rock" music.

It did have a good signal, all the way from Coronado to Escondido to the Mexican Border....


Are these the same people?