From: wollman@bimajority.org   
      
   Earlier this year we discussed the FCC's new authority under the   
   so-called PIRATE Act to go after landlords of pirate broadcasters.  In   
   his weekly NorthEast Radio Watch newsletter, my friend Scott Fybush   
   reports today:   
      
   	The FCC’s effort to crack down on pirate operators by going   
   	after their landlords took a new turn last week when 16   
   	property owners in New York and New Jersey received notices   
   	from the Commission warning them that unlicensed signals were   
   	coming from their locations, subjecting them to the   
   	possibility of fines as high as $2 million if the broadcasts   
   	continued. The list included stations in Brooklyn on 91.9,   
   	95.9, 97.5, 98.9, 99.7, 100.7 and 107.9, in the Bronx on 88.9   
   	and 101.7, in St. Albans, Queens on 88.5, in Newark on 87.9,   
   	in Irvington on 88.5 and 90.9, in Maplewood on 90.7, in Orange   
   	on 102.1 and in Paterson on 99.3.   
      
   No indication yet as to whether this aggressive approach is actually   
   having an effect.  The law requires the FCC's Enforcement Bureau to   
   make an annual list of the pirate-broadcasting hotspots and report to   
   Congress on its enforcement efforts there.   
      
   -GAWollman   
      
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