Reply To: What happened to Jewish Radio In Flabush??

It’s hard to know what happened. Years back Jroot which was on 97.5 was raided by the FCC and shutdown. There is discussion about this in t archives. They were back on the air shortly after. As mentioned earlier equipment is cheap. Also, enforcement actions from the FCC are slow and mired down in bureaucracy. Additionally even when fines are levied, there’s a government statute that allows the fine to be reduced ability to pay. There are also more informal actions where enforcement comes by and orders a shutdown without additional penalty. Jroot stayed on the air until a Christian religious station from South Jersey was allowed to legally place a “translator” transmitter on the frequency. They moved to 94.1 but went off shortly after that. Kol Hashalom has been on more than ten years and very rarely goes off. Last time that happened, several weeks went by and they came back. There’s a website about Brooklyn’s pirate stations that might be of interest: pirateradiomap . It has recordings of some of the Heimish stations that have popped up over the years…an unidentified one on 91.9 that only lasted a few weeks and 105.7 which seemed related to the Lubavitchers. Btw, they were one of the earliest Jewish pirates on the air starting in the late 90’s…with WWMN: We Welcome Moschiach Now.