Enforcement Bureau Seizes Manhattan Pirate's Equipment
The FCC Enforcement Bureau and other federal authorities seized radio equipment from a Manhattan pirate station April 10, the commission said in a release Tuesday. It was a joint effort by the FCC, the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S.…
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Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. “We are pursuing multiple legal routes to stop pirate broadcasters,” said bureau Chief Rosemary Harold. Pirate station Rumba FM, which broadcast on 95.3 FM from a high-rise apartment building, ignored multiple warnings from the FCC, the agency said. “Pursuant to a federal court order, authorities seized equipment operated by the illegal radio station at that station’s antenna location on St. Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan.” Rumba FM couldn’t be reached for comment.