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FCC liability for radio pirates operating on your property


The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week warned 13 property owners in the New York City area that illegal FM radio broadcasts were...

These operations are frequently the target of FCC enforcement actions as they can, among other things, interfere with FCC-licensed broadcasts and disrupt emergency communications. Acting on various complaints of unlicensed radio broadcasts from the New York metropolitan area, FCC field agents employed direction-finding equipment to determine the sites from which the suspect signals were originating. As we previously discussed here and here, enactment of the PIRATE Act has caused the FCC to step up its enforcement activity, particularly against property owners.

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