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Pirate radio is a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license, whether an invalid license or no license at all. In some cases, radio stations are considered legal where the signal is transmi
REM Island was a platform off the Dutch coast used as a pirate radio station in 1964 before being dismantled by the Netherlands Marine Corps.
In 1926 WJAZ in Chicago, Illinois, challenged the U.S. government's authority to specify operating frequencies and was charged with being a "wave pirate". The station responded with this February 1926 publicity photograph of its engineering staff dressed as "wave pirates".
Pirate radio in the United Kingdom has been a popular and enduring radio medium since the 1960s, despite expansions in licensed broadcasting, and the advent of both digital radio and internet radio. A
Pirate radio
…TSF, Lisbon, Portugal (now licensed and legal) Twilight FM, Hull, East Yorkshire 1993–1997 Voice of Peace, Israel (pirate ship…
The MV Mi Amigo, once home of Radio Caroline, mid 1970s
Dread Broadcasting Corporation, groundbreaking black pirate radio station
Pirates - 1993 documentary focusing on East London pirate radio
Pirate radio aerial installations on rooftops in NW London, early 2000s