Every single station complied by shutting down their operations. All except for Radio Caroline, which kept pumping out pop music to millions in the U.K. and on the European continent.

Pirate radio has been around since the mid-1930s, growing up alongside commercial radio. But as the cost of technology—namely radio transmitters and antennas, which can be had for as little as $200 ...

Secondly, a $1.78 million proposed fine has been issued to Dexter Blake, in response to his suspected operation of a pirate radio station known as “ Linkage Radio,” which can be heard in the ...

The FCC continues its campaign against pirate operators with these actions. The FCC recently confirmed a record fine of $2.3 million against operators of another unlicensed station in New York City.

A home on Tiffany Place in Irvington, N.J.: a pirate radio station serving Haitian Creole listeners at 91.7 MHz from a house owned by Gais Jeune and Isabel Moriceau.

BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball was locked out of her studio in a pirate radio takeover by Tony Blackburn. During this morning’s Breakfast Show (March 28), the broadcasting legend staged a brief ...

Congress took up the issue of exactly what defines pirate radio. At 47 U.S.C. 511 (h), the PIRATE Act specifically limits “pirate radio” to “spectrum frequencies between 535 and 1705 kilohertz, ...

Correction (April 5, 2012: 8:30 p.m.): Offshore pirate radio ships typically sailed in international waters, out of reach of individual countries' laws. That point was incorrect in the original ...

PHOTO: Ronan O’Rahilly with bell. The late founder of Radio Caroline with the station's signature bell. (Offshore Echos Magazine) In 1967, the British government passed legislation -- the Marine ...