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The new pirate radio crackdown: 400 stations closed in the past two years | Television & radio | The Guardian

31.7.15

The new pirate radio crackdown: 400 stations closed in the past two years | Television & radio | The Guardian: But piracy has always been at odds with the law. Earlier this month, Ofcom revealed that in London alone they have seized 400 suspected pirate radio setups over the past two years. Ofcom’s head of Spectrum Enforcement, Clive Corrie, says that mostly they stop stations broadcasting because they “interfere with vital radio communications used by the emergency services and aircraft systems, and frequently cause damage to property”. This is a problem specific to the capital, since “of the 100 or so stations illegally broadcasting in the UK, around 70 of them are in London”.


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