Alex Jones' Flagship Pirate Radio Station Booted Off Air by FCC

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



A “pirate radio station” in Austin that serves as Alex Jones’ flagship station in the city has stopped broadcasting after the owners refused to pay a $15,000 fine from the Federal Communications Commission. The Austin American-Statesman reports that the FCC is accusing Texas Liberty Radio of operating 90.1 FM without federal consent since at least 2013 and was able to trace the signal to an apartment building utility room after receiving a complaint. Walter Olenick and M. Rae Nadler-Olenick, the owners of the utility room and identified in court documents as the station’s owners, wrote on the station’s website that they lost their tower in December “due to circumstances beyond our control.” The two have been broadcasting The Alex Jones Radio Show on the web since then and asked property owners to help give them a “new home.”

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[Grassy Knoll]

1. Good, Such A Fucking Mind Twister..

[sandensea]

3. Absolutely.

Another good reason? Incitement to violence, for one - and constantly.

[marble falls]

2. Whomp whomp!

[flibbitygiblets]

5. I second that Whomp Whomp!!

Sometimes it's hard out there for a batshit crazy jackhole. Maybe best to just hang up those cans.

[certainot]

4. a lot of rw radio probably operates like this, and can go like this

[marble falls]

6. Pirate radio stations of 5 megs is one thing and the FCC shuts these down, what he had ...

bigger. It had tons of equipment, more than a kid with a back pack guerilla radio. If its the station I think it is: its an old 'Christian' station that shuttered a few years back. They're only on the net now.

[gay texan]

12. the only outlet he is still on is shortwave

4840 Khz i believe

[marble falls]

20. That must give him an audience of tens.

[JDC]

7. I just watched a Malcom in the Middle episode

Where Hal was broadcasting from the back yard illegally. "Kid Charlemagne." It was hilarious.

In regard to AJ's piratexstation: F 'em.

[bitterross]

8. Wouldn't an outhouse have been more appropriate.

The words "utility room" give it too much legitimacy.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

9. Operating since 2013 without FCC approval

and they're only just NOW getting to them ?

Geez, I'm glad they weren't broadcasting anything offensive . . . or dangerous. Maybe we should ask Leonard Pozner about that.

[Vogon_Glory]

10. If there is one thing I fault the Obama Administration for,

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It’s extending mercy and compassion to these guys instead of laying into them with a jawbone of an ass. It is a lesson I hope the next Democratic administration learns, but I fear they won’t.

Run up the black flag and start playing the Deguello!!

[Haggis for Breakfast]

14. Do you mean Deguello ?

If so, yes. No Quarter !!

[Vogon_Glory]

19. You're right, it is Deguello nt

[Judi Lynn]

11. About time, after all, isn't it? I think the world can survive without that silly, stupid man

who looks like a blister trying to be a person.

[truthisfreedom]

13. Judi Lynn! I'm surprised at you! It goes against the standards of DU

To attack blisters.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

15. More like a festering boil.

[nolabear]

16. Maybe the country is finally refusing to be abused.

[summer_in_TX]

17. Wow, about time!

One of my kids fell into the cult of infowars - a bright, independent young man. We've had to bite our tongue for years and try to figure out how to deprogram him. Luckily his life (wife, six kids, two jobs) has finally taken him in other directions and he stopped listening to infowars and watching their videos.

Not sure how such a bright guy became so gullible, but he was in his first year in college when 9/11 happened and he began falling into conspiracy theories (and maybe some that were not-so-crazy).

I couldn't understand how Alex Jones stayed on the air without a license for so long. And I will never understand how he could deliberately make up terrible lies about the Sandy Hook parents. Awful man. The loss of his various media platforms is way overdue.

[JohnnyRingo]

18. Clear overstep by the feds.

You mean I can't start a radio station in my back yard and broadcast my message to the sheeple? What if we stopped everyone from doing that? hahahaha

There's nothing I'd love more than to be listening to some Led Zeppelin and have a rabidly barking Alex Jones bleed through from the frequency modulation fringe.

[rpannier]

21. asked property owners to help give them a "new home.

Lucky them. I can help
I think I own a piece of property that used to be a contaminate waste dump.
They are free to set up shop

truth: No, I do not own one. Right now, I wish I did.