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FCC shuts down Alex Jones’ pirate flagship radio station
« on: August 16, 2018, 03:28:18 am »
FCC shuts down Alex Jones’ pirate flagship radio station

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission has shut down a pirate radio station that served as the flagship outlet for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

The Austin American-Statesman reports the FCC also has fined the station’s operators $15,000 — a fine the FCC says in a lawsuit the operators are refusing to pay.

The lawsuit filed in federal court in Austin alleges Liberty Radio operated on a channel without a license since at least 2013. The lawsuit names as defendants Walter Olenick and M. Rae Nadler-Olenick.

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https://apnews.com/6581e53d64bb41ee812de5d707b0d57d/FCC-shuts-down-Alex-Jones'-pirate-flagship-radio-station
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Re: FCC shuts down Alex Jones’ pirate flagship radio station
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2018, 04:15:48 am »
These fines are from 2014.

https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2014-07-11/fcc-to-radio-pirates-15000-arrgh/

This "flagship station" is a pirate FM station, lucky to broadcast 10 miles, run by a couple of old hippies who own buildings in Austin. They replaced punk rock with Alex Jones around the same time as the complaints and fines.  They also led a local crusade against flouridated water apparently. 

A $15,000 fine is small for the FCC then and now.  The FCC has no compunction raiding your house and taking your radio stuff and imposing 6 figure fines afterward if it thinks it needs to. 

Seems AP is more interested in piling on Alex Jones than in reporting the truth of the matter.  Who'd of thought.

I am not an Alex Jones/InfoWars fan, just a fan of the truth. 

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