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- Pirates on the airways
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- The story of the pirate radios is a
- true story about the fight for the
- free and independent radio. This fight
- has continued over 55 years and still
- we can't see the end.
- To be exact, a pirate radiostation is
- a station which broadcasts program
- without any permission or licence from
- any kinds of authorities. Usually the
- pirates are illegal, also they are
- breaking some kind of law. The
- difference between 'pirate' radios and
- 'free' radios is, that a free radio is
- totally legal. It's legal, but it does
- not have some "big brother" watching
- and saying what can be said and done.
- Free radio is independent and unrest-
- ricted by goverment.
- This series of articles has 3 parts.
- In this first part I'll write about
- the pirate (or free) radio operations
- outside Finland. The second part is
- all about Finnish Free Radio and the
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- last one tells you about the best-
- known Finnish pirate, Right-Wing
- Radio.
- The story of pirate radio started on
- the high seas, like the name 'pirate'
- tells. The first real pirate was a
- station called RXKR , who started
- broadcasts in 1933 near Californian
- coast in USA, Santa Monica. That
- project was a short-lived one, and the
- real success of pirate radio came over
- 20 years later, in Scandinavia.
- In July 1958 Radio Mercury started to
- broadcast from a ship, which was
- anchored on the sea few kilometres
- outside Kopenhagen, the capital of
- Denmark. radio Mercury became very
- popular, because it played very much
- light music. In the 50's the goverment
- radio networks didn't play popular
- light music (like jazz, pop, etc.) at
- all, and even in the 60's only very
- little. So the pirate radios were the
- only way for the young people to hear
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