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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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