I have found another pirate station in North Alabama! I cannot give out their call letters or anything like that, but I am 1400% sure that they are. The station has been unliscensed for an extended amount of time now. They are an ESPN affiliate,and I Checked Radio-locator and the FCC database and they have no station on record with the same call sign. They'll probally get caught one day or another
I have found another pirate station in North Alabama! I cannot give out their call letters or anything like that, but I am 1400% sure that they are. The station has been unliscensed for an extended amount of time now. They are an ESPN affiliate,and I Checked Radio-locator and the FCC database and they have no station on record with the same call sign. They'll probally get caught one day or another, but probally not anytime soon.
Interesting. When I was driving through Northern California a year ago, I heard something very similar in the expanded AM band. The stations I heard in NoCal were the worst. All automated, no effort to even try to hide the fact that the station was an autopilot drone. They seemed to go forever between IDs, and the few I caught were something like "click hiss 'KRUD 1680, ESPN radio, Shasta/Temecula' click" These things sit out there, running network feed programing and network advertising, complete with all the board op audio cues and tones and stuff going right out over the air. One Saturday morning I heard a young sounding human behind the mic giving the Friday night high school sports report, then he stopped and it was back to autopilot again. If there was an earthquake or flood or other piublic service need these stations I wonder if they would sit there yacking about sports and selling baldness cures.
Disney/ESPN does show up on x-band AM on the West coast. We have KKID or something like that in Oregon at 1680, Radio Disney for kids. The Disney product is a little more professional with a tiny bit of local voice talent for local spots, events and sponsors. The content is network all the way though.