Country Returns To WKIS After Pirate Station Busted
POSTED: 9:54 am EDT September 22,
2006
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Country music fans in Hollywood are hearing their favorite tunes once again after deputies busted a man who was operating a pirate radio station.
For several weeks, when listeners tuned to WKIS-FM they heard rap music instead of country.
"We had listeners call up saying they had been hearing different music. (They said), 'Have you changed your format? Are you not country anymore? We miss our country,'" said disc jockey Jeff Mason.Authorities said a pirate radio station was interfering with the WKIS signal.Broward County Sheriff's Office deputies found a 30-foot-tall broadcasting antenna outside a Hollywood mobile home.Darin Satter, 34, was charged with unauthorized transmission/interference with a public radio station. He faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $5,000 fine if convicted.Satter told detectives that he's an aspiring disc jockey and always wanted to be on the air.State law prohibits interference with a licensed station.
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