Reasons for Pirate Radio

The main reason for the creation of Pirate Radio was to meet the needs of music fans. The BBC wasn’t playing music that people liked and wanted. They instead played educational broadcasting. Formation of offshore radio stations was popular because they were free from any restrictions. They were allowed to broadcast whatever they like because the governments couldn’t prosecute them because they were abroad since the seas were considered free territory, and not owned by any government. 

Beyond the UK, pirate radio stations were also established in Asia, Australia, Central America, the Caribbean Sea, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. The main reasons pirate radio stations developed in the South China Sea (Broadcasting to China) was to broadcast political ideas by stations such as the Voice of the People's Liberation Army, Radio Flash, The October Storm, Redifussion Central, and Popular of Peking. Offshore radio stations were created by Cuban exiles for the same reasons as in China. In the U.S. pirate radio refers to unlicensed broadcasting on any part of the radio spectrum that is used by governmental, public, or commercial licensees, so basically anyone who broadcasts without a license is considered a “pirate”. Most “pirates” in the U.S. started stations because they believe that government regulation only favors large corporations and therefore consider themselves a challenge to authority.
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