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Feds chase radio pirates across town

An unlicensed radio station kicked out of a Hyde Park office building is now broadcasting from a house in Dorchester.

Hot 97 Boston had been serving up hip hop, reggae and gospel from the basement of One Westinghouse Plaza, but after a visit from FCC inspectors, the station shut up shop and moved to 76 Esmond St. in Dorchester.

On Sept. 3, the FCC notified owner Delroy Johnson to knock it off. He's apparently paying them as much heed as Touch 106, another Dorchester pirate: The station is still on the air this afternoon (although it's now a bit harder to hear here in Roslindale).

Via Radio-Info.com.

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By karenz | Fri, 09/25/2009 - 1:30am

One of my favorite cheap thrills is to scan the radio for pirate stations while driving home in JP. I think last Spring someone from Touch 106 was passing out information at the Forest Hills T stop too.

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Touch is an interesting case

By adamg | Fri, 09/25/2009 - 7:00am

They do a lot of public-service programming and events that none of the "real" radio stations in the Boston area would do.

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