(www.renegaderecordsuk.com)After two years of living in Essex sketchy felt it was time to move back to his own city, where his heart is and always will be. Through his contacts he decided to start his own underground station in Coventry called Renegade fm 94.4. After top results from Coventry public and plenty of ducking n diving from the DTI (ofcom) The motherf*#kers finally found the studio after he was under surveillance from staking out the tower block DTI then followed him back to the studio. He was tempted to go back ‘on air’ but is now turning his mind to internet radio which is totally legal. But in the mean time through his London contacts he now has his own show on Unknown fm(www.unknown.net) and subjam (www.subjam.com)fm every Wednesday which he plays old skool and 4x4 garage Look out for up and coming events. Watch this space…The DTI are the main obstacle pirate radio stations face in the struggle to stay on air. As well as tearing down aerials and taking transmitters, they occasionally raid studios and confiscate any equipment they find, including records. Anyone caught by them can expect a hefty fine, but that's only the start of a pirate engineer's worries. Rival stations sometimes steal equipment from successful pirates; nosy neighbours can call the police if they hear suspicious noises on the roof, and if anything goes wrong with a transmitter, someone has to be on call to put it right. It all sounds like a lot of hassle to go through, so what is it that makes pirate radio so worthwhile for the duckers and divers involved? (THE FUCKING BUZZ MAN)Man behind pirate station sentencedMay 2 2007
By Ben Griffin, crime reporter
A MAN who admitted running a pirate radio station in Coventry has been sentenced.Mario Antonio Giampaglia was the man behind Renegade Radio, which was raided by police last September.The 25-year-old, of Coventry, ran the station from an office in Lockhurst Lane, Holbrooks.* Do you think the pirate radio station was a good thing? Give us your views by visiting our messageboard *The dance music station, which had been broadcasting on 94.4FM, was taken off air during the raid on September 28 and equipment, including CDs, records and turntables, were seized.At the time, officers from Ofcom said such rogue broadcasts could interfere with police, fire and ambulance radios, and could even have been picked up by pilots flying over the city in commercial airliners.The station came to light after people living in four tower blocks in Spon End, Coundon and Foleshill complained to their landlord that their TV signals had been interrupted.Transmitters were found attached to the antennae on the roofs of the flats and officers from Ofcom, the communications regulator, traced the signal back to the office in Holbrooks.Giampaglia is understood to have rented the office without the owner being aware of what he was doing.Giampaglia was given an eight-month community order and ordered to complete the Think First programme, which aims to help offenders learn new skills and how to deal with problems.He had pleaded guilty to participating in the management, financing, operating or day-today running of a broadcast station by which unauthorised broadcasts were made.An order was also made for the forfeiture and destruction of electrical equipment.The station closure prompted widespread debate across Coventry about pirate radio.One of the station's former DJs, known as Acky, came forward to defend the station.He said it kept youngsters off the streets as they stayed in to listen to the station, or gathered at each other's homes.DJ Acky added that he believed the real motivation for taking pirate stations off air was that they took listeners away from commercial stations.The Telegraph received a huge number of messages on its website in support of the station.
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