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		<title>Pirate Radio Station Busted</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/10/23/pirate-radio-station-busted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Kevin Church]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the FCC, working with local law enforcement, shut down local &#8220;pirate&#8221; radio station CTY-Radio, broadcasting on 89.7 FM. Operator Rian Hayes, 29, was taken into custody and will be arraigned this Friday on federal charges including unlicensed operation, inadvertent interference and possession of illegal transmission equipment. &#8220;The capture of Mr Hayes is the result of a nine-month investigation,&#8221; stated FCC spokesperson Angela Moriarty. &#8220;We hope this sends a message to the pirate radio community in this area: you will no longer use the public airwaves without sanction.&#8221; Pirate radio has a storied history in the city, beginning with Leonard &#8220;Lenny&#8221; Hart&#8217;s unauthorized rebroadcast of Jack Benny&#8217;s radio program in 1974. The phenomenon is widely regarded as having peaked with FM92 in the early 80s, where 93.9 personality Jamdog got his start. CTY-Radio was popular for its focus on ethnocentric programming, including regular segments devoted to afrobeat, free jazz, and even Jewish songs. While Hayes acted as the primary operator of the station under the nom de broadcast Hallelujah Jones, other featured on-air talents used monikers like Sacred Skull, Minus Nine, and The Countess. &#8220;I&#8217;m confident that we can work with the FCC and the city to reduce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stop-Callers</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/08/15/the-stop-callers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[RJ White]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually, here at The City Desk, we like to offer well-researched accounts of the city&#8217;s past and present, based largely upon old newspaper articles, city/university archival materials and personal accounts. We like to stay away from posting apocrypha whenever possible. Today&#8217;s topic, though, is a bit harder to nail down using such traditional means. The idea behind it is simple, that of the public transit &#8220;Stop-Caller,&#8221; someone who would sit on the bus and call out the upcoming stops, so that passengers would have advance notice. Of course, on most transit systems these days, this is taken care of via an automated recording (when it works). Here, for a brief period (maybe) there were actually people assigned this job on specific transit routes. The thing is, no one can exactly agree as to when or why. One version has the Stop-Callers riding along on some of the City-Suburban Transit Authority&#8217;s (CSTA) major bus routes after a particularly awful snowstorm in 1931. The reasoning being that the drivers needed to concentrate on the road ahead- this other person, usually someone from the CSTA office, whomever could be spared that also had a good sense of the route. This was said to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survivors of the Radio Apocalypse</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/11/27/survivors-of-the-radio-apocalypse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Brodie H. Brockie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1967, Jeff Crane walked out onto North Canton Avenue and winced from his first view of sunlight in 16 years. As his eyes adjusted, he took a nervous look around and saw an unwashed, bushy-bearded, shabbily-dressed, long-haired man stumbling toward him, his eyes glazed and babbling incoherently. His worst fears were realized: civilization had ended. He was wrong, of course, but how could Mr. Crane or any of the others know the difference between a hippie and a refugee in a post-nuclear barbarian society? One October night in 1951, WKVD-AM disc jockey Wink Timbers, inspired by Orson Welles&#8217; “War of the Worlds” thirteen years earlier, decided to broadcast a similar dramatized program, the story of a nuclear conflict having begun against Soviet Russia, and the communist superpower retaliating with their own a-bombs and a legion of scientifically bred mole-people. With the formation of the Warsaw Pact and the Doctrine of Massive Retaliation having been enacted earlier that year, most elements of the broadcast were, perhaps, a bit too realistic for most listeners. There was mass looting throughout the city by residents afraid of having to stock-up on supplies. A riot in Ataraxia Park resulted in 17 people being hospitalized [...]]]></description>
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