Irish pirate radio former CBC and CCLR stations along with some from the DJing circuit at the time of the closures of both CBC, CCLR with the introduction of the new Radio Licensing Laws which led to the closure of many pirate radio stations in Ireland. Radio City was the first station to use and switch from the medium wave transmitter to an FM transmitter. Most of the Radio City presenters went to national and local licensed radio stations. Other notable stations that came along were radio caroline cork the longest running pirate station of them all still on corks airwaves to this
Pirate Cat Radio Pirate Cat Radio Pirate Cat Radio (87.9 FM) was a low power community radio station that had been broadcasting since April 1996, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The station was one of several unlicensed radio stations operating in the San Francisco Bay Area. The station founder, Daniel "Monkey Man" Roberts (who later legally changed his name to his on-air persona, Monkey), started broadcasting Pirate Cat Radio out of his bedroom in Los Gatos, California (a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area) at the age of 15. Despite receiving hundreds of "Notices of Unlicensed Radio Operation" from the Federal