Pirate FM Pirate FM Pirate FM is one of the Independent Local Radio stations for Cornwall, playing a range of music from the 1960s to the present day. The station is based at the UKRD Group headquarters in Redruth. The station was launched in 1992 under the name of "Pirate FM 102" with the voice of breakfast presenter Roger Day (a well-known ex-pirate DJ from Radio Caroline and Radio North Sea International). The station's launch Chief Executive was Mike Powell who specified digital technology so advanced at the time that it was featured on the BBC science programme, "Tomorrow's World". Much of
Hot 92 (pirate radio station) Hot 92 (pirate radio station) Hot 92 is a pirate radio station in Birmingham, England, which in October 2005, along with another local pirate station and a black interest website, reported rumours that a black girl was raped by a group of Asian men. This allegedly caused riots in the Lozells area of Birmingham, leaving at least one person dead and 35 people injured. In November 2005, Leon Williams, then 26, pleaded guilty to charges related to helping to run an illegal broadcasting station. In January 2008, one of the people associated with the station, Ernest Uriah Griffiths, was convicted