The true story of pirate radio is a complicated fight over the airwaves. Maybe you have a picture in your mind of some kid in his mom’s basement playing records, but the pirate stations we are ...

Pirates once stormed the high seas of New York City in the 1980s, all with the goal of capturing a booty that couldn’t be seen. In the summer of 1987, a group of pirates aboard a ship three miles off ...

A pirate radio station aboard a rusty freighter Monday rocked and rolled off Long Island as four government agencies tried to figure out how to shut it down. The pirate station was broadcasting in the ...