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Why, first broadcast date?...[edit]

Why does the intro state the first US broadcast was in 1978, when later the copy states:

Lanesville TV - Lanesville, New York, USA. Operated on VHF channel 3 by the video collective Videofreex and broadcast on Saturdays from 1972 to 1977 (a total of 258 broadcasts). The collective and its station is detailed in Parry D. Teasdale's book Videofreex: America's First Pirate TV Station & the Catskills Collective That Turned It On. [4][5]#

??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.220.60.74 (talk) 11:12, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pirate television transmitters using DVB-T[edit]

Was there already a pirate television transmitter using DVB-T? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.46.209.184 (talk) 19:55, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is a very good point. I arrived at this article expecting to find up-to-date information including how pirates could broadcast on DVB-T. Given that almost the whole of western Europe has now switched off analogue and is reliant solely on DVB, this entire article seems woefully out of date. If readers can point me to some good source material, I'll update it, but I'm no expert. Andrew Oakley (talk) 16:58, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As for making Pirate TV Stations...[edit]

Why don't you check out Telestreet. These Italians have been doing it since 2002, because Silvio Berlusconi owns 3 out the 4 big television networks over there. Betterwatchit (talk) 15:57, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pirate TV station in Birmingham[edit]

Does anyone remember a pirate television station based in Birmingham during the early 80s? It used to come on after BBC2 had closed down for the night and broadcast horror films. It probably counts as one of the earlies examples of Pirate TV in the UK so would be worth adding, but I don't recall its name. I seem to remember either ATV Today or Central News carrying news items about it? Can anyone help? TheRetroGuy (talk) 14:54, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm thinking of Telstar TV. TheRetroGuy (talk) 11:39, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2004[edit]

Only since 2004 has the technology for pirate television stations become easier to obtain and construct, due to advances in technologies and the availability of equipment.

really? what became cheap in 2004 that enables more people to do this? i'm inclined to remove this info since there is nothing to back up that claim. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.177.179.145 (talk) 05:54, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Signal Intrusion vs Pirate TV[edit]

Many of the "popular culture" references seem to be examples of signal intrusion rather than pirate TV, such as the Running Man. There also seems to be many references to the act of signal intrusion in the text, but the actual term and article link only appear as a minor "See Also" reference. Should there be a more prominent explanation to the difference? JeramieHicks (talk) 21:33, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed stations[edit]

Question: why are proposed stations notable? Is any time someone said "maybe I'll start a tv station" worth including if there's a website that proves they said it? --Rhododendrites (talk) 14:09, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

All Your Base citation[edit]

This article claims there was an "All your base are belong to us" pirate station, however there are no citations and I can not find any other information on this. Has anyone got any evidence this actually happened? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.47.27.227 (talk) 17:47, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish focus[edit]

There's a lot of focus on Spanish pirate TV culture, can someone take a look at that and see if we need to split it off in some way pending adding content about other countries?If she wants to dance and drink all night, well, there's no one here to stop her. (talk) 05:45, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

So about that guy on YouTube[edit]

Even if this isn't a hoax, it's certainly not verifiable. Thinking about just axing it, but the fact that I'm new and no one has done it yet, instead only tagging, gives me pause. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thrashunreality (talk • contribs) 06:00, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]