[Imc-newsroom] Human Rights Radio Back on the Air

[Mike Lehman]

From: <http://www.radiodiversity.com/index2.shtml>


                 Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2000 by glenn
                 Story Link: Springfield State Journal-Register

                      Springfield pirate radio station operator Mbanna
Kantako
                      has returned to the airwaves with his Human Rights
Radio
                      station, defying a federal court order that
prohibits him from
                      broadcasting without a license.

                      Kantako's station, at 106.5 FM, returned to the
air Friday
                      afternoon. Its broadcasts on Monday included audio
                      recordings of the Sept. 29 confiscation of his
radio
                      equipment by U.S. marshals.

                      Kantako, who has operated his unlicensed station
from his
                      residences since 1987, was silenced after air
traffic
                      controllers from Capital Airport complained to the
Federal
                      Communications Commission that the station had
interfered
                      with communication between pilots and controllers.

                      So far, Kantako's renewed broadcasts have not
disrupted
                      pilot-tower communications, said Bret Thomas, a
Federal
                      Aviation Administration system specialist who
testified in
                      Kantako's Oct. 4 hearing.