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Claims by IPs[edit]

This is an op-ed piece -> Clearly not as it's the cover story of a weekly newsmagazine.
"Pirate Cat Radio website is not offline, did not go offline nor is its archive or stream" -> The website is online (and according to it, Hosni Mubarak is still Egypt's president) but its streaming link is dead (and has been for a while) and I cannot find its archives. It should be easy to prove they're online by providing working links.

--NeilN ^{talk to me} 13:12, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"As of March 2011 Pirate Cat Radio started broadcasting live from its secret studio in Berlin" -> This is clearly incorrect as the source states "Pirate Cat Radio will begin broadcasting live from Berlin as of 15.02.2014!" --NeilN ^{talk to me} 13:57, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

NeiLN you seem to be mistaken as the stations site says it started FM broadcasting in January 2011 in Berlin [1]

and the second post says the Pirate Cat Radio’s 3 years of all most uninhibited FM broadcast in Berlin will resume on 15.02.2014. The reason for the break in programming? A new studio and repairs to various broadcast devices. [2] additionally a location address has been found via yelp [3] All links back up IPs claims as being factual and the sfweekly article being grossly inaccurate — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chickenodeon (talk • contribs)

And give the muddled history of the operator, we need a third party independent source to verify these claims. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 14:32, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Additional past event postings found to support Berlin broadcast: [4] [5] [6] [7] then the FCC in 2011 [8] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chickenodeon (talk • contribs)

Facebook posts aren't reliable sources. The 2009 SF Gate source has this:

For an essentially illegal station, Pirate Cat has been doing anything but keep a low profile. Besides a few warnings over its long tenure, the FCC has mostly kept out of Pirate Cat’s way–until last April when regulators discovered a transmitter broadcasting Pirate Cat at a frequency higher than the legal limit.
Monkey claims that the transmitter–discovered on the roof of a Twin Peaks apartment miles away from Pirate Cat’s station–belonged to a listener who picked up Pirate Cat’s broadcast via its internet stream. Due to this practice, Pirate Cat can also be heard in Vancouver, Honduras and Berlin. For the time being, any American rogue broadcasters have gone mute and listeners can only hear the station online.
“We’ve asked all the people transmitting Pirate Cat Radio to stop,” Monkey says. “You know, a fine is bad, but I don’t want to go to jail. I look very bad in orange.”

The transmitter was in the USA and was broadcasting the terrestrial signal which was itself shut down in 2010. The so-called "2011 FCC" source is actually quoting a January 2009 newspaper article, also referring to a simulcast of the shut down USA signal. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 00:39, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]