[article] "No Surrender!" FM

mike65

Heres the station - Red Hand Radio

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1688398,00.html

POLICE are investigating Scotland’s first sectarian radio station, which broadcasts loyalist and anti-Catholic propaganda through an internet server in Jersey.

Detectives believe that Calton Radio — a 24-hour station that claims to have attracted 130,000 listeners since February — may be in breach of a new law banning incitement to religious hatred.

The station has an exclusively “Orange” playlist, including songs ridiculing the Pope and celebrating outlawed terrorist organisations.

Its official website features photographs of loyalist paramilitary murals honouring terror groups including the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), the Ulster Freedom Fighters and the Red Hand Commandos.

Carlton forum users reaction

Mike.

billy the squid

are you sure this is not a piss take.

just a sample of the songs being played on the station

1.N.V.F. - N.V.F. Are Here. F
2.Corby Loyalists Flute Band - Rangers over Here
3.Orange Wings - Orange Wings 4
4.Thornlie Boys - He's An Arse. M
5.Cambuslang VFB - Langsyne
6.JG - Calton Radio Quo
7.The Platoon - Poppy Fields
8.Unknown Artist - Track 8
9.[Opening] Unknown Artist - Track 8

of course there is a silver lining

Average time spent listening 79 Seconds

I think that a station like this would be covered under the new hate-crime laws that were recently brought in in the UK. The station does not require a licence as it is web only. If it were broadcasting on FM, then the Department of Trade and Industry would carry out a raid.

The sad thing is though, it is an internet station and would probably take about five minutes to set up somewhere else and 30 seconds to write a page redirecting site visitors to its new location.