For more than 25 years, unlicensed FM radio broadcast operations have littered the airwaves of South Florida. While the problem isn’t as worrisome as it was during the early 2000s, as FM translators and licensed low-power FM stations have taken up nearly all of the open frequencies these buccaneers used back then, one swashbuckling operator has all but ignored the FCC’s efforts to silence his pirate radio station.
Late Friday, yet another attempt to punish Fabrice Polynice surfaced from the Commission. But without true firepower — such as a potentially life-threatening gunfight in North Miami — can Radio Touche Douce at 90.1 MHz be finally silenced?