When Suze Johnson and Bean Cravens started their show on Free Radio Austin Tuesday morning, they wondered if it would be their last. It was.
At about 10:30 a.m., two Federal Communications Commission agents and a U.S.marshal knocked on the door of the backyard shed where they were broadcasting without a license. The agents shut off the pirate station's power and began confiscating equipment, they said...
Jim Ellinger, former author of the Austin Chronicle's "Austin Airwaves" radio column, said almost everyone was waiting for the raid. "This was probably the most highly anticipated bust in radio history," he said.
One week earlier FCC agents raided Radio One, another small pirate radio station in Austin. A San Marcos-based pirate radio station, KIND, also stopped operating recently due to a court order.