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In the New York City area, pirate FM stations, mostly serving poor immigrant communities, keep popping up. Seems that there's at least 5 on the air at any one time. I can imagine something like this happening when analog TV sunsets, that pirate analog TV stations take to the air. There are probably many poor people who can't afford cable or satellite TV service, and can't afford a converter box. That's the pirates' audience. And then there's everyones' grandmothers.
Would a pirate pick a VHF channel, or one in UHF?
Back in 1977 or so, in Syracuse NY, someone one weekend did a pirate TV station, possibly the first one in the nation. On channel 7, an otherwise empty channel up there. An article in the New York Times about it apeared one day buried in the paper.
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