Abstract

Prometheus Unbound

Focuses on the history of the West Philadelphia Pirate Radio station, run by Pete Tridish and others, and its encounters with the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Statement that the FCC shut down the radio station in the 1990s; Metamorphosis of West Philadelphia Pirate Radio into the Prometheus Radio Project for media reform; Role of Prometheus in preventing former FCC chairman Michael Powell's efforts to further deregulate the ownership of broadcast stations; Report that Tridish gives advice to community groups that apply for low-power FM licenses; Lack of cooperation between Prometheus and fundamental religious groups; Background of Tridish's involvement in activism; Reference to the book "Rebel Radio: The Story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos."