According to the Boston Business Journal, Clemons says agents representing the Federal Communications Commission raided Touch 106.1’s office in Dorchester’s Grove Hall section Thursday, seized equipment and unplugged the station because it was broadcasting without an FCC license. But Touch 106.1’s Facebook page describes this as a temporary situation, and boasts that it is still continuing its programming and advertising via online streaming.
Clemons, one of a dozen people who ran for mayor last year in Boston, has tangled with the FCC before. At one point, in 2008, the agency levied a $17,000 fine against him for operating an unlicensed station.
Clemons, who co-founded the station in 2005, offered up a defense in a video posted on YouTube today.
He conceded that he was operating without a license: “Touch 106.1 has its paperwork pending for its license, and we don’t have a license.”
He then launched into a blistering attack on the FCC, accusing of the government bureaucracy of trying to silence the audience served by Touch 106.1, a focal point for Boston's black community.
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