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Border radio station Wild Country FM was taken off the air today after officers from ComReg accompanied by Gardai conducted a raid on the stations transmission site at Edintubber, Co. Louth.
Equipment valued at €16000 was seized and the station was taken off the air at 11:40.
A spokesperson for the station said "While we fully acknowledge that our station was operating without a license, it has filled a valuable void which has been left for local radio, particularly in the South Armagh and Down areas since the departure of Q radio from their Newry Studio.
"We had been broadcasting the public health advisories on Covid-19 twice an hour for both North and South and if the reaction to our station over the lockdown is anything to go by, we feel we have made this difficult period easier for our listeners by providing Irish and American country music around the clock.
"Alas this came to an end today, why it took 6 members of ComReg, together with Gardai to do this we will never understand when a simple phone call to us from the authorities would have sufficed. (The CCTV video from our site is like something out of Narcos - sledgehammers etc)"
The station will continue online via the radiogarden app.
