Right-wing radios for sale

Pirated and outlawed radio station Arutz 7 to market personal gadgets that play the station's internet stream; station official says hundreds have already ordered device
By Ynetnews

TEL AVIV – Good moooooooorning, right-wingers!

 

Popular pirated Zionist radio station Arutz 7 plans to market Japanese-made personal devices solely designed to play its internet broadcasts after an almost two-year-old government ban on its radio frequencies.

 

The station, established in 1988, broadcasts right-wing and pro-settler commentary and was taken off the air waves in 2003 after years of warnings and calls to disband.

 

Critics of the Arutz 7, the most popular pirated radio station in Israel, have called its broadcasts propaganda and have said its messages are inciting against the government and the courts.

 

The station has for the past two years broadcast solely on the internet.

 

A new hand-held device will allow it to be heard over large frequencies without interrupting radio signals, said marketing director Hezki Baruch.

 

“It looks like a radio, but it broadcasts only one station – Arutz 7,” he said. “It works by internet but does not require a computer. There are people from the religious and Haredi sectors who don’t have computers and internet and are a target audience of the station. “

 

Baruch said Japanese manufacturers created the device especially for the station, which plans to market them this week for NIS 580 apiece. He said more than 1000 people have already ordered one.