Small stations in multiple states have unexpectedly found themselves playing the YG song since Trump’s inauguration.
A community radio station in South Carolina that normally plays oldies and beach music on Monday said it had been hacked to play an anti-Trump song.
In a message to fans of Sunny 107.9, President Frank Patterson of the Lake Keowee Broadcasting Group wrote that the station had been hacked.
"This is NOT our broadcast!" he wrote on Monday. "We at WFBS do not take political views! The FCC and WFBS are working to fix this situation ASAP."
The station, which covers 10 miles of Salem, South Carolina, was the latest non-commercial radio station to unintentionally broadcast YG's "FDT (Fuck Donald Trump)."
On Jan. 20, the day of Trump's inauguration, a low-power station in San Angelo, Texas, that normally airs R&B oldies played the song. Other stations hacked that day included El Jefe 96.7, a Spanish language station in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Mother of the Redeemer Radio 103.5 in Evansville, Indiana, and Crescent Hill Radio, a nonprofit station that plays local music in Louisville, Kentucky.
"OK, not funny. some one has hacked into out transmitter tower, and the FM was playing a mp3 clip repeatedly of %$^# Donald Trump," Crescent Hill Radio posted on Facebook on Jan. 20, according to the Courier-Journal.
Radio Insight reported the hack was done through a Barix Exstreamer, an audio over IP device that isn't by default secured. A similar hack last year took over radio stations with an explicit furry podcast.
Meanwhile, other radio stations have been playing the song intentionally. A pirate radio station in Seattle has been looping the song for a week, Q13 Fox reported. Other stations are playing a radio edit of the song as part of their regular broadcast rotation.
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