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A “pirate radio station” in Austin that serves as Alex Jones’ flagship station in the city has stopped broadcasting after the owners refused to pay a $15,000 fine from the Federal Communications Commission. The Austin American-Statesman reports that the FCC is accusing Texas Liberty Radio of operating 90.1 FM without federal consent since at least 2013 and was able to trace the signal to an apartment building utility room after receiving a complaint. Walter Olenick and M. Rae Nadler-Olenick, the owners of the utility room and identified in court documents as the station’s owners, wrote on the station’s website that they lost their tower in December “due to circumstances beyond our control.” The two have been broadcasting The Alex Jones Radio Show on the web since then and asked property owners to help give them a “new home.”