"Other Radio" currently has a weekly listenership of 3.8m adults a week. Brouwer intended to obtain an AM frequency from the Netherlands authorities in 2003 when its medium wave frequencies were reallocated. The final song was Pilot of the Airwaves by Charlie Dore.[43]. When we started our series to commemorate the forty years of Radio Caroline, we asked the readers to write down their memories of the station in just a few lines. On Saturday, 28 March, it began regular broadcasting at noon on 1520 kHz (announced as 199 metres) with the opening conducted by Simon Dee. Each of his crew was awarded The Thanks of the Institution on vellum.[33]. -1.04 -1.26%. The 'amateurs' were said to be reaching 39million listeners with 15million in the South of England and the rest in the North. From 2007, the ship was docked at Tilbury, where a volunteer crew repaired and maintained it. First you need good audience figures and to do that a greater prominence needs to be sought, hence the push for a Sky EPG listing. Lord Annan, author of the 1977 Report of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting, spoke in defence of Radio Caroline in the House of Lords at report stage on the Broadcasting Act 1990, saying "Why break a butterfly upon the wheel? As its popularity began to blossom, the British Government looked at ways to curtail the station's influence. O'Rahilly and Drummond were inspired by the Danish Radio Mercur, which in 1952 became the first station in the world to broadcast commercial radio from a vessel in international waters without permission from the authorities in the country that it broadcast to. Since August 2000, Radio Caroline has also broadcast 24 hours a day via the internet and by the occasional restricted service licence. This was replaced by a twin-mast T-antenna. I could never figure out if he was "high on life" or high on some of that famous Falls Head Herb usually found in the Overdrive studio, so John Bennett tells me. That autumn various tests, consisting of continuous music, were made on 259 metres. BBC Radio 6 Music celebrates its 20th birthday with record listening figures. Her story illustrates how uniquely dangerous government regards an independent voice transmitted over unrestricted airwaves and to what ends it will go to silence it."[42]. During Easter 2008, the station broadcast live for three days from the Ross Revenge, featuring presenters who had worked on the Mi Amigo in the late 1970s: Roger Mathews, Mike Stevens, Bob Lawrence, Brian Martin, Martin Fisher, Cliff Osbourne, Jeremy Chartham, Marc Jacobs, Ad Roberts, Dick Verheul and Kees Borrell. Since September 2015, Radio Caroline has been broadcasting 'live' for one weekend each month[59] as "Radio Caroline North" (with original DJs and a mixed 1960s, 1970s and 1980s music content and jingles) from its former home the MV Ross Revenge on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, via Manx Radio's 1368kHz 20kW transmitter on the Isle of Man. [citation needed] The new station introduced British audiences to slick American-style top 40 radio with electronic jingles produced by Dallas-based PAMS, and was an immediate success. BBC Radio 2 to air special show for Tony Blackburn's 80th birthday. Hughley to Raise Awareness About Multiple Myeloma Among Black Communities. The last broadcast from the Mi Amigo was by Stevie Gordon and Tom Anderson:[32]. "It was just so special and so different and worth fighting . Technology. Sellel pakasest paukuval imekaunil peval oli pikese mber ka halo, mille vike jupike on paremal taevas nha. Never miss a show by setting an alarm for when it is about to start, or if you do - listen to it later using our 'Listen Again . Broadcasting hours were 6am to 6pm to avoid competition from Radio Luxembourg, which began transmissions at 6pm. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. [6] The generator was left running but the pumps could not manage and the vessel sank 10 minutes later. Radio Caroline was off the air for most of the 1990s, except for occasional low-power broadcasts of one month. Markets. The bureauxs client must also be a RAJAR subscriber. A coastguard vessel escorted the launch back to shore, but the authorities were unhappy that Caroline listeners had jammed the emergency switchboards. He was opposed by some DJs and crew who had worked on the Mi Amigo and the album format stayed along with presenters such as Andy Archer, Samantha Dubois, Grant Benson, Robin Ross and Simon Barrett. Research suggests that the average person hears between 20,000 and 30,000 words during the course of a 24-hour period. In November 1991, the ship lost its anchor in a storm and drifted onto the Goodwin Sands in the Channel. The Caroline App is just 1.79 or equivalent price in your country. iPhone Maker Plans $700 Million India Plant in Shift From China. I must say the people on the station got my sympathy very quickly. Because commercial radio was prohibited in Belgium, Radio Mi Amigo had little competition from the former BRT State Radio and TV (today VRT Flemisch State radio and TV) and became very popular in Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK. American Cancer Society 2022-2024. . How different it seemed six weeks later when the Mi Amigo had no mast and RNI no English service. How we recruit respondents, sampling points and fieldwork in depth. People have to move away from the idea that Caroline can only broadcast from a boat I thought that back in the early days we were fighting for free radio to be legalised "free" as in freedom of speech and on land! ", And then a small packet of Caroline's past was brought back by Mary Payne, director of the Radio London company which does a lot of work, including maintaining an excellent site on the history of Radio London together with her husband Chris. Zoe Ball, Greg James, Roman Kemp, Chris Evans and the Today programme are among the shows to have fewer listeners than the last time ratings were measured. The project not unexpectedly hit the quay side, but it would have been interesting should the plan have come to fruition. The Mi Amigo returned to its Frinton-on-Sea anchorage with a redesigned antenna and a new 50kW transmitter and attempted to resume broadcasting on 18 April, nominally on 259 metres to enable the same jingles as Radio Caroline North on 1169kHz to be used, but actually 252 metres. Great reads on Radio Caroline and Free Radio from the 1960's to the 1990's, including from Radio . Broadcasting from various offshore locations to Western Europe, Status unclear and mainly operated by supporters, Radio Atlantis 1973 and Radio Mi-Amigo 19741978, Geographic areas bordering upon North Sea, 963 kHz (wavelength announced as "319" metres) later moving to 819 kHz with additional transmitter in 531594 kHz range (principally 558 kHz). Clive Garrard. The UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) put a permanent watch on movements around the Ross Revenge and the MV Communicator, Laser 558's ship. On this page Hans Knot presents a few exemplary ones. Part of being a good communicator means knowing how to listen. Caroline coming in to pick up her pilot. Some DJs from the USA and Commonwealth countries, such as Graham Webb, Emperor Rosko and Keith Hampshire were also heard. US Stocks Snap Two Days of Losses; Yields Rise: Markets Wrap. I don't think Grandma saw her radio again till I managed to get a small tranny of my own to replace it. In December 1976, Radio Mi Amigo moved to 1562kHz on the 50kW transmitter, leaving Caroline on 1187kHz 24 hours a day on the 10kW. He announced towards the end of the programme that it was his last show because he had accepted an offer to become programme controller of RNI! I'd never heard anything like it before. At one time both stations were even claiming more than 8.8 million listeners each. Kennedy. "Why do we have to pay, why aren't they out at sea, the music's no good," and so on. Caroline also promoted O'Rahilly's concept of Loving Awareness (LA), a far-eastern philosophy of love and peace. Boom Radio grows by 9,000 listeners from 233,000 to 242,000 but has a boom in hours - with average hours up from 7.8 to 10.1 and total hours up from 1.81m to 2.45m Times Radio drops by 135,000. I always tried to get the best quality out of my car radio, while listening to the station and I always felt fed up when Caroline was off the air again, forcing me to tune in to the sound of Hilversum 3 the then so-called public pop station in the Netherlands. By Aisha Majid. Some of these 28-day Restricted Service Licence (RSL) broadcasts took place from the Ross Revenge during the 1990s, with the ship anchored off Clacton, in London's Canary Wharf, Southend Pier and off the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. We duly bought the wine but do not know if it was the one heard when Radio Seagull opened on January 7, 1974. More than 2.8m listeners tuned in to BBC Radio 6 Music in the first quarter of the year (3rd Jan to 3rd April 2022) as . City: London. [66], In October 2020, a new station using the Caroline name and logo launched in Burnham-on-Crouch, broadcasting to the Maldon District of Essex on 94.7FM. The band broke up in 1977; Watt-Roy and Charles played on Ian Dury's New Boots and Panties!! The survey also found that 18.1 per cent of radio listeners tuned in. (iii)558 kHz: strict pop and oldies mainstream format (no presenter music choice) with strict adherence to format clocks. Her latest opera, The Listeners, is a psychological nail-biter set in southern California. Just after midnight GMT on 20 March 1980, the Mi Amigo foundered in a storm after losing its anchor and drifting. Listen to Radio Caroline Flashback. Only 17% of the total UK population can pick up community radio, according to the same Ofcom report we mentioned earlier. Caroline Archive Hour. However, the ship sank in a storm in March 1980 after losing its anchor. Times Radio's audience fell by over a fifth quarter-on-quarter, according to the latest RAJAR radio listening figures. After the Fredericia was renamed the MV Caroline, it sailed from Felixstowe to the Isle of Man and laid down its anchor in open water around three miles from land. The next day, Calvert visited Smedley's home in Saffron Walden, Essex, to demand the departure of the raiders and the return of vital transmitter parts. Information for commercial radio stations that are licenced by OFCOM and are looking to be measured on the RAJAR survey. This was not because they wanted to buy a house, but because the ones on the new estate had been constructed with an innovative type of central heating, which blew hot air through ducts under the floor. It gets good listening figures as it is the safe, middle England choice for people who have never listened to or refuse to listen to Radio 4, 6music, (or Radio 3, although I'm not a fan myself) or . However, according to Gerry Bishop's book Offshore Radio this transmitter was antiquated and failed to work. I am taking a career break from my profession as a Sollicitor and in 2001 was fortunate to be allowed to run the news service from the Mi Amigo RSL from the LV18 where I met Bart Serlier among many others. BBC Radio 2 newsreader Colin Berry started his career reading the news on Radio Caroline South. . In the evenings, Radio Caroline transmitted Dutch and American religious evangelist broadcasters such as Johan Maasbach and Roy Masters on medium wave, and later on short wave, under the name Viewpoint 963/819, or World Mission Radio (WMR) on short wave. News service at peak hours. Radio Caroline is the best UK online radio. In an earlier House of Commons debate (in June 1966), the government had claimed that the pirate ships were a danger because of radio frequency interference to emergency shipping channels, and to overseas radio stations and the pirates were paying no royalties to artists, composers or record companies. On 19 August 1989, James Murphy, an investigator for the UK Office of the Official Solicitor, acting for the Department of Trade and Industry, joined colleagues and counterparts from the Netherlands Radio Regulatory Authority to execute an armed raid on the Ross Revenge in which equipment was damaged or confiscated. Over the following months, Caroline's signal quality improved as transmitting valves were donated and programming returned to normal. In December 2010, Chatham and Aylesford MP Tracey Crouch presented an Early Day Motion to the House of Commons calling for Ofcom to allow Radio Caroline to broadcast as a licensed medium wave station to its "traditional heartland of the south east". 18:03 GMT 28 Sep 2021. Belgian courts sentenced Tack and some DJs to fines and jail in absentia, although the prison terms were later cancelled. These stories continued and included co-operation by a former member of the Beatles[who?] [6] The first programme, which was pre-recorded, was hosted by Chris Moore. Radio Caroline was a real phenomen. Reception at that hour was far more difficult than during daytime and so I did my utmost to get the best reception possible. Programmes were still heard on satellite until the provider replaced the signal with a 1kHz tone on the morning of 1 October 2013. Because of a law that allows pirates in distress to come ashore without arrest, the running aground had no consequences for the crew. On 11 November 2017, test transmissions commenced from an omni-directional mast (formerly used by the BBC World Service) at Orford Ness, Suffolk. Dave Foster (Rpt) She stayed behind the breakwater for about fifteen to twenty minutes and we watched the ship before it headed north toward, we assumed, the I.O.M. I recall that Easter weekend in 1964 when Radio Caroline arrived very well. General Radio Listening Statistics The station restarted in August 1983 from a new radio ship, the MV Ross Revenge, an ex-North Sea factory fishing trawler used during the Anglo-Icelandic Cod War by Ross Fisheries. It is jointly owned by the BBC and the Radiocentre on behalf of the commercial sector. During mid-August 1989, authorities in several European countries carried out coordinated raids on houses, recording studios and offices believed to be used by Caroline. On 31 July 2014 the ship was moved to the Blackwater Estuary in Essex.[47]. Following the election, RNI resumed its original name but jamming continued under the newly elected Conservative government. In a sign of Radio Caroline's enormous influence on popular culture, the BBC launched Radio 1 in September 1967 in an effort to respond to its success, as well as that of the rival Radio London. I live in Wigan, just west of Manchester. While on a trip to America, O'Rahilly had seen a picture of Ms Kennedy laughing and smiling as she sat in the footwell of her father's desk in the White House's Oval Office. LBC saw 3million weekly listeners - a record for the station - while Talk Radio increased from 424,000 listeners to 450,000. Latest releases and insightful stories into the radio industry. [14] Presenters Tony Blackburn, Roger Gale, Ray Teret, Simon Dee, Tony Prince, Spangles Muldoon, Keith Skues, Johnnie Walker, Robbie Dale, Dave Lee Travis, Tommy Vance, Tom Edwards, Paul Noble, Bob Stewart and Andy Archer became well known. The Ross Revenge also featured powerful generators.[37]. RNI operated on medium wave, short wave and FM. This two-day broadcast featured Phil Mitchell, Paul Dennis, Colin Lamb, John Patrick, Barry James, Steve Cisco and Clive Boutell. I am enjoying their programmes immensely at present but there always seems to be a lot of criticism about the station no matter what they do. In the late 1990's and later on I helped them with the promotion team when they were busy trying to convince as much as possible cable networks to put their signal on their networks. Lincoln - Jaz Shelley and Alexis Markowski both put up big double-doubles to lead four Huskers in double figures, as the Nebraska women's basketball team rolled to an 80-64 win over Northwestern in front of more than 6,000 fans at Pinnacle Bank Arena on Sunday afternoon. [64] On 24 November 2021 a new transmitter was installed with an effective radiated power of 4kW. [46] Dedicated apps for listening via Apple IOS[55] and Android[56] devices are also available. Radio Atlanta closed at 8p.m. that day. The first was a Belgian station called Radio Atlantis, owned by Belgian businessman Adriaan van Landschoot. A brief insight into the structure of RAJAR, the decision making process and RAJARs contractors. [citation needed]. This was all in the 1970's. We . [31] During this period each night transmission of Radio Caroline started with Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft by the progressive Rock Band Klaatu, issued in 1976 on their album 3:47 E.S.T. London, United Kingdom. In an extant photo, Caroline Kennedy and her brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., are apparently dancing in the Oval Office as their father looks on, an activity which O'Rahilly reportedly interpreted as a playful, jovial disruption of government. I vividly remember the days leading up to the first broadcast from the Ross, the test tones, the usually incorrect! This request, and one to stop transmissions on 819kHz, was refused. Caroline Hepker anchors Bloomberg Radio's 'Daybreak Europe' programme, on-air live from 6-10am weekday mornings. However, in July 1964, the owners of the two stations opted to merge the operations. RAJAR figures for Q3 2022, 27 June - 18 September 2022. In 2002, Caroline began on WorldSpace satellite radio, continuing until Worldspace went bankrupt and re-organised its operations in 2008. The following day, Caroline was one of few stations in the South East still broadcasting. [67][68][69][70] The station, owned by St Peters Studio and Community Radio Limited, has not only licensed the name from Radio Caroline, but has also got technical support and programming from the station, who have their own community radio licences in the south, south east and in East Anglia on 648AM (with Radio Caroline also found on DAB in a number of British cities, plus DAB+ in Cambridge). However, the station has since moved online and continues to broadcast 24 hours a day. The Mi Amigo was tendered clandestinely from Britain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. On the 9 September 2017 a stone was unveiled in Felixstowe to commemorate Radio Caroline.[63]. The only problem I had with it was the weight of it hanging on my arm my right arm is probably longer than my left one now and being able to find sufficient pocket money to buy the batteries! The station's slogan was Your all-day music station. Radio Caroline 4+ Patrick Mounteney 4.6 10 Ratings Free iPhone Screenshots Listen live to the world famous Radio Caroline on your iOS device. Mary wrote us: "I wondered if your series should be including the titles of any of the records played on the Test Transmission tapes? When Radio Veronica closed in 1974, some presenters moved to Radio Mi Amigo. The latest NOP Audience Survey Figures show that Radio Caroline has an audience in Great Britain in excess of any other radio station with 19% aged 16 and over, whilst Radio London did have 12%. The Government argued that the pirate operation was a danger because of the possibility of the radio frequency interfering with emergency shipping channels. They included Blackburn, who became the first to broadcast on Radio 1. [citation needed], In Spain, a station broadcast during the summer 2009 on 102.7MHz in the Costa Blanca from studios in Benidorm. During the same quarter, on BBC Sounds there were a total of 162m plays of. Radio Caroline's first programme, on 28 March 1964, was presented by Chris Moore. London WC1E 7EB, Find out more information on completing the Radio Diary. Second, it also requires a good sales team and, of course, sales people don't work for nothing. [65], Radio Caroline's founder, Ronan O'Rahilly, was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2013; his death aged 79 on 20 April 2020 was announced by Radio Caroline. The appetite for dance music is thriving with both Heart Dance and Capital Dance celebrating record listening figures. [9][10] A particular image conveying unthreatening joy was the cheeky 4 year old Caroline hiding at President John F Kennedy's feet beneath the battered HMS Resolute desk in the Oval Office.[11].

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