Documents to detail all the latest market information. 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). As those people, who did promote the stations with their magazines and internet sites, wouldn't have been there, we certainly wouldn't be celebrating Caroline's Fortieth Birthday this year.". It is jointly owned by the BBC and the Radiocentre on behalf of the commercial sector. After 31 August, shows for Radio Mi Amigo were delivered on cassettes rather than reel-to-reel tapes. 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'd never heard anything like it before. He promised to write some lines about it for this series and here they are: "In the early 1990's, soon after the Ross Revenge was dragged of the Goodwin Sands and taken into Dover, a plan was conceived by the team of the then Invicta Radio Group, comprising the fairly nautical crew of Roger Day, Andy Archer, Johnny Lewis, Nigel Harris, Bob Matthews and Bob Le-Roi. To my surprise Bob, in passing, mentioned the plans to get an ILR-station on the MV Ross Revenge, after the ship had stranded on the Goodwin Sands. In the evenings on 963, some alternative music programmes were tried, including the reggae "Jamming 963", and in 1986 and early 1987, a progressive and indie rock programme called Caroline Overdrive hosted by Tom Anderson, Fergie McNeal, Andy Johnson, Stevie Lane, Mark Matthews, Kevin Turner, Peter Phillips, Mick Williams (a.k.a. Part of being a good communicator means knowing how to listen. Caroline Pavis +1 (610) 357-3121 Investor Relations: [citation needed]. [6] During summer 1973, it broadcast separate stations in English and Dutch simultaneously, on 389 m/773kHz and 252 m (announced as 259)/1187kHz. On 18 August, a British government chartered ship pulled up alongside the Ross Revenge and asked to board to "discuss the future" of the Ross Revenge and the stations operating from it. Click the pic to find out more. Following the election, RNI resumed its original name but jamming continued under the newly elected Conservative government. Radio Caroline broadcast appeals for help, giving the ship's position as .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}5141N 135E / 51.683N 1.583E / 51.683; 1.583. Have you ever met the guy? Radio Caroline is a British station from London. Jan 27, 2022. Smedley's men occupied the fort until 22 June. 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. [17] The Manx parliament, the Tynwald, attempted to exclude the North ship from the legislation, appealing to the European Court on the legality of the act being applied to the Isle of Man. Over the following months, Caroline's signal quality improved as transmitting valves were donated and programming returned to normal. Southern England, western Europe, Northern England, Ireland and Scotland. This comes after Steve Wright, Craig Charles, Paul O'Grady, Vanessa Feltz and Ken Bruce all left Radio 2 in a mass exodus over the past six months. In 2020, the show's two long-serving presenters, Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey, both departed the programme. News service at peak hours. From Electronic People Meters to Smartphone Mobile Metering. By If you're like most people, you probably don't give much though to how many words you take in each day. Whilst they were ultimately unable to stop it broadcasting because of the fact it was broadcasting from international waters the 1967 Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 made it illegal for British subjects to associate with it. Beginning in 1975, the cassettes were transported from Playa d'Aro on the Europa Bus service, which carried people from Amsterdam to Madrid at low prices. They included Blackburn, who became the first to broadcast on Radio 1. 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. 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. "Why do we have to pay, why aren't they out at sea, the music's no good," and so on. On 28 December, unpaid crew cut the Mi Amigo's generator fuel line and departed. Caroline broadcast regular apologies to Spectrum listeners but refused to vacate the channel. Therefore I would like to thank the Monitor Magazine from Benfleet from the later Buster Pearson and the Pirate Radio News team from the Netherlands. (i) 963 kHz: unformatted free-choice album format, with news. (Anderson): It's not a very good occasion really, we have to hurry this because the lifeboat is standing by. Nation Radio Scotlanddelivers a record reach of 79,000 and listening hours of 636,000 Greatest Hits Radio South Coastperformed strongly, where total listening hours soared to over 1.7. 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]. Radio Caroline began to broadcast from the ship on 19 August 1983, with unwanted mechanical sounds on speech. However, Dutch Caroline failed to secure a high power AM frequency and the cable network service was discontinued because of lack of funds. Island FM (58% of people in their area tune in every week) Channel 103 FM (55%) Moray Firth Radio (46%) Radio Borders (43%) Yorkshire Coast Radio (42%) 3FM (38%) Wessex FM (38%) Northsound 1 (38%) IOW Radio (35%) Tay FM (35%) The station re-started for a second time in August 1983 from new ship the MV Ross Revenge. The station hasn't the glamour anymore it had in its High Seas Days, but I'm still enjoying all the memories. This channel broadcasts mainly in community format. This statistic shows the result of a survey on weekly radio listening in the United Kingdom (UK) in the first quarter of 2020, by age. Engineer Peter Chicago had hidden transmitter parts during the raid and retuned one 5kW transmitter, previously used on short-wave, to 558kHz. During the same quarter, on BBC Sounds there were a total of 162m plays of. Only the Caroline app has a live programme schedule, 'Now Playing' and multiple streams to suit most internet speeds. At that time I thought RNI 2 was here to stay. To complete my story, I have to tell you that all this motivated me highly to assist the Dutch Caroline organization. Listen live to the world famous Radio Caroline on your iOS device. DJs could choose ordering of oldies all current pop hits in strict rotation. Dave Foster. We . Caroline can be heard on DAB+ in Aldershot, Birmingham, Cambridge, Brighton, Glasgow, Norwich, London,[2] Portsmouth, Poulton-le-Fylde and Woking. ", The next Caroline memory arrived from Groningen in the North East of the Netherlands. The last broadcast from the Mi Amigo was by Stevie Gordon and Tom Anderson:[32]. Within months, the unlicensed operation had merged with another station broadcasting from a separate boat near the Isle of Man. 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? The 'amateurs' were said to be reaching 39million listeners with 15million in the South of England and the rest in the North. Age UK cited NHS Digital figures for England which show there were 28,890 support requests for people aged 65 and over in 2021/22 where the person died without any of those services being provided. Legal status unclear due to a need to conceal actual legal ownership. [6] The generator was left running but the pumps could not manage and the vessel sank 10 minutes later. Radio Monique was popular throughout Benelux. In 1974, O'Rahilly set up a pop group called The Loving Awareness Band, comprising John Turnbull (guitar) and Mick Gallagher (keyboards) both formerly of Skip Bifferty and two session musicians, Norman Watt-Roy (bass) and Charlie Charles (drums). Some DJs from the USA and Commonwealth countries, such as Graham Webb, Emperor Rosko and Keith Hampshire were also heard. 15 August 1967 following passage of the Marine Offences Act, Broadcasting from various locations offshore to Western Europe. Several years later some of the seized items were returned to the station. 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. 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. Six weeks later, the BBC introduced its new national pop station Radio 1, modelled largely on the successful offshore station Radio London, and employed many of the ex-pirate DJs. "It was just so special and so different and worth fighting . Whittingham was unable to leave on the tender when a storm arose. At times, a 10kW transmitter was used to save fuel and relieve the generators. Internet streaming of Radio Caroline programmes continued. A request to stop broadcasting on short wave 6.215MHz was complied with, and after several hours the government ship returned to port. Offshore radio stations were no exception to this rule. Furthermore, it was stated that the pirates' use of wavelengths also broke international agreements. London, United Kingdom. The two stations were able to cover most of the British Isles. The market size of the UK radio industry has reached 1 billion by the end of 2021. In late 1972, Radio Caroline had money problems. In 1976, The Loving Awareness Band released their only album, Loving Awareness on More Love Records (ML001), a label set up by O'Rahilly. Owner: Planet Sales Ltd. First air date: 1964. BBC Radio 4 had 10.48m listeners with 6.62m tuning in for The Today programme (Mon-Sat). On 3 August 2021, Ofcom announced that it had granted a power increase to combat man made noise and interference, and to extend the coverage area to include Suffolk, northern parts of Essex, and parts of Kent and East Sussex. Situation: Ship 3 miles off Ramsey, Isle of Man. It left Spain, with an incomplete studio, to avoid legal entanglements. Radio Caroline - 2. 17:31 GMT 28 Sep 2021 [36] The remaining 5kW transmitter was later converted for short wave use. Belgium had outlawed offshore radio in 1962 and prosecuted advertisers, cutting the station's revenue. On 20 January 1966, the MV Mi Amigo lost its anchor in a storm, drifted and ran aground on the beach at Frinton-on-Sea. A little about myself. [citation needed], In Spain, a station broadcast during the summer 2009 on 102.7MHz in the Costa Blanca from studios in Benidorm. 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.