To complete my story, I have to tell you that all this motivated me highly to assist the Dutch Caroline organization. But next to hearing other people talk about the subject, I never really had listened to the Sound of the Nation. From December 1984 the Ross Revenge broadcast Radio Monique, recorded and live Dutch-language programmes of a Dutch music radio production company using the 50kW transmitter during daytime. Four studios were on board, enabling other broadcasting services. BBC Radio 2 to air special show for Tony Blackburn's 80th birthday. Radio Caroline Flashback provides an alternative live service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 16:42. [citation needed]. On 30 August 1974 Mi Amigo moved from the Dutch coast to the Knock Deep Channel, approximately 12 miles (19km) from the British coast. Caroline launched the programme in 2015 with a new team in London who have now taken the programme onto London DAB digital radio in the UK. O'Rahilly wanted Radio Caroline to become an oldies station. We were so amazed at the size of her mast, never having seen anything like it before. Radio Caroline continued, moving its headquarters and servicing operation to Spain. "I think it lit a spark," he said. Some DJs were embarrassed but some were fascinated by the challenge of an abstract concept. 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. Caroline Pavis +1 (610) 357-3121 Investor Relations: We . As its popularity began to blossom, the British Government looked at ways to curtail the station's influence. The 10kW transmitters could run on the Henschel generator beside the two main MAN units and also a Cummins unit on the aft deck behind the wheelhouse.[29]. Tony Blackburn turns 80 years old on the 29th of January and BBC Radio 2 will celebrate the occasion in a special programme, reports OnTheRadio.. [citation needed]. It was founded in 1964. I took my radio to work and annoyed everyone by listening to RNI in Dutch on short-wave. It's Source of your ultimate Entertainment. The station played a wide selection of music from when Caroline started in the 1960s, but also included music from the 1970s and 1980s and early 1990s to widen the audience profile. 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. 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. 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. Radio Caroline was off the air for most of the 1990s, except for occasional low-power broadcasts of one month. In October 1965, O'Rahilly bought Crawford's interest in the MV Mi Amigo and engaged Tom Lodge from Radio Caroline North to make programme changes and regain the audience from Radio London. Later in 1973, when the contract with Radio Caroline ended, the crew of Radio Atlantis moved to their own ship, the MVJeanine.[6]. ", Andries Peterson from the Netherlands also has his memories of the station: "I had heard from Radio Caroline before the station started its transmissions off the Dutch coast, late 1973. [6] The TV operation was later found to be a publicity stunt.[24]. 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. I live in Wigan, just west of Manchester. . To remain in international waters, the ship moved to a new, less-sheltered anchorage. ", Finally, here is Mark Reynolds writing in from Buckinghamshire and thanking all the people who tried to keep the memory of Radio Caroline alive over the years: "I did learn about offshore radio in late 1966 and followed the stations from that point on. The project not unexpectedly hit the quay side, but it would have been interesting should the plan have come to fruition. Unhappy at the loss of advertising, Radio Mi Amigo terminated its contract with Caroline in November 1978 and broadcast from its own ship, the MV Magdalena later that year, but this was short-lived. 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. 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. Radio Monique was popular throughout Benelux. RAJAR reserves the right to publish complaints along with their outcome on this page. [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]. In the 1960's, to attract advertisers, Radio Caroline and Radio London always reported rather high listening figures. On a national level, though, this figure is amazingly reliable; it's a national sample size of over 100,000 adults. The ship was further delayed by hull damage, and repaired before writs could be issued. In Timaru, an NZBC station, originally 3XC, later 3ZC, broadcast as Radio Caroline until 1995. 68% of Brits listen to the radio at home. [7] O'Rahilly named the station after Caroline Kennedy, daughter of U.S. president John F. 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. So far, Mazzoli's greatest success has come in the opera house. The BBC Light, Third, and Home programmes became Radios 2, 3 and 4 respectively. 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. The RAJAR Audio MIDAS Survey is designed to provide context and insight into how, when and where audio content is being consumed within this liberated environment; including device usage, activities, location, who listened with. Yet another source of income is gifts from listeners, making the listeners still very important for the Lady's survival. BBC Radio 6 Music celebrates its 20th birthday with record listening figures. [71][72][73], In January 2002, a Dutch Caroline fan called Sietse Brouwer launched a Netherlands-based Dutch Radio Caroline in Harlingen, broadcasting on the northern Netherlands cable networks and largely independent of UK Caroline. Radio Caroline is broadcast in the Republic of Ireland on channel 927 on the UPC Ireland cable service in the main cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and Cappoquin, and the County Waterford towns of Lismore and Tallow. In 1987, the Territorial Sea Act[38] extended the UK maritime limit from three to 12 nautical miles (22km). The latest listening figures revealed that the Radio 2 breakfast show audience has fallen to its lowest level for a decade. Broadcasting Hours: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and 12 midnight to 2a.m. Offshore radio stations were no exception to this rule. A request to stop broadcasting on short wave 6.215MHz was complied with, and after several hours the government ship returned to port. The ship has working radio studios, from which both Caroline and BBC Essex have broadcast. Many people, of a certain age, still associate Radio Caroline with the pop music of the 60s & 70s. The fact is that the station is on air for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week something I would have not thought possible not that long ago. Every time I succeeded in getting a good signal during the evening, I knew I again would have a very good evening. 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. USD. Caroline Hepker. Radio Caroline North subsequently moved to 257m (1169kHz) but also called it 259. Its medium wave transmission was jammed by the UK authorities and on 13 June, RNI changed its name to Radio Caroline International with co-operation from Ronan O'Rahilly. Programmes were presented by current and former DJs from the BBC, ILR, Ireland, Luxembourg, offshore and land-based pirate stations, and other international and freelance backgrounds, including Tony Prince and Emperor Rosko. There proved to be a lot of people, cultivating little gems of the station's history. (iii)558 kHz: strict pop and oldies mainstream format (no presenter music choice) with strict adherence to format clocks. Using land-based studios leased in Kent[51] in the late 1990s, the station began broadcasting via satellites Astra 19.2E and Eutelsat 28A, covering western Europe. I remember Caroline North with great affection. This memory has never left me and I can remember it made us all late for school, though as my mother was also my teacher at primary school, it didn't matter so much for me! That this House expresses its disappointment that, having pioneered commercial radio in the UK and for the past decade being a fully licensed broadcaster, Radio Caroline, a cornerstone of British radio history, has been denied by OFCOM the opportunity to secure a medium wave frequency from which to broadcast; regrets that as a result its devoted listeners are confined to listening to Radio Caroline via the internet and unable to enjoy its musical offerings in transit; and calls on OFCOM to exhaust all avenues in making the provisions available for Radio Caroline to celebrate its 50th birthday in 2014 by broadcasting on a medium wave frequency which, it appears, is unwanted by both BBC and commercial operators as a broadcast platform. Murdaugh is heckled as he leaves court, Ken Bruce finishes his 30-year tenure as host of BBC Radio 2, Missing hiker buried under snow forces arm out to wave to helicopter, Hershey's Canada releases HER for SHE bars featuring a trans activist, Insane moment river of rocks falls onto Malibu Canyon in CA, Fleet-footed cop chases an offender riding a scooter, Family of a 10-month-old baby filmed vaping open up. [60], From 31 March to 27 April 2014, a Caroline North tribute station, based on the Planet Lightship berthed in the Albert Dock complex on Liverpool's waterfront, broadcast locally on 87.7FM and on the internet. ", From Shaun in California we received a response on our chapters on the internet: "Chapter 10 of the series, treating the return of Radio Caroline in 1983, brought back some very happy memories. Without serious competition, Radio Caroline gained a regular daytime audience of some 7 million.[12]. The two stations experimented with different frequencies. On 9 August 1985, an official vessel anchored 150 yards from the Ross Revenge. There proved to be a lot of people, cultivating little gems of the station's history. If you're like most people, you probably don't give much though to how many words you take in each day. Since 1991, the Ross Revenge has been maintained by enthusiasts called the Radio Caroline Support Group, originally the Ross Revenge Support Group. From there Bert Alting wrote: "in the mid-1970's I was living partly on a little room on the loft of a house and in the early evenings I tried never to miss the close-down of Radio Mi Amigo Caroline's sister station in those days and the daily opening of Radio Caroline. Now as in the past, for every commercial radio station it proves very important to have an audience, as advertisers are always looking at the station's RAJAR-figures. Community radio listening figures - do 10 million people tune in every week? In February 1964, O'Rahilly obtained the Fredericia and converted it into a radio ship at the Irish port of Greenore, which was owned by his father. Radio Seagull became Radio Caroline on 23 February 1974, retaining the album format. This was replaced by a twin-mast T-antenna. . In 2002, Caroline began on WorldSpace satellite radio, continuing until Worldspace went bankrupt and re-organised its operations in 2008. I don't think Grandma saw her radio again till I managed to get a small tranny of my own to replace it. DJs Chris Cary, broadcasting as Spangles Muldoon (who was also station manager), Andy Archer, Paul Alexander, Steve England, Johnny Jason and Peter Chicago (real name Peter Murtha)[25] manned the station. Ken Bruce has also confirmed that he's moving. From Electronic People Meters to Smartphone Mobile Metering. A rudimentary news service, consisting of headlines on the half hour at peak listening times, was started on 12th September 1983, while the famous Caroline Bell was re-introduced on 16th September. From the Radio Today site. After a short test on 773kHz in late 1975, in May 1976, Radio Caroline began a daytime service on 1562kHz (192 m) using a 10kW transmitter, while its overnight service continued to share the 50kW transmitter with Radio Mi Amigo's daytime programming on 1187kHz (253 metres, announced as 259). In late 1977, Radio Caroline began sponsored evangelical programmes, and music programmes began at 9p.m. On 20 October 1978, technical and financial problems put the Mi Amigo off the air. . The Mi Amigo was tendered clandestinely from Britain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Belgian courts sentenced Tack and some DJs to fines and jail in absentia, although the prison terms were later cancelled. On 3 March 1977, Caroline closed, announcing that it would return six days later on 319 metres. Only British content are transmitting through this station so far. In 1967, the UK Government enacted the Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967, outlawing advertising on or supplying an unlicensed offshore radio station from the UK. By Aisha Majid. However, according to Gerry Bishop's book Offshore Radio this transmitter was antiquated and failed to work. [16], On 20 June 1966, Smedley boarded the Shivering Sands Fort with 10 workmen to repossess a transmitter that he had supplied, but had not been paid for.
