Broadcasting was in Dutch and English by day and in English at night, although for the first few months broadcasting finished at 10p.m. On 19 January 1979, the ageing ship took in water and a lifeboat was called to rescue the crew members. Commercial programming commenced at noon on Friday 22 December 2017, with a signal that could be heard as far afield as Southampton, Birmingham, Glasgow and in large parts of The Netherlands and Belgium. 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! Two days later, Mi Amigo was towed to IJmuiden and seized because of unpaid bills. 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 comments below have not been moderated, By In October 1965, negotiations began for Radio Caroline to take over Radio City, which broadcast from Shivering Sands Army Fort, a Second World War marine fort off the Kent[6] coast. This request, and one to stop transmissions on 819kHz, was refused. Only British content are transmitting through this station so far. On 5 November 1990, lack of fuel and supplies forced the station to stop transmitting. 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. Mary wrote us: "I wondered if your series should be including the titles of any of the records played on the Test Transmission tapes? Daytime programming was leased to a community radio service called Puketapu Radio on 756kHz.[75]. 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. [74], In Palmerston, Radio Caroline International, based in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, acquired an AM commercial broadcasting licence in 2008, and was seeking wavelengths in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Links would have been to the 603 and the 1242 kHz transmitters as before, but programmes would have taken on a slightly different slant. Community radio listening figures - do 10 million people tune in every week? Caroline really got more and more attention after August 31, 1974, when the other offshore stations off the Dutch coast had to stop their transmissions, while Radio Caroline survived to please its listeners. The following day, Caroline was one of few stations in the South East still broadcasting. After 31 August, shows for Radio Mi Amigo were delivered on cassettes rather than reel-to-reel tapes. TalkRadio, its culture war-loving sister radio station, also hit a record audience figure of 650,000 listeners - causing much delight among some of the station's staff, who said they have grown. Legal status unclear due to a need to conceal actual legal ownership. So far, Mazzoli's greatest success has come in the opera house. BBC Radio 6 Music celebrates its 20th birthday with record listening figures. After the MOB became law on August 15, 1967, we had to wait a long time for new offshore radio stations to arrive although we did have our Caroline stations up till March 1968. The project not unexpectedly hit the quay side, but it would have been interesting should the plan have come to fruition. The first was a Belgian station called Radio Atlantis, owned by Belgian businessman Adriaan van Landschoot. MV Caroline sailed from Felixstowe to the Isle of Man, broadcasting as she went. That's the group of Sietse Brouwer in Harlingen. The appetite for dance music is thriving with both Heart Dance and Capital Dance celebrating record listening figures. On a national level, though, this figure is amazingly reliable; it's a national sample size of over 100,000 adults. The crew of the Sheerness lifeboat Helen Turnbull were commended for the rescue of broadcasters Tom Anderson, Stevie Gordon, Nick Richards and Hans Verlaan from Mi Amigo while it was sinking in the Black Deep near Long Sand Bank. One is lack of finance, so presenters work for nothing we, the Caroline supporters, can ask for no greater dedication and I am quite happy to do my bit and help keep the dream alive with my monthly subscription. Wavelength: 199 metres. [27] The album was reissued on CD on Ross Records, c.1992, and in a "30th Anniversary Edition" with bonus material on SMC Records in 2005. Great reads on Radio Caroline and Free Radio from the 1960's to the 1990's, including from Radio . Without serious competition, Radio Caroline gained a regular daytime audience of some 7 million.[12]. [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. The Radio Caroline "album" station has been streamed on the internet for many years, accessible via the station's website, with more streams on various devices. Whittingham was unable to leave on the tender when a storm arose. I remember Caroline North with great affection. 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. (Anderson): Yeah. Eventually, Caroline left 558kHz and moved to 819kHz. On 31 July 2014 the ship was moved to the Blackwater Estuary in Essex.[47]. 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%. In May 2017, Ofcom awarded the station an AM band community licence to broadcast to Suffolk and north Essex;[3] full-time broadcasting, via a previously redundant BBC World Service transmitter mast at Orford Ness, commenced on 22 December 2017.[4]. Another RSL broadcast ran from 7 August until 3 September 2004, with the ship moored at the cruise liner terminal jetty at Tilbury in Essex. USD. On 1 January 2016, a second channel was launched called Caroline Flashback, playing pop music from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Radio Caroline Ltd. and Caroline Support Group (originally called the Ross Revenge Support Group). [54] Surveys in 2008 and 2010 showed a small percentage listened via Sky, and that satellite listening had dropped by 9% since 2008, while online listening had increased by around 40%. We . Half of AM/FM listening in the United States takes place in a car, but between reduced (or eliminated) commutes and social distancing, there's been a steep decline in the drivers that make up public radio's traditional broadcast audience. On 30 August 1974 Mi Amigo moved from the Dutch coast to the Knock Deep Channel, approximately 12 miles (19km) from the British coast. The last broadcast from the Mi Amigo was by Stevie Gordon and Tom Anderson:[32]. The Ross Revenge also featured powerful generators.[37]. Radio Caroline tried several frequencies, among them 963, 576, 585 (briefly), 558 (after Laser 558 closed) and later 819kHz. Dave Foster. I'd never heard anything like it before. A brief name change from Radio North Sea International during the UK General Election campaign, after which the station reverted to its original name. Zoe Ball lost a million listeners from the same period last year, when . Andy Archer then came in to say he and Johnny Jason wanted to record the opening programme for Radio Seagull and asked Rob, my friend and I to buy a bottle of sparking white wine for ten Dutch guilders which could be used to sound like champagne when "opened" on air. The ship was further delayed by hull damage, and repaired before writs could be issued. Several years later some of the seized items were returned to the station. BBC Radio 2 to air special show for Tony Blackburn's 80th birthday. A brief insight into the structure of RAJAR, the decision making process and RAJARs contractors. On 1 October 1989, Radio Caroline restarted broadcasting from the Ross Revenge using makeshift equipment and low power, to retain the 558kHz frequency. "[61], In May 2017, Ofcom awarded the station a community licence to broadcast to Suffolk and north Essex on 648kHz with a power of 1kW.[3][62]. 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. Since August 2000, Radio Caroline has also broadcast 24 hours a day via the internet and by the occasional restricted service licence. At one minute past midnight on 1 October 2001, Caroline returned on 1503kHz from the LV (Light Vessel) 18 in Harwich harbour. No, I did buy records which were also nice and were brought to my ears by listening to Radio Caroline quite other music than the other stations were offering. Having to manoeuvre the lifeboat alongside the stricken vessel 13 times in high seas and a north-easterly gale earned Coxswain Charles Bowry an RNLI Silver Medal. Presentations were made to US advertising agencies. Radio Caroline Continuous Caroline Music Shows Adrian Skirrow London, United Kingdom Alan Watts Alan Watts has been one of the trusty side-kicks to radio god Bob Harris for the past ten years including stints at GLR in 1994, moving on with Bob to Thames Valley FM and of course since 1997 at BBC Radio 2. From Electronic People Meters to Smartphone Mobile Metering. Meanwhile, Radio Mi Amigo had interference on 1562kHz and changed to 1412kHz (212 m). [35], The Ross Revenge was larger than Mi Amigo and with more elaborate transmitting equipment: in 1983, two 5kW RCA transmitters and a RCA 50kW unit. [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. Caroline broadcast regular apologies to Spectrum listeners but refused to vacate the channel. Many people, of a certain age, still associate Radio Caroline with the pop music of the 60s & 70s. Listen live to the world famous Radio Caroline on your iOS device. In mid-September 1965, the crew and DJs on MV Mi Amigo were joined for the weekend by 1960s pop singer Sylvan Whittingham, who visited the ship to promote her single "We Don't Belong". O'Rahilly wanted Radio Caroline to become an oldies station. The Fredericia was renamed MV Caroline and anchored off Felixstowe, Suffolk, where it began test transmissions on Friday, 27 March 1964. Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. won't sell abortion pills in 20 states after warnings by Republican attorneys general of legal action, a decision that limits the medication's . Our internet radio site was created for listing together the most popular online available radios of the UK, and to give easy and free access to them at the simplest way in one place. ", 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. [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. The continuing story of Radio Caroline, the 1960's pirate radio station that survived the Marine Offences Act, which saw the end of pirate radio station around the shores of the UK. Click the pic to find out more. One would circle over the North Sea in international air space near the United Kingdom, while the other remained on standby. The market size of the UK radio industry has reached 1 billion by the end of 2021. When the MV Caroline left for the Isle of Man, the Mi Amigo remained in Felixstowe. Caroline Archive Hour. This service was Radio Seagull and broadcast live during the evening. Backed by wealthy investors which included Jocelyn Stevens of the popular Queen Magazine, the station was bizarrely named after Caroline Kennedy the daughter of assassinated US President John F Kennedy. The Mi Amigo was tendered clandestinely from Britain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. The Dutch offshore station Radio Veronica was on 1562 kHz and Radio Atlanta broadcast on 1493 kHz. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. I thought something might happen and sure enough at 1.00 p.m. British time on came RNI Second, by about 3.45 p.m. the signal was really very poor so I tuned into Manx radio and there was Daffy Don Allen with his country and Western Jamboree. Between them, the stations were covering most of the British Isles. How different it seemed six weeks later when the Mi Amigo had no mast and RNI no English service. It commemorated the 40th anniversary of Radio Caroline and promoted the station's legal internet and satellite programmes. 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. 15 August 1967 following passage of the Marine Offences Act, Broadcasting from various locations offshore to Western Europe. Radio Caroline Flashback provides an alternative live service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. Global delivers record results extending its position as the UK's #1 commercial radio company Global leads the UK commercial radio market with highest . Since 1991, the Ross Revenge has been maintained by enthusiasts called the Radio Caroline Support Group, originally the Ross Revenge Support Group. 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. The name was taken from Caroline Bay, a popular recreation area nearby. In 2011 Radio Caroline joined Radioplayer UK, an internet service formed by the BBC, Global Radio and the Guardian Media Group that supplies a live feed of UK radio stations to across the world.[57]. 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. Broadcasting Hours: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and 12 midnight to 2a.m. [48] Evangelical programmes and sponsored specialist music are broadcast. This was replaced by a twin-mast T-antenna. media reports and the shock of hearing just how powerful the signal was. In March 1964, The Fortunes recorded Caroline, which became the station's theme. The pirates were also not paying any royalty to artists, composers or record companies. 68% of Brits listen to the radio at home. 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. RAJAR figures for Q3 2022, 27 June - 18 September 2022. We duly bought the wine but do not know if it was the one heard when Radio Seagull opened on January 7, 1974. We're not leaving and disappearing, we're going onto the lifeboat hoping that the pumps can take it; if they can, we'll be back, if not, well, we really don't like to say it. [53] This ended on 1 July 2011 after a failure to renegotiate costs with Sky and deciding not to pursue a Freesat EPG slot. In November 1985, the competing offshore station, Laser 558, closed after electrical problems and Caroline moved from 576kHz to Laser's 558kHz frequency, with a Top 40 music format similar to Laser's under the name Caroline 558. 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. 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! While 6 Music saw a 3.1 per cent dip in its quarter-on-quarter listening figures - pulling in 2.6million listeners - the station is still the UK's number one digital radio station. European medium wave channels had been reallocated to multiples of nine. The station tried to obtain a licence from a developing country,[44] hoping it might offer protection from the new provisions in the Broadcasting Act 1990 which came into force on 31 December that year. In the South East England new standard regions 4 and 5, Radio Caroline has 27% whilst Radio London has 24%." When Marine &c. Broadcasting Offences Act become law on 14 August 1967, Radio Caroline was renamed Radio Caroline International. For the first years, advertising on the station was in demand. There are very few restrictions placed on Caroline's licence, allowing them to broadcast virtually what they like within the law. Shortly after the law was enacted, the station was renamed as Radio Caroline International. 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. 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. To accommodate the second aerial, a second short mast, just in front of the bridge, was employed as the other end of the aerial fixed to the main mast. BBC Radio 2 newsreader Colin Berry started his career reading the news on Radio Caroline South. [6] The first programme, which was pre-recorded, was hosted by Chris Moore. Radio Caroline's first musical theme was Jimmy McGriff's "Round Midnight", a jazz standard co-composed by Thelonious Monk. Radio Caroline was founded by Irish businessman Ronan O'Rahilly and George Drummond. Comedian and award-winning radio host D.L. Caroline can also be listened to over the internet including via music players such as Amazon echo (Alexa). If you're like most people, you probably don't give much though to how many words you take in each day. Global's Highest Radio Reach EVER!!! On 2 July 1964, Radio Atlanta and Radio Caroline's companies, Project Atlanta and Planet Productions, announced the stations were to merge, with Crawford and O'Rahilly as joint managing directors. [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]. Hughley is partnering with Janssen to empower Black communities with information and encourage better self-advocacy for their health. 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. Belgian courts sentenced Tack and some DJs to fines and jail in absentia, although the prison terms were later cancelled. [6], Financial backing for the venture came from six investors, including John Sheffield, chairman of Norcross, Carl "Jimmy" Ross of Ross Foods, and Jocelyn Stevens of Queen magazine, with which Radio Caroline shared its first office. Offshore radio stations were no exception to this rule. To complete my story, I have to tell you that all this motivated me highly to assist the Dutch Caroline organization. Two (Radio 270 and Radio London) of the remaining four UK-based offshore stations closed, but the two Caroline ships continued with their supply operation moved to Netherlands waters, where unlicensed ship-based broadcasting was not outlawed until 1974. Kennedy. 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. [64] On 24 November 2021 a new transmitter was installed with an effective radiated power of 4kW. 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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. On 12 June 2006, the station bought an EPG slot on Sky channel 0199. Knowing the lads at Caroline it was probably drunk and a replacement bought. Radio Caroline presenter Ray Clark remembers listening to Mr Damon as a nine-year-old on the radio. Radio Caroline is the best UK online radio. Includes Audio Types such as Podcasts, Live and Catch Up Radio, On Demand Music Services. This gave reasonable reception by day but strong heterodyne interference at night because the transmitter crystal was off-channel. Radio Seagull became Radio Caroline on 23 February 1974, retaining the album format. For several months only one transmitter could be used, leading to the loss of the income-generating Radio Monique, although a substitute Dutch daytime service, Radio 558 (later Radio 819), was eventually established. Radio Caroline continued on satellite but required manual tuning. Harry Howard, History Correspondent For Mailonline Over the following months, Caroline's signal quality improved as transmitting valves were donated and programming returned to normal. The whole of the school Easter holiday, my friend Mozz and I took the tranny with us everywhere. This channel broadcasts mainly in community format. [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. [19], Because of the rise of land-based pirate stations after the MOA became law (usually stations run from bedrooms or outdoor sheds with small wattage transmitters), at least two stations later broadcast using the Caroline name, one based in Dublin.
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