I must say the people on the station got my sympathy very quickly. During 2013, a survey showed a continued move from satellite reception and growth in internet listening. So far, Mazzoli's greatest success has come in the opera house. These data are produced and sold at cost providing both industry accountability and a robust trading currency for each medium. The ship has working radio studios, from which both Caroline and BBC Essex have broadcast. 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 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. The poster itself,. In practice, day-to-day servicing was carried from France and the UK. [6] Because of the Christmas holidays, no solicitors were available to issue a writ and the ship lay in Amsterdam harbour until O'Rahilly arranged for it to be towed back to sea. 2hrs of the best current and classic rock, you just have to check Dave`s programme out, live and always full of those special suprises. Since August 2000, Radio Caroline has also broadcast 24 hours a day via the internet and by the occasional restricted service licence. Kennedy. The bureauxs client must also be a RAJAR subscriber. Brouwer intended to obtain an AM frequency from the Netherlands authorities in 2003 when its medium wave frequencies were reallocated. Radio Caroline Listeners' Top 100 Album Chart 1977 In late 76 listeners were invited to send in their top 10 all-time favourite albums, from which the chart was compiled. Some DJs from the USA and Commonwealth countries, such as Graham Webb, Emperor Rosko and Keith Hampshire were also heard. The transmitter was initially too powerful for the antenna insulators. ". [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. 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. 1980s: Because of a law that allows pirates in distress to come ashore without arrest, the running aground had no consequences for the crew. Spectrum threatened to sue the Radio Authority, which then allowed Spectrum to temporarily broadcast on 990kHz alongside 558kHz. I remember wandering around that show house with my tranny on my arm. The BBC Light, Third, and Home programmes became Radios 2, 3 and 4 respectively. Luckily, up till the end of last year, the station succeeded in selling a lot of airtime to American religious organisations. 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. It left Spain, with an incomplete studio, to avoid legal entanglements. Radio Caroline was founded by Irish businessman Ronan O'Rahilly and George Drummond. These stories continued and included co-operation by a former member of the Beatles[who?] 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. 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. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. The Quarterly Summary Report of all stations with added features. 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). Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly and Alan Crawford initially to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly. The market size of the UK radio industry has reached 1 billion by the end of 2021. (Gordon): For the moment from all of us, goodbye and God bless. Listening on your phone or tablet (iPad etc) Download the Boom Radio UK app from the app store - and then just click the white arrow. Encouraged by Scandinavian and Dutch radio pirates, in February 1964 O'Rahilly obtained the 702-ton former Danish passenger ferry Fredericia, launched in Frederikshavn in 1929,[5] which was converted into a radio ship at the Irish port of Greenore, owned by O'Rahilly's father. Non-Dutch staff were given the option of staying on the ship or returning to the Netherlands, and most chose to stay on board. The following day we went to Caroline House in The Hague. A "D" and an "I" from the phrase RADIO CAROLINE (painted as a, "Hearthammer" by the Scottish folk rock band. 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. The only singer to stay overnight, she helped present programmes, make jingles, and close the station at night.[15]. Radio stations ranked by weekly reach in the United Kingdom (UK) as of 1st quarter 2020 (in 1,000 listeners) Listeners reached in thousands* BBC Radio 2 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 1 Classic FM. The Mi Amigo's 160-foot (49m) mast remained erect for six years. 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. Radio Caroline first began broadcasting in March 1964 from a 702-ton former Danish passenger ferry, the Fredericia, in international waters off the coast of Felixstowe. DJs could choose ordering of oldies all current pop hits in strict rotation. Programmes were still heard on satellite until the provider replaced the signal with a 1kHz tone on the morning of 1 October 2013. This service was Radio Seagull and broadcast live during the evening. 68% of Brits listen to the radio at home. BBC Radio 4 had 10.48m listeners with 6.62m tuning in for The Today programme (Mon-Sat). Caroline can be heard on DAB+ in Aldershot, Birmingham, Cambridge, Brighton, Glasgow, Norwich, London,[2] Portsmouth, Poulton-le-Fylde and Woking. From the anchorage in the Knock Deep the Mi Amigo's mast could be seen on the horizon. RAJAR stands for Radio Joint Audience Research and is the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the UK. Radio Monique was popular throughout Benelux. 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. One would circle over the North Sea in international air space near the United Kingdom, while the other remained on standby. The Ross Revenge also featured powerful generators.[37]. They included Blackburn, who became the first to broadcast on Radio 1. 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. Information for commercial radio stations that are licenced by OFCOM and are looking to be measured on the RAJAR survey. (Gordon): Well, we're sorry to tell you that due to the severe weather conditions and the fact that we are shipping quite a lot of water, we are closing down, and the crew are at this stage leaving the ship. On 11 November 2017, test transmissions commenced from an omni-directional mast (formerly used by the BBC World Service) at Orford Ness, Suffolk. [45] The Ross Revenge was salvaged and brought into harbour in Dover, ending 27 years of Radio Caroline's unlicensed offshore career. The Mi Amigo was tendered clandestinely from Britain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. [64] On 24 November 2021 a new transmitter was installed with an effective radiated power of 4kW. Later, some programmes were pre-recorded on land and broadcast simultaneously from both ships. Ronan O'Rahilly passed away April 20 at the age of 79. Clive Garrard. [7] O'Rahilly named the station after Caroline Kennedy, daughter of U.S. president John F. Belgian courts sentenced Tack and some DJs to fines and jail in absentia, although the prison terms were later cancelled. 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 following day, Caroline was one of few stations in the South East still broadcasting. 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]. On 3 September 1985 at 00:00 hours the Dioptric Surveyor departed in a storm. 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. Chris Faulkner, for instance, replied by going back to his youth: "My memory of the "Old Girl" comes from the time she moved to the Isle of Mann in 1964. We arranged to meet the Caroline tender to go out to the ship but no one turned up. Have you ever met the guy? Daytime programming was leased to a community radio service called Puketapu Radio on 756kHz.[75]. American Cancer Society 2022-2024. . "It was just so special and so different and worth fighting . 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. There proved to be a lot of people, cultivating little gems of the station's history. 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. [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. During the same quarter, on BBC Sounds there were a total of 162m plays of. Watch Live TV Listen to Live Radio. [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%. In June 1990, Spectrum Radio, a new multi-ethnic community radio station in London, was officially allocated 558kHz. Radio Caroline North = 10kW (later 20kW). We are a small team and you can find out here who the best person to contact is regarding any query. From its two vantage points, Radio Caroline's presenters who included future BBC stalwart Tony Blackburn and Tory MP Roger Gale regaled Britons with pop songs which they could only hear on conventional stations for a few hours a week. On 12 June 2006, the station bought an EPG slot on Sky channel 0199. In March 1968, the very existence of Radio Caroline was threatened when both the MV Caroline and Mi Amigo were boarded and seized before being towed to Amsterdam by a salvage company to secure unpaid bills owed to a Dutch firm. 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 Dutch claimed the ship's Panamanian registration had lapsed in 1987, was not under legal protection from any country and that its transmissions breached international regulations which since 1982 had prohibited broadcasting from outside national territories. [6] The TV operation was later found to be a publicity stunt.[24]. They were pop and Europop aimed at the mainstream Dutch audience. We duly bought the wine but do not know if it was the one heard when Radio Seagull opened on January 7, 1974. When Laser returned as Laser Hot Hits, it used Caroline's former and inferior frequency of 576kHz. The only broadcast staff on board were Tom Lodge and Jerry Leighton. [6] The Cheeta II was equipped for FM broadcasting, so it was fitted with the 10kW transmitter from the Mi Amigo, feeding a makeshift antenna. Radio Caroline 4+ Patrick Mounteney 4.6 10 Ratings Free iPhone Screenshots Listen live to the world famous Radio Caroline on your iOS device. 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). 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. Obviously, we hope to be back with you as soon as possible, but just for the moment we would like to say goodbye. 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. Caroline returned on 9 March 1977 on 953kHz, actually 315 metres but announced as 319. 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. Two days later, Mi Amigo was towed to IJmuiden and seized because of unpaid bills. Harry Howard, History Correspondent For Mailonline, Mom who lost both sons to fentanyl blasts laughing Biden, Two Russian tanks annihilated with bombs by Ukrainian armed forces, Isabel Oakeshott receives 'menacing' message from Matt Hancock, Pavement where disabled woman gestured at cyclist before fatal crash, Pro-Ukrainian drone lands on Russian spy planes exposing location, 'Buster is next!' I can clearly recall "Pushover" by Etta James and "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" by Betty Everett being two of the tracks. Radio Caroline was off the air for most of the 1990s, except for occasional low-power broadcasts of one month. Frequency: 648 AM. Radio Caroline South's 259 metres signal was now near those of Radio London on 266m (1133kHz) and the BBC's Light Programme on 247m (1214kHz). Documents to detail all the latest market information. This two-day broadcast featured Phil Mitchell, Paul Dennis, Colin Lamb, John Patrick, Barry James, Steve Cisco and Clive Boutell. 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]. When Radio Veronica closed in 1974, some presenters moved to Radio Mi Amigo. [18], On 3 March 1968, the radio ships Mi Amigo and Caroline were boarded and seized before the day's broadcasting began. On 9 August 1985, an official vessel anchored 150 yards from the Ross Revenge. 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! Ken Bruce has also confirmed that he's moving. Smedley's men occupied the fort until 22 June. On 1 January 2016, a second channel was launched called Caroline Flashback, playing pop music from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Furthermore, it was stated that the pirates' use of wavelengths also broke international agreements. Radio Caroline tried several frequencies, among them 963, 576, 585 (briefly), 558 (after Laser 558 closed) and later 819kHz. However, the station has since moved online and continues to broadcast 24 hours a day. [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. Radio Caroline began to broadcast from the ship on 19 August 1983, with unwanted mechanical sounds on speech. Harry Howard, History Correspondent For Mailonline
At the same time, Allan Crawford's Project Atlanta was equipping the MV Mi Amigo at Greenore, where the two competed to be the first on air. 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. Dave Foster (Rpt) Over 90% of Caroline listening is 'background listening', in the sense that listeners are doing something else at the same time (so, for that matter is over 90% of Light Programme listening. Two aerials and twin transmitters were used for about six weeks until the aerial mast failed. "Between December 26 and December 30, 1973, a friend and I went to Holland for a few days. Southern England, western Europe, Northern England, Ireland and Scotland. [citation needed], In Spain, a station broadcast during the summer 2009 on 102.7MHz in the Costa Blanca from studios in Benidorm. Caroline can also be listened to over the internet including via music players such as Amazon echo (Alexa). The Caroline Countdown of Sound 6pm Mondays is rtracks from new albums but by long established and newer artists, many whose albums sell well or in these days have high streaming figures, and. Since Radio Caroline could not find enough advertising, it shared its nominal 259-metre wavelength (actually 1187kHz or 253 metres) with Dutch-language pop stations. Discover the history of the three RAJAR contracts, and understand the review of methods and sampling and fieldwork events timeline. "Europe's Best Music on Europe's Best Music Station" Format: community, classic rock. The station has subsequently broadcast on 531kHz AM from the Ross Revenge during some bank holiday weekends, beginning on 2831 August 2009 and also within a few days of the 50th anniversary of the ship's first voyage. "[41] In a 1995 article for the pressure group Charter88, Steve McGann commented: "Whether Caroline was right to maintain her defiance for so many years is irrelevant. Finally, Radio Mi Amigo moved to 962kHz on 1 December. Part of being a good communicator means knowing how to listen.
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