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. Unlicensed by any government for most of its early life, it was a pirate radio station that never became illegal as such due to operating outside any . This channel broadcasts mainly in community format. [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. The benefits, entitlements as a RAJAR subscriber and the data explained. Lodge hired new DJs and introduced free-form programming. [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. This gave reasonable reception by day but strong heterodyne interference at night because the transmitter crystal was off-channel. Since 1991, the Ross Revenge has been maintained by enthusiasts called the Radio Caroline Support Group, originally the Ross Revenge Support Group. Reception area: North of England, Midlands, Ireland, Scotland and North Wales. Menu. Hughley to Raise Awareness About Multiple Myeloma Among Black Communities. [7] O'Rahilly named the station after Caroline Kennedy, daughter of U.S. president John F. 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! However, the station has since moved online and continues to broadcast 24 hours a day. It commemorated the 40th anniversary of Radio Caroline and promoted the station's legal internet and satellite programmes. The crew (Caroline Martin, Rico and one other) was rescued by an RAF helicopter. However, the storm had weakened the mast, which collapsed in another storm later. At times, a 10kW transmitter was used to save fuel and relieve the generators. 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. 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. 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. At one time both stations were even claiming more than 8.8 million listeners each. London WC1E 7EB, Find out more information on completing the Radio Diary. London, United Kingdom. The pair's aim was to circumvent big record companies' control of the broadcast of popular music, as well as. 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. iPhone Maker Plans $700 Million India Plant in Shift From China. Just as I was about to go to school one morning, my mother called me and my brother into my parents' bedroom to watch the M.V. The only broadcast staff on board were Tom Lodge and Jerry Leighton. Frequency: 648 AM. Since August 2000, Radio Caroline has also broadcast 24 hours a day via the internet and by the occasional restricted service licence. The name was taken from Caroline Bay, a popular recreation area nearby. The tapes were picked up in Belgium at a bus stop, taken to a small sports plane and dropped in the sea close to the radio ship. In 1972, MV Mi Amigo was bought for her scrap value at auction by enthusiast Gerard van Dam, who intended to use her as a free radio museum. I wonder if any of the people who criticise have even tried setting up or running a radio station on land, let alone from twelve miles out to sea with the law heavily biased against them. To allow Radio Mi Amigo to continue broadcasting by day, the engineering work for Caroline's move had to be carried out over six nights, after the 50kW transmitter was switched off. In 1976, The Loving Awareness Band released their only album, Loving Awareness on More Love Records (ML001), a label set up by O'Rahilly. Every time I succeeded in getting a good signal during the evening, I knew I again would have a very good evening. Latest releases and insightful stories into the radio industry. Furthermore, it was stated that the pirates' use of wavelengths also broke international agreements. Radio Caroline was founded by Irish businessman Ronan O'Rahilly and George Drummond. Internet streaming of Radio Caroline programmes continued. 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. Only 17% of the total UK population can pick up community radio, according to the same Ofcom report we mentioned earlier. Radio Seagull became Radio Caroline on 23 February 1974, retaining the album format. 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. 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. Second, it also requires a good sales team and, of course, sales people don't work for nothing. In December 1976, Radio Mi Amigo moved to 1562kHz on the 50kW transmitter, leaving Caroline on 1187kHz 24 hours a day on the 10kW. Times Radio's audience fell by over a fifth quarter-on-quarter, according to the latest RAJAR radio listening figures. On 12 June 2006, the station bought an EPG slot on Sky channel 0199. The drop can be partly explained by lower. Huskers Close Out Cats, 80-64. USD. The pair's aim was to circumvent big record companies' control of the broadcast of popular music, as well as the stranglehold which the BBC then had on the airwaves. In June 1990, Spectrum Radio, a new multi-ethnic community radio station in London, was officially allocated 558kHz. Kennedy. This service was Radio Seagull and broadcast live during the evening. The latest listening figures revealed that the Radio 2 breakfast show audience has fallen to its lowest level for a decade. Wonder where he is now? 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. General Radio Listening Statistics 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. 15 Alfred Place 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. Chris Evans, her Radio 2 predecessor, is on 869,000 for his Virgin Radio breakfast show (down from 1m in last available figures for Virgin in Q4); Virgin Radio has a weekly reach of 1.44m (1.62m . Rob Day never made it to the airwaves to the best of my knowledge and that was that. News at peak hours: 7, 8, 9am, 1pm; 5, 6, 7pm, with headlines at 6:30am, 7:30am and 8:30am. 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". 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. Whittingham was unable to leave on the tender when a storm arose. Radio Atlanta closed at 8p.m. that day. Watch Live TV Listen to Live Radio. Nowadays, Radio Caroline has to resort to other sources. European medium wave channels had been reallocated to multiples of nine. 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. On 5 November 1990, lack of fuel and supplies forced the station to stop transmitting. 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!' The station had some success but stopped broadcasting due to lack of funding. Mary wrote us: "I wondered if your series should be including the titles of any of the records played on the Test Transmission tapes? One of Radio Caroline's directors, Major Oliver Smedley, formerly of Radio Atlanta, entered a partnership with Radio City's owner, pop group manager Reginald Calvert and installed a more powerful transmitter on the fort. When Radio Veronica closed in 1974, some presenters moved to Radio Mi Amigo. 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Programmes were still heard on satellite until the provider replaced the signal with a 1kHz tone on the morning of 1 October 2013. 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. Caroline claimed boarding the ship and removal or destruction of equipment was piracy. Detailed information on the survey process. Shortly after the law was enacted, the station was renamed as Radio Caroline International. 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. RAJAR reserves the right to publish complaints along with their outcome on this page. [6] Caroline was broken up for scrap in 1972. Non-Dutch staff were given the option of staying on the ship or returning to the Netherlands, and most chose to stay on board. At one minute past midnight on 1 October 2001, Caroline returned on 1503kHz from the LV (Light Vessel) 18 in Harwich harbour. 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.". The Dutch government banned unlicensed offshore radio on 1 September 1974. 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). Bubblegum Lemonade released "Caroline's Radio" in 2010 which was a nostalgic look back at listening to Radio Caroline. Radio Caroline finally stopped broadcasting from open waters in 1991 when the MV Ross Revenge lots its anchor in a storm and the crew had to be rescued by helicopter. Those broadcasts took place between 1970 and 1973.[20]. Smedley's trial opened on 11 October at Chelmsford Assizes, where the jury acquitted him.[6]. The Radio Caroline name was used to broadcast from international waters, using five different ships of three different owners, from 1964 to 1990, and via satellite from 1998 to 2013 (pictured:. How different it seemed six weeks later when the Mi Amigo had no mast and RNI no English service. Radio Caroline North subsequently moved to 257m (1169kHz) but also called it 259. 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. In 2017, Ofcom awarded Radio Caroline its first AM licence, allowing it to broadcast to audiences in parts of Suffolk and north Essex. The station restarted just before Christmas as Radio 199 but soon became Radio Caroline, with a Top 40 format. Owner: Planet Sales Ltd. First air date: 1964. Caroline returned on 9 March 1977 on 953kHz, actually 315 metres but announced as 319. 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. Ronan O'Rahilly passed away April 20 at the age of 79. It was the floating pirate radio station whose mission to was to transmit rock 'n' roll to the masses. The latest listening figures reveal that Global continues to lead the UK commercial radio market with the biggest set of audience numbers in our history. 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. 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. 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. BBC Radio 2 has the best radio audience figures in the UK, with a reach of almost 14.58 million per week. ", Also Philip Coleman was selected to be a part of this chapter: "I do not think my Caroline memories deserve to be mentioned in the Caroline's special, but there are two which may be of interest to you: First, on September 30, 1972, I was a student with a part-time job. 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. A "D" and an "I" from the phrase RADIO CAROLINE (painted as a, "Hearthammer" by the Scottish folk rock band. 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. This request, and one to stop transmissions on 819kHz, was refused. "Between December 26 and December 30, 1973, a friend and I went to Holland for a few days. [citation needed], In Spain, a station broadcast during the summer 2009 on 102.7MHz in the Costa Blanca from studios in Benidorm. Without serious competition, Radio Caroline gained a regular daytime audience of some 7 million.[12]. Comedian and award-winning radio host D.L. 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. 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. Rough weather sometimes prevented tapes from arriving and old programmes had to be repeated. On 24 March 1970, a radio ship named Mebo II anchored off the east coast of England during the UK general election campaign, broadcasting as Radio North Sea International (RNI). Between 31 January and 1 May, Radio Caroline South broadcast from the vessel Cheeta II, owned by Britt Wadner of Swedish offshore station Radio Syd, which was off the air because of pack ice in the Baltic Sea. [8] On a fund-raising trip to the U.S., O'Rahilly reportedly saw a Life magazine photograph of Kennedy and his children in the Oval Office that served as the inspiration for the name "Caroline Radio". However, Dutch Caroline failed to secure a high power AM frequency and the cable network service was discontinued because of lack of funds. ", 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. Information for commercial radio stations that are licenced by OFCOM and are looking to be measured on the RAJAR survey. [30] Radio Caroline returned to the air on 15 April 1979. Harry Howard, History Correspondent For Mailonline 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. (Anderson): It's not a very good occasion really, we have to hurry this because the lifeboat is standing by. He was part entrepreneur, part buccaneer who broadcasted rock 'n' roll from a. A request to stop broadcasting on short wave 6.215MHz was complied with, and after several hours the government ship returned to port. The following day we went to Caroline House in The Hague. I took my radio to work and annoyed everyone by listening to RNI in Dutch on short-wave.