We arranged to meet the Caroline tender to go out to the ship but no one turned up. The poster itself,. Radio Caroline are committed to promote UK Culture, Music, News, Heritage, Tourism and many more through their . The project not unexpectedly hit the quay side, but it would have been interesting should the plan have come to fruition. media reports and the shock of hearing just how powerful the signal was. [36] The remaining 5kW transmitter was later converted for short wave use. 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. . 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. [21] It was not until RNI returned to its original anchorage off the Netherlands that the jamming ceased. In 1976, The Loving Awareness Band released their only album, Loving Awareness on More Love Records (ML001), a label set up by O'Rahilly. 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. It began taking in water and the crew was rescued by lifeboat. Details of the modified methodology introduced since the Covid Pandemic. To remain in international waters, the ship moved to a new, less-sheltered anchorage. London WC1E 7EB, Find out more information on completing the Radio Diary. Radio Monique was popular throughout Benelux. For the first years, advertising on the station was in demand. The founder of pirate radio, Radio Caroline, has died. However, according to Gerry Bishop's book Offshore Radio this transmitter was antiquated and failed to work. Caroline Hepker anchors Bloomberg Radio's 'Daybreak Europe' programme, on-air live from 6-10am weekday mornings. I must say the people on the station got my sympathy very quickly. [45] The Ross Revenge was salvaged and brought into harbour in Dover, ending 27 years of Radio Caroline's unlicensed offshore career. A licenced and registered bureaux that wishes to supply bureaux services using RAJAR data is permitted to do so. 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. 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. These data are produced and sold at cost providing both industry accountability and a robust trading currency for each medium. Since November 2009 Radio Seagull can be heard periodically on 558kHz in London. 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. "Why do we have to pay, why aren't they out at sea, the music's no good," and so on. Programmes were still heard on satellite until the provider replaced the signal with a 1kHz tone on the morning of 1 October 2013. Listening Statistics: 23 Facts You Need to Hear. Without serious competition, Radio Caroline gained a regular daytime audience of some 7 million.[12]. A coastguard vessel escorted the launch back to shore, but the authorities were unhappy that Caroline listeners had jammed the emergency switchboards. In Timaru, an NZBC station, originally 3XC, later 3ZC, broadcast as Radio Caroline until 1995. It left Spain, with an incomplete studio, to avoid legal entanglements. The crew and broadcasting staff were rescued unharmed, but the ship's hull was damaged and repairs were carried out at Zaandam, Netherlands. Meanwhile, Radio Mi Amigo had interference on 1562kHz and changed to 1412kHz (212 m). Later, some programmes were pre-recorded on land and broadcast simultaneously from both ships. They were towed to Amsterdam by a salvage company to secure unpaid bills for servicing by the Dutch tender company Wijsmuller Transport. Rough weather sometimes prevented tapes from arriving and old programmes had to be repeated. 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. Caroline Flashback provides an alternative service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. [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. Hughley to Raise Awareness About Multiple Myeloma Among Black Communities. She was so fine, I made her mine, her name is Caroline! Have you ever met the guy? In Happy Birthday Tony Blackburn: 80 Poptastic Years on Radio 2, Dermot O'Leary will talk to Tony about his life and career and surprises him with . [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. 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. 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. Caroline can be heard on DAB+ in Aldershot, Birmingham, Cambridge, Brighton, Glasgow, Norwich, London,[2] Portsmouth, Poulton-le-Fylde and Woking. Broadcasters included Tony Christian, Pawl "Hound Dog" Shanley, Dave Fox, Simon West, Dale Richardson and Peter D.[citation needed]. RAJAR reserves the right to publish complaints along with their outcome on this page. I never had the idea to buy any of the singles they promoted, as these got so much airplay and therefore entered the charts. Caroline broadcast regular apologies to Spectrum listeners but refused to vacate the channel. ", Earlier this year I met Bob Le-Roi and of course we talked a lot about Radio Caroline. 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. 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". I recall that Easter weekend in 1964 when Radio Caroline arrived very well. Much improvement to the lay-out of the ship was planned but basically the studios would have remained. RNI operated on medium wave, short wave and FM. "I think it lit a spark," he said. The following day, Caroline was one of few stations in the South East still broadcasting. 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. Huskers Close Out Cats, 80-64. [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. The 'amateurs' were said to be reaching 39million listeners with 15million in the South of England and the rest in the North. 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. -1.04 -1.26%. Caroline can also be listened to over the internet including via music players such as Amazon echo (Alexa). Some DJs from the USA and Commonwealth countries, such as Graham Webb, Emperor Rosko and Keith Hampshire were also heard. In the late 1990's and later on I helped them with the promotion team when they were busy trying to convince as much as possible cable networks to put their signal on their networks. Daytime programming was leased to a community radio service called Puketapu Radio on 756kHz.[75]. According to the latest Nielsen Audio Today report, more than two-thirds of the weekly radio audience works full time and tunes in when they're away from home. Following the election, RNI resumed its original name but jamming continued under the newly elected Conservative government. I did not succeed in getting things right every day, but I certainly felt good every time I heard the famous Caroline bell going "Ding, Ding," followed by the opening tune from those days: "On My Way Back Home" from The New Riders on the Purple Sage. Select 'Change Stations' on the app if you wish to switch to Boom Light You can also find us listed on the TuneIn or Radioplayer app. BBC Radio 6 Music celebrates its 20th birthday with record listening figures. 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. Nowadays, Radio Caroline has to resort to other sources. 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. The pair's aim was to circumvent big record companies' control of the broadcast of popular music, as well as. Mary wrote us: "I wondered if your series should be including the titles of any of the records played on the Test Transmission tapes? 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. 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. 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 . 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". Since August 2000, Radio Caroline has also broadcast 24 hours a day via the internet and by the occasional restricted service licence. Radio Caroline had greater night-time interference, and it was decided to move Caroline to a new frequency. 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! 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.