RNI operated on medium wave, short wave and FM. Caroline can be heard on DAB+ in Aldershot, Birmingham, Cambridge, Brighton, Glasgow, Norwich, London,[2] Portsmouth, Poulton-le-Fylde and Woking. I recall that Easter weekend in 1964 when Radio Caroline arrived very well. 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 . Presentations were made to US advertising agencies. Legal status unclear due to a need to conceal actual legal ownership. Details of the modified methodology introduced since the Covid Pandemic. Syndicated shows from the US and recorded religious programmes were also broadcast. Broadcasters included Tony Christian, Pawl "Hound Dog" Shanley, Dave Fox, Simon West, Dale Richardson and Peter D.[citation needed]. News at peak hours: 7, 8, 9am, 1pm; 5, 6, 7pm, with headlines at 6:30am, 7:30am and 8:30am. 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. [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. [30] Radio Caroline returned to the air on 15 April 1979. 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. Radio Caroline continued on satellite but required manual tuning. Thanks, BBC, for fixing Woman's Hour. Now please take a look at Today 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. These stories continued and included co-operation by a former member of the Beatles[who?] The transmitter was initially too powerful for the antenna insulators. [26] The station's offices and studios were in Brakel, Belgium, but moved to Castell-Platja d'Aro, Costa Brava, Spain in March 1975 after a raid by Belgian police. 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 them, the stations were covering most of the British Isles. Radio Caroline presenter Ray Clark remembers listening to Mr Damon as a nine-year-old on the radio. DJs could choose ordering of oldies all current pop hits in strict rotation. Several years later some of the seized items were returned to the station. American Cancer Society Cancer Facts & Figures for African American/Black People. How we recruit respondents, sampling points and fieldwork in depth. Various: broadly according to era and frequency: 1960s: mainstream pop. 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:. The lineup will feature some of the most incendiary figures on the far right, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, whose supporters stormed . 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 . 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 medium wave frequency was 235 metres (1278kHz) and programmes were sent through ISDN landline to Maidstone and via the internet and broadcast on satellite. . At one time both stations were even claiming more than 8.8 million listeners each. Meanwhile, Radio Mi Amigo had interference on 1562kHz and changed to 1412kHz (212 m). 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. Markets. From Electronic People Meters to Smartphone Mobile Metering. ", 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. 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. MV Caroline arrived at her new anchorage on the southern tip of the Bahama Bank, Ramsey Bay, on 6 July 1964,[13] at a position formerly occupied by the Bahama Bank Lightship. Radio Seagull became Radio Caroline on 23 February 1974, retaining the album format. 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. There proved to be a lot of people, cultivating little gems of the station's history. 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. London, United Kingdom. In 1976, The Loving Awareness Band released their only album, Loving Awareness on More Love Records (ML001), a label set up by O'Rahilly. . This service was Radio Seagull and broadcast live during the evening. Ownership was hidden due to illegality of operation. During 2013, a survey showed a continued move from satellite reception and growth in internet listening. How to listen to Boom - Boom Radio Radio Caroline Flashback provides an alternative live service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. [citation needed]. album, and Turnbull and Gallagher joined them on the Stiff's tour, becoming The Blockheads.[28]. They were pop and Europop aimed at the mainstream Dutch audience. It gets good listening figures as it is the safe, middle England choice for people who have never listened to or refuse to listen to Radio 4, 6music, (or Radio 3, although I'm not a fan myself) or . In practice, day-to-day servicing was carried from France and the UK. On this page we have collected a few exemplary ones. Dutch nationals were arrested and returned to the Netherlands, together with most of the broadcasting equipment. Around the radio stations - facts and figures for RAJAR Q4 2021 Just after midnight GMT on 20 March 1980, the Mi Amigo foundered in a storm after losing its anchor and drifting. Those broadcasts took place between 1970 and 1973.[20]. [21] It was not until RNI returned to its original anchorage off the Netherlands that the jamming ceased. In 2017, Ofcom awarded Radio Caroline its first AM licence, allowing it to broadcast to audiences in parts of Suffolk and north Essex. Discover the history of the three RAJAR contracts, and understand the review of methods and sampling and fieldwork events timeline. 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. From the Radio Today site. European medium wave channels had been reallocated to multiples of nine. Radio Caroline Ltd. and Caroline Support Group (originally called the Ross Revenge Support Group). (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. Whittingham was unable to leave on the tender when a storm arose. Total listening hours for Talkradio were up 23% compared to the last quarter to reach 5.7m hours each week, while Times Radio's listening hours were up 16% to 3.6m hours weekly. The operation then continued, despite disagreements between O'Rahilly and some of its DJs over what the station should be playing. Information for commercial radio stations that are licenced by OFCOM and are looking to be measured on the RAJAR survey. The bureauxs client must also be a RAJAR subscriber. 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]. On this page Hans Knot presents a few exemplary ones. Due to generator trouble, the two services could no longer be broadcast simultaneously and Radio Caroline again broadcast at night with both stations using the 50kW transmitter and Radio Caroline began to receive more mail from the continent. The following day we went to Caroline House in The Hague. But next to hearing other people talk about the subject, I never really had listened to the Sound of the Nation. Steve Wright, Radio 2 -how much longer can it go on? [citation needed]. O'Rahilly had initially competed with another pirate station broadcasting from the MV Mi Amigo. Next to that we can listen in to Radio Caroline on internet and satellite. This gave reasonable reception by day but strong heterodyne interference at night because the transmitter crystal was off-channel. I just hated the intrusive way deejays tried to influence my taste on the other radio stations. RAJAR analysis: Q2 figures mark first year of new radio ratings system A "D" and an "I" from the phrase RADIO CAROLINE (painted as a, "Hearthammer" by the Scottish folk rock band. BBC Radio 2 newsreader Colin Berry started his career reading the news on Radio Caroline South. Caroline can also be listened to over the internet including via music players such as Amazon echo (Alexa). The founder of pirate radio, Radio Caroline, has died. . Watch Live TV Listen to Live Radio. Caroline Hepker anchors Bloomberg Radio's 'Daybreak Europe' programme, on-air live from 6-10am weekday mornings. Over 30% of radio listeners older than 34 still use analogue radio. Radio Caroline - Live Online Radio Because commercial radio was prohibited in Belgium, Radio Mi Amigo had little competition from the former BRT State Radio and TV (today VRT Flemisch State radio and TV) and became very popular in Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK. Eventually, Caroline left 558kHz and moved to 819kHz. 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. The Dutch offshore station Radio Veronica was on 1562 kHz and Radio Atlanta broadcast on 1493 kHz. Smedley's trial opened on 11 October at Chelmsford Assizes, where the jury acquitted him.[6]. Stats show BBC 6 Music is UK's No.1 digital radio station, Radio - NME Radio Caroline: Golden age of British pirate radio remembered, 50 years 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. Many people, of a certain age, still associate Radio Caroline with the pop music of the 60s & 70s. [34] It had an antenna system radiating from a 300-foot (91m) high mast, the tallest on any ship in the world. This comes after Steve Wright, Craig Charles, Paul O'Grady, Vanessa Feltz and Ken Bruce all left Radio 2 in a mass exodus over the past six months. Speech radio listening figures: GB News and Times Radio up - Press Gazette 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. 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 must say the people on the station got my sympathy very quickly. During mid-August 1989, authorities in several European countries carried out coordinated raids on houses, recording studios and offices believed to be used by Caroline. Caroline broadcast regular apologies to Spectrum listeners but refused to vacate the channel. Part of being a good communicator means knowing how to listen. He was part entrepreneur, part buccaneer who broadcasted rock 'n' roll from a. The Caroline App is just 1.79 or equivalent price in your country. -1.04 -1.26%. 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. Listen to Radio Caroline Flashback. 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. Smedley later withdrew from the deal. [7] O'Rahilly named the station after Caroline Kennedy, daughter of U.S. president John F. I remember wandering around that show house with my tranny on my arm. 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. 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. I was extremely excited about the new station and borrowed a big transistor radio from my grandmother, so that I could take the music everywhere I went. Following negotiations with the service provider, satellite transmissions ended at midnight on 30 September 2013. 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. Three British nationals, a Dutchman and their canary (named Wilson after the former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson) were rescued. RAJAR reserves the right to publish complaints along with their outcome on this page. [18], On 3 March 1968, the radio ships Mi Amigo and Caroline were boarded and seized before the day's broadcasting began. Click the pic to find out more. US Stocks Snap Two Days of Losses; Yields Rise: Markets Wrap. Radio Caroline North subsequently moved to 257m (1169kHz) but also called it 259. 1980s: It was renamed Radio Caroline South and MV Mi Amigo remained off Frinton-on-Sea while MV Caroline broadcast as Radio Caroline North. Missy Mazzoli is a symphonic composer with a photographer's eye (Anderson): It's not a very good occasion really, we have to hurry this because the lifeboat is standing by. On the heels of Breaking the Waves, she (along with Jeanine Tesori) was the first woman to be commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. "[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. Radio Caroline broadcast 24 hours various song, hip hop music, clasic, etc. [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. The final song was Pilot of the Airwaves by Charlie Dore.[43]. 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. 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. Bloomberg Daybreak Europe | Bloomberg Radio Times Radio's audience fell by over a fifth quarter-on-quarter, according to the latest RAJAR radio listening figures. [36] The remaining 5kW transmitter was later converted for short wave use. We simply knocked on the door which was answered by a young Canadian who called himself Rob Day. 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. Part of the raid was broadcast live[40] before officials disabled the transmitters. 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. 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. The station re-started for a second time in August 1983 from new ship the MV Ross Revenge. 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. [citation needed], In Spain, a station broadcast during the summer 2009 on 102.7MHz in the Costa Blanca from studios in Benidorm. Kivili seikluskeskus - Kaupo Kalda Photography / Aerofotod drooniga Much improvement to the lay-out of the ship was planned but basically the studios would have remained. Radio Caroline's transmission output was almost 20kW, achieved by linking two 10kW Continental Electronics transmitters. Radio Caroline had greater night-time interference, and it was decided to move Caroline to a new frequency. 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. The most popular radio stations in the UK - media So far, Mazzoli's greatest success has come in the opera house. The LBC brand. By 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. Ray Clark) and Rob Charles. 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. On 11 November 2017, test transmissions commenced from an omni-directional mast (formerly used by the BBC World Service) at Orford Ness, Suffolk. The Ross Revenge also featured powerful generators.[37]. Includes Audio Types such as Podcasts, Live and Catch Up Radio, On Demand Music Services. In December 1976, Radio Mi Amigo moved to 1562kHz on the 50kW transmitter, leaving Caroline on 1187kHz 24 hours a day on the 10kW. If you're like most people, you probably don't give much though to how many words you take in each day. Wonder where he is now? The UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) put a permanent watch on movements around the Ross Revenge and the MV Communicator, Laser 558's ship. 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. Music radio breakfast shows saw drop in listeners during pandemic - NME When Marine &c. Broadcasting Offences Act become law on 14 August 1967, Radio Caroline was renamed Radio Caroline International. Clive Garrard. Four studios were on board, enabling other broadcasting services. 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 . Global delivers record results extending its position as the UK's #1 commercial radio company Global leads the UK commercial radio market with highest . (ii)576 kHz: continuation of above, with slightly more singles played. When Radio Caroline 'had bigger audience than the BBC Mary wrote us: "I wondered if your series should be including the titles of any of the records played on the Test Transmission tapes? The pair's aim was to circumvent big record companies' control of the broadcast of popular music, as well as. Since the pandemic took hold in the United States, NPR's radio ratings have taken a nosedive. Throughout most of the 1970s, Radio Caroline could be heard only at night, calling itself "Europe's first and only album station". 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. ", 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. Programmes were still heard on satellite until the provider replaced the signal with a 1kHz tone on the morning of 1 October 2013. Each of his crew was awarded The Thanks of the Institution on vellum.[33]. These analogue transmissions ended and a full digital service from Astra 28.2E started in February 2003.[52]. [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. Nowadays, Radio Caroline has to resort to other sources. 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. From 2007, the ship was docked at Tilbury, where a volunteer crew repaired and maintained it. Janssen Launches Health Equity Campaign in Partnership with Award At that time I thought RNI 2 was here to stay. [25] The ship anchored off the Dutch coastal resort of Scheveningen and was serviced and operated from the Netherlands. 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. In a sign of Radio Caroline's enormous influence on popular culture, the BBC launched Radio 1 in September 1967 in an effort to respond to its success, as well as that of the rival 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]. The appetite for dance music is thriving with both Heart Dance and Capital Dance celebrating record listening figures. Southern England, western Europe, Northern England, Ireland and Scotland. 15 Alfred Place Weekly radio listening by age UK 2020 | Statista Shortly after the law was enacted, the station was renamed as Radio Caroline International.
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