On this page we have collected a few exemplary ones. However, according to Gerry Bishop's book Offshore Radio this transmitter was antiquated and failed to work. This two-day broadcast featured Phil Mitchell, Paul Dennis, Colin Lamb, John Patrick, Barry James, Steve Cisco and Clive Boutell. The operation then continued, despite disagreements between O'Rahilly and some of its DJs over what the station should be playing. 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. Radio Caroline is a British station from London. I must say the people on the station got my sympathy very quickly. English Website 228 Listen live 3 Playlist Contacts Related radio stations Radio Caroline On the air Radio Caroline Flashback Radio Caroline Flashback playlist TOP songs on Radio Caroline Flashback The MV Caroline was then broken up for scrap in 1972 the same year that the Mi Amigo was rescued, allowing Radio Caroline to re-start its broadcasts. Media agencies/owners, PR companies and members of the public interested in receiving more detailed data than that currently shown under Listening Figures on the RAJAR site. Radio Caroline tried several frequencies, among them 963, 576, 585 (briefly), 558 (after Laser 558 closed) and later 819kHz. [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. Radio Caroline continued, moving its headquarters and servicing operation to Spain. (Gordon): I think we'll be back in one way or another. Engineer Peter Chicago had hidden transmitter parts during the raid and retuned one 5kW transmitter, previously used on short-wave, to 558kHz. "Between December 26 and December 30, 1973, a friend and I went to Holland for a few days. In December 1976, Radio Mi Amigo moved to 1562kHz on the 50kW transmitter, leaving Caroline on 1187kHz 24 hours a day on the 10kW. Dave Foster (Rpt) Information for commercial radio stations that are licenced by OFCOM and are looking to be measured on the RAJAR survey. 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:. Much improvement to the lay-out of the ship was planned but basically the studios would have remained. In late 1972, Radio Caroline had money problems. This was all in the 1970's. 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. In an extant photo, Caroline Kennedy and her brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., are apparently dancing in the Oval Office as their father looks on, an activity which O'Rahilly reportedly interpreted as a playful, jovial disruption of government. Every time I succeeded in getting a good signal during the evening, I knew I again would have a very good evening. 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. To keep it this way they have had to steer clear of big investors and conventional means of broadcasting which, although a nice idea, has its drawbacks. Listen live to the world famous Radio Caroline on your iOS device. [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. Broadcasting hours were 6am to 6pm to avoid competition from Radio Luxembourg, which began transmissions at 6pm. 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. Nowadays, Radio Caroline has to resort to other sources. [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. It's Source of your ultimate Entertainment. London, United Kingdom. Radio Caroline John Miles - Highfly Premier Christian Radio Hope Through The Night DJ On Tap Bobbie Gentry - I'll Never Fall in Love Again Times Radio The best of Times Radio - Highlights from the week Original 106 Anne-Marie - 2002 Smooth Country Michael Johnson - Give Me Wings Red Rose Radio ABBA - Lay All Your Love On Me U105 Markets. 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. Only 17% of the total UK population can pick up community radio, according to the same Ofcom report we mentioned earlier. Only the Caroline app has a live programme schedule, 'Now Playing' and multiple streams to suit most internet speeds. A bulletin report which provides information of the survey period, any new stations that have joined or any changes to the stations or groups. On Easter Saturday, my parents wanted to go and view a show house on a new estate. (Anderson): It's not a very good occasion really, we have to hurry this because the lifeboat is standing by. Caroline Hepker. 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. How we recruit respondents, sampling points and fieldwork in depth. The Mi Amigo's 160-foot (49m) mast remained erect for six years. On a national level, though, this figure is amazingly reliable; it's a national sample size of over 100,000 adults. The station restarted in August 1983 from a new radio ship, the MV Ross Revenge, an ex-North Sea factory fishing trawler used during the Anglo-Icelandic Cod War by Ross Fisheries. Documents to detail all the latest market information. On 4 May 2015, Radio Caroline started a 24-hour "Flashback" webstream[58] carrying "oldies" music and jingles. However, in October 1987 a massive storm hit southern England, causing deaths and severe damage. Three British nationals, a Dutchman and their canary (named Wilson after the former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson) were rescued. The ship was further delayed by hull damage, and repaired before writs could be issued. [34] It had an antenna system radiating from a 300-foot (91m) high mast, the tallest on any ship in the world. [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. 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. [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]. [citation needed], In Spain, a station broadcast during the summer 2009 on 102.7MHz in the Costa Blanca from studios in Benidorm. This gave reasonable reception by day but strong heterodyne interference at night because the transmitter crystal was off-channel. 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. Brouwer intended to obtain an AM frequency from the Netherlands authorities in 2003 when its medium wave frequencies were reallocated. A coastguard vessel escorted the launch back to shore, but the authorities were unhappy that Caroline listeners had jammed the emergency switchboards. 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. Between them, the stations were covering most of the British Isles. Detailed information on the survey process. 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. ", And then a small packet of Caroline's past was brought back by Mary Payne, director of the Radio London company which does a lot of work, including maintaining an excellent site on the history of Radio London together with her husband Chris. Gradually Caroline is fighting its way back and I'm sure that once advertising is coming in, there will be no need for listener donations. 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. [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 station was opened by DJ Tom Anderson, who had said "goodbye" from the sinking Mi Amigo in 1980. The first record played was Fool (If You Think It's Over), by Chris Rea, dedicated to the British Home Office. O'Rahilly promised financial backing if van Dam could return the ship to broadcasting condition. Obviously, we hope to be back with you as soon as possible, but just for the moment we would like to say goodbye. On 28 December, unpaid crew cut the Mi Amigo's generator fuel line and departed. Bubblegum Lemonade released "Caroline's Radio" in 2010 which was a nostalgic look back at listening to Radio Caroline. 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. I remember wandering around that show house with my tranny on my arm. And that means that people's work schedules are significant drivers of the hourly flow of listening throughout the day. Two days later, Mi Amigo was towed to IJmuiden and seized because of unpaid bills. No one said it would be an easy or fast journey, but I, for one, can only see better things for the future. The pair's aim was to circumvent big record companies' control of the broadcast of popular music, as well as. [21] It was not until RNI returned to its original anchorage off the Netherlands that the jamming ceased. Next to that we can listen in to Radio Caroline on internet and satellite. Greg James' breakfast show on Radio 1 also saw an increase in listeners quarter-on-quarter. We are a small team and you can find out here who the best person to contact is regarding any query. Over the following months, Caroline's signal quality improved as transmitting valves were donated and programming returned to normal. At one time both stations were even claiming more than 8.8 million listeners each. 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 November 1991, the ship lost its anchor in a storm and drifted onto the Goodwin Sands in the Channel. 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. 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. 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. Radio Caroline continued on satellite but required manual tuning. [36] The remaining 5kW transmitter was later converted for short wave use. media reports and the shock of hearing just how powerful the signal was. Ownership was hidden due to illegality of operation. 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. I remember Caroline North with great affection. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Internet streaming of Radio Caroline programmes continued. Caroline can be heard on DAB+ in Aldershot, Birmingham, Cambridge, Brighton, Glasgow, Norwich, London,[2] Portsmouth, Poulton-le-Fylde and Woking. Global delivers record results extending its position as the UK's #1 commercial radio company Global leads the UK commercial radio market with highest . Comedian and award-winning radio host D.L. Following negotiations with the service provider, satellite transmissions ended at midnight on 30 September 2013. Gaining advertising is very much a Catch-22 situation. 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. However, full station identity jingles for the new Radio Caroline were not aired until 10th October 1983. 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. Frequency: 648 AM. On 1 October 1989, Radio Caroline restarted broadcasting from the Ross Revenge using makeshift equipment and low power, to retain the 558kHz frequency. Radio Caroline lobbied against the Labour Party, for the Conservative Party and for the introduction of licensed commercial radio in the United Kingdom. Rob Day never made it to the airwaves to the best of my knowledge and that was that. 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. Round Midnight was confined to closedown on Radio Caroline North after The World Tomorrow. 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. How radio is measured in other European countries and throughout the rest of the World. The name was taken from Caroline Bay, a popular recreation area nearby. In June 1990, Spectrum Radio, a new multi-ethnic community radio station in London, was officially allocated 558kHz. How different it seemed six weeks later when the Mi Amigo had no mast and RNI no English service. Since 1991, the Ross Revenge has been maintained by enthusiasts called the Radio Caroline Support Group, originally the Ross Revenge Support Group. By September 28, 1964 just six months after launching the station's then-manager boasted in the Daily Mail of having an audience bigger than the all-powerful and well-established BBC. This request, and one to stop transmissions on 819kHz, was refused. Dave Foster. Initially this was a minor inconvenience as the 300-foot (91m) mast was thought sturdy enough. The benefits, entitlements as a RAJAR subscriber and the data explained. Caroline Flashback provides an alternative service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. However, in July 1964, the owners of the two stations opted to merge the operations. BBC Radio 4 had 10.48m listeners with 6.62m tuning in for The Today programme (Mon-Sat). We arranged to meet the Caroline tender to go out to the ship but no one turned up. Shrewdly, the BBC also employed many of the one-time pirate DJs who had helped to make Radio Caroline a success. Alan even worked with Bob at Radio 1 on. The highlight however was picking up test transmissions from Radio Caroline I had missed the tests of the previous day. Yet another source of income is gifts from listeners, making the listeners still very important for the Lady's survival. Wavelength: 199 metres. [65], Radio Caroline's founder, Ronan O'Rahilly, was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2013; his death aged 79 on 20 April 2020 was announced by Radio Caroline. Radio Caroline North subsequently moved to 257m (1169kHz) but also called it 259. [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. The station re-started for a second time in August 1983 from new ship the MV Ross Revenge. However, the station has since moved online and continues to broadcast 24 hours a day. The BBC Light, Third, and Home programmes became Radios 2, 3 and 4 respectively. 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 . 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. Radio Caroline was off the air for most of the 1990s, except for occasional low-power broadcasts of one month. [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. The station restarted just before Christmas as Radio 199 but soon became Radio Caroline, with a Top 40 format. 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. "Walking down the King's Road" track by Squire "In a Chelsea drug store with some friends of mine, mini skirts, dolly birds and Radio Caroline".
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