Next to that we can listen in to Radio Caroline on internet and satellite. Browse our programme schedule, read the presenter profiles, send emails and brush up on your world, music and radio history on our 'This Day' page. 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. However, Dutch Caroline failed to secure a high power AM frequency and the cable network service was discontinued because of lack of funds. The station had some success but stopped broadcasting due to lack of funding. Southern England, western Europe, Northern England, Ireland and Scotland. The Mi Amigo's 160-foot (49m) mast remained erect for six years. We . DJ Jack Spector, of the WMCA "Good Guys" in New York, regularly recorded for Radio Caroline. 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 . The station restarted just before Christmas as Radio 199 but soon became Radio Caroline, with a Top 40 format. [71][72][73], In January 2002, a Dutch Caroline fan called Sietse Brouwer launched a Netherlands-based Dutch Radio Caroline in Harlingen, broadcasting on the northern Netherlands cable networks and largely independent of UK Caroline. When the MV Caroline left for the Isle of Man, the Mi Amigo remained in Felixstowe. Rajars: Breakfast radio shows lost listeners during pandemic Menu. [45] The Ross Revenge was salvaged and brought into harbour in Dover, ending 27 years of Radio Caroline's unlicensed offshore career. News service at peak hours. O'Rahilly and Drummond were inspired by the Danish Radio Mercur, which in 1952 became the first station in the world to broadcast commercial radio from a vessel in international waters without permission from the authorities in the country that it broadcast to. The ship was further delayed by hull damage, and repaired before writs could be issued. We arranged to meet the Caroline tender to go out to the ship but no one turned up. A request to stop broadcasting on short wave 6.215MHz was complied with, and after several hours the government ship returned to port. 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. "Europe's Best Music on Europe's Best Music Station" Format: community, classic rock. BBC Radio 1 loses half a million listeners in first quarter of 2022 15 Alfred Place Four studios were on board, enabling other broadcasting services. A well-nourished captain said they often failed to appear for a tender but he always got paid! Dan Greenwood on LinkedIn: Global's Highest Radio Reach EVER!!! The One 5kW transmitter was initially not serviceable. Dutch nationals were arrested and returned to the Netherlands, together with most of the broadcasting equipment. Officially, Radio Caroline was managed from offices in North America, with advertising from the US and Canada. "Between December 26 and December 30, 1973, a friend and I went to Holland for a few days. Ray Clark) and Rob Charles. My parents' house in Holyhead, North Wales, looked out over Newry Beach and we often saw various ships stopping off just behind the breakwater to pick up the pilot for their onward journey Blue Funnel line vessels in particular. 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. 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". Nowadays, Radio Caroline has to resort to other sources. On 11 November 2017, test transmissions commenced from an omni-directional mast (formerly used by the BBC World Service) at Orford Ness, Suffolk. On 19 August 1989, James Murphy, an investigator for the UK Office of the Official Solicitor, acting for the Department of Trade and Industry, joined colleagues and counterparts from the Netherlands Radio Regulatory Authority to execute an armed raid on the Ross Revenge in which equipment was damaged or confiscated. Times Radio's audience fell by over a fifth quarter-on-quarter, according to the latest RAJAR radio listening figures. On a national level, though, this figure is amazingly reliable; it's a national sample size of over 100,000 adults. Thanks, BBC, for fixing Woman's Hour. Now please take a look at Today It is jointly owned by the BBC and the Radiocentre on behalf of the commercial sector. I am enjoying their programmes immensely at present but there always seems to be a lot of criticism about the station no matter what they do. 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. [25] The ship anchored off the Dutch coastal resort of Scheveningen and was serviced and operated from the Netherlands. They included Blackburn, who became the first to broadcast on Radio 1. KRVN 880 - KRVN 93.1 - KAMI - Huskers Close Out Cats, 80-64 [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. Following the election, RNI resumed its original name but jamming continued under the newly elected Conservative government. I never had the idea to buy any of the singles they promoted, as these got so much airplay and therefore entered the charts. Non-Dutch staff were given the option of staying on the ship or returning to the Netherlands, and most chose to stay on board. From the anchorage in the Knock Deep the Mi Amigo's mast could be seen on the horizon. Caroline Archive Hour. 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 These data are produced and sold at cost providing both industry accountability and a robust trading currency for each medium. This gave reasonable reception by day but strong heterodyne interference at night because the transmitter crystal was off-channel. 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. BBC Radio 1 lost nearly half a million listeners in the first quarter of 2022, new figures show. Daily Mail article about Radio Caroline - 29 September 2021 On 28 December, unpaid crew cut the Mi Amigo's generator fuel line and departed. Island FM (58% of people in their area tune in every week) Channel 103 FM (55%) Moray Firth Radio (46%) Radio Borders (43%) Yorkshire Coast Radio (42%) 3FM (38%) Wessex FM (38%) Northsound 1 (38%) IOW Radio (35%) Tay FM (35%) Radio Caroline Ltd. and Caroline Support Group (originally called the Ross Revenge Support Group). [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 was also claimed to reach 39 million listeners though I suspect both figures probably had a lot of. Global delivers record results extending its position as the UK's #1 commercial radio company Global leads the UK commercial radio market with highest . The first record played was Fool (If You Think It's Over), by Chris Rea, dedicated to the British Home Office. [30] Radio Caroline returned to the air on 15 April 1979. BBC Radio 6 Music celebrates its 20th birthday with record listening O'Rahilly promised financial backing if van Dam could return the ship to broadcasting condition. 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. 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. However, the station has since moved online and continues to broadcast 24 hours a day. From 2007, the ship was docked at Tilbury, where a volunteer crew repaired and maintained it. It's Source of your ultimate Entertainment. They were keen to see what this heating was like, with a view to installing it in their own home. 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. During a violent struggle, Calvert was shot dead. [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. Average weekday audience figures per quarter hour (in 000s). The Ross Revenge also featured powerful generators.[37]. When Marine &c. Broadcasting Offences Act become law on 14 August 1967, Radio Caroline was renamed Radio Caroline International. 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 . 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]. Original 1960s Caroline North jingles were interspersed with generic Radio Caroline ones. "It was just so special and so different and worth fighting . One is lack of finance, so presenters work for nothing we, the Caroline supporters, can ask for no greater dedication and I am quite happy to do my bit and help keep the dream alive with my monthly subscription. This request, and one to stop transmissions on 819kHz, was refused. Round Midnight was confined to closedown on Radio Caroline North after The World Tomorrow. 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. Beginning in 1975, the cassettes were transported from Playa d'Aro on the Europa Bus service, which carried people from Amsterdam to Madrid at low prices. 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. Missy Mazzoli is a symphonic composer with a photographer's eye Welcome to the Radio Caroline Web Shop, run by volunteers to help the running of the radio station and the preservation and restoration of its radio ship, the Ross Revenge, in the estuary of the River Blackwater in the county of Essex, UK. (ii)576 kHz: continuation of above, with slightly more singles played. And that means that people's work schedules are significant drivers of the hourly flow of listening throughout the day. On the 9 September 2017 a stone was unveiled in Felixstowe to commemorate Radio Caroline.[63]. The pair's aim was to circumvent big record companies' control of the broadcast of popular music, as well as. Former presenter Johnnie Walker said in an interview on NPR last year that O'Rahilly thought it was a 'wonderful image' of 'happiness and laughter disrupting the works of government'. Community radio listening figures - do 10 million people tune in every week? On this page Hans Knot presents a few exemplary ones. In July Caroline moved to the adjacent channel, 962kHz (312 metres but still called 319) and reception in the UK improved. iPhone Maker Plans $700 Million India Plant in Shift From China. But next to hearing other people talk about the subject, I never really had listened to the Sound of the Nation. Using land-based studios leased in Kent[51] in the late 1990s, the station began broadcasting via satellites Astra 19.2E and Eutelsat 28A, covering western Europe. The Government argued that the pirate operation was a danger because of the possibility of the radio frequency interfering with emergency shipping channels. [7] O'Rahilly named the station after Caroline Kennedy, daughter of U.S. president John F. The Dutch government banned unlicensed offshore radio on 1 September 1974. The station's slogan was Your all-day music station. Tony Blackburn turns 80 years old on the 29th of January and BBC Radio 2 will celebrate the occasion in a special programme, reports OnTheRadio.. [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. Radio Caroline lobbied against the Labour Party, for the Conservative Party and for the introduction of licensed commercial radio in the United Kingdom. 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. I took my radio to work and annoyed everyone by listening to RNI in Dutch on short-wave. During Easter 2008, the station broadcast live for three days from the Ross Revenge, featuring presenters who had worked on the Mi Amigo in the late 1970s: Roger Mathews, Mike Stevens, Bob Lawrence, Brian Martin, Martin Fisher, Cliff Osbourne, Jeremy Chartham, Marc Jacobs, Ad Roberts, Dick Verheul and Kees Borrell. London WC1E 7EB, Find out more information on completing the Radio Diary. 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. A bulletin report which provides information of the survey period, any new stations that have joined or any changes to the stations or groups. Belgium had outlawed offshore radio in 1962 and prosecuted advertisers, cutting the station's revenue. However, the storm had weakened the mast, which collapsed in another storm later. Each of his crew was awarded The Thanks of the Institution on vellum.[33]. The four-week event was funded through on-air local business commercials. Some DJs from the USA and Commonwealth countries, such as Graham Webb, Emperor Rosko and Keith Hampshire were also heard. Times Radio listening figures: 20% fall in second RAJAR release Her latest opera, The Listeners, is a psychological nail-biter set in southern California. Situation: Ship 3 miles off Ramsey, Isle of Man. Unhappy at the loss of advertising, Radio Mi Amigo terminated its contract with Caroline in November 1978 and broadcast from its own ship, the MV Magdalena later that year, but this was short-lived. When Radio Caroline 'had bigger audience than the BBC The two stations were able to cover most of the British Isles. In 1987, the Territorial Sea Act[38] extended the UK maritime limit from three to 12 nautical miles (22km). [31] During this period each night transmission of Radio Caroline started with Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft by the progressive Rock Band Klaatu, issued in 1976 on their album 3:47 E.S.T. Janssen Launches Health Equity Campaign in Partnership with Award Programmes were recorded on land and broadcast between 6a.m. and 7p.m. Shortly after the law was enacted, the station was renamed as Radio Caroline International. Radio Caroline North subsequently moved to 257m (1169kHz) but also called it 259. Part of the raid was broadcast live[40] before officials disabled the transmitters. Remembering 'Radio Caroline' Founder Ronan O'Rahilly, A Pioneer Of [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. We almost got on board the MEBO II with the assistance of Brian McKenzie but although we went out on the Trip tender the weather was too bad to allow boarding. Tenders and boat owners were warned, and some were prosecuted for ferrying staff and provisions to the ship. Radio listening has plummeted. NPR is reaching a bigger audience than The BBC Light, Third, and Home programmes became Radios 2, 3 and 4 respectively. How different it seemed six weeks later when the Mi Amigo had no mast and RNI no English service. RAJAR analysis: Q2 figures mark first year of new radio ratings system This channel broadcasts mainly in community format. The ship would be moved to a permanent mooring in Ramsgate Harbour with the Gold service, at the time called Coast, operating like the FM-services from Whitstable studios being moved onto the ship to become Radio Caroline. Caroline can also be listened to over the internet including via music players such as Amazon echo (Alexa). Listening in Lockdown [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 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. 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. , updated "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". In December 1976, Radio Mi Amigo moved to 1562kHz on the 50kW transmitter, leaving Caroline on 1187kHz 24 hours a day on the 10kW. Listen to Radio Caroline Flashback. Clive Garrard. The resulting signal was low-powered, but ensured that Caroline South's advertising revenue would continue. Stats show BBC 6 Music is UK's No.1 digital radio station, Radio - NME Radio Caroline had greater night-time interference, and it was decided to move Caroline to a new frequency. Another Belgian station, Radio Mi Amigo International, launched on 1 January 1974; it was run by Belgian businessman and Suzy Waffles owner Sylvain Tack. I'd never heard anything like it before. Later that day, the Dutch Royal Navy returned the crew and fighting broke out on board. This service was Radio Seagull and broadcast live during the evening. This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 16:42. [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. People have to move away from the idea that Caroline can only broadcast from a boat I thought that back in the early days we were fighting for free radio to be legalised "free" as in freedom of speech and on land! Spectrum threatened to sue the Radio Authority, which then allowed Spectrum to temporarily broadcast on 990kHz alongside 558kHz.
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