The supermarket chain Asda and English Heritage were among the backers. 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. One would circle over the North Sea in international air space near the United Kingdom, while the other remained on standby. Finally, Radio Mi Amigo moved to 962kHz on 1 December. Mary wrote us: "I wondered if your series should be including the titles of any of the records played on the Test Transmission tapes? 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 the 1970's and 19870's is was great to follow all the things which were happening as there were two magazines in which all the facts and figures were published from day to day. 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. The only broadcast staff on board were Tom Lodge and Jerry Leighton. 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. 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. Shortly after the law was enacted, the station was renamed as Radio Caroline International. The Dutch Radio Caroline then changed its name to Radio Waddenzee (nl) for daytime Dutch and German language, and Radio Seagull for nighttime English language broadcasts, and now broadcasts on 1602kHz every day and on the internet, presenting a progressive rock format. 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. Includes Audio Types such as Podcasts, Live and Catch Up Radio, On Demand Music Services. However, the station has since moved online and continues to broadcast 24 hours a day. The appetite for dance music is thriving with both Heart Dance and Capital Dance celebrating record listening figures. 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. Radio Caroline's transmission output was almost 20kW, achieved by linking two 10kW Continental Electronics transmitters. 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. The last broadcast from the Mi Amigo was by Stevie Gordon and Tom Anderson:[32]. In 2020, the show's two long-serving presenters, Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey, both departed the programme. 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 had some success but stopped broadcasting due to lack of funding. Radio Caroline's first musical theme was Jimmy McGriff's "Round Midnight", a jazz standard co-composed by Thelonious Monk. The Huskers (16-13, 8-10 Big Ten . I think so. A little about myself. MV Caroline sailed from Felixstowe to the Isle of Man, broadcasting as she went. The LBC brand. Whittingham was unable to leave on the tender when a storm arose. In December 1976, Radio Mi Amigo moved to 1562kHz on the 50kW transmitter, leaving Caroline on 1187kHz 24 hours a day on the 10kW. Hughley to Raise Awareness About Multiple Myeloma Among Black Communities. "Between December 26 and December 30, 1973, a friend and I went to Holland for a few days. Her latest opera, The Listeners, is a psychological nail-biter set in southern California. On 20 January 1966, the MV Mi Amigo lost its anchor in a storm, drifted and ran aground on the beach at Frinton-on-Sea. The drop can be partly explained by lower. Part of being a good communicator means knowing how to listen. When Radio Veronica closed in 1974, some presenters moved to Radio Mi Amigo. 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. Radio Caroline Ltd. and Caroline Support Group (originally called the Ross Revenge Support Group). The founder of pirate radio, Radio Caroline, has died. However, in October 1987 a massive storm hit southern England, causing deaths and severe damage. 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. [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. Detailed information on the survey process. Radio Caroline - 2. Obviously, we hope to be back with you as soon as possible, but just for the moment we would like to say goodbye. The four-week event was funded through on-air local business commercials. Brouwer intended to obtain an AM frequency from the Netherlands authorities in 2003 when its medium wave frequencies were reallocated. Daytime programming was leased to a community radio service called Puketapu Radio on 756kHz.[75]. He was part entrepreneur, part buccaneer who broadcasted rock 'n' roll from a. How radio is measured in other European countries and throughout the rest of the World. BBC Radio 4 had 10.48m listeners with 6.62m tuning in for The Today programme (Mon-Sat). From the anchorage in the Knock Deep the Mi Amigo's mast could be seen on the horizon. O'Rahilly wanted Radio Caroline to become an oldies station. In October 1965, negotiations began for Radio Caroline to take over Radio City, which broadcast from Shivering Sands Army Fort, a Second World War marine fort off the Kent[6] coast. Radio Caroline was a real phenomen. 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. 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). [64] On 24 November 2021 a new transmitter was installed with an effective radiated power of 4kW. Caroline coming in to pick up her pilot. 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 . Jan 27, 2022. Radio Caroline Flashback provides an alternative live service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. [48] Evangelical programmes and sponsored specialist music are broadcast. 'He said that's the name for my radio station,' he added. I remember Caroline North with great affection. Former offshore broadcasters who continue on the station are: Roger Mathews, Nigel Harris, Martin Fisher, Marc Jacobs, Johnny Lewis, Doug Wood, Dave Foster, Cliff Osbourne, Chris Pearson, Bob Lawrence, Jeremy Chartham and Ad Roberts. Some of these 28-day Restricted Service Licence (RSL) broadcasts took place from the Ross Revenge during the 1990s, with the ship anchored off Clacton, in London's Canary Wharf, Southend Pier and off the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. 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. Every time I succeeded in getting a good signal during the evening, I knew I again would have a very good evening. ", 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. A "D" and an "I" from the phrase RADIO CAROLINE (painted as a, "Hearthammer" by the Scottish folk rock band. 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 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 November 1985, the competing offshore station, Laser 558, closed after electrical problems and Caroline moved from 576kHz to Laser's 558kHz frequency, with a Top 40 music format similar to Laser's under the name Caroline 558. 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. [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. Bubblegum Lemonade released "Caroline's Radio" in 2010 which was a nostalgic look back at listening to Radio Caroline. Following negotiations with the service provider, satellite transmissions ended at midnight on 30 September 2013. 50 kW (second 10 kW transmitter later added). Zoe Ball, Greg James, Roman Kemp, Chris Evans and the Today programme are among the shows to have fewer listeners than the last time ratings were measured. On 3 August 2021, Ofcom announced that it had granted a power increase to combat man made noise and interference, and to extend the coverage area to include Suffolk, northern parts of Essex, and parts of Kent and East Sussex. One 5kW transmitter was initially not serviceable. The station re-started for a second time in August 1983 from new ship the MV Ross Revenge. The benefits, entitlements as a RAJAR subscriber and the data explained. [citation needed], In Spain, a station broadcast during the summer 2009 on 102.7MHz in the Costa Blanca from studios in Benidorm. 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]. Most Read. [6] The generator was left running but the pumps could not manage and the vessel sank 10 minutes later. About - The Organisation. 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. This memory has never left me and I can remember it made us all late for school, though as my mother was also my teacher at primary school, it didn't matter so much for me! The station tried to obtain a licence from a developing country,[44] hoping it might offer protection from the new provisions in the Broadcasting Act 1990 which came into force on 31 December that year. This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 16:42. 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. 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. 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. and a sign-on date of 1 July; the station failed to appear. 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. They included Blackburn, who became the first to broadcast on Radio 1. However, the storm had weakened the mast, which collapsed in another storm later. 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. ", The next Caroline memory arrived from Groningen in the North East of the Netherlands. 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 BBC Light, Third, and Home programmes became Radios 2, 3 and 4 respectively. During 2013, a survey showed a continued move from satellite reception and growth in internet listening. Rough weather sometimes prevented tapes from arriving and old programmes had to be repeated. In the evenings on 963, some alternative music programmes were tried, including the reggae "Jamming 963", and in 1986 and early 1987, a progressive and indie rock programme called Caroline Overdrive hosted by Tom Anderson, Fergie McNeal, Andy Johnson, Stevie Lane, Mark Matthews, Kevin Turner, Peter Phillips, Mick Williams (a.k.a. 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! Nowadays, Radio Caroline has to resort to other sources. 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. The Radio Caroline name was used to broadcast from international waters, using five different ships with three different owners, from 1964 to 1990, and via satellite from 1998 to 2013. Internet streaming of Radio Caroline programmes continued. From 2007, the ship was docked at Tilbury, where a volunteer crew repaired and maintained it. Radio Caroline began to broadcast from the ship on 19 August 1983, with unwanted mechanical sounds on speech. Frequency: 648 AM. 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. To remain in international waters, the ship moved to a new, less-sheltered anchorage. The ship was further delayed by hull damage, and repaired before writs could be issued. "[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. Zoe Ball lost a million listeners from the same period last year, when . (Anderson): Yeah. 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 fact is that the station is on air for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week something I would have not thought possible not that long ago. Nowadays, Radio Caroline has to resort to other sources. From its two vantage points, Radio Caroline's presenters who included future BBC stalwart Tony Blackburn and Tory MP Roger Gale regaled Britons with pop songs which they could only hear on conventional stations for a few hours a week. The station restarted just before Christmas as Radio 199 but soon became Radio Caroline, with a Top 40 format. The first record played was Fool (If You Think It's Over), by Chris Rea, dedicated to the British Home Office. Myriad factors contribute to the audience curve for radio . . Throughout most of the 1970s, Radio Caroline could be heard only at night, calling itself "Europe's first and only album station". [citation needed]. Gaining advertising is very much a Catch-22 situation. The Dutch offshore station Radio Veronica was on 1562 kHz and Radio Atlanta broadcast on 1493 kHz. However, full station identity jingles for the new Radio Caroline were not aired until 10th October 1983. Radio Caroline presenter Ray Clark remembers listening to Mr Damon as a nine-year-old on the radio. 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. Backed by wealthy investors which included Jocelyn Stevens of the popular Queen Magazine, the station was bizarrely named after Caroline Kennedy the daughter of assassinated US President John F Kennedy. 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. 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!' 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. Janssen Launches Health Equity Campaign in Partnership with Award-Winning Radio Host D.L. 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 . At one time both stations were even claiming more than 8.8 million listeners each. The following day, Caroline was one of few stations in the South East still broadcasting. 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. [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. Listen live to the world famous Radio Caroline on your iOS device. These analogue transmissions ended and a full digital service from Astra 28.2E started in February 2003.[52]. 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. In 1990 the UK government amended the 1967 anti-offshore law to allow the boarding and silencing of stations in international waters if their signals could be received in the UK, even if their vessels were foreign-registered and operated. 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. On 1 September, a small motor launch had difficulties in rough seas. Radio Caroline 4+ Patrick Mounteney 4.6 10 Ratings Free iPhone Screenshots Listen live to the world famous Radio Caroline on your iOS device. It was claimed in 1964 by Caroline's manager that they had a larger audience than the BBC. From 1970 on a lot happened in offshore radio, which has often been forgotten by people who write about this subject in books. We . Since a couple of years we can read a lot on the subject Offshore Radio on several internet sites. The Fredericia was renamed MV Caroline and anchored off Felixstowe, Suffolk, where it began test transmissions on Friday, 27 March 1964. 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. 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. In March 1964, The Fortunes recorded Caroline, which became the station's theme. Markets. Since 1991, the Ross Revenge has been maintained by enthusiasts called the Radio Caroline Support Group, originally the Ross Revenge Support Group. On 31 July 2014 the ship was moved to the Blackwater Estuary in Essex.[47]. Caroline Hepker. [46] Dedicated apps for listening via Apple IOS[55] and Android[56] devices are also available. There are very few restrictions placed on Caroline's licence, allowing them to broadcast virtually what they like within the law. Listening on an internet radio or webplayer We are a small team and you can find out here who the best person to contact is regarding any query. 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. [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. [clarification needed]. 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. Multiple Streams Programme Schedule 'Now Playing' Programme 'alarms' Presenter profiles 'This Day' page Send emails In 2002, Caroline began on WorldSpace satellite radio, continuing until Worldspace went bankrupt and re-organised its operations in 2008. Menu. The flagship channel enjoyed an average weekly audience of 7.7 million in the three months to. RAJAR figures showed 34.51m people tuning in each week for live output across the stations, with a share of 49.9%. When Marine &c. Broadcasting Offences Act become law on 14 August 1967, Radio Caroline was renamed Radio Caroline International. The survey also found that 18.1 per cent of radio listeners tuned in. Caroline Pavis +1 (610) 357-3121 Investor Relations: 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. Caroline can also be listened to over the internet including via music players such as Amazon echo (Alexa). It was also claimed to reach 39 million listeners though I suspect both figures probably had a lot of. 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:. Since November 2009 Radio Seagull can be heard periodically on 558kHz in London. [6] Because of the Christmas holidays, no solicitors were available to issue a writ and the ship lay in Amsterdam harbour until O'Rahilly arranged for it to be towed back to sea. [34] It had an antenna system radiating from a 300-foot (91m) high mast, the tallest on any ship in the world. The Ross Revenge also featured powerful generators.[37]. The comments below have not been moderated, By 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. (Gordon): I think we'll be back in one way or another. Includes Audio Types such as Podcasts, Live and Catch Up Radio, On Demand Music Services. [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. . 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. Whilst they were ultimately unable to stop it broadcasting because of the fact it was broadcasting from international waters the 1967 Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 made it illegal for British subjects to associate with it. This was all in the 1970's. BBC Radio 2 has the best radio audience figures in the UK, with a reach of almost 14.58 million per week. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. It commemorated the 40th anniversary of Radio Caroline and promoted the station's legal internet and satellite programmes. But next to hearing other people talk about the subject, I never really had listened to the Sound of the Nation. ", Earlier this year I met Bob Le-Roi and of course we talked a lot about Radio Caroline. So far, Mazzoli's greatest success has come in the opera house. Dave Foster (Rpt) Several years later some of the seized items were returned to the station. New data has shown the listening figures for BBC radio stations, with two of its flagship outlets having experienced a sharp decline in audiences - whilst some shows have remained steady instead BBC Radio 1 lost nearly half a million listeners in the first quarter of 2022, new figures show. Radio Caroline was off the air for most of the 1990s, except for occasional low-power broadcasts of one month. To complete my story, I have to tell you that all this motivated me highly to assist the Dutch Caroline organization. On Saturday, 28 March, it began regular broadcasting at noon on 1520 kHz (announced as 199 metres) with the opening conducted by Simon Dee. 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. The Joint Industry Currencies (JICs) are owned by the industry advertisers, agencies and media owners to provide transparent and objective audience measurement for each medium. 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. Radio Caroline Listeners' Top 100 Album Chart 1977 In late 76 listeners were invited to send in their top 10 all-time favourite albums, from which the chart was compiled. 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. This channel broadcasts mainly in community format. Presentations were made to US advertising agencies. Wonder where he is now? In February 1964, O'Rahilly obtained the Fredericia and converted it into a radio ship at the Irish port of Greenore, which was owned by his father. [25] The ship anchored off the Dutch coastal resort of Scheveningen and was serviced and operated from the Netherlands. At one minute past midnight on 1 October 2001, Caroline returned on 1503kHz from the LV (Light Vessel) 18 in Harwich harbour. I never had the idea to buy any of the singles they promoted, as these got so much airplay and therefore entered the charts.
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