DJ Jack Spector, of the WMCA "Good Guys" in New York, regularly recorded for Radio Caroline. London WC1E 7EB, Find out more information on completing the Radio Diary. BBC Radio 6 Music celebrates its 20th birthday with record listening figures. [18], On 3 March 1968, the radio ships Mi Amigo and Caroline were boarded and seized before the day's broadcasting began. [6] During summer 1973, it broadcast separate stations in English and Dutch simultaneously, on 389 m/773kHz and 252 m (announced as 259)/1187kHz. These analogue transmissions ended and a full digital service from Astra 28.2E started in February 2003.[52]. 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. The drop can be partly explained by lower. On 1 October 1989, Radio Caroline restarted broadcasting from the Ross Revenge using makeshift equipment and low power, to retain the 558kHz frequency. [48] Evangelical programmes and sponsored specialist music are broadcast. Tenders and boat owners were warned, and some were prosecuted for ferrying staff and provisions to the ship. When the MV Caroline left for the Isle of Man, the Mi Amigo remained in Felixstowe. Radio Caroline was founded by Irish businessman Ronan O'Rahilly and George Drummond. 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. In 1987, the Territorial Sea Act[38] extended the UK maritime limit from three to 12 nautical miles (22km). I recall that Easter weekend in 1964 when Radio Caroline arrived very well. The station's slogan was Your all-day music station.
Global delivers record RAJAR results | Global 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 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. 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 market size of the UK radio industry has reached 1 billion by the end of 2021. 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. 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 . Greg James' breakfast show on Radio 1 also saw an increase in listeners quarter-on-quarter. 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. However, Dutch Caroline failed to secure a high power AM frequency and the cable network service was discontinued because of lack of funds. Global delivers record results extending its position as the UK's #1 commercial radio company Global leads the UK commercial radio market with highest . 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".
Rajars: Breakfast radio shows lost listeners during pandemic 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. In 2017, Ofcom awarded Radio Caroline its first AM licence, allowing it to broadcast to audiences in parts of Suffolk and north Essex. Programmes were still heard on satellite until the provider replaced the signal with a 1kHz tone on the morning of 1 October 2013. European medium wave channels had been reallocated to multiples of nine. I never had the idea to buy any of the singles they promoted, as these got so much airplay and therefore entered the charts. 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. Belgium had outlawed offshore radio in 1962 and prosecuted advertisers, cutting the station's revenue. On 12 June 2006, the station bought an EPG slot on Sky channel 0199. [6] The TV operation was later found to be a publicity stunt.[24]. 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.
Radio Caroline - Wikipedia On 3 September 1985 at 00:00 hours the Dioptric Surveyor departed in a storm. 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. Since August 2000, Radio Caroline has also broadcast 24 hours a day via the internet and by the occasional restricted service licence. Broadcasting Hours: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and 12 midnight to 2a.m.
Listening to Radio Caroline - University of Groningen BBC Radio 2 listening figures plummet after veteran DJs leave Radio Caroline web shop HOME PAGE 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 - The National Archives Caroline can be heard on DAB+ in Aldershot, Birmingham, Cambridge, Brighton, Glasgow, Norwich, London,[2] Portsmouth, Poulton-le-Fylde and Woking. 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 most popular radio stations in the UK - media [1] 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 national jurisdiction, although after the Marine Offences Act (1967) it became illegal for a British subject to associate with it. BBC Radio 2 has the best radio audience figures in the UK, with a reach of almost 14.58 million per week. 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 [67][68][69][70] The station, owned by St Peters Studio and Community Radio Limited, has not only licensed the name from Radio Caroline, but has also got technical support and programming from the station, who have their own community radio licences in the south, south east and in East Anglia on 648AM (with Radio Caroline also found on DAB in a number of British cities, plus DAB+ in Cambridge).
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Steve Wright, Radio 2 -how much longer can it go on? 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! A "D" and an "I" from the phrase RADIO CAROLINE (painted as a, "Hearthammer" by the Scottish folk rock band. [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. [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]. I think so. "People who listened to NPR shows on the radio at home . Radio Caroline is broadcast in the Republic of Ireland on channel 927 on the UPC Ireland cable service in the main cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and Cappoquin, and the County Waterford towns of Lismore and Tallow. Without serious competition, Radio Caroline gained a regular daytime audience of some 7 million.[12]. Hughley to Raise Awareness About Multiple Myeloma Among Black Communities. 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.
Thanks, BBC, for fixing Woman's Hour. Now please take a look at Today While 6 Music saw a 3.1 per cent dip in its quarter-on-quarter listening figures - pulling in 2.6million listeners - the station is still the UK's number one digital radio station.
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Stats show BBC 6 Music is UK's No.1 digital radio station, Radio - NME 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. This channel broadcasts mainly in community format. However, the ship sank in a storm in March 1980 after losing its anchor. One 5kW transmitter was initially not serviceable. The first record played was Fool (If You Think It's Over), by Chris Rea, dedicated to the British Home Office. By Aisha Majid. Radio Caroline's transmission output was almost 20kW, achieved by linking two 10kW Continental Electronics transmitters. In June 1990, Spectrum Radio, a new multi-ethnic community radio station in London, was officially allocated 558kHz. In 2002, Caroline began on WorldSpace satellite radio, continuing until Worldspace went bankrupt and re-organised its operations in 2008. Includes Audio Types such as Podcasts, Live and Catch Up Radio, On Demand Music Services. The 'amateurs' were said to be reaching 39million listeners with 15million in the South of England and the rest in the North. 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. These stories continued and included co-operation by a former member of the Beatles[who?]
Weekly radio listening by age UK 2020 | Statista (Anderson): Yeah. Sellel pakasest paukuval imekaunil peval oli pikese mber ka halo, mille vike jupike on paremal taevas nha. London, United Kingdom. The station hasn't the glamour anymore it had in its High Seas Days, but I'm still enjoying all the memories. At one time both stations were even claiming more than 8.8 million listeners each. They were pop and Europop aimed at the mainstream Dutch audience. The four-week event was funded through on-air local business commercials. 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 crew of the Sheerness lifeboat Helen Turnbull were commended for the rescue of broadcasters Tom Anderson, Stevie Gordon, Nick Richards and Hans Verlaan from Mi Amigo while it was sinking in the Black Deep near Long Sand Bank. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Caroline's album format meant that, although the station served a gap in the market, its audience was smaller than in the 1960s. The pirates were also not paying any royalty to artists, composers or record companies. 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. 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. Radio Caroline's first programme, on 28 March 1964, was presented by Chris Moore. From 1970 on a lot happened in offshore radio, which has often been forgotten by people who write about this subject in books. We duly bought the wine but do not know if it was the one heard when Radio Seagull opened on January 7, 1974. Round Midnight was confined to closedown on Radio Caroline North after The World Tomorrow. 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. The crew and broadcasting staff were rescued unharmed, but the ship's hull was damaged and repairs were carried out at Zaandam, Netherlands. Menu. However, the storm had weakened the mast, which collapsed in another storm later. Many people, of a certain age, still associate Radio Caroline with the pop music of the 60s & 70s. 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. Since 1991, the Ross Revenge has been maintained by enthusiasts called the Radio Caroline Support Group, originally the Ross Revenge Support Group. On a national level, though, this figure is amazingly reliable; it's a national sample size of over 100,000 adults. 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 . Harry Howard, History Correspondent For Mailonline
[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. Original 1960s Caroline North jingles were interspersed with generic Radio Caroline ones. The resulting signal was low-powered, but ensured that Caroline South's advertising revenue would continue. Some DJs were embarrassed but some were fascinated by the challenge of an abstract concept. Since November 2009 Radio Seagull can be heard periodically on 558kHz in London. More than 2.8m listeners tuned in to BBC Radio 6 Music in the first quarter of the year (3rd Jan to 3rd April 2022) as . However, in July 1964, the owners of the two stations opted to merge the operations. 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. 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. Listening on your phone or tablet (iPad etc) Download the Boom Radio UK app from the app store - and then just click the white arrow. Since a couple of years we can read a lot on the subject Offshore Radio on several internet sites. Radio Caroline continued, moving its headquarters and servicing operation to Spain. In December 1976, Radio Mi Amigo moved to 1562kHz on the 50kW transmitter, leaving Caroline on 1187kHz 24 hours a day on the 10kW. Radio Caroline broadcast 24 hours various song, hip hop music, clasic, etc. Since January, Emma Barnett has been the lead presenter, coming via BBC Radio 5 Live. Radio Caroline's first musical theme was Jimmy McGriff's "Round Midnight", a jazz standard co-composed by Thelonious Monk. [46] Dedicated apps for listening via Apple IOS[55] and Android[56] devices are also available.
'Eurosiege '85' The Story of the 1985 | Grelly UK Caroline Flashback provides an alternative service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. ", 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. When Radio Veronica closed in 1974, some presenters moved to Radio Mi Amigo. Lincoln - Jaz Shelley and Alexis Markowski both put up big double-doubles to lead four Huskers in double figures, as the Nebraska women's basketball team rolled to an 80-64 win over Northwestern in front of more than 6,000 fans at Pinnacle Bank Arena on Sunday afternoon. [6], Smedley was charged with Calvert's murder on 18 July, but this was reduced to a charge of manslaughter. After 31 August, shows for Radio Mi Amigo were delivered on cassettes rather than reel-to-reel tapes. 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. Caroline coming in to pick up her pilot.
RAJAR The Mi Amigo's 160-foot (49m) mast remained erect for six years. Caroline launched the programme in 2015 with a new team in London who have now taken the programme onto London DAB digital radio in the UK. Details of the modified methodology introduced since the Covid Pandemic. Caroline claimed boarding the ship and removal or destruction of equipment was piracy. 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. 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 . Various: broadly according to era and frequency: 1960s: mainstream pop. The operation then continued, despite disagreements between O'Rahilly and some of its DJs over what the station should be playing. 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. DJs could choose ordering of oldies all current pop hits in strict rotation. 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.".
Radio Caroline North 1960s pirate radio - mikekemble.uk 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. The Quarterly Summary Report of all stations with added features. 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. The only problem I had with it was the weight of it hanging on my arm my right arm is probably longer than my left one now and being able to find sufficient pocket money to buy the batteries! When Radio Monique hired the main transmitter, spare parts were taken from a fourth transmitter to convert the 5kW into a 10kW unit, the RCA 5 and 10kW transmitters having similar designs.
How to listen to Boom - Boom Radio media reports and the shock of hearing just how powerful the signal was. She was so fine, I made her mine, her name is Caroline! [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. The poster itself,. How radio is measured in other European countries and throughout the rest of the World. ", And, here's one coming from Johnnie Lang, a fervent Caroline supporter: "I feel that I have to put forward a little in the way of defence for the actual Radio Caroline. BBC Radio 5 Live posted a reach of 5.89m listeners. To complete my story, I have to tell you that all this motivated me highly to assist the Dutch Caroline organization. The crew (Caroline Martin, Rico and one other) was rescued by an RAF helicopter. In the South East England new standard regions 4 and 5, Radio Caroline has 27% whilst Radio London has 24%."
Around the radio stations - facts and figures for RAJAR Q4 2021 Therefore I would like to thank the Monitor Magazine from Benfleet from the later Buster Pearson and the Pirate Radio News team from the Netherlands. [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. Radio Caroline 4+ Patrick Mounteney 4.6 10 Ratings Free iPhone Screenshots Listen live to the world famous Radio Caroline on your iOS device. On Saturday, 28 March, it began regular broadcasting at noon on 1520 kHz (announced as 199 metres) with the opening conducted by Simon Dee. 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. Radio Caroline continued on satellite but required manual tuning. Radio Caroline Continuous Caroline Music Shows Adrian Skirrow London, United Kingdom Alan Watts Alan Watts has been one of the trusty side-kicks to radio god Bob Harris for the past ten years including stints at GLR in 1994, moving on with Bob to Thames Valley FM and of course since 1997 at BBC Radio 2.
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