[74], In Palmerston, Radio Caroline International, based in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, acquired an AM commercial broadcasting licence in 2008, and was seeking wavelengths in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. From the Radio Today site. Average weekday audience figures per quarter hour (in 000s). Her story illustrates how uniquely dangerous government regards an independent voice transmitted over unrestricted airwaves and to what ends it will go to silence it."[42]. 'He said that's the name for my radio station,' he added. There proved to be a lot of people, cultivating little gems of the station's history. Most of Radio Caroline's pop music programmes were targeted at housewives, and some later programming was aimed at children. It was also claimed to reach 39 million listeners though I suspect both figures probably had a lot of. The Ross Revenge also featured powerful generators.[37]. The tapes were picked up in Belgium at a bus stop, taken to a small sports plane and dropped in the sea close to the radio ship. BBC Radio 6 Music celebrates its 20th birthday with record listening figures. RAJAR reserves the right to publish complaints along with their outcome on this page. Radio Caroline was a real phenomen. Later in 1973, when the contract with Radio Caroline ended, the crew of Radio Atlantis moved to their own ship, the MVJeanine.[6]. Caroline coming in to pick up her pilot. About - The Organisation. The 'amateurs' were said to be reaching 39million listeners with 15million in the South of England and the rest in the North. [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. By 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! Radio Caroline 4+ Patrick Mounteney 4.6 10 Ratings Free iPhone Screenshots Listen live to the world famous Radio Caroline on your iOS device. Radio Caroline - 2. With Face-to-Face recruitment being suspended at the end of March, RAJAR introduced a Tracking Panel to evaluate radio listening during our time in Lockdown. Broadcasters included Tony Christian, Pawl "Hound Dog" Shanley, Dave Fox, Simon West, Dale Richardson and Peter D.[citation needed]. RAJAR stands for Radio Joint Audience Research and is the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the UK. However, the ship sank in a storm in March 1980 after losing its anchor. The transmitter was initially too powerful for the antenna insulators. Times Radio's audience fell by over a fifth quarter-on-quarter, according to the latest RAJAR radio listening figures. 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. Radio Seagull became Radio Caroline on 23 February 1974, retaining the album format. Since a couple of years we can read a lot on the subject Offshore Radio on several internet sites. I remember wandering around that show house with my tranny on my arm. ", Earlier this year I met Bob Le-Roi and of course we talked a lot about Radio Caroline. [citation needed]. Because of a law that allows pirates in distress to come ashore without arrest, the running aground had no consequences for the crew. Although most broadcasting staff left at that time, some remained for a year as caretakers while funding and equipment were sought. When the US-backed Radio London arrived off the coast of England, there was an unsuccessful attempt to merge its sales operation with that of Caroline before Radio London started transmissions. Caroline returned on 9 March 1977 on 953kHz, actually 315 metres but announced as 319. 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. 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. News stories appeared in Europe[22] announcing the start of Caroline Television[23] from two Super Constellation aircraft using Stratovision technology. Rob Day never made it to the airwaves to the best of my knowledge and that was that. [54] Surveys in 2008 and 2010 showed a small percentage listened via Sky, and that satellite listening had dropped by 9% since 2008, while online listening had increased by around 40%. 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. Smedley later withdrew from the deal. Have you ever met the guy? 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. Myriad factors contribute to the audience curve for radio . London, United Kingdom. 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. The drop can be partly explained by lower. This channel broadcasts mainly in community format. Encouraged by Scandinavian and Dutch radio pirates, in February 1964 O'Rahilly obtained the 702-ton former Danish passenger ferry Fredericia, launched in Frederikshavn in 1929,[5] which was converted into a radio ship at the Irish port of Greenore, owned by O'Rahilly's father. 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. 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. Jan 27, 2022. 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. Never miss a show by setting an alarm for when it is about to start, or if you do - listen to it later using our 'Listen Again . Yet another source of income is gifts from listeners, making the listeners still very important for the Lady's survival. "[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. 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. Includes Audio Types such as Podcasts, Live and Catch Up Radio, On Demand Music Services. 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. Initially this was a minor inconvenience as the 300-foot (91m) mast was thought sturdy enough. He promised to write some lines about it for this series and here they are: "In the early 1990's, soon after the Ross Revenge was dragged of the Goodwin Sands and taken into Dover, a plan was conceived by the team of the then Invicta Radio Group, comprising the fairly nautical crew of Roger Day, Andy Archer, Johnny Lewis, Nigel Harris, Bob Matthews and Bob Le-Roi. BBC Radio 2 has the best radio audience figures in the UK, with a reach of almost 14.58 million per week. How we recruit respondents, sampling points and fieldwork in depth. Legal status unclear due to a need to conceal actual legal ownership. 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. [25] The ship anchored off the Dutch coastal resort of Scheveningen and was serviced and operated from the Netherlands. [clarification needed]. 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. Belgian courts sentenced Tack and some DJs to fines and jail in absentia, although the prison terms were later cancelled. Round Midnight was confined to closedown on Radio Caroline North after The World Tomorrow. The station's slogan was Your all-day music station. (iii)558 kHz: strict pop and oldies mainstream format (no presenter music choice) with strict adherence to format clocks. 15 August 1967 following passage of the Marine Offences Act, Broadcasting from various locations offshore to Western Europe. On 28 December, unpaid crew cut the Mi Amigo's generator fuel line and departed. In 2002, Caroline began on WorldSpace satellite radio, continuing until Worldspace went bankrupt and re-organised its operations in 2008. On 9 August 1985, an official vessel anchored 150 yards from the Ross Revenge. I recall that Easter weekend in 1964 when Radio Caroline arrived very well. Over 90% of Caroline listening is 'background listening', in the sense that listeners are doing something else at the same time (so, for that matter is over 90% of Light Programme listening. The station re-started for a second time in August 1983 from new ship the MV Ross Revenge. I think so. To my surprise Bob, in passing, mentioned the plans to get an ILR-station on the MV Ross Revenge, after the ship had stranded on the Goodwin Sands. After a short test on 773kHz in late 1975, in May 1976, Radio Caroline began a daytime service on 1562kHz (192 m) using a 10kW transmitter, while its overnight service continued to share the 50kW transmitter with Radio Mi Amigo's daytime programming on 1187kHz (253 metres, announced as 259). 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 . No, I did buy records which were also nice and were brought to my ears by listening to Radio Caroline quite other music than the other stations were offering. Internet streaming of Radio Caroline programmes continued. [36] The remaining 5kW transmitter was later converted for short wave use. Radio Caroline Flashback provides an alternative live service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. 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". 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. 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. Listening in Lockdown As its popularity began to blossom, the British Government looked at ways to curtail the station's influence. (i) 963 kHz: unformatted free-choice album format, with news. "Europe's Best Music on Europe's Best Music Station" Format: community, classic rock. The bureauxs client must also be a RAJAR subscriber. During 2013, a survey showed a continued move from satellite reception and growth in internet listening. 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. The Mi Amigo's 160-foot (49m) mast remained erect for six years. 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. Shrewdly, the BBC also employed many of the one-time pirate DJs who had helped to make Radio Caroline a success. Ken Bruce has also confirmed that he's moving. [6], Smedley was charged with Calvert's murder on 18 July, but this was reduced to a charge of manslaughter. media reports and the shock of hearing just how powerful the signal was. If you're like most people, you probably don't give much though to how many words you take in each day. Just after midnight GMT on 20 March 1980, the Mi Amigo foundered in a storm after losing its anchor and drifting. 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. That autumn various tests, consisting of continuous music, were made on 259 metres. From 2007, the ship was docked at Tilbury, where a volunteer crew repaired and maintained it. I must say the people on the station got my sympathy very quickly. 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. Since November 2009 Radio Seagull can be heard periodically on 558kHz in London. Part of the raid was broadcast live[40] before officials disabled the transmitters. [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. 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. BBC Radio 4 had 10.48m listeners with 6.62m tuning in for The Today programme (Mon-Sat). This was all in the 1970's. Caroline Archive Hour. 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. Radio Caroline North = 10kW (later 20kW). Radio Caroline South = 10kW (later 50 kW). The Fredericia was renamed MV Caroline and anchored off Felixstowe, Suffolk, where it began test transmissions on Friday, 27 March 1964. 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. It was founded in 1964. At that time I thought RNI 2 was here to stay. Global delivers record results extending its position as the UK's #1 commercial radio company Global leads the UK commercial radio market with highest . However, full station identity jingles for the new Radio Caroline were not aired until 10th October 1983. [53] This ended on 1 July 2011 after a failure to renegotiate costs with Sky and deciding not to pursue a Freesat EPG slot. At one time both stations were even claiming more than 8.8 million listeners each. Since 1991, the Ross Revenge has been maintained by enthusiasts called the Radio Caroline Support Group, originally the Ross Revenge Support Group. His programme, which airs five days a week, rose from 4.3 million to 4.5 million listeners between the . 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. In late 1972, Radio Caroline had money problems. A bulletin report which provides information of the survey period, any new stations that have joined or any changes to the stations or groups. Much improvement to the lay-out of the ship was planned but basically the studios would have remained. The poster itself,. In the 1960's, to attract advertisers, Radio Caroline and Radio London always reported rather high listening figures. US Stocks Snap Two Days of Losses; Yields Rise: Markets Wrap. 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. 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. "It was just so special and so different and worth fighting . To complete my story, I have to tell you that all this motivated me highly to assist the Dutch Caroline organization. For the first years, advertising on the station was in demand. In 2017, Ofcom awarded Radio Caroline its first AM licence, allowing it to broadcast to audiences in parts of Suffolk and north Essex. 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 . [21] It was not until RNI returned to its original anchorage off the Netherlands that the jamming ceased. On 1 January 2016, a second channel was launched called Caroline Flashback, playing pop music from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. The final song was Pilot of the Airwaves by Charlie Dore.[43]. From 1970 on a lot happened in offshore radio, which has often been forgotten by people who write about this subject in books. He was opposed by some DJs and crew who had worked on the Mi Amigo and the album format stayed along with presenters such as Andy Archer, Samantha Dubois, Grant Benson, Robin Ross and Simon Barrett. 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. The following day, Caroline was one of few stations in the South East still broadcasting. Since August 2000, Radio Caroline has also broadcast 24 hours a day via the internet and by the occasional restricted service licence. 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. ", The next Caroline memory arrived from Groningen in the North East of the Netherlands. 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. Huskers Close Out Cats, 80-64. The pair's aim was to circumvent big record companies' control of the broadcast of popular music, as well as. Radio Caroline was begun by Irish musician manager and businessman Ronan O'Rahilly, after he failed to obtain airplay on Radio Luxembourg for Georgie Fame's records because the station was committed to sponsored programmes promoting major record labels: EMI, Decca, Pye and Philips. A Fox News poll released on Sunday found Trump receiving 43 percent support while DeSantis, who's widely speculated to be gearing up for a White House run, received 28 percent, among a list of . I live in Wigan, just west of Manchester. 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. Technology. 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. Global's Highest Radio Reach EVER!!! The station hasn't the glamour anymore it had in its High Seas Days, but I'm still enjoying all the memories. American Cancer Society Cancer Facts & Figures for African American/Black People. (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. Commercial programming commenced at noon on Friday 22 December 2017, with a signal that could be heard as far afield as Southampton, Birmingham, Glasgow and in large parts of The Netherlands and Belgium. During the same quarter, on BBC Sounds there were a total of 162m plays of. Nowadays, Radio Caroline has to resort to other sources. To allow Radio Mi Amigo to continue broadcasting by day, the engineering work for Caroline's move had to be carried out over six nights, after the 50kW transmitter was switched off. . It was the floating pirate radio station whose mission to was to transmit rock 'n' roll to the masses. 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. 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. UK Radio Stations. Many people, of a certain age, still associate Radio Caroline with the pop music of the 60s & 70s. 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 Dutch offshore station Radio Veronica was on 1562 kHz and Radio Atlanta broadcast on 1493 kHz. Later that day, the Dutch Royal Navy returned the crew and fighting broke out on board. [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). 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. 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". Most Read. Greg James' breakfast show on Radio 1 also saw an increase in listeners quarter-on-quarter. 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. 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. However, the station has since moved online and continues to broadcast 24 hours a day. Two aerials and twin transmitters were used for about six weeks until the aerial mast failed. [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. 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, in July 1964, the owners of the two stations opted to merge the operations. By and large the old hands ignored us but Rob was very enthusiastic and took us to the top floor where the new studios of Radio Mi Amigo were being given a dry run. 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. 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. 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