After the Fredericia was renamed the MV Caroline, it sailed from Felixstowe to the Isle of Man and laid down its anchor in open water around three miles from land. 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. This market overview is based on the first three waves of the Tracking Panel, comparing listening through April, May and June with pre-lockdown. A coastguard vessel escorted the launch back to shore, but the authorities were unhappy that Caroline listeners had jammed the emergency switchboards. 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. 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. Radio Caroline North subsequently moved to 257m (1169kHz) but also called it 259. 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. It commemorated the 40th anniversary of Radio Caroline and promoted the station's legal internet and satellite programmes. BBC Radio 6 Music celebrates its 20th birthday with record listening figures. I don't think Grandma saw her radio again till I managed to get a small tranny of my own to replace it. Radio Caroline tried several frequencies, among them 963, 576, 585 (briefly), 558 (after Laser 558 closed) and later 819kHz. Community radio listening figures - do 10 million people tune in every week? The station's slogan was Your all-day music station. On 3 March 1977, Caroline closed, announcing that it would return six days later on 319 metres. [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. [39] Caroline returned to the air using a makeshift aerial with a less powerful signal. Who RAJAR is owned by and what we do. 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.
Radio listening has plummeted. NPR is reaching a bigger audience than The 'amateurs' were said to be reaching 39million listeners with 15million in the South of England and the rest in the North. . The national digital station, which is owned by News UK's .
BBC Radio has major problems, with audiences following Chris Evans out Caroline Pavis +1 (610) 357-3121 Investor Relations: I remember wandering around that show house with my tranny on my arm. Since August 2000, Radio Caroline has also broadcast 24 hours a day via the internet and by the occasional restricted service licence. Ronan O'Rahilly passed away April 20 at the age of 79. There proved to be a lot of people, cultivating little gems of the station's history. 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. Radio Caroline lobbied against the Labour Party, for the Conservative Party and for the introduction of licensed commercial radio in the United Kingdom. From Electronic People Meters to Smartphone Mobile Metering. O'Rahilly had initially competed with another pirate station broadcasting from the MV Mi Amigo. Great reads on Radio Caroline and Free Radio from the 1960's to the 1990's, including from Radio . 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. -1.04 -1.26%. "Between December 26 and December 30, 1973, a friend and I went to Holland for a few days. 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. "Other Radio" currently has a weekly listenership of 3.8m adults a week. 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. Shrewdly, the BBC also employed many of the one-time pirate DJs who had helped to make Radio Caroline a success. BBC Radio 4 had 10.48m listeners with 6.62m tuning in for The Today programme (Mon-Sat). Latest releases and insightful stories into the radio industry. Caroline coming in to pick up her pilot.
Radio Caroline on the App Store Caroline claimed boarding the ship and removal or destruction of equipment was piracy. Programmes were presented by current and former DJs from the BBC, ILR, Ireland, Luxembourg, offshore and land-based pirate stations, and other international and freelance backgrounds, including Tony Prince and Emperor Rosko. 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.
Stats show BBC 6 Music is UK's No.1 digital radio station, Radio - NME Furthermore, it was stated that the pirates' use of wavelengths also broke international agreements. Radio 1Xtra had 744k listeners, BBC Radio. 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. 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.
Radio Listening Statistics 2022 (UK and Global) - Dont Disappoint Me 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. 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. Since 1991, the Ross Revenge has been maintained by enthusiasts called the Radio Caroline Support Group, originally the Ross Revenge Support Group. 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. The crew and broadcasting staff were rescued unharmed, but the ship's hull was damaged and repairs were carried out at Zaandam, Netherlands. On 5 November 1990, lack of fuel and supplies forced the station to stop transmitting. European medium wave channels had been reallocated to multiples of nine. MV Caroline sailed from Felixstowe to the Isle of Man, broadcasting as she went. 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. Presentations were made to US advertising agencies. In the South East England new standard regions 4 and 5, Radio Caroline has 27% whilst Radio London has 24%." ", Earlier this year I met Bob Le-Roi and of course we talked a lot about Radio Caroline. Later, some programmes were pre-recorded on land and broadcast simultaneously from both ships. Radio Caroline was founded by Irish businessman Ronan O'Rahilly and George Drummond.
Dan Greenwood on LinkedIn: Global's Highest Radio Reach EVER!!! The They included Blackburn, who became the first to broadcast on Radio 1. Between 31 January and 1 May, Radio Caroline South broadcast from the vessel Cheeta II, owned by Britt Wadner of Swedish offshore station Radio Syd, which was off the air because of pack ice in the Baltic Sea.
Radio Caroline: Golden age of British pirate radio remembered, 50 years From the Radio Today site. ", Andries Peterson from the Netherlands also has his memories of the station: "I had heard from Radio Caroline before the station started its transmissions off the Dutch coast, late 1973. One would circle over the North Sea in international air space near the United Kingdom, while the other remained on standby. The pirates were also not paying any royalty to artists, composers or record companies. The final song was Pilot of the Airwaves by Charlie Dore.[43]. [clarification needed].
Matt Schlapp, CPAC's head, faces leadership questions amid sex assault Having to manoeuvre the lifeboat alongside the stricken vessel 13 times in high seas and a north-easterly gale earned Coxswain Charles Bowry an RNLI Silver Medal. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967, Report of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting, "Radio Caroline now available on London DAB", "Ofcom awards five new AM community radio licences", "When pop pirates ruled Britannia's airwaves", "Snubbed by the radio and music establishment, O'Rahilly devises the sweet revenge of Radio Caroline", "Caroline Kennedy photographed under the Oval Office desk on 16th May 1962 is on page 19 of the Radio Jackie Archive", "The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame: Sylvan the Stowaway", "Dorothy Calvert: Rock'n'roll entrepreneur and pirate radio pioneer", "Wireless and Television Pirate Stations (1966)", "The day we woke up to pop music on Radio 1", "Caroline continues alone, is overwhelmed by difficulties but returns to punish the politicians", "How a radio ship and 7 men shook up Britain in 1964", "This site is put together by Johnny Lewis, an engineer and presenter who worked on the station at the time", "The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame: the seventies", "Last broadcast message and photographic image", "Sheerness Lifeboats: Station History and Awards", "Appeal for memories of the Grimsby trawler Ross Revenge", "The wet and wild history of Radio Caroline (4)", "Photos of the transmitters can be found here", "Crunch & Roll podcast S01 Ep07: Caroline Martin", "Radio Caroline: Into the new millennium", "Bringing Caroline into the new millennium", "Radio Caroline finally appears on Sky EPG", "Radio Caroline decides to get rid of its EPG slot", "Radio Caroline App for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch on iTunes Store", "Radio Caroline DJs return to Felixstowe to mark pirate's start off resort's coast", "Radio Caroline confirms power increase on 648 AM medium wave", "Ronan O'Rahilly, Radio Caroline founder who inspired UK pop and pirate radio, dies aged 79", "BBC Radio 4 - the Media Show, John Whittingdale's media agenda", "New station to launch with help from legendary Radio Caroline", "Caroline Community Radio launches in Essex", "Radio Caroline allowed 1kW TX on 648 AM", "Radio Caroline is now on DAB+ in Cambridge", "Radio Puketapu stakeholder has pirate past", "Green - Radio Caroline (1987) - YouTube", How 7 men and a radio ship shook up Britain (Flashes & Flames), Radio Caroline, Ramsey Harbour 15/08/1967 & 28/08/1964, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radio_Caroline&oldid=1142296491, Classic rock radio stations in the United Kingdom, Internet radio stations in the United Kingdom, Pirate radio stations in the United Kingdom, Rock radio stations in the United Kingdom, Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom, Articles with dead external links from March 2022, Articles needing additional references from June 2011, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2011, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2014, All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases, Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases from March 2021, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from January 2012, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2014, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2018, Articles with trivia sections from March 2022, Wikipedia external links cleanup from March 2022, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. Includes Audio Types such as Podcasts, Live and Catch Up Radio, On Demand Music Services. 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 operation then continued, despite disagreements between O'Rahilly and some of its DJs over what the station should be playing. This was all in the 1970's. Round Midnight was confined to closedown on Radio Caroline North after The World Tomorrow. [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.
Remembering 'Radio Caroline' Founder Ronan O'Rahilly, A Pioneer Of By Aisha Majid. Nice to think about Dixie Peach, too.
Kivili seikluskeskus - Kaupo Kalda Photography / Aerofotod drooniga On 1 October 1989, Radio Caroline restarted broadcasting from the Ross Revenge using makeshift equipment and low power, to retain the 558kHz frequency. Radio Caroline - 2. 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 . In 2017, Ofcom awarded Radio Caroline its first AM licence, allowing it to broadcast to audiences in parts of Suffolk and north Essex.
RAJAR analysis: Q2 figures mark first year of new radio ratings system 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 . Rob Day never made it to the airwaves to the best of my knowledge and that was that. 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. The latest NOP Audience Survey Figures show that Radio Caroline has an audience in Great Britain in excess of any other radio station with 19% aged 16 and over, whilst Radio London did have 12%. . Between them, the stations were covering most of the British Isles. Later that day, the Dutch Royal Navy returned the crew and fighting broke out on board. These data are produced and sold at cost providing both industry accountability and a robust trading currency for each medium. To complete my story, I have to tell you that all this motivated me highly to assist the Dutch Caroline organization. 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. 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'. Much improvement to the lay-out of the ship was planned but basically the studios would have remained. Radio Caroline was off the air for most of the 1990s, except for occasional low-power broadcasts of one month. RAJAR stands for Radio Joint Audience Research and is the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the UK. [25], Between 11 and 20 April 1973, the ship broadcast for Radio Veronica while its ship, the Norderney, was aground. [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.