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. 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. Programmes were still heard on satellite until the provider replaced the signal with a 1kHz tone on the morning of 1 October 2013. A bulletin report which provides information of the survey period, any new stations that have joined or any changes to the stations or groups. Since January, Emma Barnett has been the lead presenter, coming via BBC Radio 5 Live. . Second, it also requires a good sales team and, of course, sales people don't work for nothing. 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). 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. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Radio Caroline presenter Ray Clark remembers listening to Mr Damon as a nine-year-old on the radio. Radio Caroline began to broadcast from the ship on 19 August 1983, with unwanted mechanical sounds on speech. Caroline returned on 9 March 1977 on 953kHz, actually 315 metres but announced as 319. The national digital station, which is owned by News UK's . Caroline also promoted O'Rahilly's concept of Loving Awareness (LA), a far-eastern philosophy of love and peace. On 5 November 1990, lack of fuel and supplies forced the station to stop transmitting. The Mi Amigo "Top 50" tapes were flown over by helicopter to get them on board more quickly. Select 'Change Stations' on the app if you wish to switch to Boom Light You can also find us listed on the TuneIn or Radioplayer app. "It was just so special and so different and worth fighting . On 31 July 2014 the ship was moved to the Blackwater Estuary in Essex.[47]. There proved to be a lot of people, cultivating little gems of the station's history. Following the election, RNI resumed its original name but jamming continued under the newly elected Conservative government. Radio Atlanta closed at 8p.m. that day. On 30 August 1974 Mi Amigo moved from the Dutch coast to the Knock Deep Channel, approximately 12 miles (19km) from the British coast. These data are produced and sold at cost providing both industry accountability and a robust trading currency for each medium. 1980s: 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. 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. . Radio Caroline South = 10kW (later 50 kW). Here they produced programmes for Dutch-speaking holidaymakers, mostly Europop, Top 40, MOR and Dutch language popular music presented by Belgian, Dutch and occasionally English DJs with frequent commercials. 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. It was renamed Radio Caroline South and MV Mi Amigo remained off Frinton-on-Sea while MV Caroline broadcast as Radio Caroline North. The Caroline App is just 1.79 or equivalent price in your country. 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. The drop can be partly explained by lower. Later in 1973, when the contract with Radio Caroline ended, the crew of Radio Atlantis moved to their own ship, the MVJeanine.[6]. No one said it would be an easy or fast journey, but I, for one, can only see better things for the future. In March 1968, the very existence of Radio Caroline was threatened when both the MV Caroline and Mi Amigo were boarded and seized before being towed to Amsterdam by a salvage company to secure unpaid bills owed to a Dutch firm. Shortly after the law was enacted, the station was renamed as Radio Caroline International. On this page we have collected a few exemplary ones. [30] Radio Caroline returned to the air on 15 April 1979. 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. 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. On 27 April, the Mi Amigo was fully operational. On this page Hans Knot presents a few exemplary ones. Listening Statistics: 23 Facts You Need to Hear. Caroline Archive Hour. [clarification needed]. [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. Murdaugh is heckled as he leaves court, Ken Bruce finishes his 30-year tenure as host of BBC Radio 2, Missing hiker buried under snow forces arm out to wave to helicopter, Hershey's Canada releases HER for SHE bars featuring a trans activist, Insane moment river of rocks falls onto Malibu Canyon in CA, Fleet-footed cop chases an offender riding a scooter, Family of a 10-month-old baby filmed vaping open up. 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. Since November 2009 Radio Seagull can be heard periodically on 558kHz in London. Broadcasters included Tony Christian, Pawl "Hound Dog" Shanley, Dave Fox, Simon West, Dale Richardson and Peter D.[citation needed]. The transmitter was initially too powerful for the antenna insulators. Radio Caroline had greater night-time interference, and it was decided to move Caroline to a new frequency. LBC saw 3million weekly listeners - a record for the station - while Talk Radio increased from 424,000 listeners to 450,000. This was replaced by a twin-mast T-antenna. Radio Caroline are committed to promote UK Culture, Music, News, Heritage, Tourism and many more through their . London, United Kingdom. On 12 June 2006, the station bought an EPG slot on Sky channel 0199. 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. 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. Greg James' breakfast show on Radio 1 also saw an increase in listeners quarter-on-quarter. Caroline's album format meant that, although the station served a gap in the market, its audience was smaller than in the 1960s. [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. Over the following months, Caroline's signal quality improved as transmitting valves were donated and programming returned to normal. To remain in international waters, the ship moved to a new, less-sheltered anchorage. American Cancer Society Cancer Facts & Figures for African American/Black People. The pair's aim was to circumvent big record companies' control of the broadcast of popular music, as well as. In March 1964, The Fortunes recorded Caroline, which became the station's theme. 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. From 1970 on a lot happened in offshore radio, which has often been forgotten by people who write about this subject in books. Gradually Caroline is fighting its way back and I'm sure that once advertising is coming in, there will be no need for listener donations. The whole of the school Easter holiday, my friend Mozz and I took the tranny with us everywhere. That this House expresses its disappointment that, having pioneered commercial radio in the UK and for the past decade being a fully licensed broadcaster, Radio Caroline, a cornerstone of British radio history, has been denied by OFCOM the opportunity to secure a medium wave frequency from which to broadcast; regrets that as a result its devoted listeners are confined to listening to Radio Caroline via the internet and unable to enjoy its musical offerings in transit; and calls on OFCOM to exhaust all avenues in making the provisions available for Radio Caroline to celebrate its 50th birthday in 2014 by broadcasting on a medium wave frequency which, it appears, is unwanted by both BBC and commercial operators as a broadcast platform. 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. Belgium had outlawed offshore radio in 1962 and prosecuted advertisers, cutting the station's revenue. 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. [46] Dedicated apps for listening via Apple IOS[55] and Android[56] devices are also available. 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. 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. On 28 December, unpaid crew cut the Mi Amigo's generator fuel line and departed. [6] The generator was left running but the pumps could not manage and the vessel sank 10 minutes later. During the same quarter, on BBC Sounds there were a total of 162m plays of. The Mi Amigo's 160-foot (49m) mast remained erect for six years. This gave reasonable reception by day but strong heterodyne interference at night because the transmitter crystal was off-channel. (Anderson): It's not a very good occasion really, we have to hurry this because the lifeboat is standing by. 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. Each of his crew was awarded The Thanks of the Institution on vellum.[33]. 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. In the 1960's, to attract advertisers, Radio Caroline and Radio London always reported rather high listening figures. Ronan O'Rahilly passed away April 20 at the age of 79. At that time I thought RNI 2 was here to stay. 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. 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. The band broke up in 1977; Watt-Roy and Charles played on Ian Dury's New Boots and Panties!! 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. During 2013, a survey showed a continued move from satellite reception and growth in internet listening. Meanwhile, Radio Mi Amigo had interference on 1562kHz and changed to 1412kHz (212 m). 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. Multiple Streams Programme Schedule 'Now Playing' Programme 'alarms' Presenter profiles 'This Day' page Send emails [citation needed]. They were keen to see what this heating was like, with a view to installing it in their own home. In late 1977, Radio Caroline began sponsored evangelical programmes, and music programmes began at 9p.m. On 20 October 1978, technical and financial problems put the Mi Amigo off the air. 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. Lord Annan, author of the 1977 Report of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting, spoke in defence of Radio Caroline in the House of Lords at report stage on the Broadcasting Act 1990, saying "Why break a butterfly upon the wheel? Radio Caroline's transmission output was almost 20kW, achieved by linking two 10kW Continental Electronics transmitters. A "D" and an "I" from the phrase RADIO CAROLINE (painted as a, "Hearthammer" by the Scottish folk rock band. 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. ", Also Philip Coleman was selected to be a part of this chapter: "I do not think my Caroline memories deserve to be mentioned in the Caroline's special, but there are two which may be of interest to you: First, on September 30, 1972, I was a student with a part-time job. MV Ross Revenge weathered the storm in the North Sea. American Cancer Society 2022-2024. . 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! London, United Kingdom. Information for commercial radio stations that are licenced by OFCOM and are looking to be measured on the RAJAR survey. In practice, day-to-day servicing was carried from France and the UK. [21] It was not until RNI returned to its original anchorage off the Netherlands that the jamming ceased. It commemorated the 40th anniversary of Radio Caroline and promoted the station's legal internet and satellite programmes.
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