[36] The remaining 5kW transmitter was later converted for short wave use. Watch Live TV Listen to Live Radio. In the 1960's, to attract advertisers, Radio Caroline and Radio London always reported rather high listening figures. In the South East England new standard regions 4 and 5, Radio Caroline has 27% whilst Radio London has 24%." Matt Schlapp, CPAC's head, faces leadership questions amid sex assault During 2013, a survey showed a continued move from satellite reception and growth in internet listening. Radio Caroline Ltd. and Caroline Support Group (originally called the Ross Revenge Support Group). 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! Wavelength: 199 metres. We simply knocked on the door which was answered by a young Canadian who called himself Rob Day. 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. Times Radio listening figures: 20% fall in second RAJAR release Caroline returned on 9 March 1977 on 953kHz, actually 315 metres but announced as 319. On 31 July 2014 the ship was moved to the Blackwater Estuary in Essex.[47]. [18], On 3 March 1968, the radio ships Mi Amigo and Caroline were boarded and seized before the day's broadcasting began. Next to that we can listen in to Radio Caroline on internet and satellite. The most popular radio stations in the UK - media 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. However, the station has since moved online and continues to broadcast 24 hours a day. The founder of pirate radio, Radio Caroline, has died. Radio Caroline South = 10kW (later 50 kW). Rough weather sometimes prevented tapes from arriving and old programmes had to be repeated. Tenders and boat owners were warned, and some were prosecuted for ferrying staff and provisions to the ship. iPhone Maker Plans $700 Million India Plant in Shift From China. 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. However, the storm had weakened the mast, which collapsed in another storm later. A rudimentary news service, consisting of headlines on the half hour at peak listening times, was started on 12th September 1983, while the famous Caroline Bell was re-introduced on 16th September. 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. Speech radio listening figures: GB News and Times Radio up - Press Gazette 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. 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. 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 . "Other Radio" currently has a weekly listenership of 3.8m adults a week. BBC Radio 2 newsreader Colin Berry started his career reading the news on Radio Caroline South. 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. Markets. He announced towards the end of the programme that it was his last show because he had accepted an offer to become programme controller of RNI! 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. Offshore radio stations were no exception to this rule. Later in 1973, when the contract with Radio Caroline ended, the crew of Radio Atlantis moved to their own ship, the MVJeanine.[6]. On this page Hans Knot presents a few exemplary ones. Documents to detail all the latest market information. The comments below have not been moderated, By 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. The Huskers (16-13, 8-10 Big Ten . O'Rahilly promised financial backing if van Dam could return the ship to broadcasting condition. 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. "Between December 26 and December 30, 1973, a friend and I went to Holland for a few days. DJ Jack Spector, of the WMCA "Good Guys" in New York, regularly recorded for Radio Caroline. Kennedy. A well-nourished captain said they often failed to appear for a tender but he always got paid! 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. They were pop and Europop aimed at the mainstream Dutch audience. That's the group of Sietse Brouwer in Harlingen. The Ross Revenge also featured powerful generators.[37]. Nowadays, Radio Caroline has to resort to other sources. In addition, we have used some data from our BBC and Commercial Stakeholders from their own independent case studies during lockdown and these are sourced accordingly. The ship was further delayed by hull damage, and repaired before writs could be issued. Radio Caroline was off the air for most of the 1990s, except for occasional low-power broadcasts of one month. BBC Radio 1 lost nearly half a million listeners in the first quarter of 2022, new figures show. The supermarket chain Asda and English Heritage were among the backers. 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. Who RAJAR is owned by and what we do. 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. [6], Smedley was charged with Calvert's murder on 18 July, but this was reduced to a charge of manslaughter. 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. Because of a law that allows pirates in distress to come ashore without arrest, the running aground had no consequences for the crew. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. This market overview is based on the first three waves of the Tracking Panel, comparing listening through April, May and June with pre-lockdown. 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]. Radio Caroline continued, moving its headquarters and servicing operation to Spain. On 5 November 1990, lack of fuel and supplies forced the station to stop transmitting. 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". Radio Caroline Flashback live - London, United Kingdom | Online Radio Box [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. (Gordon): I think we'll be back in one way or another. The bureauxs client must also be a RAJAR subscriber. News service at peak hours. Radio control: Inside the Q4 2021 RAJAR listening figures A bulletin report which provides information of the survey period, any new stations that have joined or any changes to the stations or groups. O'Rahilly had initially competed with another pirate station broadcasting from the MV Mi Amigo. Tony Blackburn turns 80 years old on the 29th of January and BBC Radio 2 will celebrate the occasion in a special programme, reports OnTheRadio.. The crew and broadcasting staff were rescued unharmed, but the ship's hull was damaged and repairs were carried out at Zaandam, Netherlands. The crew (Caroline Martin, Rico and one other) was rescued by an RAF helicopter. London, United Kingdom. ", 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. "Walking down the King's Road" track by Squire "In a Chelsea drug store with some friends of mine, mini skirts, dolly birds and Radio Caroline". -1.04 -1.26%. 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. [26] The station's offices and studios were in Brakel, Belgium, but moved to Castell-Platja d'Aro, Costa Brava, Spain in March 1975 after a raid by Belgian police. Alan even worked with Bob at Radio 1 on. In a sign of Radio Caroline's enormous influence on popular culture, the BBC launched Radio 1 in September 1967 in an effort to respond to its success, as well as that of the rival Radio London. Continuous Flashback Music. MV Ross Revenge weathered the storm in the North Sea. 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. Legal status unclear due to a need to conceal actual legal ownership. For the first years, advertising on the station was in demand. 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. 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.
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