Radio Caroline continued on satellite but required manual tuning. Home; Stations . Nation Radio Scotlanddelivers a record reach of 79,000 and listening hours of 636,000 Greatest Hits Radio South Coastperformed strongly, where total listening hours soared to over 1.7. Radio Caroline was a real phenomen. On this page Hans Knot presents a few exemplary ones. 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! 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. 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. 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. [6] The generator was left running but the pumps could not manage and the vessel sank 10 minutes later. 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 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. (iii)558 kHz: strict pop and oldies mainstream format (no presenter music choice) with strict adherence to format clocks. Owner: Planet Sales Ltd. First air date: 1964. Many people, of a certain age, still associate Radio Caroline with the pop music of the 60s & 70s. BBC Radio 2 newsreader Colin Berry started his career reading the news on Radio Caroline South. Ronan O'Rahilly passed away April 20 at the age of 79. The two stations were able to cover most of the British Isles. The last broadcast from the Mi Amigo was by Stevie Gordon and Tom Anderson:[32]. [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.
Radio Listening Statistics 2022 (UK and Global) - Dont Disappoint Me RNI operated on medium wave, short wave and FM. On 9 August 1985, an official vessel anchored 150 yards from the Ross Revenge. Two (Radio 270 and Radio London) of the remaining four UK-based offshore stations closed, but the two Caroline ships continued with their supply operation moved to Netherlands waters, where unlicensed ship-based broadcasting was not outlawed until 1974. The operation then continued, despite disagreements between O'Rahilly and some of its DJs over what the station should be playing. Since January, Emma Barnett has been the lead presenter, coming via BBC Radio 5 Live. Radio Caroline's transmission output was almost 20kW, achieved by linking two 10kW Continental Electronics transmitters. [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). [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. Nowadays, Radio Caroline has to resort to other sources. If you're like most people, you probably don't give much though to how many words you take in each day.
Remembering 'Radio Caroline' Founder Ronan O'Rahilly, A Pioneer Of Hughley is partnering with Janssen to empower Black communities with information and encourage better self-advocacy for their health. [34] It had an antenna system radiating from a 300-foot (91m) high mast, the tallest on any ship in the world. [6] The first programme, which was pre-recorded, was hosted by Chris Moore. The Fredericia was renamed MV Caroline and anchored off Felixstowe, Suffolk, where it began test transmissions on Friday, 27 March 1964. 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. When Marine &c. Broadcasting Offences Act become law on 14 August 1967, Radio Caroline was renamed Radio Caroline International. 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. The first record played was Fool (If You Think It's Over), by Chris Rea, dedicated to the British Home Office. This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 16:42. MV Ross Revenge weathered the storm in the North Sea. On 24 March 1970, a radio ship named Mebo II anchored off the east coast of England during the UK general election campaign, broadcasting as Radio North Sea International (RNI). 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 . After 31 August, shows for Radio Mi Amigo were delivered on cassettes rather than reel-to-reel tapes. ", Earlier this year I met Bob Le-Roi and of course we talked a lot about Radio Caroline. That's the group of Sietse Brouwer in Harlingen. 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. This channel broadcasts mainly in community format. Radio 1Xtra had 744k listeners, BBC Radio.
Ofcom agrees for Radio Caroline to turn up the power Without serious competition, Radio Caroline gained a regular daytime audience of some 7 million.[12]. It began taking in water and the crew was rescued by lifeboat. 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.
Radio Caroline - Wikipedia 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.
BBC Radio has major problems, with audiences following Chris Evans out . 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! Dutch nationals were arrested and returned to the Netherlands, together with most of the broadcasting equipment. The latest listening figures revealed that the Radio 2 breakfast show audience has fallen to its lowest level for a decade. The Mi Amigo was tendered clandestinely from Britain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. I wonder if any of the people who criticise have even tried setting up or running a radio station on land, let alone from twelve miles out to sea with the law heavily biased against them.
Radio Caroline - Live Online Radio By Aisha Majid. 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. "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". One would circle over the North Sea in international air space near the United Kingdom, while the other remained on standby. 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. To accommodate the second aerial, a second short mast, just in front of the bridge, was employed as the other end of the aerial fixed to the main mast. I must say the people on the station got my sympathy very quickly. 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].
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wirelesswaffle - Radio, Television, Humour, Pictures, Music, Life the Caroline coming in to pick up her pilot. In March 1964, The Fortunes recorded Caroline, which became the station's theme. Just after midnight GMT on 20 March 1980, the Mi Amigo foundered in a storm after losing its anchor and drifting. ", From Shaun in California we received a response on our chapters on the internet: "Chapter 10 of the series, treating the return of Radio Caroline in 1983, brought back some very happy memories. On 5 November 1990, lack of fuel and supplies forced the station to stop transmitting. 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%. 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. The Mi Amigo "Top 50" tapes were flown over by helicopter to get them on board more quickly. In Timaru, an NZBC station, originally 3XC, later 3ZC, broadcast as Radio Caroline until 1995. 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 . Smedley later withdrew from the deal. Following the election, RNI resumed its original name but jamming continued under the newly elected Conservative government.
Walgreens Nixes Abortion Pill in 20 Red States After Warning - Bloomberg . Hughley to Raise Awareness About Multiple Myeloma Among Black Communities. [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]. Offshore radio stations were no exception to this rule. City: London. Multiple Streams Programme Schedule 'Now Playing' Programme 'alarms' Presenter profiles 'This Day' page Send emails O'Rahilly wanted Radio Caroline to become an oldies station. Markets.
RAJAR We arranged to meet the Caroline tender to go out to the ship but no one turned up. This market overview is based on the first three waves of the Tracking Panel, comparing listening through April, May and June with pre-lockdown. Detailed information on the survey process. USD. [6] The TV operation was later found to be a publicity stunt.[24]. 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.
Radio Caroline, UK | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn On a national level, though, this figure is amazingly reliable; it's a national sample size of over 100,000 adults. Huskers Close Out Cats, 80-64. [16], On 20 June 1966, Smedley boarded the Shivering Sands Fort with 10 workmen to repossess a transmitter that he had supplied, but had not been paid for. There proved to be a lot of people, cultivating little gems of the station's history.
Radio Caroline North 1960s pirate radio - mikekemble.uk Remarkable photos show life behind the scenes at Radio Caroline (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. Wonder where he is now? Shrewdly, the BBC also employed many of the one-time pirate DJs who had helped to make Radio Caroline a success. On the heels of Breaking the Waves, she (along with Jeanine Tesori) was the first woman to be commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Another RSL broadcast ran from 7 August until 3 September 2004, with the ship moored at the cruise liner terminal jetty at Tilbury in Essex. However, in July 1964, the owners of the two stations opted to merge the operations. Caroline Flashback provides an alternative service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. I never had the idea to buy any of the singles they promoted, as these got so much airplay and therefore entered the charts. Listen to Radio Caroline Flashback. From the Radio Today site. 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. 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. How radio is measured in other European countries and throughout the rest of the World. The ship was further delayed by hull damage, and repaired before writs could be issued. I remember Caroline North with great affection. The transmitter was initially too powerful for the antenna insulators. The latest listening figures reveal that Global continues to lead the UK commercial radio market with the biggest set of audience numbers in our history. In the 1960's, to attract advertisers, Radio Caroline and Radio London always reported rather high listening figures. And that means that people's work schedules are significant drivers of the hourly flow of listening throughout the day.
The most popular radio stations in the UK - media 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. [6] The Cheeta II was equipped for FM broadcasting, so it was fitted with the 10kW transmitter from the Mi Amigo, feeding a makeshift antenna. Latest releases and insightful stories into the radio industry. The Ross Revenge also featured powerful generators.[37]. The station was opened by DJ Tom Anderson, who had said "goodbye" from the sinking Mi Amigo in 1980. Continuous Flashback Music. 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.
How to listen to Boom - Boom Radio Ken Bruce remains most popular UK radio host as mid-morning trend 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. During the same quarter, on BBC Sounds there were a total of 162m plays of. In the late 1990's and later on I helped them with the promotion team when they were busy trying to convince as much as possible cable networks to put their signal on their networks. 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. 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! [citation needed]. Presentations were made to US advertising agencies. In 2020, the show's two long-serving presenters, Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey, both departed the programme. Important information on how the survey works and who and what we measure. 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. Frequency: 648 AM. The late 1970's model of Radio Caroline is still my favourite, despite the fact they were on and off the air more than a partisan station in WW2. [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. Dates of the upcoming scheduled releases of RAJAR data. The benefits, entitlements as a RAJAR subscriber and the data explained. 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. London, United Kingdom. Radio Caroline lobbied against the Labour Party, for the Conservative Party and for the introduction of licensed commercial radio in the United Kingdom.
Thanks, BBC, for fixing Woman's Hour. Now please take a look at Today Bubblegum Lemonade released "Caroline's Radio" in 2010 which was a nostalgic look back at listening to Radio Caroline.
KRVN 880 - KRVN 93.1 - KAMI - Huskers Close Out Cats, 80-64 On Saturday, 28 March, it began regular broadcasting at noon on 1520 kHz (announced as 199 metres) with the opening conducted by Simon Dee. 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. They included Blackburn, who became the first to broadcast on Radio 1. 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. Gaining advertising is very much a Catch-22 situation. It was founded in 1964. When the MV Caroline left for the Isle of Man, the Mi Amigo remained in Felixstowe. According to the survey, respondents aged 56 . Great reads on Radio Caroline and Free Radio from the 1960's to the 1990's, including from Radio . Since September 2015, Radio Caroline has been broadcasting 'live' for one weekend each month[59] as "Radio Caroline North" (with original DJs and a mixed 1960s, 1970s and 1980s music content and jingles) from its former home the MV Ross Revenge on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, via Manx Radio's 1368kHz 20kW transmitter on the Isle of Man. I vividly remember the days leading up to the first broadcast from the Ross, the test tones, the usually incorrect! 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. Most Read. 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. A licenced and registered bureaux that wishes to supply bureaux services using RAJAR data is permitted to do so. Sellel pakasest paukuval imekaunil peval oli pikese mber ka halo, mille vike jupike on paremal taevas nha.
Weekly radio listening by age UK 2020 | Statista On the 9 September 2017 a stone was unveiled in Felixstowe to commemorate Radio Caroline.[63]. Radio Caroline presenter Ray Clark remembers listening to Mr Damon as a nine-year-old on the radio. 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. How different it seemed six weeks later when the Mi Amigo had no mast and RNI no English service. 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. European medium wave channels had been reallocated to multiples of nine. Radio Caroline began to broadcast from the ship on 19 August 1983, with unwanted mechanical sounds on speech. [49] The LV 18 was later used by the BBC for Pirate BBC Essex broadcasts.[50]. 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.