[25], Between 11 and 20 April 1973, the ship broadcast for Radio Veronica while its ship, the Norderney, was aground. 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. Broadcasting was in Dutch and English by day and in English at night, although for the first few months broadcasting finished at 10p.m. On 19 January 1979, the ageing ship took in water and a lifeboat was called to rescue the crew members. Without serious competition, Radio Caroline gained a regular daytime audience of some 7 million.[12]. 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'. 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. 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. On the 9 September 2017 a stone was unveiled in Felixstowe to commemorate Radio Caroline.[63]. News at peak hours: 7, 8, 9am, 1pm; 5, 6, 7pm, with headlines at 6:30am, 7:30am and 8:30am. Ken Bruce has also confirmed that he's moving. The 'amateurs' were said to be reaching 39million listeners with 15million in the South of England and the rest in the North. The BBC Light, Third, and Home programmes became Radios 2, 3 and 4 respectively. Gaining advertising is very much a Catch-22 situation. 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. His programme, which airs five days a week, rose from 4.3 million to 4.5 million listeners between the . [17] The Manx parliament, the Tynwald, attempted to exclude the North ship from the legislation, appealing to the European Court on the legality of the act being applied to the Isle of Man. 18:03 GMT 28 Sep 2021. 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. Radio Caroline is the best UK online radio. There are very few restrictions placed on Caroline's licence, allowing them to broadcast virtually what they like within the law. However, Dutch Caroline failed to secure a high power AM frequency and the cable network service was discontinued because of lack of funds. [21] It was not until RNI returned to its original anchorage off the Netherlands that the jamming ceased. [64] On 24 November 2021 a new transmitter was installed with an effective radiated power of 4kW. On 1 January 2016, a second channel was launched called Caroline Flashback, playing pop music from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. [49] The LV 18 was later used by the BBC for Pirate BBC Essex broadcasts.[50]. The LBC brand. 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. [8] On a fund-raising trip to the U.S., O'Rahilly reportedly saw a Life magazine photograph of Kennedy and his children in the Oval Office that served as the inspiration for the name "Caroline Radio". They were towed to Amsterdam by a salvage company to secure unpaid bills for servicing by the Dutch tender company Wijsmuller Transport. I vividly remember the days leading up to the first broadcast from the Ross, the test tones, the usually incorrect! In Timaru, an NZBC station, originally 3XC, later 3ZC, broadcast as Radio Caroline until 1995. 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. Shortly after the law was enacted, the station was renamed as Radio Caroline International. At one time both stations were even claiming more than 8.8 million listeners each. (Anderson): It's not a very good occasion really, we have to hurry this because the lifeboat is standing by. Since January, Emma Barnett has been the lead presenter, coming via BBC Radio 5 Live. Four studios were on board, enabling other broadcasting services. Those broadcasts took place between 1970 and 1973.[20]. 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. I remember wandering around that show house with my tranny on my arm. 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 . [18], On 3 March 1968, the radio ships Mi Amigo and Caroline were boarded and seized before the day's broadcasting began. 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. Smedley later withdrew from the deal. Caroline Hepker anchors Bloomberg Radio's 'Daybreak Europe' programme, on-air live from 6-10am weekday mornings. 17:31 GMT 28 Sep 2021 O'Rahilly promised financial backing if van Dam could return the ship to broadcasting condition. It gets good listening figures as it is the safe, middle England choice for people who have never listened to or refuse to listen to Radio 4, 6music, (or Radio 3, although I'm not a fan myself) or . 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! Some DJs from the USA and Commonwealth countries, such as Graham Webb, Emperor Rosko and Keith Hampshire were also heard. The flagship channel enjoyed an average weekly audience of 7.7 million in the three months to. 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. [46] Dedicated apps for listening via Apple IOS[55] and Android[56] devices are also available. On 20 January 1966, the MV Mi Amigo lost its anchor in a storm, drifted and ran aground on the beach at Frinton-on-Sea. Many people, of a certain age, still associate Radio Caroline with the pop music of the 60s & 70s. Daytime programming was leased to a community radio service called Puketapu Radio on 756kHz.[75]. Now I don't know Peter Moore personally, so cannot comment on the type of person he is, but I do know that he has done a lot for Caroline over the past few years and I'm sure without him it would still be nowhere to be heard. 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. BBC Radio 5 Live posted a reach of 5.89m listeners. Internet streaming of Radio Caroline programmes continued. Because of a law that allows pirates in distress to come ashore without arrest, the running aground had no consequences for the crew. Caroline can also be listened to over the internet including via music players such as Amazon echo (Alexa). , updated [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. That autumn various tests, consisting of continuous music, were made on 259 metres. From Electronic People Meters to Smartphone Mobile Metering. However, full station identity jingles for the new Radio Caroline were not aired until 10th October 1983. (i) 963 kHz: unformatted free-choice album format, with news. 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. Half of AM/FM listening in the United States takes place in a car, but between reduced (or eliminated) commutes and social distancing, there's been a steep decline in the drivers that make up public radio's traditional broadcast audience. As those people, who did promote the stations with their magazines and internet sites, wouldn't have been there, we certainly wouldn't be celebrating Caroline's Fortieth Birthday this year.". 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. Comedian and award-winning radio host D.L. However, the station has since moved online and continues to broadcast 24 hours a day. Original 1960s Caroline North jingles were interspersed with generic Radio Caroline ones. 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. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. The station's slogan was Your all-day music station. The station hasn't the glamour anymore it had in its High Seas Days, but I'm still enjoying all the memories. "Europe's Best Music on Europe's Best Music Station" Format: community, classic rock. There proved to be a lot of people, cultivating little gems of the station's history. 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! 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 next Caroline memory arrived from Groningen in the North East of the Netherlands. Several years later some of the seized items were returned to the station. LBC saw 3million weekly listeners - a record for the station - while Talk Radio increased from 424,000 listeners to 450,000. 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 . "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". In the 1960's, to attract advertisers, Radio Caroline and Radio London always reported rather high listening figures. The band broke up in 1977; Watt-Roy and Charles played on Ian Dury's New Boots and Panties!! Frequency: 648 AM. The benefits, entitlements as a RAJAR subscriber and the data explained. "Other Radio" currently has a weekly listenership of 3.8m adults a week. In 1987, the Territorial Sea Act[38] extended the UK maritime limit from three to 12 nautical miles (22km). These data are produced and sold at cost providing both industry accountability and a robust trading currency for each medium. The appetite for dance music is thriving with both Heart Dance and Capital Dance celebrating record listening figures. From there Bert Alting wrote: "in the mid-1970's I was living partly on a little room on the loft of a house and in the early evenings I tried never to miss the close-down of Radio Mi Amigo Caroline's sister station in those days and the daily opening of Radio Caroline. From 1970 on a lot happened in offshore radio, which has often been forgotten by people who write about this subject in books. Ray Clark) and Rob Charles. 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! In July Caroline moved to the adjacent channel, 962kHz (312 metres but still called 319) and reception in the UK improved. Second, it also requires a good sales team and, of course, sales people don't work for nothing. It is jointly owned by the BBC and the Radiocentre on behalf of the commercial sector. 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. I recall that Easter weekend in 1964 when Radio Caroline arrived very well. 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. Rob Day never made it to the airwaves to the best of my knowledge and that was that. The only broadcast staff on board were Tom Lodge and Jerry Leighton. Broadcasting from various offshore locations to Western Europe, Status unclear and mainly operated by supporters, Radio Atlantis 1973 and Radio Mi-Amigo 19741978, Geographic areas bordering upon North Sea, 963 kHz (wavelength announced as "319" metres) later moving to 819 kHz with additional transmitter in 531594 kHz range (principally 558 kHz). Radio Caroline presenter Ray Clark remembers listening to Mr Damon as a nine-year-old on the radio. Wonder where he is now? Radio Caroline's first programme, on 28 March 1964, was presented by Chris Moore. 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. American Cancer Society Cancer Facts & Figures for African American/Black People. Radio Caroline John Miles - Highfly Premier Christian Radio Hope Through The Night DJ On Tap Bobbie Gentry - I'll Never Fall in Love Again Times Radio The best of Times Radio - Highlights from the week Original 106 Anne-Marie - 2002 Smooth Country Michael Johnson - Give Me Wings Red Rose Radio ABBA - Lay All Your Love On Me U105 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. The name was taken from Caroline Bay, a popular recreation area nearby. Global delivers record results extending its position as the UK's #1 commercial radio company Global leads the UK commercial radio market with highest . ", 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. A bulletin report which provides information of the survey period, any new stations that have joined or any changes to the stations or groups. The station was opened by DJ Tom Anderson, who had said "goodbye" from the sinking Mi Amigo in 1980. Times Radio's audience fell by over a fifth quarter-on-quarter, according to the latest RAJAR radio listening figures. [6], Financial backing for the venture came from six investors, including John Sheffield, chairman of Norcross, Carl "Jimmy" Ross of Ross Foods, and Jocelyn Stevens of Queen magazine, with which Radio Caroline shared its first office. Some DJs were embarrassed but some were fascinated by the challenge of an abstract concept. Radio Caroline North subsequently moved to 257m (1169kHz) but also called it 259. 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. It was founded in 1964. According to the latest Nielsen Audio Today report, more than two-thirds of the weekly radio audience works full time and tunes in when they're away from home. 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. Currently they also broadcast on DAB radio in certain areas of the UK: these services are part of the Ofcom small-scale DAB+ trials. The two stations experimented with different frequencies. Harry Howard, History Correspondent For Mailonline The Government argued that the pirate operation was a danger because of the possibility of the radio frequency interfering with emergency shipping channels. The national digital station, which is owned by News UK's . 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. O'Rahilly had initially competed with another pirate station broadcasting from the MV Mi Amigo. Watch Live TV Listen to Live 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. Over 30% of radio listeners older than 34 still use analogue radio. In June 1990, Spectrum Radio, a new multi-ethnic community radio station in London, was officially allocated 558kHz. A little about myself. We duly bought the wine but do not know if it was the one heard when Radio Seagull opened on January 7, 1974. The founder of pirate radio, Radio Caroline, has died. [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]. The first was a Belgian station called Radio Atlantis, owned by Belgian businessman Adriaan van Landschoot. Broadcasting Hours: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and 12 midnight to 2a.m. On 12 June 2006, the station bought an EPG slot on Sky channel 0199. Syndicated shows from the US and recorded religious programmes were also broadcast. The Radio Caroline name was used to broadcast from international waters, using five different ships with three different owners, from 1964 to 1990, and via satellite from 1998 to 2013. [19], Because of the rise of land-based pirate stations after the MOA became law (usually stations run from bedrooms or outdoor sheds with small wattage transmitters), at least two stations later broadcast using the Caroline name, one based in Dublin. ", Finally, here is Mark Reynolds writing in from Buckinghamshire and thanking all the people who tried to keep the memory of Radio Caroline alive over the years: "I did learn about offshore radio in late 1966 and followed the stations from that point on.

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