The band broke up in 1977; Watt-Roy and Charles played on Ian Dury's New Boots and Panties!! An iconic reproduction of our original 1960's Radio Caroline Skull & Crossbones t-shirts, updated with the 648 kHz frequency. #. The station restarted just before Christmas as Radio 199 but soon became Radio Caroline, with a Top 40 format. Non-Dutch staff were given the option of staying on the ship or returning to the Netherlands – most chose to stay on board. Following the election, RNI resumed its original name but jamming continued under the newly-elected Conservative government. This was replaced by a twin-mast T-antenna. Just after midnight GMT on 20 March 1980, the Mi Amigo foundered in a storm after losing its anchor and drifting. The only broadcast staff on board were Tom Lodge and Jerry Leighton. On 27 April, the Mi Amigo was fully operational. The … In March 1964, The Fortunes recorded Caroline, which became the station's theme. The tapes were picked up in Belgium at a bus stop, taken to a small sports plane and dropped in the sea close to the radio ship. In 2002, Caroline began on WorldSpace satellite radio, continuing until Worldspace went bankrupt and re-organised its operations in 2008. Reitze is al tientallen jaren actief als piraat. De zendinstallatie in Ordfordness in het zuidoosten van Engeland is nog goed te gebruiken voor 648 Khz. European medium wave channels had been reallocated to multiples of nine. 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. [43] Dedicated apps for listening via Apple IOS[52] and Android[53] devices are also available. Beginning in 1975, the cassettes were transported from Playa d'Aro on the Europa Bus service, which carried people from Amsterdam to Madrid at low prices. Caroline can be heard on DAB+ in Aldershot, Birmingham, Cambridge, Brighton, Glasgow, Norwich, London,[3] Portsmouth, Poulton-le-Fylde and Woking. (iii)558 kHz: strict pop and oldies mainstream format (no presenter music choice) with strict adherence to format clocks. Radio Caroline heeft op 19 mei 2017 een vergunning gekregen om permanent op de AM uit te zenden. 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. 1980s: DJs Chris Cary, broadcasting as Spangles Muldoon (who was also station manager), Roger 'Twiggy' Day, Andy Archer, Paul Alexander, Steve England, Johnny Jason and Peter Chicago (real name Peter Murtha)[24] manned the station. In June 1990, Spectrum Radio, a new multi-ethnic community radio station in London, was officially allocated 558 kHz. [60], In October 2020, a new station using the Caroline name and logo launched in Burnham-on-Crouch, broadcasting to the Maldon District of Essex on 94.7FM. When Laser returned as Laser Hot Hits, it used Caroline's former and inferior frequency of 576 kHz. 19K likes. RNI operated on medium wave, short wave and FM. [24] The ship anchored off the Dutch coastal resort of Scheveningen and was serviced and operated from the Netherlands. Listen in on 648 AM in the South and South-East, on 1368 AM in the North and North-West courtesy of our friends at Manx Radio, the Radio Caroline app and around the … To remain in international waters, the ship moved to a new, less-sheltered anchorage. Lodge hired new DJs and introduced free-form programming which, by August 1966, had succeeded, creating an audience of 23 million. In late 1977, Radio Caroline began sponsored evangelical programmes, and music programmes began at 9 p.m. On 20 October 1978, technical and financial problems put the Mi Amigo off the air. The next day, Calvert visited Smedley's home in Saffron Walden, Essex, to demand the departure of the raiders and the return of vital transmitter parts. The two stations experimented with different frequencies. Zowel op de FM als op de AM. After 31 August, shows for Radio Mi Amigo were delivered on cassettes rather than reel-to-reel tapes. Radio Caroline Flashback provides an alternative live service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. The station's slogan was Your all-day music station. News stories appeared in Europe[21] announcing the start of Caroline Television[22] from two Super Constellation aircraft using Stratovision technology. In May 2017, Ofcom awarded the station an AM band community licence to broadcast to Suffolk and north Essex;[4] full-time broadcasting, via a previously redundant BBC World Service transmitter mast at Orford Ness, commenced on 22 December 2017.[5]. Radio Caroline Flashback | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn. 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). Around this time, O'Rahilly decided Caroline should adopt an album format similar to FM progressive rock stations in the US, an audience not catered for in Europe. The Ross Revenge was salvaged and brought into harbour in Dover, ending 27 years of Radio Caroline's unlicensed offshore career. 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. The ship has working radio studios, from which both Caroline and BBC Essex have broadcast. In 1967, the UK Government enacted the Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967, outlawing advertising on or supplying an unlicensed offshore radio station from the UK. Finally, Radio Mi Amigo moved to 962 kHz on 1 December. The ship was further delayed by hull damage, and repaired before writs could be issued. 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. A Fruit of the Loom Super Premium black or white cotton t-shirt with screen-printed logo to front and plain back. Twee piraten uit Friesland. These stories continued and included co-operation by a former member of the Beatles[who?] The Mi Amigo returned to its Frinton-on-Sea anchorage with a redesigned antenna and a new 50 kW transmitter and attempted to resume broadcasting on 18 April, nominally on 259 metres to enable the same jingles as Radio Caroline North on 1169 kHz to be used, but actually 252 metres. Radio Caroline lobbied against the Labour Party, for the Conservative Party and for the introduction of licensed commercial radio in the United Kingdom. Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly and George Drummond [1] initially to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly. 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In 1987, the Territorial Sea Act[37] extended the UK maritime limit from three to 12 nautical miles (22 km). Just tuning into this iconic pirate radio station was exciting. DJ Jack Spector, of the WMCA "Good Guys" in New York, regularly recorded for Radio Caroline. The UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) put a permanent watch on movements around the Ross Revenge and the MV Communicator, Laser 558's ship. 320 k Radio-Monique-963 Gold 07.00-19.00. "eventCategory": "Listen", On 1 October 1989, Radio Caroline restarted broadcasting from the Ross Revenge using makeshift equipment and low power, to retain the 558 kHz frequency. Radio Caroline continued, moving its headquarters and servicing operation to Spain. window.open("https://tunein.com/embed/player/s"+url+"/?autoplay=true","tunein","status=1,width=300,height=160");}function radiofeeds(url) { 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. [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". A brief name change from Radio North Sea International during the UK General Election campaign, after which the station reverted to its original name. 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.