At that time I thought RNI 2 was here to stay. Some DJs were embarrassed but some were fascinated by the challenge of an abstract concept. English Website 228 Listen live 3 Playlist Contacts Related radio stations Radio Caroline On the air Radio Caroline Flashback Radio Caroline Flashback playlist TOP songs on Radio Caroline Flashback Janssen Launches Health Equity Campaign in Partnership with Award The ship has working radio studios, from which both Caroline and BBC Essex have broadcast. DJs could choose ordering of oldies all current pop hits in strict rotation. I just hated the intrusive way deejays tried to influence my taste on the other radio stations. Island FM (58% of people in their area tune in every week) Channel 103 FM (55%) Moray Firth Radio (46%) Radio Borders (43%) Yorkshire Coast Radio (42%) 3FM (38%) Wessex FM (38%) Northsound 1 (38%) IOW Radio (35%) Tay FM (35%) [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. US Stocks Snap Two Days of Losses; Yields Rise: Markets Wrap. 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. This was not because they wanted to buy a house, but because the ones on the new estate had been constructed with an innovative type of central heating, which blew hot air through ducts under the floor. 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. ", The next Caroline memory arrived from Groningen in the North East of the Netherlands. -1.04 -1.26%. Ofcom agrees for Radio Caroline to turn up the power 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. Information for commercial radio stations that are licenced by OFCOM and are looking to be measured on the RAJAR survey. The project not unexpectedly hit the quay side, but it would have been interesting should the plan have come to fruition. 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. Hughley to Raise Awareness About Multiple Myeloma Among Black Communities. Currently they also broadcast on DAB radio in certain areas of the UK: these services are part of the Ofcom small-scale DAB+ trials. That's the group of Sietse Brouwer in Harlingen. However, in October 1987 a massive storm hit southern England, causing deaths and severe damage. Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. won't sell abortion pills in 20 states after warnings by Republican attorneys general of legal action, a decision that limits the medication's . However, according to Gerry Bishop's book Offshore Radio this transmitter was antiquated and failed to work. This was replaced by a twin-mast T-antenna. The benefits, entitlements as a RAJAR subscriber and the data explained. This service was Radio Seagull and broadcast live during the evening. (i) 963 kHz: unformatted free-choice album format, with news. (Anderson): Yeah. Stats show BBC 6 Music is UK's No.1 digital radio station, Radio - NME Times Radio's audience fell by over a fifth quarter-on-quarter, according to the latest RAJAR radio listening figures. 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 . On 1 January 2016, a second channel was launched called Caroline Flashback, playing pop music from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. 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. Round Midnight was confined to closedown on Radio Caroline North after The World Tomorrow. New data has shown the listening figures for BBC radio stations, with two of its flagship outlets having experienced a sharp decline in audiences - whilst some shows have remained steady instead Internet streaming of Radio Caroline programmes continued. DJ Jack Spector, of the WMCA "Good Guys" in New York, regularly recorded for Radio Caroline. album, and Turnbull and Gallagher joined them on the Stiff's tour, becoming The Blockheads.[28]. UKRadioLive - UK's Internet Radio Stations In One Place Caroline Flashback provides an alternative service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. [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. Broadcasting Hours: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and 12 midnight to 2a.m. Kivili seikluskeskus - Kaupo Kalda Photography / Aerofotod drooniga The Mi Amigo returned to its Frinton-on-Sea anchorage with a redesigned antenna and a new 50kW transmitter and attempted to resume broadcasting on 18 April, nominally on 259 metres to enable the same jingles as Radio Caroline North on 1169kHz to be used, but actually 252 metres. [27] The album was reissued on CD on Ross Records, c.1992, and in a "30th Anniversary Edition" with bonus material on SMC Records in 2005. Times Radio listening figures: 20% fall in second RAJAR release Radio Caroline was founded by Irish businessman Ronan O'Rahilly and George Drummond. Steve Wright, Radio 2 -how much longer can it go on? The following day, Caroline was one of few stations in the South East still broadcasting. This channel broadcasts mainly in community format. When Radio Caroline 'had bigger audience than the BBC Radio Listening Statistics 2022 (UK and Global) - Dont Disappoint Me 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 . How radio is measured in other European countries and throughout the rest of the World. 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. The flagship channel enjoyed an average weekly audience of 7.7 million in the three months to. In December 1976, Radio Mi Amigo moved to 1562kHz on the 50kW transmitter, leaving Caroline on 1187kHz 24 hours a day on the 10kW. If you're like most people, you probably don't give much though to how many words you take in each day. Each of his crew was awarded The Thanks of the Institution on vellum.[33]. I think so. 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%. 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. Second, it also requires a good sales team and, of course, sales people don't work for nothing. Much improvement to the lay-out of the ship was planned but basically the studios would have remained. 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. 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 Atlanta closed at 8p.m. that day. 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. On the 9 September 2017 a stone was unveiled in Felixstowe to commemorate Radio Caroline.[63]. From the anchorage in the Knock Deep the Mi Amigo's mast could be seen on the horizon. Rob Day never made it to the airwaves to the best of my knowledge and that was that. Radio Caroline South = 10kW (later 50 kW). 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. Belgian courts sentenced Tack and some DJs to fines and jail in absentia, although the prison terms were later cancelled. With Face-to-Face recruitment being suspended at the end of March, RAJAR introduced a Tracking Panel to evaluate radio listening during our time in Lockdown. Two of the BBC's flagship radio stations see sharp drop in - mirror It is jointly owned by the BBC and the Radiocentre on behalf of the commercial sector. Radio Caroline - The National Archives By Aisha Majid. BBC Radio 6 Music celebrates its 20th birthday with record listening At one time both stations were even claiming more than 8.8 million listeners each. Tenders and boat owners were warned, and some were prosecuted for ferrying staff and provisions to the ship. Only 17% of the total UK population can pick up community radio, according to the same Ofcom report we mentioned earlier. The Fredericia was renamed MV Caroline and anchored off Felixstowe, Suffolk, where it began test transmissions on Friday, 27 March 1964. Radio Caroline finally stopped broadcasting from open waters in 1991 when the MV Ross Revenge lots its anchor in a storm and the crew had to be rescued by helicopter. Knowing the lads at Caroline it was probably drunk and a replacement bought. On the heels of Breaking the Waves, she (along with Jeanine Tesori) was the first woman to be commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Radio Caroline North subsequently moved to 257m (1169kHz) but also called it 259. At times, a 10kW transmitter was used to save fuel and relieve the generators. Multiple Streams Programme Schedule 'Now Playing' Programme 'alarms' Presenter profiles 'This Day' page Send emails Community radio listening figures - do 10 million people tune in every week? "Between December 26 and December 30, 1973, a friend and I went to Holland for a few days. I remember wandering around that show house with my tranny on my arm. They included Blackburn, who became the first to broadcast on Radio 1. [60], From 31 March to 27 April 2014, a Caroline North tribute station, based on the Planet Lightship berthed in the Albert Dock complex on Liverpool's waterfront, broadcast locally on 87.7FM and on the internet. Obviously, we hope to be back with you as soon as possible, but just for the moment we would like to say goodbye. This was all in the 1970's. On 18 August, a British government chartered ship pulled up alongside the Ross Revenge and asked to board to "discuss the future" of the Ross Revenge and the stations operating from it. 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. Since August 2000, Radio Caroline has also broadcast 24 hours a day via the internet and by the occasional restricted service licence. It was founded in 1964. 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. The appetite for dance music is thriving with both Heart Dance and Capital Dance celebrating record listening figures. MV Caroline sailed from Felixstowe to the Isle of Man, broadcasting as she went. When Laser returned as Laser Hot Hits, it used Caroline's former and inferior frequency of 576kHz. Her latest opera, The Listeners, is a psychological nail-biter set in southern California. The first was a Belgian station called Radio Atlantis, owned by Belgian businessman Adriaan van Landschoot. 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. Without serious competition, Radio Caroline gained a regular daytime audience of some 7 million.[12]. Programmes were still heard on satellite until the provider replaced the signal with a 1kHz tone on the morning of 1 October 2013. During a violent struggle, Calvert was shot dead. 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. Spectrum threatened to sue the Radio Authority, which then allowed Spectrum to temporarily broadcast on 990kHz alongside 558kHz. Although most broadcasting staff left at that time, some remained for a year as caretakers while funding and equipment were sought. Several years later some of the seized items were returned to the station. Lincoln - Jaz Shelley and Alexis Markowski both put up big double-doubles to lead four Huskers in double figures, as the Nebraska women's basketball team rolled to an 80-64 win over Northwestern in front of more than 6,000 fans at Pinnacle Bank Arena on Sunday afternoon. Radio Caroline Flashback | Live Radio Radio Caroline's first musical theme was Jimmy McGriff's "Round Midnight", a jazz standard co-composed by Thelonious Monk. Caroline on the App Store The Radio Caroline name was used to broadcast from international waters, using five different ships of three different owners, from 1964 to 1990, and via satellite from 1998 to 2013 (pictured:. Huskers Close Out Cats, 80-64. 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. The Caroline Countdown of Sound 6pm Mondays is rtracks from new albums but by long established and newer artists, many whose albums sell well or in these days have high streaming figures, and. Legal status unclear due to a need to conceal actual legal ownership. BBC Radio 6 Music celebrates its 20th birthday with record listening figures. The bureauxs client must also be a RAJAR subscriber. 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. Various: broadly according to era and frequency: 1960s: mainstream pop. 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. Radio Caroline tried several frequencies, among them 963, 576, 585 (briefly), 558 (after Laser 558 closed) and later 819kHz. The Government argued that the pirate operation was a danger because of the possibility of the radio frequency interfering with emergency shipping channels. The Mi Amigo's 160-foot (49m) mast remained erect for six years. Mary wrote us: "I wondered if your series should be including the titles of any of the records played on the Test Transmission tapes? Ken Bruce has also confirmed that he's moving. On this page Hans Knot presents a few exemplary ones. Continuous Flashback Music. Music radio breakfast shows saw drop in listeners during pandemic - NME 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. Age UK cited NHS Digital figures for England which show there were 28,890 support requests for people aged 65 and over in 2021/22 where the person died without any of those services being provided. Observations and headlines from radio industry RAJAR Q1 2022 (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. We almost got on board the MEBO II with the assistance of Brian McKenzie but although we went out on the Trip tender the weather was too bad to allow boarding. Caroline Archive Hour. 'He said that's the name for my radio station,' he added. Shortly after the law was enacted, the station was renamed as Radio Caroline International. Presentations were made to US advertising agencies. Caroline's album format meant that, although the station served a gap in the market, its audience was smaller than in the 1960s. Radio Caroline had greater night-time interference, and it was decided to move Caroline to a new frequency. Owner: Planet Sales Ltd. First air date: 1964. To remain in international waters, the ship moved to a new, less-sheltered anchorage. [36] The remaining 5kW transmitter was later converted for short wave use. Radio Caroline first began broadcasting in March 1964 from a 702-ton former Danish passenger ferry, the Fredericia, in international waters off the coast of Felixstowe. From December 1984 the Ross Revenge broadcast Radio Monique, recorded and live Dutch-language programmes of a Dutch music radio production company using the 50kW transmitter during daytime. , updated 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. BBC Radio has major problems, with audiences following Chris Evans out Just as I was about to go to school one morning, my mother called me and my brother into my parents' bedroom to watch the M.V. Caroline can also be listened to over the internet including via music players such as Amazon echo (Alexa). Tens of thousands of elderly people have died without getting the care Caroline Pavis +1 (610) 357-3121 Investor Relations: When Laser 558 went on the air in 1984 an audience of several million soon grew over a short period of a few months, resulting in dwindling audience figures for . [6] The first programme, which was pre-recorded, was hosted by Chris Moore. They were pop and Europop aimed at the mainstream Dutch audience. [clarification needed]. To complete my story, I have to tell you that all this motivated me highly to assist the Dutch Caroline organization. In the evenings, Radio Caroline transmitted Dutch and American religious evangelist broadcasters such as Johan Maasbach and Roy Masters on medium wave, and later on short wave, under the name Viewpoint 963/819, or World Mission Radio (WMR) on short wave. The station restarted just before Christmas as Radio 199 but soon became Radio Caroline, with a Top 40 format. "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". Janssen Launches Health Equity Campaign in Partnership with Award-Winning Radio Host D.L. They were towed to Amsterdam by a salvage company to secure unpaid bills for servicing by the Dutch tender company Wijsmuller Transport. Harry Howard, History Correspondent For Mailonline 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? Another Belgian station, Radio Mi Amigo International, launched on 1 January 1974; it was run by Belgian businessman and Suzy Waffles owner Sylvain Tack. 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. Nowadays, Radio Caroline has to resort to other sources. Home; Stations . 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. 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'. ". In practice, day-to-day servicing was carried from France and the UK. 68% of Brits listen to the radio at home. Radio Caroline was off the air for most of the 1990s, except for occasional low-power broadcasts of one month. The LBC brand. Nowadays, Radio Caroline has to resort to other sources. 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. I remember Caroline North with great affection. On a national level, though, this figure is amazingly reliable; it's a national sample size of over 100,000 adults. DJs Chris Cary, broadcasting as Spangles Muldoon (who was also station manager), Andy Archer, Paul Alexander, Steve England, Johnny Jason and Peter Chicago (real name Peter Murtha)[25] manned the station. 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. "People who listened to NPR shows on the radio at home . Dave Foster. [citation needed]. Next to that we can listen in to Radio Caroline on internet and satellite. Radio Caroline North 1960s pirate radio - mikekemble.uk In late 1972, Radio Caroline had money problems. Weekly radio listening by age UK 2020 | Statista [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. On 27 April, the Mi Amigo was fully operational. O'Rahilly had initially competed with another pirate station broadcasting from the MV Mi Amigo. 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. I recall that Easter weekend in 1964 when Radio Caroline arrived very well. RAJAR analysis: Q2 figures mark first year of new radio ratings system We are no longer accepting comments on this article. 50 kW (second 10 kW transmitter later added). Total listening hours for Talkradio were up 23% compared to the last quarter to reach 5.7m hours each week, while Times Radio's listening hours were up 16% to 3.6m hours weekly. UK Radio Stations. [64] On 24 November 2021 a new transmitter was installed with an effective radiated power of 4kW. 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. 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. Radio Caroline presenter Ray Clark remembers listening to Mr Damon as a nine-year-old on the radio. [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. ", 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. On 2 July 1964, Radio Atlanta and Radio Caroline's companies, Project Atlanta and Planet Productions, announced the stations were to merge, with Crawford and O'Rahilly as joint managing directors. 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. There are very few restrictions placed on Caroline's licence, allowing them to broadcast virtually what they like within the law. 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. 2hrs of the best current and classic rock, you just have to check Dave`s programme out, live and always full of those special suprises. The final song was Pilot of the Airwaves by Charlie Dore.[43]. We simply knocked on the door which was answered by a young Canadian who called himself Rob Day. In 1976, The Loving Awareness Band released their only album, Loving Awareness on More Love Records (ML001), a label set up by O'Rahilly. Radio Caroline 1980s History 3 In 1974, O'Rahilly set up a pop group called The Loving Awareness Band, comprising John Turnbull (guitar) and Mick Gallagher (keyboards) both formerly of Skip Bifferty and two session musicians, Norman Watt-Roy (bass) and Charlie Charles (drums). 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. On 9 August 1985, an official vessel anchored 150 yards from the Ross Revenge. Radio Caroline Flashback live - London, United Kingdom | Online Radio Box 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. "[61], In May 2017, Ofcom awarded the station a community licence to broadcast to Suffolk and north Essex on 648kHz with a power of 1kW.[3][62]. Only British content are transmitting through this station so far. 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.