". The 'amateurs' were said to be reaching 39million listeners with 15million in the South of England and the rest in the North. 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. Situation: Ship 3 miles off Ramsey, Isle of Man. I am enjoying their programmes immensely at present but there always seems to be a lot of criticism about the station no matter what they do. I vividly remember the days leading up to the first broadcast from the Ross, the test tones, the usually incorrect! About - The Organisation. Radio Caroline North subsequently moved to 257m (1169kHz) but also called it 259. The station restarted just before Christmas as Radio 199 but soon became Radio Caroline, with a Top 40 format. Radio Caroline are committed to promote UK Culture, Music, News, Heritage, Tourism and many more through their . media reports and the shock of hearing just how powerful the signal was. 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 band broke up in 1977; Watt-Roy and Charles played on Ian Dury's New Boots and Panties!! Sellel pakasest paukuval imekaunil peval oli pikese mber ka halo, mille vike jupike on paremal taevas nha. TalkRadio, its culture war-loving sister radio station, also hit a record audience figure of 650,000 listeners - causing much delight among some of the station's staff, who said they have grown. Smedley later withdrew from the deal. [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]. Part of the raid was broadcast live[40] before officials disabled the transmitters. Latest releases and insightful stories into the radio industry. Markets. 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. Since the pandemic took hold in the United States, NPR's radio ratings have taken a nosedive. [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". Radio Caroline continued, moving its headquarters and servicing operation to Spain. [39] Caroline returned to the air using a makeshift aerial with a less powerful signal. Between them, the stations were covering most of the British Isles. It was founded in 1964. Rough weather sometimes prevented tapes from arriving and old programmes had to be repeated. 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. 'He said that's the name for my radio station,' he added. To remain in international waters, the ship moved to a new, less-sheltered anchorage. I remember wandering around that show house with my tranny on my arm. 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. 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. They were pop and Europop aimed at the mainstream Dutch audience. During mid-August 1989, authorities in several European countries carried out coordinated raids on houses, recording studios and offices believed to be used by Caroline. No one said it would be an easy or fast journey, but I, for one, can only see better things for the future. 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. 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. Hughley is partnering with Janssen to empower Black communities with information and encourage better self-advocacy for their health. It commemorated the 40th anniversary of Radio Caroline and promoted the station's legal internet and satellite programmes. ", Andries Peterson from the Netherlands also has his memories of the station: "I had heard from Radio Caroline before the station started its transmissions off the Dutch coast, late 1973. 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. 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. MV Caroline sailed from Felixstowe to the Isle of Man, broadcasting as she went. RAJAR figures for Q3 2022, 27 June - 18 September 2022. In mid-September 1965, the crew and DJs on MV Mi Amigo were joined for the weekend by 1960s pop singer Sylvan Whittingham, who visited the ship to promote her single "We Don't Belong". During the same quarter, on BBC Sounds there were a total of 162m plays of. Caroline also promoted O'Rahilly's concept of Loving Awareness (LA), a far-eastern philosophy of love and peace. The Ross Revenge also featured powerful generators.[37]. [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. A coastguard vessel escorted the launch back to shore, but the authorities were unhappy that Caroline listeners had jammed the emergency switchboards. 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. The bureauxs client must also be a RAJAR subscriber. 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. 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. Unhappy at the loss of advertising, Radio Mi Amigo terminated its contract with Caroline in November 1978 and broadcast from its own ship, the MV Magdalena later that year, but this was short-lived. Important information on how the survey works and who and what we measure. Her latest opera, The Listeners, is a psychological nail-biter set in southern California. Initially this was a minor inconvenience as the 300-foot (91m) mast was thought sturdy enough. Since a couple of years we can read a lot on the subject Offshore Radio on several internet sites. "It was just so special and so different and worth fighting . The first was a Belgian station called Radio Atlantis, owned by Belgian businessman Adriaan van Landschoot. ", 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. The ship was further delayed by hull damage, and repaired before writs could be issued. 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 . Average weekday audience figures per quarter hour (in 000s). American Cancer Society Cancer Facts & Figures for African American/Black People. [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. 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. (Gordon): For the moment from all of us, goodbye and God bless. Includes Audio Types such as Podcasts, Live and Catch Up Radio, On Demand Music Services. Caroline can be heard on DAB+ in Aldershot, Birmingham, Cambridge, Brighton, Glasgow, Norwich, London,[2] Portsmouth, Poulton-le-Fylde and Woking. Later, some programmes were pre-recorded on land and broadcast simultaneously from both ships. In February 1964, O'Rahilly obtained the Fredericia and converted it into a radio ship at the Irish port of Greenore, which was owned by his father. 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. Several years later some of the seized items were returned to the station. 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. That autumn various tests, consisting of continuous music, were made on 259 metres. On 1 January 2016, a second channel was launched called Caroline Flashback, playing pop music from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. DJ Jack Spector, of the WMCA "Good Guys" in New York, regularly recorded for Radio Caroline. Next to that we can listen in to Radio Caroline on internet and satellite. American Cancer Society 2022-2024. . Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly and Alan Crawford initially to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly. Caroline Pavis +1 (610) 357-3121 Investor Relations: In December 1976, Radio Mi Amigo moved to 1562kHz on the 50kW transmitter, leaving Caroline on 1187kHz 24 hours a day on the 10kW. 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. When Radio Monique hired the main transmitter, spare parts were taken from a fourth transmitter to convert the 5kW into a 10kW unit, the RCA 5 and 10kW transmitters having similar designs. [18], On 3 March 1968, the radio ships Mi Amigo and Caroline were boarded and seized before the day's broadcasting began. For the first years, advertising on the station was in demand. ", The next Caroline memory arrived from Groningen in the North East of the Netherlands. The Dutch claimed the ship's Panamanian registration had lapsed in 1987, was not under legal protection from any country and that its transmissions breached international regulations which since 1982 had prohibited broadcasting from outside national territories. How radio is measured in other European countries and throughout the rest of the World. 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). The crew (Caroline Martin, Rico and one other) was rescued by an RAF helicopter. Ronan O'Rahilly passed away April 20 at the age of 79. On 4 May 2015, Radio Caroline started a 24-hour "Flashback" webstream[58] carrying "oldies" music and jingles. Dave Foster (Rpt) Radio stations ranked by weekly reach in the United Kingdom (UK) as of 1st quarter 2020 (in 1,000 listeners) Listeners reached in thousands* BBC Radio 2 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 1 Classic FM. We duly bought the wine but do not know if it was the one heard when Radio Seagull opened on January 7, 1974. Shrewdly, the BBC also employed many of the one-time pirate DJs who had helped to make Radio Caroline a success. Daytime programming was leased to a community radio service called Puketapu Radio on 756kHz.[75]. "Between December 26 and December 30, 1973, a friend and I went to Holland for a few days. Listening in Lockdown -1.04 -1.26%. The Dutch government banned unlicensed offshore radio on 1 September 1974. Radio Caroline was founded by Irish businessman Ronan O'Rahilly and George Drummond. 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. One 5kW transmitter was initially not serviceable. 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. 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. His programme, which airs five days a week, rose from 4.3 million to 4.5 million listeners between the . Radio Caroline broadcasts music from the 1960s to contemporary, with an emphasis on album-oriented rock (AOR) and "new" music from "carefully selected albums". BBC Radio 4 had 10.48m listeners with 6.62m tuning in for The Today programme (Mon-Sat). However, full station identity jingles for the new Radio Caroline were not aired until 10th October 1983. It began taking in water and the crew was rescued by lifeboat. 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. The supermarket chain Asda and English Heritage were among the backers. Radio Caroline is the best UK online radio. The resulting signal was low-powered, but ensured that Caroline South's advertising revenue would continue. BBC Radio 2 has the best radio audience figures in the UK, with a reach of almost 14.58 million per week. Original 1960s Caroline North jingles were interspersed with generic Radio Caroline ones. Brouwer intended to obtain an AM frequency from the Netherlands authorities in 2003 when its medium wave frequencies were reallocated. Radio Caroline had greater night-time interference, and it was decided to move Caroline to a new frequency. From the anchorage in the Knock Deep the Mi Amigo's mast could be seen on the horizon. Non-Dutch staff were given the option of staying on the ship or returning to the Netherlands, and most chose to stay on board. BBC Radio 2 to air special show for Tony Blackburn's 80th birthday. 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. Caroline Flashback provides an alternative service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. Menu. 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! 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. 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. We simply knocked on the door which was answered by a young Canadian who called himself Rob Day. The Government argued that the pirate operation was a danger because of the possibility of the radio frequency interfering with emergency shipping channels. Dutch nationals were arrested and returned to the Netherlands, together with most of the broadcasting equipment. Nice to think about Dixie Peach, too. 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 1990 the UK government amended the 1967 anti-offshore law to allow the boarding and silencing of stations in international waters if their signals could be received in the UK, even if their vessels were foreign-registered and operated. From the Radio Today site. Listen live to the world famous Radio Caroline on your iOS device. The name was taken from Caroline Bay, a popular recreation area nearby. The latest listening figures revealed that the Radio 2 breakfast show audience has fallen to its lowest level for a decade. Listening Statistics: 23 Facts You Need to Hear. In late 1977, Radio Caroline began sponsored evangelical programmes, and music programmes began at 9p.m. On 20 October 1978, technical and financial problems put the Mi Amigo off the air. I recall that Easter weekend in 1964 when Radio Caroline arrived very well. The only singer to stay overnight, she helped present programmes, make jingles, and close the station at night.[15]. However, the ship sank in a storm in March 1980 after losing its anchor. On 27 April, the Mi Amigo was fully operational. "People who listened to NPR shows on the radio at home . Since 1991, the Ross Revenge has been maintained by enthusiasts called the Radio Caroline Support Group, originally the Ross Revenge Support Group. The benefits, entitlements as a RAJAR subscriber and the data explained. Backed by wealthy investors which included Jocelyn Stevens of the popular Queen Magazine, the station was bizarrely named after Caroline Kennedy the daughter of assassinated US President John F Kennedy. The BBC Light, Third, and Home programmes became Radios 2, 3 and 4 respectively. Legal status unclear due to a need to conceal actual legal ownership. On Easter Saturday, my parents wanted to go and view a show house on a new estate. In 2017, Ofcom awarded Radio Caroline its first AM licence, allowing it to broadcast to audiences in parts of Suffolk and north Essex. 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. 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. On 3 September 1985 at 00:00 hours the Dioptric Surveyor departed in a storm. 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. 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. 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. I just hated the intrusive way deejays tried to influence my taste on the other radio stations. This was all in the 1970's. [clarification needed]. She stayed behind the breakwater for about fifteen to twenty minutes and we watched the ship before it headed north toward, we assumed, the I.O.M. [36] The remaining 5kW transmitter was later converted for short wave use. In Timaru, an NZBC station, originally 3XC, later 3ZC, broadcast as Radio Caroline until 1995. However, the storm had weakened the mast, which collapsed in another storm later. 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. Clive Garrard. Caroline's album format meant that, although the station served a gap in the market, its audience was smaller than in the 1960s. This was replaced by a twin-mast T-antenna. They were towed to Amsterdam by a salvage company to secure unpaid bills for servicing by the Dutch tender company Wijsmuller Transport. Following the election, RNI resumed its original name but jamming continued under the newly elected Conservative government. I live in Wigan, just west of Manchester. The project not unexpectedly hit the quay side, but it would have been interesting should the plan have come to fruition. The Caroline App is just 1.79 or equivalent price in your country. Caroline broadcast regular apologies to Spectrum listeners but refused to vacate the channel. [64] On 24 November 2021 a new transmitter was installed with an effective radiated power of 4kW. I remember Caroline North with great affection. And that means that people's work schedules are significant drivers of the hourly flow of listening throughout the day. In 1987, the Territorial Sea Act[38] extended the UK maritime limit from three to 12 nautical miles (22km). 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. Programmes were still heard on satellite until the provider replaced the signal with a 1kHz tone on the morning of 1 October 2013. 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. One would circle over the North Sea in international air space near the United Kingdom, while the other remained on standby. Her story illustrates how uniquely dangerous government regards an independent voice transmitted over unrestricted airwaves and to what ends it will go to silence it."[42]. Offshore radio stations were no exception to this rule. [citation needed], In Spain, a station broadcast during the summer 2009 on 102.7MHz in the Costa Blanca from studios in Benidorm. It was claimed in 1964 by Caroline's manager that they had a larger audience than the BBC. MV Caroline arrived at her new anchorage on the southern tip of the Bahama Bank, Ramsey Bay, on 6 July 1964,[13] at a position formerly occupied by the Bahama Bank Lightship. It's Source of your ultimate Entertainment. On 31 July 2014 the ship was moved to the Blackwater Estuary in Essex.[47]. Hughley to Raise Awareness About Multiple Myeloma Among Black Communities. 15 August 1967 following passage of the Marine Offences Act, Broadcasting from various locations offshore to Western Europe. 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. 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. Knowing the lads at Caroline it was probably drunk and a replacement bought. Lodge hired new DJs and introduced free-form programming. Caroline claimed boarding the ship and removal or destruction of equipment was piracy. [citation needed] The new station introduced British audiences to slick American-style top 40 radio with electronic jingles produced by Dallas-based PAMS, and was an immediate success. 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. Nowadays, Radio Caroline has to resort to other sources. Caroline caused more interference to Spectrum than vice versa. That this House expresses its disappointment that, having pioneered commercial radio in the UK and for the past decade being a fully licensed broadcaster, Radio Caroline, a cornerstone of British radio history, has been denied by OFCOM the opportunity to secure a medium wave frequency from which to broadcast; regrets that as a result its devoted listeners are confined to listening to Radio Caroline via the internet and unable to enjoy its musical offerings in transit; and calls on OFCOM to exhaust all avenues in making the provisions available for Radio Caroline to celebrate its 50th birthday in 2014 by broadcasting on a medium wave frequency which, it appears, is unwanted by both BBC and commercial operators as a broadcast platform.