Offshore radio stations were no exception to this rule. On a national level, though, this figure is amazingly reliable; it's a national sample size of over 100,000 adults. 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 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. ", 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. 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. Caroline Flashback provides an alternative service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. The lineup will feature some of the most incendiary figures on the far right, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, whose supporters stormed . 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.". 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. On 3 March 1977, Caroline closed, announcing that it would return six days later on 319 metres. I can clearly recall "Pushover" by Etta James and "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" by Betty Everett being two of the tracks. 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! The comments below have not been moderated, By 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. Wonder where he is now? Engineer Peter Chicago had hidden transmitter parts during the raid and retuned one 5kW transmitter, previously used on short-wave, to 558kHz. 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. 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. [6] Because of the Christmas holidays, no solicitors were available to issue a writ and the ship lay in Amsterdam harbour until O'Rahilly arranged for it to be towed back to sea. [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. And that means that people's work schedules are significant drivers of the hourly flow of listening throughout the day. RAJAR stands for Radio Joint Audience Research and is the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the UK. The Caroline App is just 1.79 or equivalent price in your country. On 1 January 2016, a second channel was launched called Caroline Flashback, playing pop music from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. On 12 June 2006, the station bought an EPG slot on Sky channel 0199. 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. Dates of the upcoming scheduled releases of RAJAR data. On Saturday, 28 March, it began regular broadcasting at noon on 1520 kHz (announced as 199 metres) with the opening conducted by Simon Dee. 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%) The Ross Revenge also featured powerful generators.[37]. News at peak hours: 7, 8, 9am, 1pm; 5, 6, 7pm, with headlines at 6:30am, 7:30am and 8:30am. 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. Caroline claimed boarding the ship and removal or destruction of equipment was piracy. The Fredericia was renamed MV Caroline and anchored off Felixstowe, Suffolk, where it began test transmissions on Friday, 27 March 1964. 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. News service at peak hours. 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 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. Programmes were still heard on satellite until the provider replaced the signal with a 1kHz tone on the morning of 1 October 2013. Since January, Emma Barnett has been the lead presenter, coming via BBC Radio 5 Live. 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". Caroline can also be listened to over the internet including via music players such as Amazon echo (Alexa). The following day, Caroline was one of few stations in the South East still broadcasting. We . "Between December 26 and December 30, 1973, a friend and I went to Holland for a few days. In 2011 Radio Caroline joined Radioplayer UK, an internet service formed by the BBC, Global Radio and the Guardian Media Group that supplies a live feed of UK radio stations to across the world.[57]. . [31] During this period each night transmission of Radio Caroline started with Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft by the progressive Rock Band Klaatu, issued in 1976 on their album 3:47 E.S.T. 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. It began taking in water and the crew was rescued by lifeboat. In May 2017, Ofcom awarded the station an AM band community licence to broadcast to Suffolk and north Essex;[3] full-time broadcasting, via a previously redundant BBC World Service transmitter mast at Orford Ness, commenced on 22 December 2017.[4]. RAJAR figures for Q3 2022, 27 June - 18 September 2022. ", 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. No one said it would be an easy or fast journey, but I, for one, can only see better things for the future. Smedley's men occupied the fort until 22 June. In June 1990, Spectrum Radio, a new multi-ethnic community radio station in London, was officially allocated 558kHz. Many people, of a certain age, still associate Radio Caroline with the pop music of the 60s & 70s. Situation: Ship 3 miles off Ramsey, Isle of Man. General Radio Listening Statistics 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. The crew and broadcasting staff were rescued unharmed, but the ship's hull was damaged and repairs were carried out at Zaandam, Netherlands. After 31 August, shows for Radio Mi Amigo were delivered on cassettes rather than reel-to-reel tapes. Alan even worked with Bob at Radio 1 on. Home; Stations . Radio Atlanta closed at 8p.m. that day. 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! Some DJs were embarrassed but some were fascinated by the challenge of an abstract concept. 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. Since a couple of years we can read a lot on the subject Offshore Radio on several internet sites. However, according to Gerry Bishop's book Offshore Radio this transmitter was antiquated and failed to work. 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. 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. "Why do we have to pay, why aren't they out at sea, the music's no good," and so on. 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. 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. 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. 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. In 2020, the show's two long-serving presenters, Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey, both departed the programme. These analogue transmissions ended and a full digital service from Astra 28.2E started in February 2003.[52]. Comedian and award-winning radio host D.L. ", 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. Second, it also requires a good sales team and, of course, sales people don't work for nothing. On 27 April, the Mi Amigo was fully operational. Lodge hired new DJs and introduced free-form programming. 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. 50 kW (second 10 kW transmitter later added). Next to that we can listen in to Radio Caroline on internet and satellite. Four studios were on board, enabling other broadcasting services. 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. On 28 December, unpaid crew cut the Mi Amigo's generator fuel line and departed. [25], Between 11 and 20 April 1973, the ship broadcast for Radio Veronica while its ship, the Norderney, was aground. Caroline can be heard on DAB+ in Aldershot, Birmingham, Cambridge, Brighton, Glasgow, Norwich, London,[2] Portsmouth, Poulton-le-Fylde and Woking. DJ Jack Spector, of the WMCA "Good Guys" in New York, regularly recorded for Radio Caroline. To remain in international waters, the ship moved to a new, less-sheltered anchorage. [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. [30] Radio Caroline returned to the air on 15 April 1979. In 1976, The Loving Awareness Band released their only album, Loving Awareness on More Love Records (ML001), a label set up by O'Rahilly. MV Ross Revenge weathered the storm in the North Sea. 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. Ronan O'Rahilly passed away April 20 at the age of 79. Each of his crew was awarded The Thanks of the Institution on vellum.[33]. Radio Caroline continued on satellite but required manual tuning. Internet streaming of Radio Caroline programmes continued. Watch Live TV Listen to Live Radio. From the Radio Today site. The survey also found that 18.1 per cent of radio listeners tuned in. 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. While on a trip to America, O'Rahilly had seen a picture of Ms Kennedy laughing and smiling as she sat in the footwell of her father's desk in the White House's Oval Office. Radio Caroline 4+ Patrick Mounteney 4.6 10 Ratings Free iPhone Screenshots Listen live to the world famous Radio Caroline on your iOS device. On 3 September 1985 at 00:00 hours the Dioptric Surveyor departed in a storm. The name was taken from Caroline Bay, a popular recreation area nearby. To my surprise Bob, in passing, mentioned the plans to get an ILR-station on the MV Ross Revenge, after the ship had stranded on the Goodwin Sands. 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. MV Caroline sailed from Felixstowe to the Isle of Man, broadcasting as she went. Gaining advertising is very much a Catch-22 situation. Eventually, Caroline left 558kHz and moved to 819kHz. Radio Caroline was a real phenomen. I did not succeed in getting things right every day, but I certainly felt good every time I heard the famous Caroline bell going "Ding, Ding," followed by the opening tune from those days: "On My Way Back Home" from The New Riders on the Purple Sage. Great reads on Radio Caroline and Free Radio from the 1960's to the 1990's, including from Radio . 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. 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. News stories appeared in Europe[22] announcing the start of Caroline Television[23] from two Super Constellation aircraft using Stratovision technology. Spectrum threatened to sue the Radio Authority, which then allowed Spectrum to temporarily broadcast on 990kHz alongside 558kHz. Broadcasting Hours: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and 12 midnight to 2a.m. In the 1960's, to attract advertisers, Radio Caroline and Radio London always reported rather high listening figures. For the first years, advertising on the station was in demand. 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. The pirates were also not paying any royalty to artists, composers or record companies. The project not unexpectedly hit the quay side, but it would have been interesting should the plan have come to fruition. 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. However, the ship sank in a storm in March 1980 after losing its anchor. 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.