The UK Government also closed the international waters loophole via the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act of 1967, although Radio Caroline would continue to broadcast in various forms right up to 1990. Pop Singles From the 60s & 70s. Ronan O'Rahilly obituary Founder of Radio Caroline, the pirate radio station that captured the spirit of the swinging 60s Ronan O’Rahilly, left, with the Radio Caroline DJ Tony Prince in 1967. On 20th October 1978 Mark Jacobs interrupted the programme and said that Radio Mi Amigo must leave the air due to a generator fault. Main Quality Album Channel. A number of DJs of the newly formed Radio 1 came from pirate stations. In the 1970s Cary was a DJ on RNI before a stint at Radio Luxembourg. Radio Caroline, the former offshore radio station, now sending multiple music streams on the internet, also local full time DAB and regional AM on special weekends. Radio Caroline 1970’s - History (9) ... Miss Caroline '78, who had been chosen by DJs on board the Mi Amigo from photograph entries in a competition which the station had been promoting for some weeks, accompanied the Fun Bus. Quite an achievement for the volunteers that have kept the station on the air in one form or another for all these years. DJs from Radio Caroline had been pressing Ronan O'Rahilly to reintroduce an English language service in addition to the output from Radio Atlantis. Chris worked on Radio Caroline when it came back on air in 1972 after being in the port of Amsterdam for 5 years (from 1968) and later went to Radio Luxembourg 208 in 1975 and stayed there until around 1978. Radio Luxembourg enjoyed a monopoly of English-language commercial raio programming heard in the UK until, in March 1964, Radio Caroline began daytime commercial transmissions to southern England from a ship anchored less than four miles off the Essex coast (the station later acquired a second ship, and moved the first to the Irish Sea). With our friends Manx Radio 1368 . This page deals with reproductions of memorabelia from the 1960's.
In the meantime you can listen to selections from a previous broadcast. Now Playing: Radio airplay monitoring powered by ACRCloud. Radio Caroline 1970’s - History (4) ... Radio Atlantis was launched on 15th July 1973 and broadcast in Dutch and Flemish for 13 hours a day. "ABOUT RADIO CAROLINE" Booklet - June 1964, FULL BOOK IN PDF FORMAT (7,319k pdf) RADIO CAROLINE AND IT'S STARS - 1965 - FULL BOOK IN PDF … Radio Caroline commemorates it's 50th anniversary in 2014. 1970s