Matt Schlapp, CPAC's head, faces leadership questions amid sex assault Daytime programming was leased to a community radio service called Puketapu Radio on 756kHz.[75]. Global delivers record RAJAR results | Global Each of his crew was awarded The Thanks of the Institution on vellum.[33]. The Quarterly Summary Report of all stations with added features. [30] Radio Caroline returned to the air on 15 April 1979. In Timaru, an NZBC station, originally 3XC, later 3ZC, broadcast as Radio Caroline until 1995. He was part entrepreneur, part buccaneer who broadcasted rock 'n' roll from a. Next to that we can listen in to Radio Caroline on internet and satellite. 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. Legal status unclear due to a need to conceal actual legal ownership. Former offshore broadcasters who continue on the station are: Roger Mathews, Nigel Harris, Martin Fisher, Marc Jacobs, Johnny Lewis, Doug Wood, Dave Foster, Cliff Osbourne, Chris Pearson, Bob Lawrence, Jeremy Chartham and Ad Roberts. Initially this was a minor inconvenience as the 300-foot (91m) mast was thought sturdy enough. 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. That autumn various tests, consisting of continuous music, were made on 259 metres. Comedian and award-winning radio host D.L. The two stations experimented with different frequencies. I think so. Since 1991, the Ross Revenge has been maintained by enthusiasts called the Radio Caroline Support Group, originally the Ross Revenge Support Group. In a sign of Radio Caroline's enormous influence on popular culture, the BBC launched Radio 1 in September 1967 in an effort to respond to its success, as well as that of the rival Radio London. 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. 15 Alfred Place Radio Caroline Continuous Caroline Music Shows Adrian Skirrow London, United Kingdom Alan Watts Alan Watts has been one of the trusty side-kicks to radio god Bob Harris for the past ten years including stints at GLR in 1994, moving on with Bob to Thames Valley FM and of course since 1997 at BBC Radio 2. The four-week event was funded through on-air local business commercials. 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. Who RAJAR is owned by and what we do. Later that day, the Dutch Royal Navy returned the crew and fighting broke out on board. Reception area: North of England, Midlands, Ireland, Scotland and North Wales. A rudimentary news service, consisting of headlines on the half hour at peak listening times, was started on 12th September 1983, while the famous Caroline Bell was re-introduced on 16th September. Only British content are transmitting through this station so far. MV Caroline sailed from Felixstowe to the Isle of Man, broadcasting as she went. [49] The LV 18 was later used by the BBC for Pirate BBC Essex broadcasts.[50]. 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. The benefits, entitlements as a RAJAR subscriber and the data explained. News at peak hours: 7, 8, 9am, 1pm; 5, 6, 7pm, with headlines at 6:30am, 7:30am and 8:30am. 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. It gets good listening figures as it is the safe, middle England choice for people who have never listened to or refuse to listen to Radio 4, 6music, (or Radio 3, although I'm not a fan myself) or . BBC Radio 1 loses half a million listeners in first quarter of 2022 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. "Between December 26 and December 30, 1973, a friend and I went to Holland for a few days. A little about myself. 'He said that's the name for my radio station,' he added. This service was Radio Seagull and broadcast live during the evening. Boom Radio grows by 9,000 listeners from 233,000 to 242,000 but has a boom in hours - with average hours up from 7.8 to 10.1 and total hours up from 1.81m to 2.45m Times Radio drops by 135,000. 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. In December 1976, Radio Mi Amigo moved to 1562kHz on the 50kW transmitter, leaving Caroline on 1187kHz 24 hours a day on the 10kW. No, I did buy records which were also nice and were brought to my ears by listening to Radio Caroline quite other music than the other stations were offering. The first was a Belgian station called Radio Atlantis, owned by Belgian businessman Adriaan van Landschoot. The BBC Light, Third, and Home programmes became Radios 2, 3 and 4 respectively. That's the group of Sietse Brouwer in Harlingen. The station was opened by DJ Tom Anderson, who had said "goodbye" from the sinking Mi Amigo in 1980. Myriad factors contribute to the audience curve for radio . Now I don't know Peter Moore personally, so cannot comment on the type of person he is, but I do know that he has done a lot for Caroline over the past few years and I'm sure without him it would still be nowhere to be heard. Ronan O'Rahilly passed away April 20 at the age of 79. 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. Radio Caroline 4+ Patrick Mounteney 4.6 10 Ratings Free iPhone Screenshots Listen live to the world famous Radio Caroline on your iOS device. (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 duly bought the wine but do not know if it was the one heard when Radio Seagull opened on January 7, 1974. 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 Harry Howard, History Correspondent For Mailonline
Several years later some of the seized items were returned to the station. RAJAR reserves the right to publish complaints along with their outcome on this page. During a violent struggle, Calvert was shot dead. I don't think Grandma saw her radio again till I managed to get a small tranny of my own to replace it. [64] On 24 November 2021 a new transmitter was installed with an effective radiated power of 4kW. The pirates were also not paying any royalty to artists, composers or record companies. Radio Caroline is a British station from London. Times Radio's audience fell by over a fifth quarter-on-quarter, according to the latest RAJAR radio listening figures. The crew (Caroline Martin, Rico and one other) was rescued by an RAF helicopter. Radio Caroline broadcasts music from the 1960s to contemporary, with an emphasis on album-oriented rock (AOR) and "new" music from "carefully selected albums". On this page we have collected a few exemplary ones. album, and Turnbull and Gallagher joined them on the Stiff's tour, becoming The Blockheads.[28]. The project not unexpectedly hit the quay side, but it would have been interesting should the plan have come to fruition. Listening Statistics: 23 Facts You Need to Hear. [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. "[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]. Radio Caroline are committed to promote UK Culture, Music, News, Heritage, Tourism and many more through their . BBC Radio 6 Music celebrates its 20th birthday with record listening To remain in international waters, the ship moved to a new, less-sheltered anchorage. Later, some programmes were pre-recorded on land and broadcast simultaneously from both ships. It's Source of your ultimate Entertainment. Later in 1973, when the contract with Radio Caroline ended, the crew of Radio Atlantis moved to their own ship, the MVJeanine.[6]. [14] Presenters Tony Blackburn, Roger Gale, Ray Teret, Simon Dee, Tony Prince, Spangles Muldoon, Keith Skues, Johnnie Walker, Robbie Dale, Dave Lee Travis, Tommy Vance, Tom Edwards, Paul Noble, Bob Stewart and Andy Archer became well known. By and large the old hands ignored us but Rob was very enthusiastic and took us to the top floor where the new studios of Radio Mi Amigo were being given a dry run. 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. A bulletin report which provides information of the survey period, any new stations that have joined or any changes to the stations or groups. When Radio Caroline 'had bigger audience than the BBC I never had the idea to buy any of the singles they promoted, as these got so much airplay and therefore entered the charts. 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. During 2013, a survey showed a continued move from satellite reception and growth in internet listening. Spectrum threatened to sue the Radio Authority, which then allowed Spectrum to temporarily broadcast on 990kHz alongside 558kHz. 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. 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. About - The Organisation. USD. 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. ", And then a small packet of Caroline's past was brought back by Mary Payne, director of the Radio London company which does a lot of work, including maintaining an excellent site on the history of Radio London together with her husband Chris. 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 . Ken Bruce has also confirmed that he's moving. 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. [citation needed]. Shrewdly, the BBC also employed many of the one-time pirate DJs who had helped to make Radio Caroline a success. Radio stations ranked by listeners weekly UK 2020 | Statista 68% of Brits listen to the radio at home. Encouraged by Scandinavian and Dutch radio pirates, in February 1964 O'Rahilly obtained the 702-ton former Danish passenger ferry Fredericia, launched in Frederikshavn in 1929,[5] which was converted into a radio ship at the Irish port of Greenore, owned by O'Rahilly's father. When Radio Veronica closed in 1974, some presenters moved to Radio Mi Amigo. The 10kW transmitters could run on the Henschel generator beside the two main MAN units and also a Cummins unit on the aft deck behind the wheelhouse.[29]. Continuous Flashback Music. As its popularity began to blossom, the British Government looked at ways to curtail the station's influence. 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. Only the Caroline app has a live programme schedule, 'Now Playing' and multiple streams to suit most internet speeds. 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 In the 1960's, to attract advertisers, Radio Caroline and Radio London always reported rather high listening figures. Radio Caroline continued, moving its headquarters and servicing operation to Spain. 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. Following the election, RNI resumed its original name but jamming continued under the newly elected Conservative government. 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. One would circle over the North Sea in international air space near the United Kingdom, while the other remained on standby. In December 2010, Chatham and Aylesford MP Tracey Crouch presented an Early Day Motion to the House of Commons calling for Ofcom to allow Radio Caroline to broadcast as a licensed medium wave station to its "traditional heartland of the south east". [65], Radio Caroline's founder, Ronan O'Rahilly, was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2013; his death aged 79 on 20 April 2020 was announced by Radio Caroline. Caroline Hepker. 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. After a short test on 773kHz in late 1975, in May 1976, Radio Caroline began a daytime service on 1562kHz (192 m) using a 10kW transmitter, while its overnight service continued to share the 50kW transmitter with Radio Mi Amigo's daytime programming on 1187kHz (253 metres, announced as 259). 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). [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. Tuning in to Radio Listening Habits | Nielsen I thought something might happen and sure enough at 1.00 p.m. British time on came RNI Second, by about 3.45 p.m. the signal was really very poor so I tuned into Manx radio and there was Daffy Don Allen with his country and Western Jamboree. UKRadioLive - UK's Internet Radio Stations In One Place Officially, Radio Caroline was managed from offices in North America, with advertising from the US and Canada. Much improvement to the lay-out of the ship was planned but basically the studios would have remained. Janssen Launches Health Equity Campaign in Partnership with Award-Winning Radio Host D.L. [6] During summer 1973, it broadcast separate stations in English and Dutch simultaneously, on 389 m/773kHz and 252 m (announced as 259)/1187kHz. Caroline Flashback provides an alternative service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. 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. 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. Owner: Planet Sales Ltd. First air date: 1964. On this page Hans Knot presents a few exemplary ones. [citation needed], In Spain, a station broadcast during the summer 2009 on 102.7MHz in the Costa Blanca from studios in Benidorm. It commemorated the 40th anniversary of Radio Caroline and promoted the station's legal internet and satellite programmes. 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. Offshore radio stations were no exception to this rule. No one said it would be an easy or fast journey, but I, for one, can only see better things for the future. The first record played was Fool (If You Think It's Over), by Chris Rea, dedicated to the British Home Office. 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]. (ii)576 kHz: continuation of above, with slightly more singles played. Internet streaming of Radio Caroline programmes continued. 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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. Live listening figures revealed with 34.51m tuning in to BBC Radio each Tens of thousands of elderly people have died without getting the care He announced towards the end of the programme that it was his last show because he had accepted an offer to become programme controller of RNI! Community radio listening figures - do 10 million people tune in every week? Menu. Wonder where he is now? Radio Caroline continued on satellite but required manual tuning. Caroline Hepker anchors Bloomberg Radio's 'Daybreak Europe' programme, on-air live from 6-10am weekday mornings.