Comedian and award-winning radio host D.L. 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. 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! Zoe Ball lost a million listeners from the same period last year, when . Continuous Flashback Music. Internet streaming of Radio Caroline programmes continued. The national digital station, which is owned by News UK's . On 12 June 2006, the station bought an EPG slot on Sky channel 0199. Commercial programming commenced at noon on Friday 22 December 2017, with a signal that could be heard as far afield as Southampton, Birmingham, Glasgow and in large parts of The Netherlands and Belgium. Finally, Radio Mi Amigo moved to 962kHz on 1 December. We . The Mi Amigo "Top 50" tapes were flown over by helicopter to get them on board more quickly. 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. 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]. 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 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. In late 1972, Radio Caroline had money problems. Times Radio's audience fell by over a fifth quarter-on-quarter, according to the latest RAJAR radio listening figures. Mary wrote us: "I wondered if your series should be including the titles of any of the records played on the Test Transmission tapes? [39] Caroline returned to the air using a makeshift aerial with a less powerful signal. We duly bought the wine but do not know if it was the one heard when Radio Seagull opened on January 7, 1974.
Radio Caroline Flashback live - London, United Kingdom | Online Radio Box [36] The remaining 5kW transmitter was later converted for short wave use. 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 .
RAJAR analysis: Q2 figures mark first year of new radio ratings system In June 1990, Spectrum Radio, a new multi-ethnic community radio station in London, was officially allocated 558kHz. The station restarted just before Christmas as Radio 199 but soon became Radio Caroline, with a Top 40 format.
Radio Caroline - listen live On 1 October 1989, Radio Caroline restarted broadcasting from the Ross Revenge using makeshift equipment and low power, to retain the 558kHz frequency. [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. 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. RAJAR figures for Q3 2022, 27 June - 18 September 2022. 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.
Ofcom agrees for Radio Caroline to turn up the power Two days later, Mi Amigo was towed to IJmuiden and seized because of unpaid bills. On 5 November 1990, lack of fuel and supplies forced the station to stop transmitting. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. That's the group of Sietse Brouwer in Harlingen. Includes Audio Types such as Podcasts, Live and Catch Up Radio, On Demand Music Services. 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. Harry Howard, History Correspondent For Mailonline, Mom who lost both sons to fentanyl blasts laughing Biden, Two Russian tanks annihilated with bombs by Ukrainian armed forces, Isabel Oakeshott receives 'menacing' message from Matt Hancock, Pavement where disabled woman gestured at cyclist before fatal crash, Pro-Ukrainian drone lands on Russian spy planes exposing location, 'Buster is next!' Tony Blackburn turns 80 years old on the 29th of January and BBC Radio 2 will celebrate the occasion in a special programme, reports OnTheRadio.. "Between December 26 and December 30, 1973, a friend and I went to Holland for a few days. 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 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. On 1 January 2016, a second channel was launched called Caroline Flashback, playing pop music from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. On a national level, though, this figure is amazingly reliable; it's a national sample size of over 100,000 adults. At one time both stations were even claiming more than 8.8 million listeners each. Radio Caroline South's 259 metres signal was now near those of Radio London on 266m (1133kHz) and the BBC's Light Programme on 247m (1214kHz). 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. Three British nationals, a Dutchman and their canary (named Wilson after the former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson) were rescued. -1.04 -1.26%.
Radio control: Inside the Q4 2021 RAJAR listening figures 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. 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 . 50 kW (second 10 kW transmitter later added). 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. ", The next Caroline memory arrived from Groningen in the North East of the Netherlands. However, in July 1964, the owners of the two stations opted to merge the operations. [6], Smedley was charged with Calvert's murder on 18 July, but this was reduced to a charge of manslaughter.
Dates of the upcoming scheduled releases of RAJAR data. Having to manoeuvre the lifeboat alongside the stricken vessel 13 times in high seas and a north-easterly gale earned Coxswain Charles Bowry an RNLI Silver Medal. [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. Multiple Streams Programme Schedule 'Now Playing' Programme 'alarms' Presenter profiles 'This Day' page Send emails Although most broadcasting staff left at that time, some remained for a year as caretakers while funding and equipment were sought. The Quarterly Summary Report of all stations with added features. 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
Community radio listening figures - do 10 million people tune - media Since the pandemic took hold in the United States, NPR's radio ratings have taken a nosedive. 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. O'Rahilly and Drummond were inspired by the Danish Radio Mercur, which in 1952 became the first station in the world to broadcast commercial radio from a vessel in international waters without permission from the authorities in the country that it broadcast to. Jan 27, 2022. Shrewdly, the BBC also employed many of the one-time pirate DJs who had helped to make Radio Caroline a success. Shortly after the law was enacted, the station was renamed as Radio Caroline International. After 31 August, shows for Radio Mi Amigo were delivered on cassettes rather than reel-to-reel tapes.
This service was Radio Seagull and broadcast live during the evening. "Europe's Best Music on Europe's Best Music Station" Format: community, classic rock. BBC Radio 4 had 10.48m listeners with 6.62m tuning in for The Today programme (Mon-Sat). Her latest opera, The Listeners, is a psychological nail-biter set in southern California. Whittingham was unable to leave on the tender when a storm arose. In October 1965, O'Rahilly bought Crawford's interest in the MV Mi Amigo and engaged Tom Lodge from Radio Caroline North to make programme changes and regain the audience from Radio London. Broadcasting Hours: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and 12 midnight to 2a.m.
Times Radio listening figures: 20% fall in second RAJAR release [67][68][69][70] The station, owned by St Peters Studio and Community Radio Limited, has not only licensed the name from Radio Caroline, but has also got technical support and programming from the station, who have their own community radio licences in the south, south east and in East Anglia on 648AM (with Radio Caroline also found on DAB in a number of British cities, plus DAB+ in Cambridge). It's Source of your ultimate Entertainment. My parents' house in Holyhead, North Wales, looked out over Newry Beach and we often saw various ships stopping off just behind the breakwater to pick up the pilot for their onward journey Blue Funnel line vessels in particular. The BBC Light, Third, and Home programmes became Radios 2, 3 and 4 respectively. 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. Radio Caroline began to broadcast from the ship on 19 August 1983, with unwanted mechanical sounds on speech. When Marine &c. Broadcasting Offences Act become law on 14 August 1967, Radio Caroline was renamed Radio Caroline International. 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 latest listening figures reveal that Global continues to lead the UK commercial radio market with the biggest set of audience numbers in our history. Without serious competition, Radio Caroline gained a regular daytime audience of some 7 million.[12]. 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 tried several frequencies, among them 963, 576, 585 (briefly), 558 (after Laser 558 closed) and later 819kHz. The comments below have not been moderated, By
Over the following months, Caroline's signal quality improved as transmitting valves were donated and programming returned to normal. Engineer Peter Chicago had hidden transmitter parts during the raid and retuned one 5kW transmitter, previously used on short-wave, to 558kHz. 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! 1980s: Obviously, we hope to be back with you as soon as possible, but just for the moment we would like to say goodbye. Only 17% of the total UK population can pick up community radio, according to the same Ofcom report we mentioned earlier. Since November 2009 Radio Seagull can be heard periodically on 558kHz in London. I vividly remember the days leading up to the first broadcast from the Ross, the test tones, the usually incorrect! Details of the modified methodology introduced since the Covid Pandemic. On Easter Saturday, my parents wanted to go and view a show house on a new estate. 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. 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. There proved to be a lot of people, cultivating little gems of the station's history. Great reads on Radio Caroline and Free Radio from the 1960's to the 1990's, including from Radio . However, full station identity jingles for the new Radio Caroline were not aired until 10th October 1983. At the same time, Allan Crawford's Project Atlanta was equipping the MV Mi Amigo at Greenore, where the two competed to be the first on air. Caroline coming in to pick up her pilot. The Caroline App is just 1.79 or equivalent price in your country. Caroline Hepker. The station was opened by DJ Tom Anderson, who had said "goodbye" from the sinking Mi Amigo in 1980.
BBC Radio has major problems, with audiences following Chris Evans out Part of the proceeds helps keep us on the air. 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.". [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. The UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) put a permanent watch on movements around the Ross Revenge and the MV Communicator, Laser 558's ship. 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. 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. The benefits, entitlements as a RAJAR subscriber and the data explained.
Radio Caroline 1980s History 3 The two stations were able to cover most of the British Isles. We simply knocked on the door which was answered by a young Canadian who called himself Rob Day. To keep it this way they have had to steer clear of big investors and conventional means of broadcasting which, although a nice idea, has its drawbacks. Every time I succeeded in getting a good signal during the evening, I knew I again would have a very good evening.
Some Radio Caroline cut-outs - University of Groningen 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. 15 August 1967 following passage of the Marine Offences Act, Broadcasting from various locations offshore to Western Europe. London, United Kingdom. Radio Caroline continued on satellite but required manual tuning. This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 16:42.
Two of the BBC's flagship radio stations see sharp drop in - mirror I just hated the intrusive way deejays tried to influence my taste on the other radio stations. It was the floating pirate radio station whose mission to was to transmit rock 'n' roll to the masses. During Easter 2008, the station broadcast live for three days from the Ross Revenge, featuring presenters who had worked on the Mi Amigo in the late 1970s: Roger Mathews, Mike Stevens, Bob Lawrence, Brian Martin, Martin Fisher, Cliff Osbourne, Jeremy Chartham, Marc Jacobs, Ad Roberts, Dick Verheul and Kees Borrell. 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. Ken Bruce has also confirmed that he's moving. Rob Day never made it to the airwaves to the best of my knowledge and that was that. He was opposed by some DJs and crew who had worked on the Mi Amigo and the album format stayed along with presenters such as Andy Archer, Samantha Dubois, Grant Benson, Robin Ross and Simon Barrett. His programme, which airs five days a week, rose from 4.3 million to 4.5 million listeners between the . City: London. 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. The market size of the UK radio industry has reached 1 billion by the end of 2021. I remember Caroline North with great affection. On Saturday, 28 March, it began regular broadcasting at noon on 1520 kHz (announced as 199 metres) with the opening conducted by Simon Dee. At one time both stations were even claiming more than 8.8 million listeners each. The drop can be partly explained by lower.
BBC Radio 1 loses half a million listeners in first quarter of 2022 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. 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. When the MV Caroline left for the Isle of Man, the Mi Amigo remained in Felixstowe.
10 key figures who will and won't be at CPAC [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. This channel broadcasts mainly in community format. Research suggests that the average person hears between 20,000 and 30,000 words during the course of a 24-hour period. [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. Links would have been to the 603 and the 1242 kHz transmitters as before, but programmes would have taken on a slightly different slant. Next to that we can listen in to Radio Caroline on internet and satellite. It left Spain, with an incomplete studio, to avoid legal entanglements. Our internet radio site was created for listing together the most popular online available radios of the UK, and to give easy and free access to them at the simplest way in one place. The Mi Amigo was tendered clandestinely from Britain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Dave Foster (Rpt) 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.
Radio Caroline: Golden age of British pirate radio remembered, 50 years In March 1964, The Fortunes recorded Caroline, which became the station's theme. 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.
Live listening figures revealed with 34.51m tuning in to BBC Radio each 68% of Brits listen to the radio at home. Wavelength: 199 metres. A bulletin report which provides information of the survey period, any new stations that have joined or any changes to the stations or groups. media reports and the shock of hearing just how powerful the signal was. The LBC brand. On 3 September 1985 at 00:00 hours the Dioptric Surveyor departed in a storm. Radio Caroline - 2. 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". A "D" and an "I" from the phrase RADIO CAROLINE (painted as a, "Hearthammer" by the Scottish folk rock band. London, United Kingdom. [6] Caroline was broken up for scrap in 1972. But next to hearing other people talk about the subject, I never really had listened to the Sound of the Nation. In practice, day-to-day servicing was carried from France and the UK. 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. We arranged to meet the Caroline tender to go out to the ship but no one turned up.
Radio Caroline web shop HOME PAGE 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. Listen to Radio Caroline Flashback. In 2020, the show's two long-serving presenters, Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey, both departed the programme. 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. 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). At that time I thought RNI 2 was here to stay.
Walgreens Nixes Abortion Pill in 20 Red States After Warning - Bloomberg iPhone Maker Plans $700 Million India Plant in Shift From China. Part of the raid was broadcast live[40] before officials disabled the transmitters. From the anchorage in the Knock Deep the Mi Amigo's mast could be seen on the horizon. In Happy Birthday Tony Blackburn: 80 Poptastic Years on Radio 2, Dermot O'Leary will talk to Tony about his life and career and surprises him with . (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. Documents to detail all the latest market information. The ship has working radio studios, from which both Caroline and BBC Essex have broadcast. Radio Caroline was a real phenomen. Bubblegum Lemonade released "Caroline's Radio" in 2010 which was a nostalgic look back at listening to Radio Caroline. Rough weather sometimes prevented tapes from arriving and old programmes had to be repeated. Radio Caroline broadcasts music from the 1960s to contemporary, with an emphasis on album-oriented rock (AOR) and "new" music from "carefully selected albums". I must say the people on the station got my sympathy very quickly. In November 1991, the ship lost its anchor in a storm and drifted onto the Goodwin Sands in the Channel.
A look back at Radio Caroline 1976-80 - memories - Google Observations and headlines from radio industry RAJAR Q1 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". Myriad factors contribute to the audience curve for radio .
In 1976, The Loving Awareness Band released their only album, Loving Awareness on More Love Records (ML001), a label set up by O'Rahilly.
Listening Statistics: 23 Facts You Need to Hear - CreditDonkey 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. In the 1960's, to attract advertisers, Radio Caroline and Radio London always reported rather high listening figures. Community radio listening figures - do 10 million people tune in every week? BBC Radio 2 to air special show for Tony Blackburn's 80th birthday. Many people, of a certain age, still associate Radio Caroline with the pop music of the 60s & 70s. 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. Clive Garrard. (Gordon): For the moment from all of us, goodbye and God bless. [citation needed], In Spain, a station broadcast during the summer 2009 on 102.7MHz in the Costa Blanca from studios in Benidorm. The transmitter was initially too powerful for the antenna insulators. Select 'Change Stations' on the app if you wish to switch to Boom Light You can also find us listed on the TuneIn or Radioplayer app. Throughout most of the 1970s, Radio Caroline could be heard only at night, calling itself "Europe's first and only album station". On 30 August 1974 Mi Amigo moved from the Dutch coast to the Knock Deep Channel, approximately 12 miles (19km) from the British coast. "Why do we have to pay, why aren't they out at sea, the music's no good," and so on. Home; Stations . When Laser returned as Laser Hot Hits, it used Caroline's former and inferior frequency of 576kHz. On 28 December, unpaid crew cut the Mi Amigo's generator fuel line and departed. At times, a 10kW transmitter was used to save fuel and relieve the generators. On 9 August 1985, an official vessel anchored 150 yards from the Ross Revenge. 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. 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.
Listening to Radio Caroline - University of Groningen 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. This gave reasonable reception by day but strong heterodyne interference at night because the transmitter crystal was off-channel. Gradually Caroline is fighting its way back and I'm sure that once advertising is coming in, there will be no need for listener donations. UK Radio Stations. 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. Following the election, RNI resumed its original name but jamming continued under the newly elected Conservative government.