In a world of multiplatform radio, with DAB, FM, HD Radio and radio online, there are many different ways to tune in, whether you want to listen in the car, on the bus or at home. The new tuning information is 11.390 GHz Vertical, symbol rate 27500, FEC 2/3. Zowel op de FM als op de AM. UK-based satellite broadcaster Radio Caroline has announced that it has moved to a new frequency on the Eurobird 1 satellite at 28.5°East. Na ruim vijftig jaar heeft de Britse radiozender Radio Caroline eindelijk een uitzendlicentie. Programmes were recorded on land and broadcast between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. "eventCategory": "Listen", On 31 July 2014 the ship was moved to the Blackwater Estuary in Essex.[44]. Radio Caroline heeft op 19 mei 2017 een vergunning gekregen om permanent op de AM uit te zenden. The Fredericia was renamed MV Caroline and anchored off Felixstowe, Suffolk, where it began test transmissions on Friday, 27 March 1964. [45] Evangelical programmes and sponsored specialist music are broadcast. The Dutch government banned unlicensed offshore radio on 1 September 1974. A request to stop broadcasting on short wave 6.215 MHz was complied with, and after several hours the government ship returned to port. Op Goede Vrijdag 27 maart 1964 begonnen testuitzendingen. In 1972, MV Mi Amigo was bought for her scrap value at auction by enthusiast Gerard van Dam, who intended to use her as a free radio museum. RNI operated on medium wave, short wave and FM. Original 1960s Caroline North jingles were interspersed with generic Radio Caroline ones. Cynics have described DAB as 'a solution to a problem that does not exist', but conversely while AM radio works as well as it ever did, it is increasingly challenged in heavily populated areas by the proliferation of devices that cause local interference. ga("send", "event", { Radio Caroline North subsequently moved to 257m (1169 kHz) but also called it 259. mp3. Smedley later withdrew from the deal. We have computed the coverage by combining the terrain with the official radiation pattern. Instantly find which radio frequencies from Radio Caroline you need in your neighborhood. Encouraged by Scandinavian and Dutch radio pirates, in February 1964 O'Rahilly obtained the 702-ton former Danish passenger ferry Fredericia, which was converted into a radio ship at the Irish port of Greenore, owned by O'Rahilly's father. Round Midnight was confined to closedown on Radio Caroline North after The World Tomorrow. Another Belgian station, Radio Mi Amigo International, launched on 1 January 1974; it was run by Belgian businessman and Suzy Waffles owner Sylvain Tack. The station tried to obtain a licence from a developing country,[42] hoping it might offer protection from the new provisions in the Broadcasting Act 1990 which came into force on 31 December that year. Radio Caroline will broadcast on the former BBC World Service medium wave frequency of 648 kHz, after being awarded a community radio licence for East Anglia. It plays album-oriented rock from the 1960s to the present. Radio Caroline broadcast appeals for help, giving the ship's position as .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}51°41′N 1°35′E / 51.683°N 1.583°E / 51.683; 1.583. When Radio Monique hired the main transmitter, spare parts were taken from a fourth transmitter to convert the 5 kW into a 10 kW unit, the RCA 5 and 10 kW transmitters having similar designs. [57], 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. [11] The first programme, which was pre-recorded, was hosted by Chris Moore. Twee piraten uit Friesland. 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. [24] The ship anchored off the Dutch coastal resort of Scheveningen and was serviced and operated from the Netherlands. [68], In Palmerston, Radio Caroline International, based in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, acquired an AM commercial broadcasting licence in 2008, and was seeking wavelengths in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. 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. [51] Surveys in 2008 and 2010 showed a small percentage listened via Sky, and that satellite listening had dropped by 9% since 2008, while online listening had increased by around 40%. [50] This ended on 1 July 2011 after a failure to renegotiate costs with Sky and deciding not to pursue a Freesat EPG slot. Listen in on 648 AM in the South and South-East, on 1368 AM in the North and North-West courtesy of our friends at Manx Radio, the Radio Caroline app and around the … Beide mannen vertellen over hun hobby. One 5 kW transmitter was initially not serviceable. [26] The album was reissued on CD on Ross Records, c.1992, and in a "30th Anniversary Edition" with bonus material on SMC Records in 2005. Since November 2009 Radio Seagull can be heard periodically on 558 kHz in London. Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly. Radio Caroline Ltd. and Caroline Support Group (originally called the Ross Revenge Support Group). [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. [33], The station restarted in August 1983 from a new radio ship, the MV Ross Revenge, an ex-North Sea factory fishing trawler used during the Anglo-Icelandic Cod War by Ross Fisheries. Het eerste schip heette MV Fredericia. Eventually, Caroline left 558 kHz and moved to 819 kHz. album, and Turnbull and Gallagher joined them on the Stiff's tour, becoming The Blockheads.[27]. Radio Caroline on DAB in London. Radio Caroline North = 10kW (later 20kW). Van het begin met klein vermogen, tot de latere jaren en de inbeslagname. In the evenings, Radio Caroline transmitted Dutch and American religious evangelist broadcasters such as Johan Maasbach and Roy Masters on medium wave, and later on short wave, under the name Viewpoint 963/819, or World Mission Radio (WMR) on short wave. Two days later, Mi Amigo was towed to IJmuiden and seized because of unpaid bills. 128 k Radio Caroline 319 Gold 19.00-07.00. [43] Dedicated apps for listening via Apple IOS[52] and Android[53] devices are also available. Ownership was hidden due to illegality of operation. After a short test on 773 kHz in late 1975, in May 1976, Radio Caroline began a daytime service on 1562 kHz (192 m) using a 10 kW transmitter, while its overnight service continued to share the 50 kW transmitter with Radio Mi Amigo's daytime programming on 1187 kHz (253 metres, announced as 259). [18], On 3 March 1968, the radio ships Mi Amigo and Caroline, were boarded and seized before the day's broadcasting began. The Mi Amigo returned to its Frinton-on-Sea anchorage with a redesigned antenna and a new 50 kW transmitter and attempted to resume broadcasting on 18 April, nominally on 259 metres to enable the same jingles as Radio Caroline North on 1169 kHz to be used, but actually 252 metres. Caroline caused more interference to Spectrum than vice versa. O'Rahilly wanted Radio Caroline to become an oldies station. The medium wave frequency was 235 metres (1278 kHz) and programmes were sent through ISDN landline to Maidstone and via the internet and broadcast on satellite. Several years later some of the seized items were returned to the station. (Gordon): For the moment from all of us, goodbye and God bless. (ii)576 kHz: continuation of above, with slightly more singles played. You don’t need to know any numbers: just tune it in, by name. Internet streaming of Radio Caroline programmes continued. The final song was Pilot of the Airwaves by Charlie Dore.[41]. In practice, day-to-day servicing was carried from France and the UK. The Dutch offshore station Radio Veronica was on 1562 kHz and Radio Atlanta broadcast on 1493 kHz. Caroline claimed boarding the ship and removal or destruction of equipment was piracy. Kennedy. BBC Radio 2 newsreader Colin Berry and Classic FM's Nick Bailey started their careers reading the news on Radio Caroline South. If not, you might need to retune, or rescan, your set: here’s how to rescan your digital radio. Radio Caroline's first musical theme was Jimmy McGriff's "Round Midnight", a jazz standard co-composed by Thelonious Monk. Although most broadcasting staff left at that time, some remained for a year as caretakers while funding and equipment were sought. Tenders and boat owners were warned, and some were prosecuted for ferrying staff and provisions to the ship. That autumn various tests, consisting of continuous music, were made on 259 metres. 320 k Radio-Monique-963 Gold 07.00-19.00. 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. This is the official Facebook page of Radio Caroline, Europe's 1st album station. window.open("https://tunein.com/embed/player/s"+url+"/?autoplay=true","tunein","status=1,width=300,height=160");}function radiofeeds(url) { Part of the raid was broadcast live[38] before officials disabled the transmitters. Dutch nationals were arrested and returned to the Netherlands, together with most of the broadcasting equipment. We're not leaving and disappearing, we're going onto the lifeboat hoping that the pumps can take it; if they can, we'll be back, if not, well, we really don't like to say it. The station restarted just before Christmas as Radio 199 but soon became Radio Caroline, with a Top 40 format. Lord Annan, author of the 1977 Report of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting, spoke in defence of Radio Caroline in the House of Lords at report stage on the Broadcasting Act 1990, saying "Why break a butterfly upon the wheel? De precieze ingangsdatum is … De zendinstallatie in Ordfordness in het zuidoosten van Engeland is nog goed te gebruiken voor 648 Khz. The name was taken from Caroline Bay, a popular recreation area nearby. UK Free TV shows the coverage area for a radio transmitter as a coloured overlay (orange for FM, other colours for DAB) on the grey map. On 30 August 1974 Mi Amigo moved from the Dutch coast to the Knock Deep Channel, approximately 12 miles (19 km) from the British coast. These analogue transmissions ended and a full digital service from Astra 28.2°E started in February 2003.[49]. 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. At one minute past midnight on 1 October 2001, Caroline returned on 1503 kHz from the LV (Light Vessel) 18 in Harwich harbour. "eventAction": "491 - Radio Caroline", Broadcasting was in Dutch and English by day and in English at night, although for the first few months broadcasting finished at 10 p.m. On 19 January 1979, the aging ship took in water and a lifeboat was called to rescue the crew members. The station was opened by DJ Tom Anderson, who had said "goodbye" from the sinking Mi Amigo in 1980.[35]. The two stations experimented with different frequencies. Engineer Peter Chicago had hidden transmitter parts during the raid and retuned one 5 kW transmitter, previously used on short-wave, to 558 kHz. In late 1977, Radio Caroline began sponsored evangelical programmes, and music programmes began at 9 p.m. On 20 October 1978, technical and financial problems put the Mi Amigo off the air. Reitze is al tientallen jaren actief als piraat. However, according to Gerry Bishop's book Offshore Radio this transmitter was antiquated and failed to work. "eventAction": "491 - Radio Caroline", The … During a violent struggle, Calvert was shot dead. (Gordon): I think we'll be back in one way or another. Broadcasters included Tony Christian, Pawl "Hound Dog" Shanley, Dave Fox, Simon West, Dale Richardson and Peter D.[citation needed]. Radio Caroline. 19K likes. 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. [46] The LV 18 was later used by the BBC for Pirate BBC Essex broadcasts.[47]. Using land-based studios leased in Kent[48] in the late 1990s, the station began broadcasting via satellites Astra 19.2°E and Eutelsat 28A, covering western Europe. Since 1991, the Ross Revenge has been maintained by enthusiasts called the Radio Caroline Support Group, originally the Ross Revenge Support Group. The station had some success but stopped broadcasting due to lack of funding. Currently they also broadcast on DAB radio in certain areas of the UK: these services are part of the Ofcom small-scale DAB+ trials. Smaller FM operators complained that DAB wa… "eventLabel": "tunein"}); Click a button below to listen now in your browser. Later in 1973, when the contract with Radio Caroline ended, the crew of Radio Atlantis moved to their own ship, the MV Jeanine.[6]. Radio Caroline medewerkers The Dutch Radio Caroline then changed its name to Radio Waddenzee (nl) for daytime Dutch and German language, and Radio Seagull for nighttime English language broadcasts, and now broadcasts on 1602 kHz every day and on the internet, presenting a progressive rock format. The resulting signal was low-powered, but ensured that Caroline South's advertising revenue would continue. Movies. Radio Caroline Flashback | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn. 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. In late 1972, Radio Caroline had money problems. During the 1990s, a series of short term RSLs (Restricted Service Licences) were operated until a satellite service with a full schedule launched across Europe from a studio in Maidstone, Kent. The station returned at 8 pm and continued until after midnight to avoid competition with popular television programmes. A Fruit of the Loom Super Premium black or white cotton t-shirt with screen-printed logo to front and plain back. On 27 April, the Mi Amigo was fully operational. On 3 September 1985 at 00:00 hours the Dioptric Surveyor departed in a storm. ga("send", "event", { [25] The station's offices and studios were in Brakel, Belgium, but moved to Castell-Platja d'Aro, Costa Brava, Spain in March 1975 after a raid by Belgian police. Radio Caroline was begun by Irish musician manager and businessman Ronan O'Rahilly, after he failed to obtain airplay on Radio Luxembourg for Georgie Fame's records because the station was committed to sponsored programmes promoting major record labels: EMI, Decca, Pye and Philips. The only singer to stay overnight, she helped present programmes, make jingles, and close the station at night.[15]. When Radio Veronica closed in 1974, some presenters moved to Radio Mi Amigo. "eventLabel": "ukrp"}); Non-Dutch staff were given the option of staying on the ship or returning to the Netherlands – most chose to stay on board. The Ross Revenge was larger than Mi Amigo and with more elaborate transmitting equipment: in 1983, two 5 kW RCA transmitters and a RCA 50 kW unit. With having excellence internet connection audience can enjoy and listen best prepared playlist and rocking music from anywhere of the earth at any place with Radio Caroline International [6] The Cheeta II was equipped for FM broadcasting, so it was fitted with the 10 kW transmitter from the Mi Amigo, feeding a makeshift antenna. Programmes were still heard on satellite until the provider replaced the signal with a 1 kHz tone on the morning of 1 October 2013. DJ Jack Spector, of the WMCA "Good Guys" in New York, regularly recorded for Radio Caroline. More info: to find out more, including addresses, people who work there, audience figures and other information, see Radio Caroline’s directory listing. [6], Smedley was charged with Calvert's murder on 18 July, but this was reduced to a charge of manslaughter. On 3 March 1977, Caroline closed, announcing that it would return six days later on 319 metres. The ship was further delayed by hull damage, and repaired before writs could be issued. 320 k Radio Caroline 319 Gold 19.00-07.00. In an extant photo, Caroline Kennedy and her brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., are apparently dancing in the Oval Office as their father looks on, an activity which O'Rahilly reportedly interpreted as a playful disruption of government.[9][10]. Whittingham was unable to leave on the tender when a storm arose. "eventAction": "491 - Radio Caroline", During 2013, a survey showed a continued move from satellite reception and growth in internet listening. [65][66][67], 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. An iconic reproduction of our original 1960's Radio Caroline Skull & Crossbones t-shirts, updated with the 648 kHz frequency. In November 1991, the ship lost its anchor in a storm and drifted on to the Goodwin Sands in the Channel. Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly and George Drummond [1] initially to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly. Throughout most of the 1970s, Radio Caroline could be heard only at night, calling itself "Europe's first and only album station". Without serious competition, Radio Caroline gained a regular daytime audience of some 7 million.[12]. 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. In June 1990, Spectrum Radio, a new multi-ethnic community radio station in London, was officially allocated 558 kHz. This request, and one to stop transmissions on 819 kHz, was refused. This was replaced by a twin-mast T-antenna. Reitze en zijn zoon Jelle zitten in deze aflevering voor de podcast microfoon. window.open(url,"radioplayer","status=1,width=380,height=660");}function tunein(url) { On 12 June 2006, the station bought an EPG slot on Sky channel 0199. 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 50 kW transmitter was switched off. News stories appeared in Europe[21] announcing the start of Caroline Television[22] from two Super Constellation aircraft using Stratovision technology. Radio Caroline broadcasts music from the 1960s to contemporary, with an emphasis on album-oriented rock (AOR) and "new" music from "carefully selected albums". 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.[54]. (Anderson): Yeah. Spectrum threatened to sue the Radio Authority, which then allowed Spectrum to temporarily broadcast on 990 kHz alongside 558 kHz. In May 2017, Ofcom awarded the station an AM band community licence to broadcast to Suffolk and north Essex;[4] full-time broadcasting, via a previously redundant BBC World Service transmitter mast at Orford Ness, commenced on 22 December 2017.[5]. In 2018, the new manager of Radio Caroline, Peter Moore successfully applied for a full-time AM broadcast license. 15 August 1967 following passage of the Marine Offences Act, Broadcasting from various locations offshore to Western Europe. Radio Caroline Flashback provides an alternative live service for loyal and new listeners, who want to hear tracks from this exciting era. 1980s: [6] During summer 1973, it broadcast separate stations in English and Dutch simultaneously, on 389 m/773 kHz and 252 m (announced as 259)/1187 kHz. Just after midnight GMT on 20 March 1980, the Mi Amigo foundered in a storm after losing its anchor and drifting. The station has subsequently broadcast on 531 kHz AM from the Ross Revenge during some bank holiday weekends, beginning on 28–31 August 2009 and also within a few days of the 50th anniversary of the ship's first voyage. 64 k Radio Caroline 319 Gold 19.00-07.00. Doelgroep zijn 45-plussers uit Suffolk en het noorden van Essex. 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. Radio Caroline Flashback - Many people, of a certain age, still associate Radio Caroline with the pop music of the 60s and 70s. However, in October 1987 a massive storm hit southern England, causing deaths and severe damage. We broadcast around the world using multiple internet streams in crystal clear stereo. The station was given the go-ahead by Ofcom last month, and now says the regulator has also agreed to its request for a 1000-watt transmitter. 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". From 2007, the ship was docked at Tilbury, where a volunteer crew repaired and maintained it. Radio Caroline Skull & Crossbones 648 T-shirt. Each of his crew was awarded The Thanks of the Institution on vellum. Apps: we may also list official apps to help you tune in on Radio Caroline’s page. On 5 November 1990, lack of fuel and supplies forced the station to stop transmitting. In July Caroline moved to the adjacent channel, 962 kHz (312 metres but still called 319) and reception in the UK improved. De radiozender maakt voor haar uitzendingen op de middengolf gebruik van het oude zendstation van BBC Worldservice in Orfordness. Radio Caroline 319 Gold. Radio Caroline's first programme, on 28 March 1964, was presented by Chris Moore. [32], The Mi Amigo's 160-foot (49 m) mast remained erect for six years. [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. Currently Radio Caroline broadcasts on 648kHz AM to the east of England and on DAB+ in Aldershot/Woking, Norwich, Portsmouth, Glasgow, Birmingham, Brighton and London. European medium wave channels had been reallocated to multiples of nine. Onze Radio Caroline 319 Gold radio player is geschikt gemaakt voor alle browsers, mede dankzij html5 heb je geen flash nodig om radio te luisteren. Most of Radio Caroline's pop music programmes were targeted at housewives, and some later programming was aimed at children. In Timaru, an NZBC station, originally 3XC, later 3ZC, broadcast as Radio Caroline until 1995. [60], In October 2020, a new station using the Caroline name and logo launched in Burnham-on-Crouch, broadcasting to the Maldon District of Essex on 94.7FM. The supermarket chain Asda and English Heritage were among the backers. The band broke up in 1977; Watt-Roy and Charles played on Ian Dury's New Boots and Panties!! On 1 January 2016, a second channel was launched called Caroline Flashback, playing pop music from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. In the evenings on 963, some alternative music programmes were tried, including the reggae "Jamming 963", and in 1986 and early 1987, a progressive and indie rock programme called Caroline Overdrive hosted by Tom Anderson, Fergie McNeal, Andy Johnson, Stevie Lane, Mark Matthews, Kevin Turner, Peter Phillips, Mick Williams (a.k.a. From December 1984 the Ross Revenge broadcast Radio Monique, recorded and live Dutch-language programmes of a Dutch music radio production company using the 50 kW transmitter during daytime. 50 kW (second 10 kW transmitter later added). Caroline's album format meant that, although the station served a gap in the market, its audience was smaller than in the 1960s.