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Radio Caroline

Kemosabe said:
Does anyone know more about this pirate station?
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The pirate station that changed radio in Britain - The World from PRX

Sixty years ago today a pirate radio station revolutionized broadcasting in Britain. Radio Caroline, named after the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, broadcasted its first show from a boat located a few miles off the southeast coast of England. It introduced millions to pop music and...
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Here is a book: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Miscellaneous/Radio-Caroline-Venmore-Rowland-1967.pdf

In over-simplified terms, the slow and limited response response of the BBC to the whole wave of British pop artists around 1962 and after created enormous demand for a radio station with all pop music. At night, the 1 million watt Radio Luxembourg did its best, but pirates on ships and abandoned WW II fortresses outside the national limits of the UK sent AM radio signals into much of England.

They were very popular. But the British government made buying ads on them difficult, and eventually the Beeb added more pop music.

(For those who know the whole story, I apologize for making it fit in a couple of sentences. I usually can go on for pages about radio history....)
 
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Pirate radio in the U.K. has what could only be described as a very colorful ("colourful" in British English) history, and the above post, as mentioned, doesn't even scratch the surface. In addition to the already-mentioned stations, there was also Radio North Sea International, which I believe operated in international waters but was run out of the Netherlands.
 
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Ed Nielson said:
Pirate radio in the U.K. has what could only be described as a very colorful ("colourful" in British English) history, and the above post, as mentioned, doesn't even scratch the surface. In addition to the already-mentioned stations, there was also Radio North Sea International, which I believe operated in international waters but was run out of the Netherlands.
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Radio North Sea (Nordsee) International also operated on shortwave, unlike Caroline. Its transmissions on 9940 KHz were heard easily on the U.S. East Coast. I was listening in my childhood bedroom in suburban Boston on the night it bid its listeners farewell. One of the songs I still recall hearing toward the end was Marmalade's "Reflections of My Life."
 
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