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This is an archive of news about Radio Caroline. Some links may no longer work, due to the transient nature of the internet.

The great British tradition of media piracy
From The Independent. Posted May 19 2008, 12.00am
When a young Irish entrepreneur named Ronan O'Rahilly founded pirate station Radio Caroline in 1964, he also established a great British tradition. Not only did the actions of O'Rahilly and his fellow radio pirates force the BBC to start playing pop music, they left in their wake a great cultural legacy for everyone in Britain, a heritage we should all be proud of. They instilled in us the innate capability to become first-rate media pirates. (more)

Super Station appoints new PD
From Radio Today. Posted April 18 2008, 12.58am
The Super Station Orkney has appointed Ryan Woodman as programme director. The 23 year old started his career at Radio Caroline seven years ago. (more)

Manx National Heritage wants memories of Radio Caroline North
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 9 2008, 1.15pm
Manx National Heritage is seeking the public’s help for a new exhibition, planned for this summer at the House of Manannan. 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of the demise of Radio Caroline North, the offshore radio station which operated out of Ramsey Bay between 1964 and 1968 and an exhibition, ‘Pirates of the Irish Sea’, [...] (more)

Chris Cary dies in Tenerife
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 29 2008, 9.41pm
Radio presenter Chris Cary has died in Tenerife at the age of 61. Cary, better known to millions of UK Radio listeners as Spangles Muldoon, suffered a stroke while working on the island, and died in hospital. Cary worked at a variety of stations including Radio Caroline, Radio Luxembourg and Radio Northsea International, and his own Irish station Radio Nova which was [...] (more)

Radio veteran Chris Cary dies
From Radio Today. Posted February 29 2008, 6.03pm
Legendary radio presenter Chris Cary has died whilst on holiday in Tenerife at the age of 61. Chris, better know on-air as Spangles Muldoon launched Radio Nova and spent many years at Radio Caroline and Radio Luxembourg. (more)

The Ross Revenge returns
From Radio Today. Posted February 22 2008, 8.22am
Radio Caroline is set to mark its 44th birthday this easter with four days of special programmes live from the radio ship Ross Revenge. (more)

Big screen movie about Radio Caroline reportedly planned
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 8 2008, 12.32pm
Filmmaker Richard Curtis is apparently making a movie about pirate radio. The Love Actually director is moving away from his traditional romantic comedies to make a film about Radio Caroline, which started broadcasting from a boat off the coast of Essex in the 60s, reports The Sun. The paper says Curtis has cast Welsh actor Rhys [...] (more)

Dave Collins goes travelling
From Radio Today. Posted January 29 2008, 12.06am
Ex-Voice of Peace and Radio Caroline presenter is hanging up his headphones at Wire FM to travel around the world with his partner. (more)

Former Wire FM DJ Travelling Round the World
From Merry Media. Posted January 28 2008, 9.21pm
Former Radio Caroline and Wire FM presenter Dave Collins is leaving the UK in February to travel round the world. Collins and his partner are planning on visiting 15 different countries which include the States, India and New Zealand. . (more)

Radio Caroline denied licence to test DRM
From Media Network Weblog. Posted August 26 2007, 1.10pm
Rob Leighton of Radio Caroline writes: Back in May this year we started talking to Graham Warren, Head of Broadcast Technical Policy at Ofcom, with the intention of applying for a 12 month test & development licence to relay Caroline’s Satellite Service from the UK, using 1kW on either 41m or 49m shortwave. We proposed carrying out [...] (more)

Ex-Caroline DJ gets breakfast
From Radio Today. Posted August 23 2007, 9.27am
BBC Essex is changing its weekday schedule to move drivetime presenter Ray Clark from drivetime to breakfast. The former Radio Caroline DJ told RadioToday.co.uk he is looking forward to the challenge of presenting an all speech mix of local news and talking points. (more)

Caroline goes FM on Aug 14th
From Radio Today. Posted August 13 2007, 8.50am
Radio Caroline is to re-broadcast on FM in Europe thanks to the services of Radio Tatras International. The special broadcast is to mark the 40th Anniversary of the passing of the Marine Offences Act in which all pirate radio stations closed down, with the exception of Caroline. (more)

Four decades on, pirate radio returns to the North Sea
From Media Guardian. Posted August 10 2007, 1.00am
The BBC has set sail with former rivals Radio Caroline and Radio London to mark the 40th anniversary of the original pirate radio stations being forced off air. By Lee Glendinning. (more)

Dell?s a Model Presenter!
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 25 2007, 5.06pm
I was never any good at do-it-yourself projects. In fact, I was a disaster. So I have great admiration for Karen, the wife of Radio Caroline presenter Dell Richardson, who presented him with a scale model of himself at work in the Caroline studio! Keen model maker Karen had managed to keep the project secret while she [...] (more)

Ross Revenge could be moved to Scotland
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 14 2007, 3.01pm
Scottish commercial radio station Leith FM, based near Edinburgh, has proposed a plan to move the Radio Caroline radio ship Ross Revenge from its temporary home on the Thames to the Leith shoreline, at a cost of around £50,000. If successful, it is hoped the project would not only provide the station with magnificent studios, but deliver a [...] (more)

Radio Caroline returns to mediumwave in Latvia
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 6 2006, 2.32pm
UK-based satellite/Internet station Radio Caroline announces on its website that “from Thursday, 7th September listeners living in Latvia and its surrounding area will once again be able to tune to Caroline on mediumwave, when each Thursday evening between 9pm and midnight Rob Leighton’s Imagination programmes are relayed through the transmission facilities of Radio Nord. Radio [...] (more)

Euroradio 2006 – the offshore radio event
From Media Network Weblog. Posted August 27 2006, 12.41pm
Euroradio 2006 – the Offshore Echo’s / France Radio Club annual event - takes place in Calais, France on Saturday 9 September, at the Hotel Georges V in the centre of Calais.   Commemorating the best of offshore radio with video presentations and special guests, who include: Peter Philips known on Radio Caroline during the 1980’s, where [...] (more)

Caroline in membership drive
From Radio Today. Posted August 24 2006, 1.00am
Radio Caroline is celebrating the August Bank Holiday weekend in the UK by encouraging more people to join the Radio Caroline Support Group. The Classic Tracks Weekend, which kicks off tomorrow will feature the best music from the last 42 years - or, since the day Radio Caroline signed on the air for the very first time. (more)

Bob Lawrence is back on Caroline
From Radio Today. Posted July 14 2006, 12.00pm
Bob Lawrence makes a welcome return to Radio Caroline this week with a new show every weekday at 9am. Top 15s will be just that - listeners 15 favourite tracks played on-air. The station had a great success with the Caroline Listeners All-Time Top 500 earlier this year that they felt it only right to give listeners the opportunity to hear more personal choice. (more)

Radio Caroline finally appears on Sky EPG
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 12 2006, 11.03am
From today, UK satellite broadcaster Radio Caroline is accessible in the UK and Ireland via Sky's Electronic Programme Guide (EPG). It has been broadcasting on the Eurobird satellite at 28.5 degrees east for a considerable time, but had to be manually added, and many Sky subscribers were unaware of its existence. Radio Caroline hopes that being on Sky's EPG will bring it more listeners, some of (more)

Radio Caroline launches on Sky
From Radio Today. Posted June 12 2006, 9.30am
Monday 12th June 2006 - another milestone for the original Radio Caroline as the station is now available for the Electronic Programme Guide on Sky. The station can be found on channel 0199 after a long campaign by the group to bring Caroline to the wider audience. Peter Moore, station manager reminds people visiting their website that they are the original Radio Caroline: "Yes, we are the same station that famously broadcast from ships at sea from 1964 to 1990. We might still be at sea had it not been for a dramatic shipwreck and a sinister change to UK law." (more)

Radio Caroline loses slot on Technisat bouquet via Astra 19.2E
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 29 2006, 3.42pm
UK-based satellite broadcaster Radio Caroline has announced that it will no longer be carried by Technisat as part of their Music Bouquet subscription service from the end of March. The service, carried on the Astra 1G satellite at 19.2E, has run out of channels and, as Radio Caroline was being carried free of charge, the company behind the German service wish to reallocate the channel for a new (more)

Popular British DJ Johnnie Walker collects his MBE
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 25 2006, 11.29am
Yesterday was a special day for popular British DJ Johnnie Walker, 60, as he went to Buckingham Palace to receive his MBE from Prince Charles. The MBE was awarded for his services to radio over a period of 40 years. Johnnie said that the Prince asked him about his time on Radio Caroline, to which he replied "I was a bit naughty, I disobeyed the law. It would seem I've been forgiven." Johnnie says (more)

Offshore Echos publishes online tribute to Sylvain Tack
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 13 2006, 9.14am
Chris Edwards writes: Sylvain Tack is best remembered for Radio Mi Amigo, whose financial input from hiring of airtime on Radio Caroline in the mid-1970's, undoubtably helped Caroline continue. Since the end of Mi Amigo, Tacks life had not been so good. Five years in prison for drug smuggling and an unsuccessful alternative medicine enture had led to an increasingly lonely life in recent years. (more)

New website " The Radio Caroline Story" launched
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 13 2006, 11.45am
Offshore Echos have announced the opening of the website "The Radio Caroline Story." Radio Caroline is probably the most famous of all the offshore radio stations, and over the years become something of a broadcasting legend. However all good legends are a mix of fact and fiction, none more so than Caroline, and the story has many myths associated with it. This new site from Offshore Echos (more)

Johnnie Walker receives MBE for services to broadcasting
From Media Network Weblog. Posted December 31 2005, 1.06pm
Mike Barraclough reports: Johnnie Walker has been awarded an MBE in the New Years Honours List for services to broadcasting. The Times reports that Johnnie said he was pleased that he had been forgiven for being a pirate radio disc jockey in the 1960's. "Having defied Her Majesty's Government in 1967 with the pirate radio ship Radio Caroline, I never expected to see my name in the Honours," he (more)