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The Radio City DJ was played by Tommy Vance, who was on Radio Caroline in the 1960s. In real life interviews on pirate stations would have been taped on land rather than exposing musicians to hazardous and expensive sea crossings.
Pirate radio is a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license, whether an invalid license or no license at all. [1] In some cases, radio stations are considered legal where the signal is transmitted, but illegal where the signals are received—especially when the signals cross a national boundary.
Calvert established the pirate station Radio City, [9] which broadcast from a Second World War marine fort off the Kent coast, seven miles from Margate. Radio Atlanta, the second pirate radio station, ran out of money and merged with Radio Caroline, which had also run out of money. It was decided that Calvert would be asked to amalgamate with ...
The soap opera EastEnders featured a pirate radio station broadcasting from Albert Square in 1997. In the BBC TV series Ideal (2005–2011), the brother of Moz, Troy, runs a pirate radio station named Troy FM. The 2009 film The Boat That Rocked (retitled Pirate Radio in North America) is about UK pirate radio and loosely based on Radio Caroline.
He then moved into broadcasting via pirate radio. [6] In 1965, he ousted the pirate station Radio City staff who had occupied Knock John Fort, a Maunsell Sea Fort (a World War II British naval defence platform). [7] Using the military equipment that was left on the platform, Bates used an old United States Air Force radio beacon to broadcast ...
Radio Atlanta eventually merged with the Caroline Organization led by Irishman Ronan O'Rahilly, and changed its name to Radio Caroline South. When Reginald Calvert, manager of The Fortunes pop group, founded a rival pirate station Radio City, Smedley tried to persuade Calvert to amalgamate with Radio Caroline in exchange for a new transmitter ...
Between 1965 and 1967 he worked for offshore pirate radio stations Radio City, where he became the station’s chief disc jockey, and Radio Caroline. [3] He joined the BBC in late 1967 working as a television newsreader and presenter on BBC Look East and in 1968-1969 on the Saturday morning BBC East regional radio programme Happy Weekend ...
The Free Radio Cafe focuses on pirate radio stations broadcasting from North America and Europe, with forums for loggings, QSLs, shortwave and FM broadcasting. FRC welcomes new members. Radio Free New York is a detailed history of some Brooklyn NYC-area AM and FM pirate radio stations from the 1970s to today.]