The latest offshore radio related news by reporters from Europe and the Middle East, updated whenever there is a new item. Please feel free to send any contributions. Just send me an . You´d better save this page onto your hard disk and read it offline. |
Tuesday January 23rd 2001
Hans Knot reporting:
| Yesterday plans were revealed that that the
year 2001 will see another RNI-RSL from the LV-18 which is still moored in Harwich.
Programmes will start on May 28th. Paul Graham won´t be taking part as he´s got a full
time job in the radio business. Instead Colin Lamb will be in charge. In the meantime, the
former owner of the Lightvessel 18, the Seacontainers Ltd, has sold the vessel to the
Lightvessel Trust. The vessel will host an Offshore Radio Museum. The new Radio London RSL
will definetly start on August 4th using the frequency 1134 kHz ("266 metres"). Clive Boutell reported on his LV-18 website on January 10th: The LV18 Trust is now in operation headed by Tony O'Neil and Colin
Crawford, the Trust will be aided by another group known as The Friends Of LV18, who will
help out with restoration and fundraising work aboard the former Lightvessel. |
Wednesday January 17th 2001
Hans Knot reporting:
| A groep called NOVA has applied for a
local radio licence for the West and South Yorkshire region. Amongst them is a certain Tery Bate, a Canadian with
lots of radio experiences, who was reponsible for the Radio Caroline Sales department in
the sixties. When Radio Caroline returned in the eighties, he played another role within
the Radio Caroline organisation. On March 26th Chris Cary (Spangles Muldoon) will leave the Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight. It´s of course uncertain if he will ever reappear on the radio scene... |
Tuesday January 16th 2001
Hans Knot reporting:
| Offshore Radio Special
Via Short Wave Hamburger Localradio, a local radio station in Hamburg/Germany, is additionally broadcasting on shortwave from Jülich with 100 kW on 6045 kHz (49 metre band) every Saturday from 10.00 to 11.00 h GMT/UTC (that´s 11.00 to 12.00 CET). The station that normally broadcasts on FM and cable can then be heard from the North Cape to North Africa and from Portugal to Rusland. This coming Saturday January 20th they have a one-hour special on the history of the European offshore radio stations. So make sure to listen to 6045 kHz! Please send your reception reports and comments to redaktion@hamburger-lokalradio.de |
Monday January 15th 2001
Tom Collins from TTS-Mediapro forwarding:
 CHARLIE
WOLF EVERY SATURDAY MORNING -- from 0200 to 0600 right after Tommy Boyd.Get your say to the nation on talkSPORT -- ring
08700 40 50 60 -- lame-o's included! Make sure and tell your friends about Charlie on
talkSPORT -- e-mail this on to at least three mates! Now... more and more people are talking
about CHARLIE WOLF on TalkSPORT! There's something good goin' on -- Don't miss out -- HELL
NO! |
Thursday January 11th 2001
Hans Knot reporting:
| Sebastiaan Peters (real name Eddy Keur) was one of Radio Caroline´s Dutch DJs in 1979/80.
Lots of people know him from many radio promos and adverts. He also worked for KRO. From
this coming Monday, Eddy has now got a new job as a regular weekday presenter on Q-The
Beat (the radio station broadcasting from the MV Communicator on 1224 kHz). Some insiders report that there won´t be an RNI RSL from the LV 18 ("Mebo 3") this year. The ship has been dismantled from all technical gear and can be bought whilst still being anchored in Harwich. But there are plans for another Big L Revival from the boat starting on August 4th. 1134 kHz will be the mediumwave frequency to listen to. |
Wednesday January 10th 2001
Hans Knot reporting:
| Norderney leaving the
Netherlands In early 2001, the former Radio Veronica ship the Norderney will be towed to Antwerpen (Belgium) where she will serve as a party and disco ship as she did before in Leeuwarden (in the north of the Netherlands). Yesterday the following article was published on the website of the local newspaper "Leeuwarder Courant":
Johan Visser Back On Kink FM Former Radio Mi Amigo/Radio Caroline/Radio Monique presenter Johan Visser (Ron Bisschop) will be back on the Dutch music station Kink FM presenting a weekly guitar rock programme "Bennie & The Jets" every Friday evening from 23.00 to 01.00 CET (midnight to 02.00 GMT). The programme starts on January 12th. Kink FM is broadcasting digitally and unscrambled on Astra 19° East (12.574 H, SR 22.000, FEC 5/6). |
Tuesday January 9th 2001
The France Radio Club/Offshore Echo´s Magazine commenting:
| THE 21st CENTURY OFFSHORE RADIO
POLL: LA*, THE ONLY WAY. (*Living At sea)  Ten years ago, when
Radio Caroline went silent, France Radio Club / Offshore Echo Magazine contacted a great
number of people and organisations connected with the EU. We asked (as did others from different European countries) two different questions: 1- The UK has passed a very controversial piece of legislation condemmed by international shipping organisations and respected marine lawyers. What is the official EU position ? 2- Radio Caroline is part of European cultural heritage and must be saved as a free radio station at sea. What can the EU do about this ? This campaign was very hard and very long. After four years with hundreds of letters, faxes, meetings… Mister Delors, in charge of the European Commission at that time, finally asked us to stop our mails and had nothing to say on the two subjects apart from he had no power to change UK legislation; and that Radio Caroline was a pirate station, so had no rights. Neverless we received support from individual Euro MPs from many countries and parties. But support is one thing, reality and efficient result is another : The reality is that the EU had no power to offer a broadcasting licence. The reality is that EU paid public money to finance an unlicenced offshore station (Radio Brod) and never asked or offered a licence to Radio Brod. The reality is EU claimed Radio Caroline to be a "pirate" station on one hand, while the other hand of the EU supported and financed their own "pirate" station! An "historic offshore stations with high contribution to the development of European broadcasting": Radio Caroline of course ! Everybody in Europe is agreed about Radio Caroline's contribution to freedom of speech and as a charismatic symbol for several generations.  Every country in
Europe has it own cultural heritage. But there must be a European cultural
heritage and Radio Caroline is part of it. But nothing can be done by EU. So, Radio Caroline must do the job by herself with help from supporters all around Europe and beyond. She must go back at sea firstly. By returning to the air from international waters as an independant broadcaster, she'll prove to the EU her existence and reality as a live legend. After that, official support from the EU can be asked for. What's the only way. LA*, the only way. *Living At sea. FRANCE RADIO CLUB / OFFSHORE ECHOS MAGAZINE 09/01/2001 france.radio.club@wanadoo.fr |
Sunday January 7th 2001
Tom Collins from TTS-Mediapro announcing:
| THE 21st CENTURY OFFSHORE
RADIO POLL What if . . . The European Union were to offer a pan European offshore broadcasting licence starting in 2001 to one of the historic offshore stations in recognition of their contribution to the development of European broadcasting? What if . . . Radio enthusiasts could choose who will get the licence by popular vote? Who would you vote for? To place your vote go to http://www.tts-mediapro.co.uk and make your choice! At the end of 2001 the results will be presented to the EU, with a request for such a licence to be granted. |
RadioVisie reporting:
| OPPAKKANS RADIO PARADIJS WORDT
ALSMAAR GROTER Okay FM, het regionale commerciële station voor het Gooiland, heeft plannen format en naam te wijzigen in Radio 192. - Als eerbetoon aan de zeezender Radio Veronica -, heet het. Daarom wil men op de 1584 kHz gaan uitzenden. Problematisch is dit niet, want er is een vergunning voor die frequentie. Omdat men eerder niet van plan was om de middengolf te gebruiken, werd de licentie 'in bruikleen' gegeven aan 'Quality Radio BV', die momenteel de programma's van Radio Paradijs (eerder 1584 AM The Bells) uitzendt vanuit Utrecht. MENINGEN LIGGEN MIJLENVER UIT ELKAAR Okay FM vroeg vorige maand de frequentie terug, Radio Paradijs was inmiddels alweer uit de lucht, maar er bleek een kink in de kabel te zitten. Beide organisaties kwamen niet tot een samenwerkingsakkoord en Radio Paradijs ging de frequentie opnieuw 'bezetten'. Dat was niet naar de zin van Okay FM die de RDR verwittigde. Beide partijen werd aangeraden opnieuw te gaan onderhandelen. Alweer zonder resultaat... STOPPEN IS ENIGE REMEDIE De RDR wordt de hele toestand zo langzamerhand wel beu en bestempelde het gebruik van de 1584 kHz door Quality Radio BV nu officieel als onwettig. Michael Bakker van Okay FM kreeg de raad nog één keer te proberen met Ruud Poeze, de man achter Radio Paradijs, tot een vergelijk te komen. Lukt dit niet, dan is de kans heel groot dat de zender komende week uit de lucht gehaald wordt, zodat binnenkort Radio 192 alsnog kan starten. Ben van Hoof Met dank aan Rob Olthof |
Hans Knot reporting:
| Vrijdag ochtend hoorden we van Michael Bakker dat de RDR nu het gebruik van de 1584 door Poeze als onwettig bestempeld: Zij hebben Michael Bakker aangeraden NOG EEN KEER te proberen met Poeze tot een vergelijking te komen. Een gesprek zal zaterdag plaats vinden. Komt men er niet uit, dan wordt komende week Poeze uit de lucht gehaald en dan start binnenkort op 1584 kHz Radio 192. Poeze zal wel door de bocht moeten omdat anders hij een misdrijf begaat en hij een strafblad krijgt. |
Saturday December 30th 2000
Hans Knot reporting:
| Dear Radiofriends, here are once again the monthly news from the Netherlands. Also, as this year's ending, I want to wish you all a very happy and real "radioful" 2001. Hans Knot Jeroen van Inkel, formerly top deejay at Veronica FM, went to Radio 538 and in a recent contest it was mentioned that he's the most known deejay, his team-mate, Edwin Evers however is the most popular deejay in 2000. The research done under 500 listeners of all stations in the age between 20 and 50 years, was done by Optimedia BV. On the third place of the most known deejays Radio 538 director Eric de Zwart (in 1979/1980 known as Paul de Wit on Caroline) was placed. On place 4 Rob Stenders, the first deejay from Dutch national pop station 3FM. But when it goes about the most popular deejay Stenders can be find on place 2. Evers was there at nr 1 with 27.9%, Van Inkel second with 17.1 and Stenders at place 3 with 17%. The commercial station Okay FM which transmits regionally in Hilversum and surroundings as well as on several cable networks, has plans to change its name in Radio 192. Formerly the station was known as Radio Gooiland and became well known in Holland by organising the big 11-days-Radio-Veronica-reunion in 1999. Okay FM want to use the 1584 kHz as well as another frequency. Therefore Radio Paradijs, run by Ruud Poeze and Bob Noakes, would have to close down. Indeed Poeze closed the station in November but was back on the air again suddenly early December. Okay FM owner Bakker consists of getting back the frequency but Poeze told me that in no way he wants to stop broadcasting as there's no officially signed piece of paper in which can be read that Radio Paradijs has to give the frequency back to Okay FM owners. Just like real pirate radio. Severe troubles with Dutch station Radio Nationaal, which started in June this year. Rini Schreijenberg, for 90% owner of the stations shares (the other 10% of stakes is in the hands of Strengholt concern), doesn't want to put any money further into the project. Several companies which own money from Radio Nationaal are planning a bankrupt case for the court in Amsterdam. In the meantime Nationaal has organised a meeting between the financial man and the directors of Nozema, who are responsible for the transmitting facilities. As Nationaal didn't paid the bills to Nozema, they warned the station that the transmitters would be shut down. Lucky enough just a few days before the closure some payment arrangements could be made. From January 1st Radio 538 will start their own school of broadcasting. Four talents will follow a traineeship on costs of the station. They will be accompanied by strong people who are names within the radio industry. The idea comes from the programme director of Radio 538, Uunco Cerfontaine, and Head director of Radio 538, Erik de Zwart (Paull de Wit). The length of the course depends on the deejays themselves. If they explore more talent than another they will get a shorter course. No guaranty is given for a proper job after the course. They will get some airtime in a programme together with other 538 deejays. With a market share of 35% and a daily listeners share of 8.5% in the Province of Groningen, the regional station Radio Noord once again became the most popular regional station in Holland. On the station the late morning programme is presented by Marc Jacobs, whom offshore radio listeners know from Mi Amigo and Caroline days in the seventies. He will be 25 years on the radio next June and is very loved by the housewives in Groningen. Marc Jacobs will be one of the main quests on the annual radio day, organised by RadioVisie/Freewave Media Magazine and Foundation for Media Communication on March 3rd 2001 in Amsterdam. Next to a lot of videos on the history of Offshore Radio other special quests can be mentioned now. Timmy Thomasson, once director of the ill fated offshore radio station Capital Radio will be interviewed on forehand on video. He is too old and too weak to come to Amsterdam, where the radio day will be held. Also Roger 'Twiggy' Day, known for offshore fame from Swinging Radio England, Radio Caroline and RNI and of course a lot of other radio jobs, has confirmed he will be coming over to Holland on March 3rd. For him the saddest date in his career. On that date in 1968 the Caroline ships were towed away to Amsterdam after directors didn't pay the bills for the tendering to Wijsmuller from Holland. For more information on the radioday you can have contact by email with SMC@caiw.nl or with Hknot@home.nl |
Thursday December 28th 2000
 Last week in the Knesset an attempt was made to pass a quick law rendering
Arutz-7 illegal, but was withdrawn when alert opposition members noticed it and quickly
gathered a majority of MKs to vote against it . What with the upcoming elections for Prime
Minister in just over a month, the "free" voice of Arutz 7 could become a thorn
in the side of the present government, and the agreement which is taking shape.Yaakov Katz yesterday broadcast this message over the airways of Arutz 7 (I will not publish all of it, as most of it refers to the politcal situation here in Israel, but only the parts relevent to broadcasting):  Yaakov (Ketzaleh) Katz, one of the leaders of the Yesha
settlement enterprise and Executive Director of Arutz-7, helped lift the spirits of
Arutz-7 listeners today: "It is important that we all know: We are not only a little minority. Most of the Jewish public in Israel - 70, 80% - does not want to give away Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and uproot Jews from their homes. We must know that the media has enlisted totally in the effort against us - for instance, today they are full of reports about Finance Ministry plans for uprooting settlers and paying compensation... We are headed only forward! We must not be alarmed by the reports of weakness on Voice of Israel and Galei Tzahal (Army Radio)..." Katz then spoke about Ariel Sharon: "[Another important element is the] victory of Ariel Sharon in the coming election, with G-d's help - but we have to know that we can't only rely on Ariel Sharon. Sharon is a politician who represents a particular political direction, a war hero, a man with strong national intuition who did great things for Israel - but we rely not on Sharon but on G-d and on our own actions. If we are strong, then Ariel Sharon will also be strong; but if we broadcast despair and weakness, then Sharon too will reflect this and will broadcast the same. We represent the majority of the Jewish nation, and therefore we will win, and we need not relate to the weakness that the other media give over - we must ignore them and march forward." |
Sunday December 17th 2000
Hans Knot reporting:
| RADIO PARADIJS GESOMMEERD TE
STOPPEN DOOR OKAY FM Het belooft een spannend verhaal te worden, het getouwtrek rond de 1584 kHz. Zoals je de voorbije dagen kon lezen wil Okay FM, het regionale commerciële station voor het Gooi graag zijn frequentie terug die eerder werd uitgeleend aan Radio Paradijs. Deze laatsten zijn het daar helemaal niet mee eens en willen blijven uitzenden. Daarom is Okay FM nu naar de RCD, de Rijksdienst voor Radiocontrole gestapt 'omdat hun frequentie illegaal wordt gebruikt'. Volgens Okay FM was heel duidelijk afgesproken met Ruud Poeze, de sterke man achter Radio Paradijs dat zij hun frequentie weer terug zouden krijgen en er gezamenlijk naar gestreefd zou worden een goed programma (lees: het project Radio 192) te beginnen. Meteen is door Okay FM een advocaat ingeschakeld die Ruud Poeze heeft gesommeerd te stoppen met de uitzendingen. |
Saturday December 16th 2000
Offshore Echo´s Magazine reporting:
Friday December 15th 2000
RadioVisie reporting:
| LICHT OP GROEN VOOR
NAAMSWISSEL BIJ OKAY FM Okay FM, het commerciële station voor het Gooi wil zijn naam wijzigen in... Radio 192. Personen met een meer dan gewone kennis van het medium radio, zullen zich dit getal herinneren als de golflengte waarop Radio Veronica ooit uitzond (van 1960 tot 1972). De jingle '192, goed idee' dreunt nog steeds in vele oren na. Minder bekend is waarschijnlijk het feit dat ook de zeezenders Radio Mi Amigo en Radio Delmare ooit op die middengolfstek uitzonden. Waarom die naamswissel? Omdat Okay FM graag op de lokale middengolffrequentie 1584 kHz (is 192 meter) vanuit Utrecht wil gaan uitzenden met een (verplicht) laag vermogen. Deze frequentie was oorspronkelijk aan hen toegewezen, maar werd tot voor kort uitgeleend aan het inmiddels ter ziele gegane 'Radio Paradijs'. Okay FM is het initiatief van oud Veronica technicus Ad Bouman en Michael Bakker. Eenmaal in de lucht als Radio 192 is het de bedoeling om het station uit te bouwen tot een volwaardige gouwe ouwe zender. Als er geen onverwachte hindernissen opduiken zal de nieuwe naam nog dit jaar in gebruik worden genomen. Spitante bijkomstigheid: ook figuren als Tineke de Nooij, Will Luikinga, Eddy Becker en Krijn Torringa, nu allen aan het werk bij Okay FM, zijn groot geworden op de 192 van Radio Veronica. Ze komen als het ware allen weer thuis, of hoe de geschiedenis zich herhaalt. RS (14-12-00) Bron: HvB's-Medianieuws RADIO PARADIJS SPRINGLEVEND EN WEER IN DE LUCHT De plannen van het regionale commerciële station Okay FM (Gooiland) om ook op de middengolf te gaan uitzenden op de 'oud Veronica-golflengte' van 192 meter, kunnen alweer worden opgeborgen (zie ons bericht van gisteren). Tenminste als het aan Radio Paradijs ligt, het station dat tot voor kort op de 1584 kHz uitzond, maar daar plotseling ook weer van verdween. Alsof er niets is gebeurd, zijn de Jammin’ Oldies nu weer even plots terug sinds deze middag om 12.00 uur. Hallo Ruud Poeze, samen met Bob Noakes de initiator van Paradijs, hoe zit dat nu eigenlijk? Ruud Poeze: - Radio Paradijs gebruikt sinds november vorig jaar de frequentie 1584 AM in Utrecht van Radio Gooiland, de organisatie die thans uitzendt onder de naam Okay FM. Wij kunnen die frequentie gebruiken omdat zij indertijd definitief geen brood zagen in de middengolf. Ze zijn zelfs serieus van plan geweest de frequentie terug te geven aan de overheid ten gunste van ons. Tevens zijn wij door Gooiland bij herhaling verzocht te bewerkstelligen dat de frequentie 1584 AM zal worden overgedragen aan Quality Radio BV, de moedermaatschappij van Radio Paradijs. - WAAR LIEP HET MIS BIJ DIE OVERDRACHT? Ruud Poeze: - Helaas blijkt nu dat Okay FM zich niet aan de afspraak voor overdracht van de frequentie houdt. Bovendien bestaan er opeens plannen om zelf die frequentie te gaan gebruiken net nu het ons is gelukt de zender daadwerkelijk in de lucht te krijgen. Wij hebben daartoe stevige investeringen gedaan de afgelopen jaren. De programmering, die teruggrijpt op het zeezendertijdperk, begint vorm te krijgen met gepresenteerde programma’s, waardoor we enthousiaste reacties kregen van steeds meer luisteraars, en de reclameverkoop was gestart. Nu gaat Okay FM in weerwil van eerdere afspraken de frequentie in Utrecht gebruiken voor een nieuw project. - IS ER GESPROKEN OVER SAMENWERKING? Ruud Poeze: - De afgelopen tijd is er inderdaad gesproken over een mogelijke samenwerking tussen Okay FM en Quality Radio BV. Daarbij is gebleken dat Okay FM niet uit is op een serieuze samenwerking en ook niet bereid is de door ons gedane investeringen in de frequentie ook maar enigszins te compenseren. Wij hechten eraan onze uitzendingen gewoon voort te zetten op 1584 kHz en gaan ervan uit dat deze frequentie aan ons zal worden overgedragen en dat Radio Gooiland/ Okay FM / Radio 192, zich dan ook onverkort aan deze afspraak houdt. RS (15-12-00) |
Tuesday December 5th 2000
Taken from today´s Arutz 7's daily e-mail news service:
| PRESS RELEASE ARUTZ SHEVA ISRAEL RADIO BY PHONE
|
Hans Knot reporting:
Some months ago we already mentioned the plans of Clear Channel
Communications, one of the biggest companies in the USA, to get a foot on the Dutch radio
market before the Dutch government will sell the frequencies next year. Well they’ve
succeeded to buy the station Q the Beat, which was formerly named Wonderful Big L. It will be named “The
Beat goes on” in the future. The station firstly used an old train which was the
official train of former GDR leader Erich Hoenecker. The train was placed at the Zutphen
railway station. Since a couple of years, the station which was first on the air in April
1994 uses the MV Communicator as
a base. This ship is anchored in Almere harbour and was used by Laser 558 and Laser Hot
Hits in mid eighties. During the last week of November a part of the programming of the
commercial radio station Radio 10 FM was transmitted live from the mecca of commercial
radio, the USA. Deejays Tom Mulder (formerly Klaas Vaak on Veronica in the seventies) and Dave Donkervoort used the studio of the radio station Music of Your
Love, which is situated in the 73rd stage of the Empire State building in New
York City. They could be heard each day between 13 and 16 hrs Dutch time. All went out
under the idea to get the listeners an impression of ‘Winter in America’. The NCRV has announced that Ferry Maat will officially leave the station after 5 years of successfully broadcast
on Radio 2. Maat, whose roots are with the offshore station Radio Noordzee Internationaal,
was on the air every weekday afternoon. The NCRV thought Maat still brought the impression
to the listeners that he was a TROS deejay, where he had been working for many years. In
between Maat has worked for Radio10Gold. Next to his many years of ‘radio presentation’ Ferry is a composer
and jingle producer and he’s well known for that in Holland and Germany. Next year in October a reunion is planned in England for those who worked either for Radio 199 (amongst
them Howard Rose=Crispian St. John), Radio Caroline or Radio Seagull during the period
1972 - 1974. Former office secretary of Andy Archer and Spangles Muldoon, Elja van den
Berg, is the woman behind the reunion. Fees
for the reunion will be around 30 Pounds. If you’ve worked for one of the stations in
1972/1974 and if you’re interested in getting more info on the reunion in the future
then send an e-mail to Hknot@home.nl
On November 29th for the last time a signal could be heard of Radio Paradijs, the station formerly known as
Radio Caroline Nederland and 1584 AM The bells. A few weeks ago Bob Noakes told our Dutch reporter already
that most of his money for his elderly days had gone into the project and he didn’t
think the station would get into Christmas this year. The opening of the station was
announced on the Dutch Radioday in 1997 and
it lasted for almost two years before it finally started. The station really had a total
lack of commercials and so no money came in to survive. |
Thursday November 30th 2000
| Hi all,
As Ehud Barak declared on early elections last night (probably in early May), we might see Arutz 7 taking an active part in the election propaganda. If that happens, then there may me a few raised eyebrows in the left wing camp - and that " could " cause problems for Arutz 7. I think that everyone here agrees that the last thing that we need here is elections - but there again, when has anybody in the Knesset listened to the people who voted for them...
Stay tuned, it might be a very interesting few months... Mike |
Monday November 27th 2000
Produxion.com reporting:
| MacKenzie's poised to join
offshore Radio 2 rival BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE - The Wireless Group (TWG) is poised to secure a major stake in its second national radio station by joining Delta 171 to set up an offshore radio station to rival BBC Radio 2 running outside UK radio regulations, writes Georgina Lipscomb. According to sources, TWG which owns and runs national radio station Talk Sport, has recently begun talks with Delta 171, a company believed to be backed by global investors including financier George Soros. TWG is expected to take a 33 per cent share in the company which will transmit a new UK national analogue radio station, 171 The Lounge, from a platform 22 miles off the Dutch coast in the North Sea. The station will launch in 2002 under a licence from the Dutch government on the 171 KHz long-wave frequency. TWG, headed by chief executive Kelvin MacKenzie, will manage the new station's programming and its advertising sales operation. MacKenzie declined to comment. TWG is also thought to have an option to buy outstanding share capital when the station breaks even. 171 The Lounge will be an extension of TWG's digital radio format and will compete for R2's audience. It will be music based and feature easy-listening songs from the past 40 years. |
Tuesday November 14th 2000
Hans Knot reporting:
| Ruud Poeze and Bob Noakes
promised us in April 1998 a new radio station that should bring a lot of music with
traffic information for the western part of Holland. During the first year and a half a
new service called Caroline Holland, came on the air with irregular test tapes. Within a
few months the station was renamed 1584 AM The Bells but suddenly in October there was
another name change. It's now called Radio Paradijs and for the first time live programmes
are presented with a team of four deejays, including Wim van Egmond,
who formerly worked in the eighties on offshore radio station Radio Monique. Peter van Dam, presenter for Radio Caroline, Radio Atlantis and Radio Mi Amigo in the seventies, can now be heard each weekday morning from 6.00 till 9.00 on Belgium’s Radio Energy, where he presents the "Morning Machine". Van Dam started his Radio career in 1972 under the name Peter Brian and worked for several radio stations in Holland including AVRO, TROS, Radio Tien Gold, as well as on Radio Luxembourg and Radio Flandria in Belgium. Krijn Torringa, former Radio Veronica presenter in the seventies, can now also be heard on Radio Monique in Ijmuiden. He presents a music programme on Tuesdays and Thursdays called "Holland’s Glory". Torringa also works for the station Okay Fm, which syndicates to several other stations. He is also a stadium speaker with Dutch football club FC Twente. |
Monday November 13th 2000
The France Radio Club/Offshore Echo´s Magazine commenting:
| Another truth... European coasts were destroyed by oil from the sunken tanker Erika. What can we now expect from the Levoli Sun?, the tanker that recently sank off the French coast. We 'd like to let you know our point of view in this dreadful matter. Our association, France Radio Club has been dedicated to independent broadcasting for over 26 years. One could say there's no link. Unfortunately there is a strong one. What will follow will shock you because it's only the truth, another truth. Before all this, let's talk about the accomplices. The accomplices. The accomplices are those who govern the countries, which today say how sorry they feel. They tell us they are helpless as far as oil companies, ship owners, vessels or flags of convenience are concerned. The reality is different. Governments worldwide, and politicians have the power to enforce laws and to have them respected. We are referring to international agreements. Two unquestionable facts: 1. Whenever vessels didn't reach safety standards or were caught discharging oil into the sea, governments didn't have international agreements respected. 2. Whenever they did try to have them respected, they were not applicable and they were not dissuasive. Why was nothing done? There was no answer from the officials, and some of them pretended that it is not up to governments to take those kind of measures. On the other hand, by signing international agreements, and having those agreements respected, means they share a common interest. Demonstration The United Nation Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), sometimes also known as the Montego Bay agreement, were proposed by worldwide governments. They could have done something but they didn't. On the other hand they have protected themselves against something a lot more dangerous than crude oil: Whereas it is not possible to control at sea any dangerous or possibly dangerous vessel, any government is able to go onto international seas to arrest people by sheer force, to tow their ship into a harbour and have her held there, because she is suspected of carrying a radio transmitter on board. This is considered legal, and on top of it can be done without any agreement from the country she belonged to. Articles 109 and 110 of UNCLOS allow such behaviour. The British government added another one which granted total immunity to the people who carried out these acts. They could even resort to killing without any problem or control (UK Broadcast Act 1990 ). As for the unfortunates who could get injured, they were not given the right to appeal to justice for a fair trial. If a journalist writes about one of these radio stations in one of his articles, he takes the risk of being imprisoned for two years. It is the same for those who bring supplies to these very dangerous ships. Therefore it is possible to control and arrest dangerous ships. It is possible to act against those who are responsible but only when radio stations broadcasting from a ship are concerned. This type of action is not even allowed for ships transporting drugs! Thanks to International agreements, it is easier to transport drugs or oil in dilapidated holds, rather than transport radio transmitters. Victory Governments have obtained what they were looking for. Because of the laws about offshore radio stations, 40 armed officials attacked Radio Caroline's transmitter, reducing to silence the most famous independent radio station of all times. The fear is still strong among those who wish to bring back to life this legend of the world of the media. Governments can act when they want to. They found the will to protect themselves against free programmes broadcast from ships playing the music they wished to play without the control of anyone. What about ships transporting nuclear waste and hazardous rubbish who sail near our coasts and destroy them? They have done nothing. Absolutely nothing! Do independent radio stations pollute more than the oil we now find on our beaches? What we propose Measures should be taken immediately so that our coasts and the coasts of other countries are not destroyed by irresponsible people. There is a very simple solution: to modify the international agreements on the rights at sea in articles 109 and 110 and turn "ships suspected of containing transmitters" into "ships suspected of causing possible dangerous ecological damage". Sentence All the people mentioned share an equal responsibility. All equally agreed on granting more importance to their political environment than to our natural environment. What sentence should be pronounced? They should be condemned to allowing an offshore radio station such as Radio Caroline to come back to the free international waters of North sea. It would be an extremely powerful means of exerting pressure over our governments to fight ecological catastrophies in the sea and to take this cause seriously into account. |
A television programme on ITV Carlton in its Metroland Series on Tuesday November 14th features an interview with Dave The Fish (the man who did a lot in the eighties for tendering Laser as well as Caroline). |
Saturday November 4th 2000
Radiowaves Ireland reporting:
 RADIO CAROLINE ANNIVERSARY The Anorak Hour can be heard at 1pm GMT (that´s 14.00h CET) on Sunday November 5th not only on 91.6FM and 102.9FM across Dublin, but across the world on the newly launched live webcast from Phantom. |
Wednesday November 1st 2000
An interesting commentary by former Radio England- , Radio Caroline- and RNI-presenter Roger "Twiggy" Day (sent by the British DX-Club BDXC-UK):
| 21st Century UK Radio: Roger
Day's View Is it just me or is radio ready for
another kick up the backside similar to the explosion of the offshore stations in the
sixties and indeed the eighties with Laser Radio? |
Tom Collins from TTS-Mediapro adding:
| I fully agree with Roger's comments on the
state of UK radio today. In Reading we have a massive choice of FM stations in the town, from London and many close by towns, the dial is full. Did I say choice? They all sound so similar with predictable play lists, cloned DJs and IRN news. If I go 250 miles home to Cornwall it´s the same, turn on the radio and you'd think you had never travelled a mile! I was recently talking to the sales manager of one of the UK's largest networks and he was actually proud to say that all the stations in the network were close formatted deliberately to sound the same!!! Two weeks ago I visited the Isle of Man and spent some time with Manx Radio (which has broadcast since 1964,the UK's first licensed commercial station) and what a pleasure it was to hear a station with its own individual identity providing real entertainment and a service to its community. I'm sure Roger is correct, if Caroline were available today on broadcast radio it would dominate the market. Until this happens, we can at least thank the Caroline crew for providing some relief with the satellite and internet service. Tom Collins |
21st August till 21st October 2000
April 12th till August 7th 2000
January 28th 2000 till April 3rd 2000
December 9th 1999 till January 24th 2000
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In keeping with the skyrocketing demand for news
direct-from-Israel over the past weeks, Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com has now made its radio
newscasts and live programming available by phone. Subscribers can simply dial a local
number, and hear Arutz-7 direct from Israel! The selections are available in English,
Hebrew, Russian and French. "Arutz Sheva By Phone opens the door to people who don't
have internet connections, or who want the convenience of hearing Israel radio when
they are away from their computers - even in a traffic jam," says Yaakov Katz
(Ketzaleh), Exec.-Dir. of Arutz-7 Radio. The national radio station he co-founded
was the first in Israel to launch a live internet broadcast, and currently boasts
three live internet streams in four languages.
The service, currently available in all New York area codes, will be
available - free - for a 30-day trial period; the subscription fee thereafter will be only
$10 per month. To sign up for the one-month free trial, call (617) 713-0140 - or register
for the service on the Arutz Sheva website: 
You haven't heard from me for a while - other news has been dominating
the headlines here for the past few months as you can imagine!
So maybe the next few months could be interesting after all as far as the
radio scene is concerned - that is if the left wing (who are under quite a bit of pressure
at the moment after the past two months of Palestininan riots etc after being offered the
most generous deal ever by an Isreali government) don't want to leave the propaganda war
to Arutz 7 and the right wing.