
UPDATED FEBRUARY 2010New this month: we mark the fortieth anniversary of the launch of Radio Northsea International with the first instalment of The RNI Story; we have another page of fantastic pictures from former Radio Caroline engineer Carl Thomson's photo album; there is the mystery of the TWO Lord Charles Browns plus the next four Radio City charts. See the contents page and DJ Directories of the sixties and seventies for full details of this site. |
IT WAS FORTY YEARS AGO THIS MONTH:11th February 1970: Medium wave (AM) test transmissions began
for Radio Northsea International (RNI), in addition to the existing VHF/FM and short wave tests.
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Britain's first offshore radio station, Radio Caroline, began broadcasting at Easter 1964 from a ship anchored just outside UK territorial waters. She was followed by a host of other radio stations based on boats and marine structures dotted around the coast.These pirates rapidly won an enormous and enthusiastic audience.
There are other web-sites which tell the stories of the various offshore stations but
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