UK Offshore Radio Timeline
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- A visual history of the UK's offshore radio stations told primarily through logos, jingles and broadcast extracts.
In celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the launch of regular programming from Radio Caroline on 28th March 1964, this video presents an overview of offshore “pirate” radio stations, the target audience of which was - or included - the United Kingdom.
You are my favourite channel, thanks so much for uploading this great and informative video!
Thank you so much! Greatly appreciated!
@@tvradiotimelines Do A Heavily In-Detail Video On The Dutch Public Brodcasting System And It's Nederland Brodcasters
Edit: NPO Brodcasters, As A More Clearer Answer
@@thentertaineronyoutube Thanks for the suggestion. I will add it to the (growing) list
Were on earth do they find all this archive. Wonderful, thank you
@@markbate5583 Apologies for the delay in replying - I have been travelling and only returned to the UK today. It DOES take a lot of hard work but is worth it in the end!
Fantastic overview of a fascinating area of UK Radio broadcasting.
Thank you - that's very kind.
Top job 📻 I'm fascinated by the history of radio stations and the different bands and frequencies.
Thanks for the kind words!
@@tvradiotimelineswhere did you get the logos for the video?
@@Palatinuskiralysag-fb11pk Many and varied sources online; most are cited in the notes at the end of the video.
Yes its me @Palatinuskiralysag-fb11pk
Happy birthday to Radio Caroline!🎉
Fantastic job once again! This is my favourite TH-cam channel.
Thank you so much for putting this together..... It means a lot
Thank you - it is good to know you like it!
I had a nickel everytime a pirate radio station was called Radio Caroline, it would be a millonare!
Yes
Nicely put together, good work 🙂
Thanks for the kind words - greatly appreciated!
What a time to be alive
Great to see Radio Sutch get a mention 👍
...even if it doesn't sound the most, er, "professional"....! LOL!
It's shocking how they did very formal announcements even though they weren't bound by Ofcom rules
Brilliant! That must have taken a lot of work…
...which is why it took forever to appear! Happy coincidence that it coincides with the launch of Radio Caroline!
Wonderful collection 👍👍 Greetings from the Netherlands 📻🇳🇱
Bedankt voor je lieve woorden. Ze worden enorm gewaardeerd!
Dank je, het was een geweldige tijd, popradio vanaf internationale wateren 📻
@@tvradiotimelinesI didn't know that you spoke Dutch.
@@jonavene12 Google Translate sometimes comes in useful!
I just love those old Jingles :)
You and me both!
7:12 C A R O L I N E Caroline, Caroline, Car-o-line!
Though you aren’t really able to cover land-based pirate stations, I think you might be able to do a timeline of the Irish pirate radio closedowns of 1988, with all the stations that closed, the Broadcasting and Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1988 becoming law, and the few stations that stayed on after the act became law.
I'll give it some thought but - as I have said elsewhere - my main area of interest is the UK as putting the videos together really does bring back a LOT of personal memories for me.
@@tvradiotimelines if you can do that guys request then you can do pirate TV stations
Thanks for the suggestion. I am currently working on something UK-based that will take some considerable time but I will add this to the list.
@@PacificSouthwestAir Not sure there were too many of those but I will add that to the (ever-growing) list too!
I bought “We love the pirates”
I read somewhere that Alan West of RNI couldn't remember the firebombing incident when asked by a passer-by fan one day.
Amazing sometimes what the psyche can do to help you blot out bad memories, if this was the case. 🤔
Radio Essex/BBMS must be the most world renowned Pirate Radio Station ever
They found libertas e mare and have founded what can be considered as the world’s 198th sovereign state
Godspeed, Principality of Sealand
Apologies for the delayed response - I have been travelling and only returned to the UK today. Re your comment: I have often thought of buying a peerage....
so, £100 in 1966 was around £1,500 in today's money. (calculation taken from bank of england)
keep that in mind - because that's quite a bit of money..
BBMS a few months after closure: You know what, lets become a country instead.
And thus, Sealand was born
You could not make it up! 😅
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
it exists
Yes - and I gather you can buy a peerage there too!
@@tvradiotimelines you can
this went hard
Not sure I understand?
@@tvradiotimelines Im just saying this was a Good video
@@Insert-thing-here-Fan Really glad you like it!
@@tvradiotimelines youre welcome! Is there any way you could do other countries, maybe like the USA (or just states if thats too big) or Ireland maybe?
@@Insert-thing-here-Fan I get quite a lot of requests for other areas but I have to admit that - for my own interest - my main focus is the UK (mainly because that is where I live and the nostalgia that the timelines evoke for me personally). I WILL bear it in mind though!
19:37 can anyone figuring out what does the code about the annoucer say the message to seek help?
Edit: So, He said "Number 19, Number 40 times 2 (which is 80, depends the math ahh operations), Number 41, Delete the first two words (what's the words???)"
I am guessing that they had a numbered list of potential emergency situations and the codes told those on land what was going on without alerting the audience or authorities. Pure guesswork on my part, though!
@@tvradiotimelinesbut what's the answer of the code does he say as a result????
@@whatzyouruser10 I have no idea - I suppose the idea of using codes is that only some people will know what they mean.
It could just be code for which parts they needed new ones of if there was a technical failure, and 40 was maybe just something they happened to need two of.
14:07 Shhh…. don’t let them know what happened to Radio Veronica..
Ha ha! Technically Veronica did not broadcast to the UK (despite a large audience) whilst RNI did.
Radio Veronica shut down in August 1974, but a year later some of the staff started 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚 Omroep Organisatie as a public broadcaster. Veronica technically exists as a company called Vereniging Veronica.
@@MijiBertie Thanks for the info! At least YOU'VE let them know what happened to Radio Veronica! 😄
@@tvradiotimelines The company is now under Talpa
MV Mi Amigo
Radio Caroline 319m 20:39
Radio Caroline Change 1980-83
MV Ross Revenge
Radio Caroline 319m 963khz
MV Mebo 2
Radio Northsea
Are you resuming TV Broadcast timeline?
Not quite sure where to go next on the UK's timeline for TV. Much more scope for radio.
13:02 It ish Radio Nordzeeeeeeeeee... INTER-NA-SHION-AL!
I bet it was a great bit of irony for Caroline to be given a former BBC frequency when finally legal? 🤭
"Please don't take em' away!"
1990: I don't think so
Sad but true!
8:20 what song is this
It was the theme tune for Radio Scotland and is called "The Black Bear". It was first used in the film "Tunes of Glory" in 1961(?)
@@tvradiotimelines ta I’ve been looking for this for awhile
You have a weird idea about where Frinton/Clacton are!
Sorry - geography was never my strong point!
the station closedown Announcements are so sad for no reason like bro ik youre ceasing broadcasting indefinitely but don't give me those feels again
Where did you get all of the logos
There's this incredible new thing called Google......
Xd but I cant find all the logo
@@zsoltpalatinus3506 Logopedia is very good but - as I have said before - I have been collecting them for a long time and it takes a VERY long time to put the videos together as a result.
Mo idea to find them xD
😊
whats that song radio invicta used? the artist sounds familiar.
It is apparently called "Rockin' Goose" by Jphnny & The Hurricanes
You back?
Never been away! It just takes a LONG time to do the research and put everything together.
and also I like your content (: @@tvradiotimelines
Bonjour can you make the bbc local radio timeline please
Strangely enough, I have been thinking along those lines myself. Might take a while though!
@@tvradiotimelines OK
IDEA: irish commercial radio timeline😂😂
Im wish I had a pound for every suggestion people have made. I would b e VERY rich! I just wish I had enough time to accommodate them ll.
6:47 why did this sound like NBC chimes?
Mo idea! They were "pirates" after all! ☺
And also, what is this song on 2:02 ?
@@THEACTUALLDL123 I am afraid I can't help here either - it was the theme tune used by Invicta Radio but I have not been able to identify the name of the artist or composition.
Ok then
@@tvradiotimelines xD , "mo idea"
👍
Would radio luxembourg have been considered a pirate too?
Either way, if you had a shortwave radio then the BBC could do nothing about that 😅
Don't think so - it was authorised by the Luxembourg authorities but it definitely paved the way for what followed.
@@tvradiotimelines ah fair enough. Bet the uk government had a few choice words but fell on deaf ears haha
Radio Luxemburg was a pirate. Unlicensed to broadcast to the UK. Also check radio Normandy another 1930s pirate that crashed broadcasts on the outbreak of war, but never came back like radio Luxemburg 😊
Also, not gonna lie, thag RNI jingle makes me wish i was deaf 🤮
Punk happened for a reason. This is one of them.
Not gonna lie either - I LOVE the RNI theme music!
And you forgot some stations
Really? Which ones?
Radio tower
@@Palatinuskiralysag-fb11pk Radio Tower never progressed beyond test transmissions.
Thx FOR THE Info@@laotian12innumberverse6
Today is the DAY when RNI shut down 60 years ago
RNI was always my favourite when I was a kid!
Can you do an mixed history for ILR and Pirate Radio from UK📻🔊🔉🔔📆📅
Sigh... I'll add it to the list! 🙂😂
Thx ill support ya (also you made the ILR timeline wrong I use wikipedia)
@@zsoltpalatinus3506 So do I but Wikipedia has lots of errors and the info I used has mostly been verified from at least two sources.
Lol
Also include the stations 2000- (and show what happend not just show the logo whom it got token over by
This was typical of the Labour goverment, telling us we can only listen to what they say.! Now broadcasting in UK is awful. These guys were pros.
And then the government (this time Tory) went and screwed up regional TV too!!!