Radio Caroline North and Manx Radio

dxhound2005

648 is about 15 seconds behind 1368.

Oscarziggy

648khz is on the reserve transmitter and aerial so now at 2kw due to a problem with the main transmitter.

There was a technical glitch at 11am Saturday morning on 1368khz when the Manx News was being broadcast at the same time as Johnny Lewis ! Neither won the battle as the 2 audios were at the same level.

Oscarziggy

Schedule for the week end.

Saturday 13th January

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 Rosko

08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street (Manx Radio)

10:30 Johnny Lewis

13:00 Dave Foster

16:00 Steve Bishop

18:30 Josh Holmes-Bright

21:00 Andrew Austin

Sunday 14th January

00:00 Kevin Peters

03:00 Bill Rollins

06:00 John Ellery

09:00 Johnny Lewis

12:00 Steve Bishop

15:00 Andrew Austin

17:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

19:00 Dave Foster

21:00 Close

Oscarziggy

Schedule --

Saturday 10th February

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 Rosko

08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street (Manx Radio)

10:30 Johnny Lewis

13:00 Dave Foster

15:00 Nigel Harris

17:00 Nick Jackson

19:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

21:00 Andrew Austin

Sunday 11th February

00:00 Kevin Peters

03:00 Bill Rollins

06:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

09:00 Nick Jackson

12:00 Johnny Lewis

14:00 Andrew Austin

16:00 Nigel Harris

19:00 Dave Foster

21:00 Close

Have a great week end

Oscarziggy

Good to see Nigel Harris and Nick Jackson on the list .Nick made a welcome guest appearance on the January broadcast .

Declan A Walsh

I have Manx Radio on 1368kh tuned in on my car radio, so that when I switch from FM to AM (if not there already), I will be straight into Radio Caroline North and won't forget this time! The reception is variable around my neck of the woods, but, depending on where I am, I can pick it up reasonably well. I could, of course, listen to it online on my phone!

Oscarziggy

Sadly Nigel Harris will not be on the Ross Revenge this week end. 1368khz is great here in South West Wales.

Oscarziggy

A 3 day event to celebrate 60 years of Radio Caroline .

Schedule :

Friday 29th March

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 Rosko

07:00 Johnny Lewis

10:30 Grant Benson

13:00 Chris Pearson

15:30 Nick Jackson

18:00 60 Years of Radio Caroline (Part One)

19:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

21:00 Andrew Austin

Saturday 30th March

00:00 John Ellery

03:00 Kevin Peters

06:00 Nick Jackson

08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street (Manx Radio)

10:30 Johnny Lewis

12:00 Chris Pearson

14:00 Grant Benson

16:00 Nick Jackson

18:00 60 Years of Radio Caroline (Part Two)

19:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

21:00 Andrew Austin

Sunday 31st March

00:00 Bob Lawrence

04:00 Bill Rollins (BST)

06:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

08:00 Grant Benson

10:00 Chris Pearson

12:00 Johnny Lewis

14:00 Nick Jackson

16:00 Andrew Austin

18:00 60 Years of Radio Caroline (Part Three)

19:00 Dave Foster

21:00 Close

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Oscarziggy

Updated schedule list to include Kevin Turner --

Friday 29th March

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 Rosko

08:30 Johnny Lewis

10:30 Chris Pearson

13:00 Ray Clark

15:30 Kevin Turner

18:00 60 Years of Radio Caroline (Part One)

19:00 Grant Benson

21:00 Andrew Austin

Saturday 30th March

00:00 John Ellery

03:00 Kevin Peters

06:00 Kevin Turner

08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street (Manx Radio)

10:30 Johnny Lewis

12:00 Chris Pearson

14:00 Grant Benson

16:00 Kevin Turner

18:00 60 Years of Radio Caroline (Part Two)

19:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

21:00 Andrew Austin

Sunday 31st March

00:00 Bob Lawrence

04:00 Bill Rollins (BST)

06:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

08:00 Grant Benson

10:00 Chris Pearson

12:00 Johnny Lewis

14:00 Kevin Turner

16:00 Andrew Austin

18:00 60 Years of Radio Caroline (Part Three)

19:00 Everybody!

21:00 Close

Infoanon

When I heard RTE playing the Fortunes and Caroline earlier today (12.55) I thought maybe they knew the relevance and would reference Radio Carolines 60 th birthday this Easter weekend (and Easter falls the same weekend as it did in 1964).

Those magical months when Caroline North was heard across the East Coast bringing pop music to these Isles for the first time.

Caroline effectively shaped Irish Broadcasting it's DJS Robbie Robinson and Chris Cary starting the super stations Sunshine and later Nova

Losty Dublin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121947919#Comment_121947919

Of course they did; Louise has an anorak as well.

ford fiesta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121948020#Comment_121948020

I very much doubt it

Losty Dublin

Great laugh to hear Tony Blackburn gatecrash into BBC2's breakfast show to blag Carolines birthday celebrations.

Ger Roe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121947919#Comment_121947919

Absolutely agreed about Caroline's influence on Irish Radio. I have a two waves of influence theory.... firstly Irish people who listened to Caroline set up the early Irish pirate stations in the late 60's and 70's (wave 1) and then, after the Mi Amigo sank in 1980, Robbie and Chris arrived here, bringing with them some of the best offshore DJ's of the time (wave 2).

Sunshine at the very beginning sounded like Radio Caroline had relocated to portmarnock. Then Robbie and Chris lifted the standards of radio presentation to new heights that Irish listeners didn't know existed.

We owe a lot to Caroline and the people who worked for it, over many years.

squonk

BBC R2 are doing a Battle of the DJs type show tomorrow (Good Friday) @ 12pm. Johnnie Walker and Tony Blackburn presenting. I think it might be a quiz. No real idea what’s happening but it’s to celebrate the Caroline 60th anniversary and celebrate pirates in general. Just posting it here. Don’t bland me if it’s not good!

EDIT: They just mentioned it’s on BBC Sounds already. The show sounds like it includes the BBC jocks with pirate roots so many more than Tony & Johnnie.

Ger Roe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121949573#Comment_121949573

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001yb57

Tony Blackburn (OBE) on Pirate Radio 2

ford fiesta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121949969#Comment_121949969

Tony was on "Tracks of my years" mid mornings with Vernon Kay this week.

True that they are the only 60s pirate radio jocks currently on BBC Radio 2. I am not sure how many are left on the BBC, but a good few are on web based radio stations no doubt.

Enda Caldwell

Boom Radio are doing a great job of commemorating Caroline with special programmes incl. Rosko tonight and Your thinner record Spinner Roger Twiggy Day who has just done a two hour live broadcast from on board The (recently fire damaged) LV18 at Harwich - which was the ship used as "Sunshine Radio" in some scenes of The Boat That Rocked. Nicky Horne on air now paying tribute to Ronan.

Declan A Walsh

Radio Caroline on 648 kh am was being relayed this evening in Dublin on 1206 kh am, given the day that's in it.

TheBMG

Does anyone know where Ronan was buried?

Would love to visit one of the days and leave flowers to show my respect.

Oscarziggy

Stream LIVE

http://sc2.radiocaroline.net:8100/index.html?sid=1

Oscarziggy

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Enda Caldwell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121951398#Comment_121951398

It would be best to call the PP or Parochial House in Greenore / Carlingford or that area. His funeral was not attended by anyone and was a most heartbreaking watch online - I was viewing from the states at that time.

I remember turning round at Chris Cary's funeral and in the row behind (quietly, down the back) there stood Ronan.

Rather a surreal moment.

Declan A Walsh

I heard the Radio Caroline North/Manx Radio AM broadcast being relayed on 105.2 FM in south Dublin a short while ago.

Incidentally, what Radio Garden describes as Radio Caroline 648am is broadcasting Radio Caroline's album station. Steve Dack is on at the moment and will be followed by Nigel Harris. I remember finding this discrepancy before. I checked Radio Caroline's website and that is one of the online options. I think the Radio Garden option continues with the online album station.

Now listening to Ray Clark on Radio Caroline North courtesy of Radio Garden's option for Manx Radio AM! It is also available as the Radio Caroline North option on Radio Caroline's website!

squonk

Caught about half of the BBC R2 show with Tony Blackburn & Johnnie Walker. Lovely show with both guys reminiscing about their time on Caroline and BBC.

I really enjoyed both doing chart rundowns from a particular year. It was fantastic hearing both go from shooting tge breeze to “on air” so effortlessly and professionally.

I really hope some of todays lineup would be made listen to shows like this.

ford fiesta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121953181#Comment_121953181

It was a great listen from thr start, with the first hour more aimed at the pirate days. the second hour was mostly their music choices of the 60s as well as the 70s

Declan A Walsh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121953091#Comment_121953091

Later this afternoon, it was also being relayed on 1206 kh AM. A much better signal than 105.2 FM.

Oscarziggy

Saturday 13th April
00:00 Continuous Caroline Music
06:00 Rosko
08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street (Manx Radio
10:30 Johnny Lewis
13:30 Kevin Turner
16:30 Steve Bishop
18:30 Josh Holmes-Bright
21:00 Andrew Austin

Sunday 14th April
00:00 Kevin Peters
03:00 Bill Rollins
06:00 John Ellery
09:00 Kevin Turner
12:00 Steve Bishop
14:00 Andrew Austin
16:00 Josh Holmes-Bright
18:00 Johnny Lewis
21:00 Close

Have an enjoyable and peaceful weekend