Radio Caroline North and Manx Radio

Oscarziggy · 07-12-2022 2:05pm

10th / 11th December on 1368khz ,samrt speakers,mobile phones and 648khz -- enjoy the weekend .

Schedule .

Saturday 10th December

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 John Ellery

08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street

10:30 Johnny Lewis

13:00 Nigel Harris

16:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

19:00 Andrew Austin

21:00 Dave Foster

Sunday 11th December

00:00 Kevin Peters

03:00 Bill Rollins

06:00 Steve Jenner

09:00 Johnny Lewis

11:00 Nigel Harris

13:00 Andrew Austin

15:00 Ray Clark

19:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

21:00 Close.

Ger Roe · 06-01-2023 1:03pm

Radio Caroline has announced that Emperor Rosko will be presenting breakfast programmes on each weekend of the Caroline North broadcasts scheduled for 2023.

Looks like they will be pre-records going out from 6am, presumably until Chris Williams takes over at 08:30, with his 'Carnaby Street' programme live from Manx Radio. Rosko's first programme will air on the first weekend of broadcasting from the ship in 2023, Saturday January 14th.

in the 1960's, Rosko presented for Caroline on the Mi Amigo, before becoming one of the launch line up on BBC Radio 1 in 1967. He also was heard in Dublin in the 1980's when he presented pre-recorded evening progs on Radio Nova, from his home in Los Angeles.

Great alakazm, the main man, is back! .... with music and rhymes to blow your mind! (or something like that :)

https://radiotoday.co.uk/2023/01/05/emperor-rosko-returns-home-for-breakfast-at-radio-caroline/?fbclid=IwAR3sskwstCo7czEdQ-sOK7x1mkm6zrqFpF9w1r3vqo_9seGDaMT7LI6B92E

tinytobe · 06-01-2023 2:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120073297#Comment_120073297

I remember Emperor Rosko on Friday evenings on Virgin 1215.

Oscarziggy · 12-01-2023 6:56pm

Schedule : An early one to catch Rosko and not sure if on 1368khz but 648khz on skywave should work at that time of day. This link normally becomes active on Friday evening so could be a place to listen. http://sc2.radiocaroline.net:8100/index.html?sid=1

Saturday 14th January

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 Rosko

08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street

10:30 Johnny Lewis

13:30 Paul Brown

16:30 Nigel Harris

19:00 Andrew Austin

21:00 Dave Foster

Sunday 15th January

00:00 Kevin Peters

03:00 Bill Rollins

06:00 John Ellery

09:00 Johnny Lewis

13:00 Paul Brown

15:00 Nigel Harris

17:00 Andrew Austin

19:00 Dave Foster

21:00 Close

Oscarziggy · 14-01-2023 12:44am

Stream running

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

Oscarziggy · 14-01-2023 5:37pm

Rosko's show .

Sadly 648khz had a transmitter failure -- but here is the show.

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/rosko-north

Oscarziggy · 06-02-2023 11:11am

Schedule for 11th / 12th February.

Saturday 11th February

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 Rosko

08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street

10:30 Johnny Lewis

12:30 Steve Jenner

14:30 Grant Benson

16:30 Steve Bishop

19:00 Andrew Austin

21:00 Dave Foster

Sunday 12th February

00:00 Kevin Peters

03:00 Bill Rollins

06:00 Dave Foster

09:00 Grant Benson

12:00 Steve Jenner

15:00 Steve Bishop

17:00 Andrew Austin

19:00 Dave Foster

21:00 Close

648khz fault sorted and back on full power .

Have a great week end .

Declan A Walsh · 06-02-2023 11:46am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120207452#Comment_120207452

I see Dave Foster has three slots over those two days!

Oscarziggy · 09-02-2023 6:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120207533#Comment_120207533

Schedule change -- now no Dave Foster at all ?

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 Rosko

08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street

10:30 Johnny Lewis

12:30 Steve Jenner

14:30 Grant Benson

16:30 Steve Bishop

19:00 Andrew Austin

21:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

Sunday 12th February

00:00 Kevin Peters

03:00 Bill Rollins

06:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

09:00 Grant Benson

12:00 Steve Jenner

15:00 Steve Bishop

17:00 Andrew Austin

19:00 Johnny Lewis

21:00 Close

Oscarziggy · 09-02-2023 9:47pm

Last update hopefully -- "programmes subject to change" !

Saturday 11th February

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 Rosko

08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street

10:30 Johnny Lewis

13:00 Steve Jenner

15:00 Grant Benson

18:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

21:00 Andrew Austin

Sunday 12th February

00:00 Kevin Peters

03:00 Bill Rollins

06:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

09:00 Grant Benson

12:00 Steve Jenner

15:00 Andrew Austin

18:00 Johnny Lewis

21:00 Close

Oscarziggy · 10-02-2023 11:42pm

Stream live -

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

Oscarziggy · 06-03-2023 9:52pm

Schedule for the weekend -- no Dave Foster .

Saturday 11th March

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 Rosko

08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street

10:30 Johnny Lewis

13:30 Ray Clark

15:30 Josh Holmes-Bright

18:00 Paul Brown

21:00 Andrew Austin

Sunday 12th February

00:00 Kevin Peters

03:00 Bill Rollins

06:00 John Ellery

09:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

12:30 Ray Clark

15:30 Andrew Austin

17:30 Paul Brown

19:00 Johnny Lewis

21:00 Close

Ger Roe · 08-03-2023 11:50am

Great to see that Ray Clark will be on for both days - always worth a listen.

Sorry to see Dave Foster is still off, hope to hear him back on air soon. I met Dave on board The Ross when it was in Tilbury Dock back in 2004 and then later in Dublin at a tribute night for Tony Allan, he is a force of nature, a vital part of all activity on the ship when the broadcasts are on. I hope someone else is appointed to take over Beatles playing duties, until he returns :)

Oscarziggy · 05-04-2023 8:44pm

3 day Easter broadcast--

Schedule --

Friday 7th April

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 John Ellery

09:00 Johnny Lewis

13:00 Roger Day

17:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

21:00 Andrew Austin

Saturday 8th April

00:00 Dave Foster

03:00 Bill Rollins

06:00 Rosko

08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street

10:30 Johnny Lewis

14:00 Roger Day

17:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

21:00 Andrew Austin

Sunday 9th April

00:00 Kevin Peters

03:00 Dave Foster

06:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

09:00 Roger Day

12:00 Ray Clark

15:00 Keith Rogers

19:00 Johnny Lewis

21:00 Close

Programmes subject to change.

Have a peaceful Easter

Ger Roe · 09-04-2023 10:20am

I have been listening in as much as I can, since Friday, Oscar .... one of the best line ups in a while.

Roger Day sounds like he has never been away. One of the highlights of my own radio activity was linking live to him from Phantom FM for an Anorak Hour interview when he was in Harwich Harbour aboard LV 18 for Pirate BBC Essex. He was a joy to chat to and is always enthusiastic about doing great radio. He also sounds exactly like he did in the 60's and 70's :)

Later today I am looking forward to hearing the great Ray Clark , followed by a Caroline debut from Keith Rogers of Radio North Sea International. If my memory still works, I think Keith was on board the RNI ship MeBo 2 when it was bombed in May 1971.

https://www.phoenixfm.com/2018/01/20/keith-rogers-life-radio/

It is just a pity that Dave Foster is still off, he is missing a great weekend - I hope to hear him back on air soon.

Ger Roe · 10-04-2023 10:25am

A worthy mention to whoever runs Phone Fix Craft on The Crumlin Road in D 12. It was great to hear a Dublin business advert on Caroline North over the weekend. Fair play for providing some financial support.

The connection between Caroline and Ireland, isn't just related to its founder and the initial ship fit-out in Greenore Port. The Irish broadcast scene (radio and TV) owes a huge debt to the various Caroline people who started up and worked on some of the 70's and 80's Irish pirate radio stations. Even the very early pirate operators in the 1960's were influenced by listening to Caroline.

Caroline influenced Irish broadcasting in two waves, firstly in the 1960's when the likes of Ken Sheehan, Prince Terry, Davitt Kelly etc, set up low power early AM pirates to have a go at what they had heard on Caroline, and then the second wave hit in the early 1980's when Robbie Dale and Chris Cary arrived and set up the Superpirates Sunshine and Nova, with a crew of Caroline jocks that were at a loose end since the sinking of the Mi Amigo in 1980.

I always thought that it would be great to get The Ross in to Dublin for a temp licence run. Caroline left Ireland in 1964 and has never returned, it would be great to bring it home for a visit. I can imagine the ship tied up at North Wall Quay, just outside The Point.

Maybe if the restoration fund achieves it's aims and if the UK authorities allow it to leave UK waters again?

Oscarziggy · 10-04-2023 9:44pm

Ger Roe,

Thanks for the 2 great posts.

I wasn't able to listen as much as I'd liked over the week end due to stuff beyond my control but have caught the 2 Roger Day shows on https://www.woodleynet.co.uk/caroline/podcasts.htm#north.-- really enjoyable and hope he's on the Ross Revenge again in the future.

dxhound2005 · 12-04-2023 12:52pm

Manx Radio are going to trial DAB, with a view to making that the second service after FM, and replacing AM.

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/manx-radio-granted-3-year-dab-licence/

Ger Roe · 16-04-2023 12:57pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120468805#Comment_120468805

Good for Manx Radio .... but bad for aging nostalgic anoraks. It would be sad to see 1368 go, but if I am being realistic, it is only a matter of time. We must enjoy the Caroline North AM broadcasts from Foxdale, while we can.

dxhound2005 · 22-04-2023 12:11am

On the local news on Anglia TV 21 April, there was a feature about the Ross Revenge. Starts at around 12 minutes. As an aside there is an Irish woman, Aisling Creevey doing the weather, around 24 minutes.

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2018-05-04/catch-up-watch-the-most-recent-edition-of-itv-news-anglia?fbclid=IwAR1IHnAOzoFvG66oDMqiSd5N4lXgFhxZiI-mDO4kQhZsYYyuX961bs5Hodw

Oscarziggy · 01-05-2023 8:30pm

Schedule :

Saturday 6th May

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 Rosko

08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street

10:30 Johnny Lewis

13:30 Josh Holmes-Bright

16:00 Steve Jenner

19:00 Dave Foster

21:00 Andrew Austin

Sunday 7th May

00:00 Kevin Peters

03:00 Bill Rollins

06:00 John Ellery

09:00 Johnny Lewis

12:00 Andrew Austin

14:00 Steve Jenner

16:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

19:00 Ray Clark

21:00 Close

Welcome back Dave Foster on Saturday.

kazoo106 · 01-05-2023 9:07pm

She also does the UTV weather most evenings after News at 10 and always, always starts off with "very good evening to eveybody at home" - but a bit off topic, unless we say her picture crossed the Isle of Man !

Oscarziggy · 05-05-2023 10:12pm

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

Peace and love

Oscarziggy · 08-05-2023 12:00pm

Does anyone know if the Caroline North week end was transmitted on the Isle Of Man DAB trial please?

I think the trial idea was to have the FM service on DAB and also, separately, the AM service .

Thanks

Ger Roe · 09-05-2023 9:52am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120569303#Comment_120569303

It was certainly announced from the ship, that they were being carried on the DAB trial across the Island.

Oscarziggy · 11-05-2023 3:28pm

Thanks -- I had a reply from "a person at the top" of Manx Radio .

Part of the reply said "The Radio Caroline weekend was carried on Manx Radio DAB platform "

Oscarziggy · 10-07-2023 11:16am

Schedule 15th / 16th July.

Saturday 15th July

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 Rosko

08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street

10:30 Johnny Lewis

14:00 Nigel Harris

17:30 Josh Holmes-Bright

21:00 Dave Foster

Sunday 16th July

00:00 Kevin Peters

03:00 Bill Rollins

06:00 John Ellery

09:00 Johnny Lewis

12:00 Nigel Harris

15:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

18:00 Dave Foster

21:00 Close.

Ger Roe · 10-07-2023 11:59am

Good to see Dave Foster, back on the live roster :)

yiddo59 · 10-07-2023 10:07pm

Delighted that Nigel Harris and Johnny Lewis feature. 2 of my favourite Caroline jocks.

Ger Roe · 11-07-2023 9:35am

There was a near disaster flooding on The Ross this weekend and 'the legacy' studio took a lot of water leaking down from the heavy rain on deck. Dry docking can't come quickly enough. The ship will still be live this weekend for the Caroline North broadcast. Caroline continues.

Oscarziggy · 14-07-2023 10:57pm

North stream live .

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

dxhound2005 · 22-07-2023 12:07am

There will be a TV programme on the Yesterday channel 25 July which may be of interest to Radio Caroline fans.

https://radiotoday.co.uk/2023/07/former-radio-caroline-studio-to-feature-in-television-programme/

Antenna · 25-07-2023 9:07pm

Radio Caroline on shortly sometime this hour 9-10pm on the Yesterday TV channel on Sky and FTA satellite (Retro Electro Workshop) - for studio equipment repairs

(I only noticed DX Hound's post now about the same thing.)

On now (9:18pm)

Antenna · 31-07-2023 1:32pm

Its being repeated tonight (Monday 31th) at 8PM if anyone interested missed it, Yesterday Channel.

episode: Sinclair C5 , Series 1 Episode 2

Oscarziggy · 08-08-2023 1:16pm

3 day event --have a peaceful listen !

Friday 11th August

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

09:00 Chris Pearson

12:00 Ray Clark

15:00 Johnny Lewis

17:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

19:00 Andrew Austin

21:00 Dave Foster

Saturday 12th August

00:00 John Ellery

03:00 Steve Jenner

06:00 Rosko

08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street

10:30 Johnny Lewis

13:00 Dave Foster

15:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

17:00 Chris Pearson

19:00 Grant Benson

21:00 Andrew Austin

Sunday 13th August

00:00 Kevin Peters

03:00 Bill Rollins

06:00 Dave Foster

09:00 Johnny Lewis

12:00 Grant Benson

15:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

17:00 Andrew Austin

19:00 Chris Pearson

21:00 Close

Ger Roe · 09-08-2023 10:13am

Great to see Caroline using the terms of the NI protocol over this weekend, to send out their fundraising 'powered by the sun' T shirts, from the North. This will allow European listeners to get hold of them, without the current fiasco that exists with complicated and much delayed postal procedures between the UK and EU.

I am waiting four weeks now for a small item in an envelope from the UK that cost me less than £10. If I ever do get it, I expect it to be accompanied by a hefty additional customs charge and fine for non compliance of something or other that no one seems to understand. I was gifted a Caroline poster from the last fundraise event and was charged €10 to receive it - not their fault, just a consequence of current UK & EU relations.

Fair play to Caroline for thinking of their overseas supporters and using the system to their advantage - I don't mean to be political, but it just makes common and commercial sense.

dxhound2005 · 13-08-2023 2:12pm

Caroline is being relayed by the Dundalk pirate on 1494 kHz this weekend. The pirate is about 10 seconds ahead of 1368 and 5 seconds ahead of 648.

kazoo106 · 14-08-2023 6:29pm

The packages (while not liable to tax) will still get sucked into the Royal mail system, for everything that's not going to the south on the daily royal mail lorry to Dublin. They would have been better shipping the European parcels from the Republic rather than within the Royal Mail network.

Oscarziggy · 11-09-2023 8:58pm

Schedule for 16th / 17th September .

Saturday 16th September

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 Rosko

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

10:30 Steve Jenner

12:30 Paul McKenna

16:30 Dave Sherwood

18:30 Josh Holmes-Bright

21:00 Andrew Austin

Sunday 17th September

00:00 Kevin Peters

03:00 Bill Rollins

06:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

09:00 Johnny Lewis

13:00 Steve Jenner

17:00 Andrew Austin

19:00 Dave Foster

21:00 Close

Enjoy the weekend

Oscarziggy · 15-09-2023 11:29pm

Stream live

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

dxhound2005 · 16-09-2023 2:49pm

The Dundalk pirate on 1494 kHz is relaying Caroline this weekend.

Oscarziggy · 12-10-2023 5:25pm

Schedule for October linkup with Manx Radio.

Saturday 14th October

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 Rosko

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

10:30 Johnny Lewis

12:30 Dave Foster

14:30 Steve Bishop

17:30 Steve Jenner

19:00 Andrew Austin

21:00 Dave Foster

Sunday 15th October

00:00 Kevin Peters

03:00 John Ellery

06:00 Bill Rollins

09:00 Johnny Lewis

11:00 Dave Foster

13:00 Steve Bishop

15:00 Andrew Austin

17:00 Steve Jenner

19:00 Dave Foster

21:00 Close

Have a peaceful week end

Oscarziggy · 13-10-2023 10:27pm

Live stream testing .

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

dxhound2005 · 27-10-2023 11:24pm

An article about the future of Caroline.

https://www.redtech.pro/radio-caroline-looks-to-the-future/

Oscarziggy · 13-11-2023 12:22pm

Schedule for 18/19th November - welcome back Peter Philips and Josh the award winner !

Saturday 18th November

00:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 Rosko

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

10:30 Dave Foster

13:00 Peter Philips

16:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

18:30 Steve Jenner

21:00 Dave Foster

Sunday 19th November

00:00 Kevin Peters

03:00 Bill Rollins

06:00 John Ellery

09:00 Peter Philips

12:00 Josh Holmes-Bright

15:00 Andrew Austin

17:30 Steve Jenner

19:00 Dave Foster

21:00 Close

dxhound2005 · 15-11-2023 8:45pm

Manx Radio has recently started switching off 1368 at 00:15, and stays off until 04:45. I doubt they will keep it on this weekend for Caroline.

Anyone who can hear 1368 they announce at 00:03 that medium wave will be closing shortly. They go off abruptly at 00:15.

Oscarziggy · 18-11-2023 12:05am

LIVE stream

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

Oscarziggy · 02-12-2023 11:37pm

Just a reminder that the next Radio Caroline North broadcast is on the 9th and 10th of December .

Hope the generators continue to run this time or someone knows where the spare diesel is -- it wouldn't be Caroline if things went without a hitch !

Schedule to follow

Oscarziggy · 03-12-2023 12:32pm

Schedule for a good week end :

Saturday 9th December

00:00 – 06:00 Continuous Caroline Music

06:00 – 08:30 Rosko

08:30 – 10:30 Chris Williams Carnaby Street

10:30 – 13:00 Johnny Lewis

13:00 - 17:00 Barry James

17:00 – 21:00 Andrew Austin

21:00 – 00:00 Dave Foster

Sunday 10th December

00:00 – 03:00 Steve Bishop

03:00 – 06:00 Bill Rollins

06:00 – 09:00 John Ellery

09:00 – 11:00 Johnny Lewis

11:00 - 13:00 Barry James

13:00 – 15:00 Andrew Austin

15:00 – 17:00 Keith Rogers

17:00 – 19:00 Ray Clark

19:00 – 21:00 Dave Foster

Oscarziggy · 08-12-2023 11:41pm

Stream LIVE

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

Radio Caroline North and Manx Radio

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