648 is about 15 seconds behind 1368.
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.
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
Schedule --
Saturday 10th February
15:00 Nigel Harris
17:00 Nick Jackson
19:00 Josh Holmes-Bright
Sunday 11th February
06:00 Josh Holmes-Bright
09:00 Nick Jackson
12:00 Johnny Lewis
14:00 Andrew Austin
16:00 Nigel Harris
Have a great week end
Good to see Nigel Harris and Nick Jackson on the list .Nick made a welcome guest appearance on the January broadcast .
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!
Sadly Nigel Harris will not be on the Ross Revenge this week end. 1368khz is great here in South West Wales.
A 3 day event to celebrate 60 years of Radio Caroline .
Schedule :
Friday 29th March
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)
Saturday 30th March
00:00 John Ellery
03:00 Kevin Peters
06:00 Nick Jackson
12:00 Chris Pearson
14:00 Grant Benson
16:00 Nick Jackson
18:00 60 Years of Radio Caroline (Part Two)
Sunday 31st March
00:00 Bob Lawrence
04:00 Bill Rollins (BST)
08:00 Grant Benson
10:00 Chris Pearson
14:00 Nick Jackson
16:00 Andrew Austin
18:00 60 Years of Radio Caroline (Part Three)
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Updated schedule list to include Kevin Turner --
08:30 Johnny Lewis
10:30 Chris Pearson
13:00 Ray Clark
15:30 Kevin Turner
19:00 Grant Benson
06:00 Kevin Turner
16:00 Kevin Turner
14:00 Kevin Turner
19:00 Everybody!
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
Of course they did; Louise has an anorak as well.
I very much doubt it
Great laugh to hear Tony Blackburn gatecrash into BBC2's breakfast show to blag Carolines birthday celebrations.
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.
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.
Tony Blackburn (OBE) on Pirate Radio 2
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.
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.
Radio Caroline on 648 kh am was being relayed this evening in Dublin on 1206 kh am, given the day that's in it.
Does anyone know where Ronan was buried?
Would love to visit one of the days and leave flowers to show my respect.
Stream LIVE
http://sc2.radiocaroline.net:8100/index.html?sid=1
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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.
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!
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.
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
Later this afternoon, it was also being relayed on 1206 kh AM. A much better signal than 105.2 FM.
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
Week end schedule --- Saturday 4th May 00:00 Continuous Caroline Music 06:00 Rosko 08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street (Manx Radio) 10:30 Kevin Turner 12:30 Tommy Rivers 14:30 Nigel Harris 16:30 Dave Foster 19:00 Ray Clark 21:00 Andrew Austin Sunday 5th May 00:00 Kevin Peters 03:00 Bill Rollins 06:00 John Ellery 09:00 Tommy Rivers 11:00 Kevin Turner 13:00 Nigel Harris 15:00 Andrew Austin 17:00 Ray Clark 19:00 Dave Foster 21:00 Close Good to see Dave Foster back on board
Is Tommy Rivers a new name to the schedule?
Edit: I will answer my own question! It looks like it is, at least from this thread anyway.
I think this is him:
Tommy Rivers From Minneapolis, Tommy had worked for five years at a number of local radio and television stations before heading for the UK where he joined Laser-558 in June 1984 as afternoon DJ and Operations Manager. While aboard the mv Communicator, he used his spare time to complete his Masters thesis for the University of Minnesota. Known as Tommy “Whattaguy” Rivers, he left Laser in September 1985 (last show, on tape, 17th September). His last offshore broadcast was on a commercial for Arabian Sands Holidays which went out on the rival station, Radio Caroline. Returning to America, he married his English girlfriend and took a job as a newscaster on KSTP-AM, Minneapolis/St.Paul, before returning to London and a position with UPI on Fleet Street. He was the UPI Radio bureau chief and London correspondent. He later moved to NBC in the same role before heading over to CBS as a Radio correspondent. He is currently the London correspondent for ABC News Radio. He also presented weekend shows on Virgin Radio from 1993 to 1995. (This photo is from Offshore Echo's magazine. There are more photos of Tommy in Michael Dean's and Mark Stuart's photo albums. Thanks to Tommy for his assistance.)
https://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/djs8q2r.htm
