Offshore radio is radio broadcasting from ships or fixed maritime structures. Offshore broadcasters are usually unlicensed but transmissions are legal...
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closedown on Radio Caroline North after The World Tomorrow. The station's slogan was Your all-day music station. The Dutch offshore station Radio Veronica...
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governments may also employ offshoring. More recently, technical and administrative services have been offshored. Offshoring neither implies nor precludes...
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Radio London, also known as Big L and Wonderful Radio London, was a top 40 (in London's case, the "Fab 40") offshore commercial station that operated from...
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Swinging Radio England ("SRE") was a top 40 offshore commercial station billed as the "World's Most Powerful" that operated from 3 May 1966 to 13 November...
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Radio Scotland was an offshore pirate radio station broadcasting on 1241 kHz mediumwave (242 metres), created by Tommy Shields in 1965. The station was...
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Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 (category Offshore radio)
Isle of Man in September 1967. The act meant that the operation of offshore, pirate radio stations became illegal if they were operated or assisted by persons...
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Radio Atlanta was an offshore commercial station that operated briefly from 12 May 1964 to 2 July 1964 from a ship anchored in the North Sea, three and...
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Oil platform (redirect from Oil and gas, offshore)
An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process...
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Radio North Sea International (RNI; German: Radio Nordsee International; Dutch: Radio Noordzee Internationaal) was a European offshore radio station run...
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All of the offshore stations broadcasting to Israel were operating from within Israeli territorial waters under a strange arrangement that attempted to...
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Commercial Neutral Broadcasting Company (category Offshore radio)
programming was more lucrative. Pirate radio in the United Kingdom Keith Martin (broadcaster) "The History of Offshore Radio (LP)". Paul Harris. 1970. van Heeren...
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Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (section Emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB))
comply with GMDSS radio carriage requirements, but will increasingly use the Digital Selective Calling (DSC) Marine VHF radios. Offshore vessels may elect...
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independent radio station 1964 Radio Noordzee and TV Noordzee transmitted in Dutch from REM Island, an artificial construction resembling an early offshore oil...
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but were arrested shortly afterwards. Pirate radio in the United Kingdom Bishop, Gerry (1975). Offshore Radio. Iceni Enterprises, Norwich. ISBN 0-904603-00-8...
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Radio Nord was a Swedish offshore commercial station that operated briefly from 8 March 1961 to 30 June 1962 from a ship anchored in international waters...
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radio in the UK and Europe. The term free radio was adopted by the Free Radio Association of listeners who defended the rights of the offshore radio stations...
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Ronan O'Rahilly (category Offshore radio broadcasters)
was an Irish businessman best known for the creation of the offshore radio station, Radio Caroline. He also became manager of George Lazenby, who played...
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Arutz Sheva (redirect from Israel national radio)
an offshore radio station Voice of Peace was launched, broadcasting pacifistic messages. In response, Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed launched radio station...
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German CD single "Offshore" (Radio Edit) – 3:07 "Offshore" (Original Version) – 6:58 "Offshore" (Disco Citizens Remix) – 9:23 "Offshore" (Disco Citizens...
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Johnnie Walker (DJ) (redirect from The Radio 2 Rock Show)
broadcasting as a disc jockey in May 1966, on offshore (pirate) radio station Swinging Radio England, and later on Radio Caroline. When government action forced...
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While offshore pirates were rarer in Ireland, they still existed, and many notable UK offshore stations had a connection with Ireland. Both Radio Atlanta...
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offshore companies. She and her sister Leyla Aliyeva own Azerfon, one of the largest mobile operators in Azerbaijan through three Panamanian offshore...
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Roger Day (category Offshore radio broadcasters)
a radio broadcaster and DJ who began his career in offshore radio, and was a key pioneer in commercial radio. He later presented on BBC Local Radio across...
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music stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London started to broadcast on medium wave to the UK from offshore ships or disused sea forts. At the time...
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L", an offshore pirate radio station The original name of Big L 1395 This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Radio London....
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Christopher Moore (DJ) (category Offshore radio broadcasters)
the offshore pirate radio ship Radio Caroline, and the first voice to be heard on the air from that station. His opening words were "This is Radio Caroline...
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Emperor Rosko (category Offshore radio broadcasters)
programmes in France and Andorra. In an interview with Chris Edwards, for Offshore Echoes, Rosko explained: "I used to listen to a guy named Roscoe, who used...
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Erwin Meister (category Offshore radio broadcasters)
it into an offshore radio station. Mebo II operated off the coasts of the Netherlands and England from 1970 to 1974, broadcasting as Radio North Sea International...
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Panama Papers (category Offshore finance)
than 214,488 offshore entities. The documents, some dating back to the 1970s, were created by, and taken from, former Panamanian offshore law firm and...
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