26/05/2017
A radio station that inspired two of “ShoutOut”s members to get involved in broadcasting has been granted a license to transmit – fifty three years after it was founded. Radio Caroline was not Britain's first pirate station, but it was certainly its most famous and has a long and dramatic history which includes ships running aground, a sinking, radio towers collapsing and a landbased installation burning to the ground. In spite of all this, the station just kept coming back, and broke new ground by airing the first openly gay radio presenter – the late Tony Allan, in 1973, sponsoring the Stonehenge People's Free Festival and using its airwaves to promote a Hindu inspired philosophy of Loving Awareness. Now, the broadcast regulator OFCOM has finally decided to issue the station with a license to transmit on medium wave to the Suffolk and Essex areas as part of a new round of community broadcast licensing. Other stations licensed to use AM in the current round of licensing include a Muslim station for Glasgow, and Radio Ninesprings for the Yeovil and South Somerset area.
http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline
https://www.thepiratearchive.net/
http://www.offshoreechos.com/Main%20page.html
