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unusual facts about pirate radio


Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel

Together with Che Guevara he has founded the Pirate radio Radio Rebelde that became the main revolutionary voice of Cuba.


Herbert W. Armstrong

Franz Josef Strauss, a major politician in post WWII Germany, became the target of the broadcasting and publishing media blitz that Armstrong unleashed upon Europe through the daily offshore pirate radio station broadcasts by his son Garner Ted Armstrong, The Plain Truth and the Ambassador College campus at Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, England.

Kiss TV

The original incarnation of Kiss TV was created by Guy Wingate, who, as an original co-creator of London's Kiss 100 (in its pirate days) was brought back in to head up EMAP's fledgling TV division by the more-widely known Kiss chief, Gordon McNamee (Mac).

MV Kalakala

A temporary pirate radio station broadcasting from Kalakala is featured in the 2005 documentary film Pirate Radio USA.

Phil Kennedy

Phil's radio career began on Radio Jackie when it was still a pirate radio station, he then moved to Top Shop's instore radio station on London's Oxford Street.

Radio Enoch

Radio Enoch was a pirate radio station in the United Kingdom, operating out of the West Midlands, homeland of its namesake, Enoch Powell.

Radio Newyork International

Radio Newyork International was the name of a pirate radio station which broadcast from a ship anchored in international waters off Jones Beach, New York, USA in 1987 and 1988.

Radiovision

A subsidiary company called Radiovision Broadcast International which was formed in 1966 by Pearl & Dean, originally to represent the marketing interests of American Broadcasting Company in Europe and during the same year to represent the sale of advertising time on the offshore pirate radio stations Swinging Radio England and Britain Radio.

WWWS

In a particularly singular example of the station's wide impact, in 1962, DJ Ron Baxley, after recommendations from McLendon, became program manager for the offshore pirate radio station Radio Nord, beaming broadcasts to Stockholm, Sweden.


see also

Douglas Muggeridge

In 1971, he appointed Rodney Collins - known as a supporter of pirate radio through his weekly music newspaper columns - as Publicity Officer for the two networks in an attempt to gain more coverage for Radio 1 in music papers such as the NME, Melody Maker, Disc and Record Mirror.

Dream FM

Dream 107.6 FM, a former pirate radio station based in London, United Kingdom

Engenheiros do Hawaii

Then, Gessinger went back of the back catalogue of the band and wrote new songs, amongst them covers of "Rádio Pirata" (Pirate Radio, by RPM, with their frontman Paulo Ricardo guesting) and "Quando o Carnaval Chegar" (When Carnival Comes, by Chico Buarque).

Gunfleet Lighthouse

In 1974 an attempt was made to use the lighthouse as a base for a pirate radio station Radio Atlantis but this was thwarted by the authorities.

Plastician

Being based in Croydon, Reed was part of a close-knit community of young producers attempting to make dark garage tracks that would catch the ear of Big Apple Records resident DJ Hatcha so that he could support them on his popular pirate radio show.

Radio London

Wonderful Radio London, also known as "Radio London" and The "Big L", an offshore pirate radio station

Ron O'Quinn

Ron is a member of the Pirate Radio Hall of Fame, and was an inaugural nominee for the Georgia Radio Hall Of Fame.

Ron Sakolsky

He has also authored books and internet texts on pirate and community radio that have been a significant contribution to the pirate radio and micro-broadcasting movement.

WEZB

"Shadow Stevens" Scott Wright (VP/PD, 1987-1989 & 1993-1995) (previously from Z-100 (WHTZ-FM) in New York and KQLZ a.k.a. "Pirate Radio 100.3 FM" in Los Angeles)

Young Labour League

Its campaigns included supporting Radio Caroline, a pirate radio station, selling the Labour Party newspaper in Dublin pubs, and it produced a regular newsletter mostly written by Brian O'Higgins, including articles on the June 1967 War in the Middle East, which was composited and hand printed on a small old press in O'Higgins' house in Dublin.