Legendary pirate station Radio Caroline is back – though their broadcasts are legit and digital. The station that rocked the BBC’s radio monopoly back in the sixties, and on which we first heard the likes of Tony Blackburn, Tommy Vance and Kenny Everett, is back on air via Sky Digital. It’s been over a decade since Radio Caroline broadcast its last full time pirate transmissions. Since then enthusiasts have resurrected the station for legal RSL broadcasts, and broadcast via Sky’s analogue satellite for a time. Now the station will broadcast 24 hours a day via digital satellite – though they are yet to get a spot on Sky’s electronic programme guide, meaning listeners will have to manually tune in to pick up broadcasts. The people behind the new Radio Caroline, which will be run as a non profit-making organisation, is branding itself "Europe's first and only album station" focusing on what it calls ‘easy rock’.
Jan 29, 2003
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Radio Caroline returns
Radio Caroline is back on air via Sky Digital, broadcasting 24 hours a day as a non-profit album station focused on easy rock.