Pirate radio in the United Kingdom has been a popular and enduring radio medium since the 1960s, despite expansions in licensed broadcasting, and the advent of both digital radio and internet radio. A
The MV Mi Amigo, once home of Radio Caroline, mid 1970s
Dread Broadcasting Corporation, groundbreaking black pirate radio station
Pirates - 1993 documentary focusing on East London pirate radio
Pirate radio aerial installations on rooftops in NW London, early 2000s
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Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly and Allan Crawford, initially to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingd
Pirate radio in the United Kingdom
…than 150 pirate radio stations were still operating. Pirate radio in the UK first became widespread in the mid-1960s when pop 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, these stations were not illegal…
John F. Kennedy, Caroline and JFK Jr. in the photograph that is said to have inspired the name of Radio Caroline
MV Caroline the vessel used as Radio Caroline North
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