Thursday, 17 April 2008

Eric Tesug <...> said:
In article <282d8f97c78424184b6f741d4aa98d24@jiglu-wc>,
... (miamigorocks Geoff) wrote:

I think the fundamental differences between unauthorised Offshore
Radio and landbased authorised radio, are these 1 The "feel" from
the studio from the ship through the ether to our ears, you don't
have that excitement on legal stations.

So how does that apply to so many non-Anoraks who thought Luxy was a
pirate and many thought they were on a ship :-)

Eric

Do you think that if a few other Europe based stations had continued to broadcast commercial radio to Britain, on the lines of Radio Normandy and Radio Paris, that offshore radio would ever have happened?

As I recall Luxy was Decca dominated?

Ted

As I seem to recall allied to the "free radio" campaign was a campaign for local radio. One thinks particularly of Radio Essex and 270, although some of the LP Thames fort broadcast had a local feel. As a near teen I assumed that Big L was supposed to be a local station for London!

Naturally the independent republic of Yorkshire wanted its own station not run by "them down South".

Ted

miamigorocks Geoff said:
 
Eric
 
Eric I listened to Radio Luxembourg as a very small boy of 6, my sisters were all older than me, but i just thought it was a name, not a country. It was in the later years of my teens that i realised Luxembourg was the capital of the Grand Duchy.
.............................................

Well that is a new one on me listeners thinking Radio Luxembourg was an offshore radio station, my brother was 12 years older than me and listened a lot to Luxembourg as well as Radio Caroline North, but I never remember him thinking it was offshore, admit I'm sure few thought of it as a country in the 60's.

John

In article <9af6696c2e9e5a7678cd5ce31a747f55@jiglu-wc>, ... (Ted Finch) wrote:

Do you think that if a few other Europe based stations had
continued to broadcast commercial radio to Britain, on the lines of
Radio Normandy and Radio Paris, that offshore radio would ever have
happened?

I'm not sure Ted, some of the other international stations were very starchy, as I recall.
I do remember getting excited when I was able to listen to American radio on AM because that had some get up and go. It's a bit like the England v Britain services, one was fresh, young and full of energy the other was, IMHO, very flat and dull.

As I recall Luxy was Decca dominated?

In some ways yes, but that could redefined as very commercially dominated.

Eric



There's talks going on today about Big L's future apparently, 1395 went off at 0930 though they say it's for maintenance work. Ray is doing the afternoon shift, just reminded me of RNI by playing Time of Your Life by Bolland and Bolland. Mike said he would be back on the air later this afternoon or evening.

1395 came back on just after I pressed the send button.

Mike

Christopher England <...> said:
I'm not sure what 'reality radio' would be. Do you mean things like
Charlie Wolf shouting through a megaphone at the DTI? 'Cos that was
brilliant.

I'm not quite sure what I mean myself, but the offshore stations and Radio Luxemburg had a feel of a group of kids living their lives and although you were not apart of it, you could relate to them and see how they got on as a group.

Silly stories that spring to mind is Tom Hardy explaning about a generator breakdown they had earlier in the day and him explaining that he and Stephen Bishop were together, Stephen said "what they needed to fix the generator was a pair of ladies suspenders" and him replying "that he did'nt have any on.

Funny and giving an insight on their everyday lives. The closest we come to having something like that today is Big L in their house, but for me it just doesn't seem to work, probably because they are trying to relive there childhood and they come across as moaning old men from the Daily Mail,

Your right though the Charlie Wolf thing was good, perhaps we need a pirate station with a megaphone outside Magic or Heart shouting play a song we haven't heard in the last two days,

Steve

Mike Barraclough <...> said:
1395 came back on just after I pressed the send button.

Mike

Best Mike. Although the 1395 kHz-transmitter is back in the air, there are serious problems at BigL! Read the following website in the Dutch language http://www.iradio.be/news/article.php?id=159100&group=nl.media.radio
Greetings of Nico from Gouda, the Netherlands.

Mike Barraclough <...> said:
1395 came back on just after I pressed the send button.

Mike

Best Mike. Although the 1395 kHz-transmitter is back in the air, there are serious problems at BigL! Read the following website in the Dutch language http://www.iradio.be/news/article.php?id=159100&group=nl.media.radio
Greetings of Nico from Gouda, the Netherlands.

From: "Q_1_2_3_4_5_6" <...>
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Mike Barraclough <...> said:
1395 came back on just after I pressed the send button.

Mike

Best Mike. Although the 1395 kHz-transmitter is back in the air, there
are serious problems at BigL! Read the following website in the Dutch
language
http://www.iradio.be/news/article.php?id=159100&group=nl.media.radio
Greetings of Nico from Gouda, the Netherlands.

So what does it say?

Q_1_2_3_4_5_6 <...> said:

Best Mike. Although the 1395 kHz-transmitter is back in the air, there
are serious problems at BigL! Read the following website in the Dutch
language
http://www.iradio.be/news/article.php?id=159100&group=nl.media.radio
Greetings of Nico from Gouda, the Netherlands.

Nico whilst we appreciate your posts on here you must realise a good percentage of us myself included do not understand Dutch, So a English translation of the links you provide would be appreciated.

Regards Richard

I'm not sure what 'reality radio' would be. Do you mean things like
Charlie Wolf shouting through a megaphone at the DTI? 'Cos that was
brilliant.

Yes, it was utterly brilliant.
Just a little quiz here guys and girls.
Now, who is it that produces many of the "reality" TV programmes?
Who is or was the head of that company?
Where was he in the late 70's?
What do you imagine he based Big Brother on?
Just a thought.



Alan Milewczyk <...> said:
Re: Financial problems at BigL? There are indeed serious problems at BigL!>Mike Read maakte vanmorgen bekend dat Big L waarschijnlijk ( nog niet
zeker) gaat sluiten.

Dat is heel beroerd nieuws

Rob

ik hoorde net Mike Read zeggen dat de 1395 wellicht uit de ether
verdwijnt

 
The translation of this message of me is: Mike Read announced this morning that BigL will be (problably) closed down. This is very sad news.
I've just heard Mike Read saying that the 1395 kHz-transmitter will be switched off.

But there is hope: the 1395 kHz-transmitter is indeed (temporarely!) switched off this afternoon due for very needed maintenance and is now on air again (of course except every day from 7PM till 10 PM BST!) But...the rumours about the financial problems of BigL still remains, so it is a REAL possibility that in the near or far future the 1395 kHz-transmitter of BigL will be switched for good! Greetings of Nico from Gouda, the Netherlands.

Q_1_2_3_4_5_6 <...> said:

Alan Milewczyk <...> said:
Re: Financial problems at BigL? There are indeed serious problems at BigL!>Mike Read maakte vanmorgen bekend dat Big L waarschijnlijk ( nog niet
zeker) gaat sluiten.

Dat is heel beroerd nieuws

Rob

ik hoorde net Mike Read zeggen dat de 1395 wellicht uit de ether
verdwijnt

The translation of this message of me is: Mike Read announced this
morning that BigL will be (problably) closed down.
This is very sad news.
I've just heard Mike Read saying that the 1395 kHz-transmitter will be
switched off.

But there is hope: the 1395 kHz-transmitter is indeed (temporarely!)
switched off this afternoon due for very needed maintenance and is now
on air again (of course except every day from 7PM till 10 PM BST!)
But...the rumours about the financial problems of BigL still remains, so
it is a REAL possibility that in the near or far future the 1395
kHz-transmitter of BigL will be switched OFF for good!
Greetings of Nico from Gouda, the Netherlands.

Oops! I was forgotten the word "OFF" in my above stated message. Nico.