

Radio Caroline South = 10kW (later 50 kW). Radio Caroline North = 10kW (later 20kW). Firstly on 963 kHz, then from 1988 – August 1989 on 819kHz. News at peak hours: 7, 8, 9 am, 1 pm 5, 6, 7 pm, with headlines at 6:30 am, 7:30 am and 8:30 am.įootnotes: Caroline 'Overdrive' continued the album format during night-time once the mainstream pop service was re-established on 576, 585 and then 558 kHz. DJs could choose ordering of oldies – all current pop hits in strict rotation. (iii)558 kHz: strict pop and oldies mainstream format (no presenter music choice) with strict adherence to format clocks. (ii)576 kHz: continuation of above, with slightly more singles played. (i) 963 kHz : unformatted free-choice album format, with news. Various: broadly according to era and frequency: 1960s : mainstream pop. United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, parts of continental Europe 6.2 Satellite and Internet broadcasting.6 Since 1991: Licensed Support Group era.On 1 January 2016, a second channel was launched called Caroline Flashback, playing pop music from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Radio Caroline broadcasts music from the 1960s to contemporary, with an emphasis on album-oriented rock (AOR) and "new" music from "carefully selected albums". In May 2017, Ofcom awarded the station an AM band community licence to broadcast to Suffolk and north Essex full-time broadcasting, via a previously redundant BBC World Service transmitter mast at Orford Ness, commenced on 22 December 2017. Caroline can be heard on DAB+ in Aldershot, Birmingham, Cambridge, Brighton, Glasgow, Norwich, London, Portsmouth, Poulton-le-Fylde and Woking. Currently they also broadcast on DAB radio in certain areas of the UK: these services are part of the Ofcom small-scale DAB+ trials. Since August 2000, Radio Caroline has also broadcast 24 hours a day via the internet and by the occasional restricted service licence. The Radio Caroline name was used to broadcast from international waters, using five different ships with three different owners, from 1964 to 1990, and via satellite from 1998 to 2013. Unlicensed by any government for most of its early life, it was a pirate radio station that never became illegal as such due to operating outside any national jurisdiction, although after the Marine Offences Act (1967) it became illegal for a British subject to associate with it. Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly and Alan Crawford initially to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly. For other uses, see Radio Caroline (disambiguation).
