14th August 1967……Marine Offences Act

August 14th
1967 All UK offshore pirate radio stations were declared illegal when the UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act became law at midnight On This Day, but Radio Caroline continued to broadcast until March 1968 before returning in the 1970s,1983 and finally the early nineties.Still going.
Boats getting towed or sinking were a problem
It was actually supplying them that was made illegal as the ships were in international waters.
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Gusman · 61-69, M

Why were they made illegal?
Not paying a license fee?
Why is Radio Caroline allowed to continue broadcasting?

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Gusman · 61-69, M

@ninalanyon BBC - A monopoly backed by corrupted (in the back pocket) Politicians 😄

TheSirfurryanimalWales · 61-69, M

@Gusman There were numerous stations in international waters
challenging the BBC who broadcast about three hours of pop music a week.
The government didn’t like it and made supplying them from British ports illegal as broadcasting from there they could do nothing about.
Most stations gave up but Caroline didn’t.
Other stations sprung up in the seventies anchored off the Netherlands until the Dutch did the same thing.
American backed Laser 558 turned up in the eighties.
Caroline kept going ,with breaks when they lost ships,utilising Satellite and Shortwave before finally getting a broadcast license.
Been broadcasting without a break now since the nineties…online ,on DAB and even old fashioned medium wave in south east England.
Still broadcast from the ship one weekend a month as Caroline North.
You can do a trip out the Ross Revenge
If I can find it there is a video on you tube of them getting boarded by Dutch customs
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Gusman · 61-69, M

@TheSirfurryanimalWales The "Authorities" have way too much power.

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