14th August 1967……Marine Offences Act

@Gusman At the time the BBC had monopoly on radio broadcasting in the UK and commercial stations with advertising were not permitted in the UK. Similarly, I think, in the Netherlands where Radio Nederland had much the same status. Caroline was allowed to continue simply because it wasn't straightforward to legally shut down something that was happening in international waters. I think it was the Dutch who eventually boarded the ship.

Caroline is now a perfectly legal onshore radio broadcaster.

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

@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
[media=https://youtu.be/zKJLwwQ8S0Y]

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