Test Transmission 1977

Test transmission  for Radio North Sea 1977

Radio North Sea International (RNI), known as Radio Nordsee International in German and Radio Noordzee Internationaal in Dutch, was a European offshore radio station run by the Swiss firm, Mebo Telecommunications, jointly owned by Swiss engineer, Edwin Bollier, and his business partner, Erwin Meister.^{[nb 1]} RNI broadcast for fewer than five years in the early 1970s and, courting both disaster and success, made a modest financial profit.^[1]

Paul May on Radio North Sea International - February 16th 1972 (Remastered)

On 13 June 1970, five days before election day, Radio North Sea International changed to Radio Caroline International and launched a campaign in support of the Conservative party. The name change and political campaign were supported by Radio Caroline's founder Ronan O'Rahilly. Listeners were told that their freedom to listen to the radio station of their choice was under threat and that, if the Labour party were returned to power, the station would close: their vote should therefore be Conservative, the only party that supported commercial radio. Ronan O'Rahilly headed the campaign on land, using a double-decker bus and posters depicting Harold Wilson as China's Chairman Mao.^[3]
They believed the Conservatives would end jamming. Conservative policy was to establish local land-based commercial radio in the UK.At a Fight for Free Radio rally the weekend before the election, Conservative loudspeaker-vans urged 'Vote Conservative and fight for free radio'. The Conservatives won and there is evidence that the Caroline and RNI campaigns made a difference to the result.

Tom Browne - Top Selling Singles of 1973, Broadcast December 30th 1973 (Part Remastered)

Charts from 1978 with Simon Bates

Simon Philip Bates (born 17 December 1946 in Birmingham)[1][2] is an English disc jockey and radio presenter. Between 1976 and 1993 he worked at BBC Radio 1, presenting the station's weekday mid-morning show for most of this period. He later became a regular presenter on Classic FM. He hosted the breakfast show on Smooth Radio from January 2011 until March 2014, and took on the same role at BBC Radio Devon from January 2015

Tom Browne - Top 20 on Radio 1FM, Broadcast July 31st 1976 (Remastered)

The first record that Tom Browne played on "Solid Gold 60" at 4.00 pm on Sunday 1st October 1972 was "Honky Cat" by Elton John. The first two hours were broadcast only on Radio 1's medium wave channel, which at that time was 247 metres (1215 kHz) although occasionally local radio stations broadcasting on FM in mono such as BBC Radio London (94.9 MHz) would carry the transmission from 4 - 6pm. The previous Sunday chart show, the long running Pick of the Pops with Alan Freeman, aired between 5-7 pm and was broadcast not just on 247m but Radio 2's FM and LW frequencies for the entire show, but the axing of Pick of the Pops, brought a change to the allocation of FM and LW airtime, with Radio 1 losing one of the precious hours of valuable FM and LW for its chart show, as they reverted to Radio 2. This was bad news for the numerous parts of the country where reception of Radio 1 on 247m was poor, especially during the dark winter months when AM reception deteriorated. From the outset on 1st October 1972, Solid Gold 60's final hour was broadcast on FM and LW as well as on Radio 1 (247m). Twenty records were crammed into 60 minutes, plus a verbal countdown. Whilst many recordings of the many Top 20's aired between 6-7 survive today, there seem to be few recordings of the first two hours of Solid Gold 60 (4-6pm) which have survived.

The Kenny Everett Show - Capital Radio Aug 1977

Everett was born in Seaforth, Lancashire into a Catholic family as Maurice James Christopher Cole.^[3] Everett attended the local secondary modern school, St Bede's Secondary Modern School in Crosby, now part of Sacred Heart Catholic College. He attended a junior seminary at Stillington, North Yorkshire near York with an Italian missionary order, the Verona Fathers, where he was a choirboy.^[4] After he left school, he worked in a bakery and in the Advertising Department of The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph.
While working at a pirate radio station Radio London he was advised to change his name to avoid legal problems. He adopted the name "Everett" from American film comic actor Edward Everett Horton, a childhood hero.^[3]
Everett married the singer and psychic Audrey Lee "Lady Lee" Middleton (b. 14 February 1937, the daughter of a fireman) at Kensington Register Office on 2 June 1969. By September 1979, they had separated, and in the mid-1980s, he publicly acknowledged his homosexuality. One of his first boyfriends, a waiter called Jay Pitt, was a match found for Everett by his ex-wife.^[5]

Alan Freeman Afternoon Show Whitsun Bank

An extremely rare probably the only remaining recording of Alan Freeman's short-lived daily afternoon show. From 1972 it includes his very popular 'Get it off your chest' spot. Housewives used to send in their bras on the strength of this. It's followed by Ed Stewart with a midweek show and an incredible bonus a lovely handover with Johnnie Walker.

Paul Burnett Radio 1 Roadshow Complete

Roadshow than Paul Burnett a showman and raconteur he could whip up the audience with style. Here he is for a full 90 minutes in the summer of 1978 down in Bude.

News from 1974 From Radio North Sea

Now the news from RNI in 1974, followed by Robin Banks.

Radio North Sea Bombing 1971

Top Twenty of 1976 with Tom Browne

Chart Countdown 1978 with Paul Burnett

Chart Countdown 1978

Radio North Sea Jingles

Radio North Sea 1971

Audio from 1971

Elvis is Dead 1977

The death of Elvis as covered on Radio Luxembourg.

Radio Luxembourg Jingles

Radio North Sea 1970

Here is a news report from ITN in 1970 about Radio North Sea pirate radio ship

Jamming Of Radio North Sea International

Dire Straits on the Radio

Here is an interview from BBC Radio One in 1978.

For more on Dire Straits in the 1970s.