RADIO ATLANTA

BASED on board the Mi Amigo (ex Radio Nord ship the Bonjour)

Broadcast from 27th April 1964 until July 2nd 1964 and unfortunately the entire output of the station was missed by the Waffler.

I was however to spend many a happy hour when the station merged with Radio Caroline, listening to the output from the twin towers pictured above!

I have heard snatches of programmes from Atlanta on tape, they could boast Dave Windsor and Mike Raven.  It is reported that they should have beaten Radio Caroline on air as the first offshore station in the UK, but Ronan's Dad owned the harbour and somehow the MV Fredrika got the honour instead!

Alan Crawford who was the station manager, owned a music company.  The station used to play some current chart hits sung by their own artists.  This made rather unusual listening I am sure!  The record companies took this idea up in the sixties selling copy versions of artists like the Beatles, and teenagers with limited budgets were caught out thinking they had bought a chart record cheaper!

If any site visitors have any memories of the station to add please email.  The same follows for any part of the site!

Thanks to Rory for the following

I was at a boarding school for the blind in Worcester, west midlands England) at the time Radio Atlanta became Radio Caroline and the voyage round the British coast from Essex to the Isle of Mann was undertaken whilst still broadcasting.

 

The major interest was how the reception waxed and waned in Worcester, which is towards the west of the Country but pretty far in land.

 

Don't I also remember Tony Windsor ('hello!) being the chief jock on Atlanta.  It was he who introduced us to the Polidor EP of Beatles tracks featuring 'Ain't She Sweet' which no one else ever played. His introduction was:

"Ladies and Gentlemen - The Beatles!"

 

Ho Ho!

 

best wishes

 

Rory Heap

(aged 15 at the time).