THE OFFSHORE CHUNK
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Picture courtesy Offshore Radio Site - Link at base of page
The personal memories from the Wireless Waffler. Definitely not a definitive history!
The site visitor is reminded briefly how offshore radio had such an impact in the sixties. TV was not on all day long, and pop music on the radio consisted of Pick of the Pops for an hour on a Sunday. The Transistor came into being and miniaturised Radios, also making it possible for them to be carried around. In the 70s commercial radio had not started, and then when it did it was not totally a music programme as first envisaged. In the 1980s commercial radio was well established, needletime had been abolished, but the presentation styles and choice of music was poor, offshore radio enjoyed another peak. Perhaps when digital radio starts, and there are a percentage of people who cannot afford to buy the sets another wave of offshore broadcasting, or even from satellites may come into being. Without a doubt the combination of water, music, and ships seems to invoke a great deal of excitement in radio anoraks. The Radio London and Radio Caroline restricted licence radio broadcasts had huge followings. Both now have re-launched from land and are available on Sky - evidence that the memories of watery wireless life on
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