It was a hell of thing when Radio Caroline went off the air unexpectedly at the start of March 1968. I bet that muppet Harold Wilson was laughing into his pipe.
That's a matter of what you consider a radio pirate. Like the offshore pirates, the owners behind Radio Luxembourg chose to circumvent the British Radio Legislation, forbidding them to broadcast from within British territory. So they did the same as the offshore stations, placed powerful radio transmitters elsewhere, directing them towards British territory. The British government through the State Department condemned the broadcasts and called them a violation of international agreements.
Luxembourg was a Pirate only in that like the ships it "stole" frequencies which had not been allocated to it, and broadcast with more powerful transmitters than originally allocated. This was accepted internationally after WW2. France allowed the use of terrestrial landlines from France so the station could relay live programming from France, but the UK always refused to allow this: in its heyday most 208 programmes were recorded in the UK. Luxembourg was largely owned by French investors.
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The British Government changed the law on 14th August 1967 and made previously legal radio stations that continued to broadcast Pirates.
beautiful radio, those were the days
It was a hell of thing when Radio Caroline went off the air unexpectedly at the start of March 1968.
I bet that muppet Harold Wilson was laughing into his pipe.
That's a matter of what you consider a radio pirate. Like the offshore pirates, the owners behind Radio Luxembourg chose to circumvent the British Radio Legislation, forbidding them to broadcast from within British territory. So they did the same as the offshore stations, placed powerful radio transmitters elsewhere, directing them towards British territory. The British government through the State Department condemned the broadcasts and called them a violation of international agreements.
A very young Tony Blackburn in the first clip.
8:10 I really like that shirt he's wearing
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brill video
Great vid!
Luxembourg was a Pirate only in that like the ships it "stole" frequencies which had not been allocated to it, and broadcast with more powerful transmitters than originally allocated. This was accepted internationally after WW2. France allowed the use of terrestrial landlines from France so the station could relay live programming from France, but the UK always refused to allow this: in its heyday most 208 programmes were recorded in the UK. Luxembourg was largely owned by French investors.
Radio Luxembourg was licensed by the Luxembourg government. Frequency was allocated to them and RTL, then CLT, operated the service.
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Was Radio Luxembourg a pirate? I believe it was legal!
luxemburge was not a pirate.