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TH E NEE D L ETI ME ISS U E heads and top figures at London's CAPITAL RADIO. Commercial Radio and the BBC Meanwhile, QUINTIN THOMAS at will be Joining forces to the BROADCASTING DEPART/MIT discuss royalties paid for of the HOME OFFICE has the right to broadcast invited prospective New gramophone records. Entrants to write to him on DAVID HATCH, the newly the issue of Copyright established Managing Director payments and possible of Network Radio at the BBC solutions to this major and JIMMT GORDON, Managing hurdle for all of UK Radio. Director of RADIO CLYDE are In Australi a, Commerci al shortly to hold a second Radio stati ons have Just meeting to discuss their reached agreement wher e particular moves. they are to pay less than GORDON has talked of a HALF A PERCENT of commercial Radio ban on any Advertisi ng Revenue in new product for a period of return for UNLI MITED three months - but wants to NEEDLETI ME. see the BBC, especially RADIO ONE and RADIO TVO Join the IBA TO OPE N 12 NEW IR banning campaign. However he ST A TI O N S is reported as saying a great dealf of trust would be The IBA is to move ahead with needed for the two the establishment of a dozen competitors to Jointly scrap new commercial local Radio current material from music stations. playlists. The stations will be in the NOV RADIO WEVSLHTTER areas on the original list of understands that the problem proposed localities for ILR. of trust came out as the Newly established companies muaJor problem when the idea are being encouraged to apply we discussed as a top secret for the franchises. DETAILS PAGE meeting between BBC RADIO

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Published by: Now Radio Communications, PO Box 45, Kettering, Northants, NN16 ONW Telephone: (0536) 51 44 37 (24 hours) All contents @ Now Radio Communications 1987 i RA DI O FE S TI V A L '87: Thursday afternoon saw a live link BI G G E S T & B E S T SO from Bristol to RUGGid (on RADIO FA RI ONE) and that morning delegates provided an expert audience for the RADIO QUIZ produced by GVR. Visite CL/YE 6LOVER For NOV RADIO were also arranged to the BBC's new Drama studio at Christchurch in Bristol and those delegates still The 1987 RADIO FESTIVAL, organised by the RADIO ACADEMY and held at surviving by the Friday night were able to attend JOHN TEILPS3I's final Bristol University from 15 to 17 July was generally agreed to be the appearance as Chairman on RADIO FOUR'S 'Any Questions', which came bigts,,t and best Festival to date. There were around 350 delegates, from Bristol University. only half of them from the existing On the social side of the Festival, the highlight lust had to be the Radio 'establishment', i.e. the BBC, after-dinner speaker on the Thursday IBA and IR stations. There were strong contingents from the night, NED SHEER II, who had everyone COMNUIITY RADIO ASSOCIATION, the rolling in the aisles - literally! So, CSV (which is establishing a number a splendid time was had by all - and of Community Radio training all thanks and credit must go to KAUREEN VHINIALL and everyone at COUTGeG). the ASSnCIATION FOR the RADIO ACADEMY for the effort BROADCASTING DEVELOPIEIT and various aspiring 'New Entr ants'. The that went into it. remaining delegates included various M . 01 0 17 M M T I V . , . 7 (print) journalists, freelancers and a solitary brave representative of the copyright bodies (from FRS). OF M O T H E R H E N S AN D Also present (in something of a CHI C K E N S departure from normal Vhitehall CL/YE 6L0VER practice?) w ere most of the HOME For ROY RADIO OFFICE officials responsible for Radio broadcasting. One of the subjects which came up Th busy programme included sessions on Industrial Relations in the Radio time and time again throughout the RADIO FESTIVAL was the concept of industry, Broadcasting by Satellite, Social Action Broadcasting, Making IMBEFEIDENT RADIO stations acting as Trails and Promotions. Buying A 'Mother Hens' to groups of small Selling Radio Programmes, Realities Csoamunty' Radio in surrounding of Music Radio, Educatianal areas. These inevitably thankfully Broadcasting and the EBC EXTERNAL managed to avoid too many of the SERVICES. Uppermost in most more obvious puns about getting egg delegates' minds, inevitably, was the on their faces, etc... Green Pacer. Although its Potential New Entrants - and implications were discussed in especially members of the CONMIJIITY virtually every senrion, there were RADIO ASSOCIATION (GRA) were highly two sessions dealing with the Green suspicious of the motives of the IBA Paper. Last - and, as they say, by no and individual IR stations, such as m eans leact - was the Keynote RADIO CLYDE, in advocating the Address by Home Secretary, DOUGLAS Mother Hen' approach to the HUED, who spoke on (you've guessed development of Community Radio. (JEKNY GORDON was heard to ask if it!) the Green Paper. he could get a 'bulk discount' on a Apart from the formal 00.65RMS, batch of the IBA's TAmwmunity Radio there were a number of Radio Studio' on show at the Festival!) prqgrammes being made at the There remains a fundamental Festival. All through the Festival an difference between what the CRA and EBA 'Community Radio' studio was used for various live programmes on the EBA call 'Community Radio'. The RADIO TVO, GVR, BBC RADIO BRISTOL, CRA's concept of democratically- SEVERN SOUND and LBC RADIO. controlled, non-profit distributing Radio stations is quite different mc wt o r e ol l voAL_ from that of the IBA, which SCOG them Just as smaller versions of B R O A D C A S T I N G BY existing IR stations. S A T E L LI T E There were clear suspicions amongst CRA membe rs at the Festival (which, CLIVE GLOVER I should mention, included myself) For NOW RADIO that the real interest in IR stations such as RADIO CLYDE and OWE in One of the best attended s essions 'mothering' Community Radio stations was that on 'Broadcasting by was to attempt to limit the Satellite'. Speakers at this senrion, competition they might provide for chaired by PAUL BROWN of the both audiences and advertising LIDEPENDEIT BROADCASTING AUTHORITY, revenue. MARK JONES (EAST NEWCASTLE were SIMON M UTE, General Manager COMMUNITY RADIO) pointed out that Engineering in BBC Radio and TONY the local IR group in Bristol, GWR, CURRIE, responsible for Programming had already produced a small Chicken at the CABLE AUTHORITY. In Tavistock and - more recently - a After a general introduction by SIMON SAUTE very large one in Bath. These on the principals of satellites and stations, occupying new frequencies broadcasting from thee, TONY CURRIE with a 'sustaining service' from GVR explained what was already being done and and a few local opt -out programmes what the future offered for Radio had apparently been approved by the broadcasters, Distribution of Radio IBA although they had not been on programmes to networks was already the original list of areas approved commonplace in the USA, where it was by the HOME OFFICE. What was to cheaper than terrestial links for networks prevent IR stations hatching new of over 30 stations, For example, the Chickens all over the country in the SATELLITE MUSIC NETWORK offered seven next year or two before genuine different music formats to stations across independent Community Radio stations the country, Similar satellite-delivered could be licensed? networks were now common in France, the RAT BEATY (CRA) returned to this largest being NRJ, point at another session. He urged Two Radio networks were currently the IBA to prevent existing IR receivable in the UK, VOA EUROPE Cm stations making a 'pre-emptive combination of VOICE OF AllERICA strike' by hatching chickens all over news and magazine programm es and the country to deny locations and Rock 11161.0 and BBC WORLD and frequencies to future Community OVERSEAS SerViCXN3. Various regulatory stations and commercial stations, problems were preventing the use of and suggested that the RADIO satellites for UK Radio services; only ACADEMY might try to bring them BRITISH TELECOM or MERCURY could 'uplink' together to dispel the mutual to a satellite and different uses of the suspicions. received signal on the ground lie by Cable Apart from a few mildly nodding operators or by individual homes) would be heads at the Latter suggestion, there regulated by different authorities, the IBA was little reaction from the IBA and or the CABLE AUTHORITY, IR delegates present to these A numloci of plans existed for accusations. It seems likely that, European satellite Radio networks for the moment, suspicions will which would come into operation remain among CRA members that the sh ortly. These included a LASER- [BA and IR stations continue to see style 24-hour ruck/pop channel in Community Radio as a threat, which digital stereo (VLRGIN), a 24 - hour they would like to delay as long as CUR service planned by CURLS CAREY possible - and then try to absorb or (EBAY-NOVA?), the SATELLITE MUSIC control It. An ann oun cement from NETWORK (ROBB EDEN), a CHRISTIAN Brampton Rand that no new Chickens RADIO NETWORK and a Dutch-based 24- will be hatched until 1990 would do hour pop music service. All were wonders to dispel such suspicions._ planned to be in operation within the next 12-months. SH A K E - U P CO N TI N U E S AT undergoing massive expenditure on BB C NE W S refurbishment, including the installation of computer assisted The BBC has continued to revamp its newsroom facilities at the moment. entire news and current affairs operation, moving further towards HA R D Y GO E S WE S T combining facilities to provide material designed for use by both STEVE HARDY, currently News Producer Radio and television services. at BBC RADIO NORFOLK, moves to 'There are no areas of news and became News editor at BBC RADIO current affairs left untouched by CORNWALL in August. Btnt's ideas." said one staffer at 35-year-old HARDY joined the BBC in 1982 from RADIO ORWELL, the Ipswich Brundcaoting House, W.1. RON NEIL moves from editorship of commercial station. BBC TV News to head a new-look management team and he will be AN O T H E R IN DI E MA N responsible for a combined news HI R E D BY BE E S operation for Radio and television which will at a Letter stage be TONY MALLION, 35, has been hired by operating from one major news BBC RADIO NORFOLK as a Producer. He centre. joins the station from Norwich 45-year-old NEIL moved to his new commercial station RADIO BROADLAND. office the moment Deputy Director- lie was with the station since it General, JOHN BIRT, announced his began official transmissions three appointment. yea-re ago. JENNY ABRAXSICT, editor of RAD10 FOUR% morning drive flagship HE A D OF MU SI C NA M E D pisgiamme Today, is heading a new position which will mean she will be JOHNNY BEERLING has named former responsible for Radio's combined Producer ROGER LEVIS as the new news and current affairs programming Head of Miele for RADIO ONE. output. LEVIS had also worked in ILR, at ROT WALTERS will be her deputy. CAPITAL RADIO and RADIO TEES before LARRY HODGSON will become joining the BBC where he has responsible for editorial policies in produced SIMOI BATES and the the BBC Regions. documentary series on ERIC CLAPTON The moves were made by JOHN BIRT for the JOHNNIE WALKER programme. within 10 days of a major meeting at leatherhead, Surrey, designed to BB C IN K S DE A L WI T H shake-up the entire news operation. TU R N E R

IND E P E N D E NT RA DI O The BBC has inked a mnJar contract NE W S B A S E TO MO V E? with CNI which allows it to talcs up to 3D-minutes daily from the The CITY OF LONDON REAL PROPERTY satellite-delivered around-the-clock COMPANY has informed LBC/IR1 news station for use on its services officially that it will not renew the - including Radio. station's lease on Communications House in Gough Square, Just off Fleet RA TI N G S BO O K DE A L Street, when it expires in 1992. The property company has applied to RSGB has been given a further, the City of London for planning three-year, contract by the permission to redevelop the site. L mnrIATIoz OF LIDEPEIDENT RADIO The expiry of the lease comes at the CONTRACTORS to carry out ratings same time an LBC/IR1's franchise books for commercial local Radio. with the IB ends - but the station and news service is expected to r•-• mcL.a gm begin looking for a now home f c, AP M . , M P 41 . an , ohortly. The organisation im f 4+ 4 4+144 4f 4 44 1 4 4 f aboard RADIO CAROLINE NORTH. CARL A A INT R A D I C) CONVAY was one of the earlier voices A I 12- CI L U CIC S an CAROLINE. After a stint offshore he ran the commercial production RECENTLY RECORDED II CALIFORNIA AND department at Caroline BOUGC at 6, FLORIDA & FEATURING ALL THE TOP CUR Chesterfield Gardens, VA. and & AOR STATIONS INCLUDING: conducted a number of star interviews and hosted numerous KIIS-FX LOS ANGELES (Inc RICK sponsored programmes for the DUES in the morning) station. The special programme will be made KXEL SAN FRANSISCO available on cassette after the broadcast. KROY SACRAMENTO SH O C K RAI D ON LO N D O N Y100 XIAXI ST A TI O N

POWER 95 MIAMI and many, muny The DTPs Radio Investigation Service more! Recorded on High Quality C90 carried out a raid on the offices of Cassettes. Yours for Just L4.99 inc UDIDON GREEK RADIO recently in a bid P&P... to discover evidence of involvement in the operation of unlicensed o v RADIO, FREEparr, broadcasting. HAM MING, 1116 OUR The station is the most raided UK 'pirate' station - and an observer 4+44444 commented that by hitting at the administration side of the station - CE L E B R ATI O N TI M E the DTI might both further hinder that particular station as well as RADIO BOULOGNE LITTORAL's warning other stations that such International, English-language action may be taken 'across the service celebrated its fifth board' on other unlicensed anniversary on Monday July 20th, broadcasters. 1987. A feature on this station appears in this iGOLC of NOV RADIO. A D VERTISING RATES The service, which operates on £48.00 Saturday, Sunday and Monday evenings Full page from the Northern French coast with Half page £30.00 programming aimed at Kent on 91.6 Services Listing MHz Fl Stereo, is to broadcast a 4 lines/ /3 inserts £5.00 each spe,ial series of interviews to mark 8 lines/13 inserts £10.00 each the pas, ing of the Marine (etc) 12 lines/ 13 inserts £13.00 each Broadcasting Offences Act in 1967. Discount available for m ultiple The special programme will be insertions of Display advertise ments. presented by TIM STEWART and MARK Front cover/Back cover position rates ALLF1 and will include specially- on request. 8 or /2 line Service t,xjxded interviews with ROGER DAY, listings available for 6 or 26 issues DON ALLEN, MARTIN KATIE, CARL also. Rates on request. Agency COIVAY amongst several others. com mission 15%. Prepay ment ROGER DAY, now Programme Controller arrange ment only. and afternoon drive Presenter for The publisher and/or their agents LIVICTA RADIO, was a deeJay with SWINGING RADIO ENGLAND and CAROLINE reserve the right to refuse, amend or in the 'sixties. DON ALLEN was withdra w any advertise ment without Senior DJ on CAROLINE NORTE after a stating reason. stint with the South ship, XARTII ALS O AVAILABLE KATIE worked for RADIO ESSEX/BEMS 4 page Insert, either stapled or and followed that with a stint loose. IBA TO PU S H AH E A D IPA BA C K RA DI O GR O WT H WI T H 12 NE W ILR ST ATI O N S The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising has backed the "A CHANCE FOR NEW PLAYERS Government plan for national IN THE FIELD... " commercial Radio - but warns that three stations, and no less, should The IBA is pushing ahead with be established to offer a choice in the development of 12 areas programming and attract major on its original list, despite advertisers to the services. the publication of the Green The IPA says the formats should Paper, and the threat to the include one to appeal to the youth future of IBA-control of non- with a music-based policy, a BBC Radio. music/sports channel and a coast-to- The IBA is citing the healthy coast news station. state of advertising revenue A new Radio Authority should control in commercial Radio at the the three (at least) national moment as a good reason to commercial stations, hundreds of push ahead with the new areas community/neighbourhood/small for ILR. business stations and an expanded Whereas new areas have been ILR system. tagged on to existing The IPA wants to see a more relaxed contractors' franchises in line taken on Radio sponsorship recent years, the IBA now conditions. sees it possible to award the next 12 contracts to new ON LY CAPI T A L RE F U S ES coapanies - and is hoping to TO JOI N NE W S LI N K allow them ti me to set themselves up and ready RETRO RADIO/RADIO TEES have joined themselves for applications the LBC/IRI NEVSLINK sales project in response to advertise ments which offers advertising spots for prospective contractors around prime time IRE bulletins in coming months. carried by Independent Radio - leaving London's CAPITAL RADIO the The areas to get new ILR only major station not to join in the stations will be: special arrangement recently given full D3A approval. • The Borders (Hawick) with Berwick

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• Dorchester/Veymouth JOUR VHITNEY, Director- e Eastbourne/Hastings General, IBA, is guest of BRIAN HAYES between 1100 - 4 Hertford & Harlow 1200 noon Wednesday July e Xilton Keynes 29th. Hear the programme on 97.3 FA e North Vest Vales and 1152 AN. e Oxford/Banbury SO V E R EI G N 'NEX T S Redruth aalmouth/Penzance/ WE E K E N D' 4 Truro Solid Gold RADIO SOVEREIGN will be • Stranraer/Dumfries/Galloway on the air next Sunday August 2nd on Vhitehaven/Vorkington/Carlisle 1521kHz Ai, 6240kHz Shortwave and 96.1 FR Stereo. I Yeovil/Taunton Test transmissions carried on July 19th resulted in reception reports from throughout Europe on shortwave. RA DI O TONY CURRIE (CABLE F ES TI VAL '87 AUTHORITY), noted that the DEC WORLD SERVICE was now L O O S E E ND S being relayed by satellite within Europe. He pointed out As you might expect, all that, under the existing sorts of interesting little laws, if a UK-based cable gems emerged at the RADIO company decided to relay the FESTIVAL programmes, the CABLE AUTHORITY would be required Although (because?) the IBA to act as regulator of the has suggested that the BBC WORLD SERVICE!!! National VHF/FM channel allocated to RADIO ONE from The high cost (L450) of 1990 should be reallocated SPECIAL EVENT licences is due for one of the 3 proposed new to the costs of sending DTI commercial networks, this engineers to check the seems unlikely. Just to make installations, measure the sure - and no doubt due to a power output, etc. Community siricle of engineering by BBC Radio groups who have engineers - it seems it will organised SPECIAL EVENT suddenly be possible to get broadcasts, such as RADIO RADIO OWE onto VHF/FE before THAXESMEAD and CASTLE RADIO 1990... Actually, RADIO OWE have had to spend several will appear in London and the hours with the DTI, who have South-East before Christmas, invariably insisted on power so listen around between 97.6 levels being reduced (in and 99.8 MHz for the test CASTLE's case to a mere 10 transsissions milliVatts!). How strange, it was, therefore, to hear from According to JIMMY GORDON CAPITAL RADIO engineering (MD, RADIO CLYDE), agreement staff that nobody at all from has been reached in Australia the DTI visited their SPECIAL between Radio stations and EVENT stations.... copyright bodies on a suitable fee for needletine. SIMON SHUTS, General Manager, The Agree ment? Well, it's DEC Engineering Department 0.45% of advertising revenue (in answer to a question on for unlindted whether new national services needletime would be cheaper to deliver by satellite) said that the RON COLES (MD, RADIO BBC would be able to TRENT/LEICESTER SOUND and distribute any new national CHAIRMAN OF AIRC); in commercial networks on its discussing the Joint existing distribution system. CHALFORD/OYSTOK bid for a Now that does sound like a national Coymercial Radio moneyspinner fu. DEC franchise, suggested it would ENTERPRISES be called 'RED ROO RADIO'!!! All in all, THE RADIO FESTIVAL this year was an enjoyable and seemingly worthwhile Home Secretary, DOUGLAS HURD: event, The appearance of so many "We now have the possibility prospective operators of future local of a new Golden Age for stations, supported by planned 6overnment Radio..." When was the Old action to push ahead with development, left Golden Age? (1964 - 67 many delegates outside the existing (and .perhaps?) what will, at least for IA, become the minority) industry feeling highly optimistic A mystery note arrived in the post the other day reading, 'DTI L O O S E Information: The Radiocommumicatioas E N D S Division of the DTI have Just produced their first annual report. It is avnilable five from the DTI by calling 01 275 3072 and leaving your First of all, thank's must go to NOW name and address, or you can write RADIO% three (yes, 3 9 Reporters to the Library, Room 605, Vaterlao who have Just covered the RADIO Bridge House, London SRL The report FESTIVAL for our ever-growing is some 60-pages long and in full readership. There's no doing things colour. It includes a fine Large by halves here, I can tell you' photo of LASER 558 plus a list of prosecutions and fines on pirate Several of our subscribero, and a breadcasters. A must to read by all few potential subscribers, who are interested in Radio. Please print the

either blind or partially -sighted above in your newsletteur..." Well, have asked if there is a chance we Lan, thank's - but we reviewed and may be able to get into producing an published all the details of this audio version, on easaette, of NOW particular annual report many, many RADIO NEWSLETTER. We would welcome Issu es ago. However, your rather suggestions - and practical help interestingly presented note left us offers on this one. It would be, at thinking it wouldn't be a bad idea to present, beyond us allocating any mention it again! Cheers' kind of budget towards but certainly one which we would be interested in Wasn't it moving to hear MIKE READ discussing with any . would-be linking live with STUART HENRY from producers his home in Luxembourg on Thursday July 16 on the RADIO ONE ROADSHOW?! DAVE, in Morley, Vest Yorkshire, lust say it made a great couple of wants to know if we could perhaps minutes listening - especially with number the pages. Well, we used to such a warm and responsive when we produced the newsletter in a audience—. set number of pages and our circulation was much lower. low, due There was a great deal of surprise to the fact we are constantly at RADIO AIRE when Producer LINDA compiling news and features IARDER handed in her resignation. throughout the entire fortnight ahead She was the brains and workhorse of publication, and the number of behind the PETER LEVY show until he pages continuosly grows it would be left for BBC RADIO LEEDS and has impossible. You see, we begin more recently been producing JOU' printing some features pages in the RAYMOND who took over the 9 - 12 an week or so ahead of publication.-get shift on the station. Linda's got a the picture? Hope co' new Job working with children.-no comment' The HONE OFFICE BROADCASTING DEPARTKENT still has not allocated COUNTY SOUND were doing an outside all of this year's SPECIAL EVENT broadcast at CHESSINGTON ZOO last licences. Seems they may still accept Wednesday —and I must say I have applicatio ns - and we would be only never seen ouch a lack of interest too pleased to advise any from pasring and potential punters - prospective operators of conditions even the Jock looked bared out of and what not. What you need is an his mind! It has been suggested it event Lasting two weeks and you might be a good idea to take current could broadcast for the whole clients of the station to this kind fortnight. As always your calls are of event to see the general apathy welcomed towards what they are ploughing their cash into.-It was really quite a pitifull sight Radio Offshore

under their control for very long. It O F F S H O R E takes a special breed of person to keep an Offshore Radio station N O T E B O O K operating

So, once again we hear word from The list of Die and Personalities CAROLINE that certain DJs are not from the world of Offshore Radio happy with the imposition of a planning to put an appearance in at rather rigid format! All we can say the CAROLINE MOVEXEIT 'DRIFTBACK 20' to guys who don't want to work as a event on August 15th will road like part of a team creating a station a real WHO'S WHO! As well as names sound - get the hell out of this of the past, expect a few of the busin ess-! There are people who current Offshore tribe to attend and arrive at Radio stations thinking prop up the odd bar or three' they really can sit down and 'do their own thing' with no ground CAROLINE 558 Programme Director rules whatsoever. In the case of PETER PHILIPS is attempting to put CAROLINE, the station is bigger, and together a team of Die who will be awayu has been, than any individual somewhat more permanent than has deejay who ventures to open the been the case in the past. He's microphone. The station comes first. looking to build a set of, say six or lot happy with the position - Jump seven, Jocks who will became the on the next tender. He did? Good' main Team aboard the ROSS REVENGE and give them regular progr amm es A caller who left a message at the and work out shoreloave to allow end of the NOV RADIO NEWSLINE regular work on regular airshifts to pointed out that sometimes we one or two swing-shift Jocks - mentioned items on the NEVSIIIE and cutting down on the need for some to didn't follow-up with the same work double shifts and also to bring reports in the NEWSLETTER. This an end to regular changes from 3 or means some people Mi GG some odd 4 hour airshifts to 5 at times. hits of news or information, he says. Whilst this is nothing new in One of those items was about the Offshore Commercial Radio, it would piop wed Radio-ship IANNELL which be interesting to see (a) if he can remains in a Northern Spanish port. find enough talent and (b) how long IAINELL has had 6020 work carried such a structure can work. All out on it recently by engineers and Programme Direct or's aim for a plans are for the ship to sail for constant and reliable Team of DJs, an anchorage off of the m art of and this goes to show, despite all Holland. At the moment a UK- the problems involved in operating registered tugboat lies alongside the in such difficult conditions, ship - and it Is hoping to tow the CAROLINE 558 is no exception station to its new location sometime this summer. The owners of the ship, DAVID BAKER arrived on CAROLINE 558 a British company, have received a all set to work a four week stint. lot of criticism since their project Given the prime-time morning show, got underway, as readers will recall the Lad, with a background of frcm previous bits about the project. several of the larger Dublin Offers to buy the ship for 'cash on Independent . stations, suddenly the table' and even to lease it by decided to 'Jump ship' and get the certain groupo (with available cash) hell out claiming he didn't like the have been rejected by the owners who conditions. Understandably, PETER appear to want to play at being PHILIPS and his deputy KEVIN TURNER Radio Moguls! As they have already are not at present very happy spent a lot more than they ever whatsoever with the behaviour and thought they would, and the project attitude of DAVID BAKER. Whether he has taken far longer to get on-air really thought there would be a than it should have, one doubts Butler to provide for his every need whether their enterprise will survive is yet to be established' Now Radio Programming

B EA MI NG IN . It was July 1982 when the International service of RBI_ first took to the air with a Over the decades broadcasters have modest 60-minute prograame hosted by MARK had to look for sometimes innovative ALLEN on Monday evenings, By the following methods of getting their voices month, as interest grew, both from heard by British audiences. listeners and broadcasters, an ill-night Before VV2 RADIO NORMANDY and International Service was lade possible, LUXEMBOURG helped establish The hosts for this service included the commercial Radio - leasing time on original air-name MARK ALLEN, along with legit continental broadcast STEVE JAMES, IAN ANDERSON and MIKE NEWMAN. facilities. As with any station, naaes joined and left In the 'sixties the only way of the operation, and in coming months such getting the .mecsage' across was to rases as TIM STEWART, DAVE COOPER, CHRIS establish a Radio station aboard a LAMBERT were heard over RBL-INTERNATIONAL. ship or fort outside the reach of And, in the best of tradtions, RBL- the Wireless Telegraphy Act.ln the INTERNATIONAL 'took a break' from the air 'seventies Broadcasters who, for one for a while, but returned in 1986 with some reason or another, didn't want to new names, including former ABC RADIO involve themselves in the newly (Traaore)/RADIO SOVEREIGN (Italy) di STUART established ILR system, were able to CLARK, TONY SIMON (so-SIS Brussels) and sail across the sea to Ireland and STEVE ARCHER, MARK ALLEN, TIM STEWART, MIKE broadcast there. Whilst most NEWMAN and IAN ANDERSON regained from the stations were 'local', there were the original crew. The station also moved to likes of RADIO IOVA beaming the 96.1 MHz channel as a part of the programmes out which were hoard well conditions included in its licence, by listeners in many parts of the Extended prograaming, taking on Sunday UK. nights in addition to those already airing The 'eighties, not only saw the on Monday's, were made possible in January revival of CAROLINE from its 1986, Former CENTRE RADIO (Leicester)/ER1 biggest-ever Radio ship, the ROSS RADIO (Cork) and current CAROLINE 558 Jock REVENGE, and the arrival of hot PAUL GRAHAM began presenting a programme rock in' LASER 558, but also a new around this time, called RBL REMEMBERS, it breed of Broadcast operation made featured music from the 60's and 70's and possible due to changes in French became a popular show with the stations broadcasting legislation. One such ever-growing audience. operation iG RADIO BOULOGNE LITTORAL Through 1986 RBL revamped its operation and (RBL). took on-board former CAROLINE staffer JAMES EEL IG a legal independent Radio DAY, as well as MARK DANIELS, JEFF JOHNSON station based in Boulogne on and retained the services of TIM STEWART France's northern coast. It is and MARK ALLEN from its early days, STUART operating under a licence from the CLARK, as an example, left for a stint with French authorities and broadcasts on the VOICE OF PEACE and later CAROLINE 658, 96.1 11[Ez (stems> around the clock. In the spring of '87 RBL-INTERNATIONAL took Whilst the majority of programmes on two sore pro's, PETE SIMESTER (WILTSHIRE are in French, an English outfit RADIO) and BILL WEST (ex-CENTRE RADIO), The lear,e.- airtime on the facility to station also extended to operate a third broadcast an LITERIATIONAL service evening, Saturday's from 9,30 p.m. each Saturday 9,130 p.m. until 5 a.m., Listeners can receive RBL-INTERNATIONAL in Sunday lOpm - 5am and Konday ?pa England from Eastbourne in the West, inland until 5am. to Ashford and Maidstone and East along the RBL began life in November 1981 Kent coast through Thanet across to the when the French Government allowed a Essex coast. number of local free Radio stations The station prides itself on playing to be established. At first the quality ausic and more music per hour than station was based in the small town any other FM station„.' and also gives cf Pont De Briques. In 1982, studios airtime to local, un-coamercially released and transmission facilities were bands, moved to a new location near-by to the harbour of Boulogne. H6LR TH E BL A C K AN D WHI T E in 1964. A caption relating to what PI R A T E SH O W. JOHNNIE WALKER or TONY BLACKBURN a re vi e w of th e were doing in 1957 was accompanied CH A N N E L 4 by a photo of what they looked like pr esentati on ai r e d in 1974. These were Just irritating. Mo n d a y Jul y 13t h at More disturbing was the unexplained 11 p m. Pr o gr a m m e shot of SUNK HEAD TOWER being blown Pr o uc e d by Bi r mi ng ha m up in August 1967. As thin was shown Fi l m Vi d e o in the context of talk about inter- Wor k s h o p. station rivalry and shootings and ROB CHAPMAN sabotage an undiscerning viewer For NOV R4010 night have thought that this Incident was all part of that Like a lot of people I was looking unsavoury process. Indeed a friend forward to this programme. I'd heard of nine thought precisely that - monthn ago that a film crew had been until I explained to him that in fact sniffing around Harwich, and I'd even the RAF had blown-up the fort enquired at CHANNEL 4 an to who was because it was the only one left making the programme. "We don't outside territorial waters. (Apart know," I was told!, "We deal with so from ROUGHS TOWER/SHALAND, now many small production companies we occupied by ROY BATES). While on the have no way of knowing until it's subject of the pirat es washing their handed in."! Sad to relate then that dirty linen in public NNE had 'THE BLACK AND WRITE PIRATE :MOW' promised UG in their preview of the, was basically another missed programme that 'TRE BLACK AND WHITE opportunity in a long line of missed PIRATE SHOW' would tell the true opportunities to put the record story of the CALVERT/SXEDLEY affair. straight. The main fault, of course, Of course the p uipamme did no such is that it should have been two thing. Indeed as one magazine Editor seperate programmes. One about the found out long ago, to print the true Offshore scene in the sixties and story of that particular affair another about ethnic stations giving (surrounding RADIO CITY, etc) would a voice to the black community in Involve considerable rick to the the eighties. The only connection author and the poaribility of a between the two halves of the permanent residency at the bottom of piubiamme appeared to be the illegal the Thames or a concrete overcoat playing of records. One minute we under the 14. Some things lust aren't were in 1968, the next we were in that black and white the eighti es, leaving out in the The programme did have its goad piuGea.. a whole landbased tradition points. There should have been more which stretches from JACK 18 to of RONAN O'RLEILLY. Some great SOVEREIGN - not to mention Offshore footage was accompanied by some activities in the seventies. quotes - although again often out of So what did we get in this eagerly context. I particularly liked; awaited hour? Cheap budget snappy "Without the Capitalist Pigs of the graphics and a trendy presenter for City of London there would have been now with it people (that means you no CAROLINE. There's no way on this and I presumably). The format was planet I could have got the money standard state of the art "-yoof from a Central Committee or culture" stuff for people whose VEDGEVO°D BENI." attenti on span is 15 seconds, and I It would have been interesting to suspect for presenters who can't have heard TONY 11E11 Justifying his read cue cards for more than 15 kiljoy views 20 years on. Indeed as seconds without fluffing their lines. JOHIIIE WALKER hinted, m ost Chronologically it was all over the socialist minded people find it place as these things usually are. difficult to reconcile 'The peoples' Ten minutes into the programme we party' with the blatantly anti-youth had arrived at the Getting-up of attitudes of 20 years ago. But again, RADIO ONE. Next minute we were back that would have required a programme LA S E R - MA J O R ME E T to itself. ST A T E SI D E Lind HIND and MOSCO's book, REBEL RADIO, the programme was very Senior figures including the new scrambled and innacurate on the financial backers and management of sixties but faired much better with the Radionhip COMMUNICATOR are the eighties. Music Critic PAUL meeting this week in the United GILROY in particular was very good States. citing the playing in its entirety of JAMES BROVIIS 22-minute 'Papa don't DTI C O U L D BE PL A N NI N G take no mess' as being totally MA S SI V E RAI D S ON impossible under current regulations. LO N D O N UN LI C E N C E D The downside of that was seen in a RA DI O very telling clip of an LVR Roadshow where the ego tripping als ptu,euded Several months of careful to yell all the way through another information gathering by DTI staff JAMES BROVI classic, 'Sex Machine'. and private detectives may shortly This told you everything you needed result in a massive increase in to know about why the soul stations activity Against London's pirate in London are currently at an all- Radio scene. time low. Full of ego ridden and Already, and as a result of 3 raids elitist DJs. Good old TONY BLACKBURN on studios in a very short period, spoke a lot of old fashioned common and a 'strip-search' operation at its sense as he usually does, wryly offices, LONDON GREEK RADIO has said pointing out that the same Jocks who it will be off-air for a while at complain about commercial soul least'. (yeuck! Dirty Vord) were all playing Recent intensive raids by the DTI on FIVE STAR a couple of years ago stations on Merseyside have made before they were successful. I ATLANTIS reduce its operations to suspect that if most of the current only four days per week - and crop of Soul Jocks had been around greatly curtailed the activities of in the sixties, they would have said other stations in the region. things like, 'Sorry, I can't play Xeanwhile, in Leeds, Vest Yorkshire, VILSON PICKETT or MARTHA & THE Black music-format stations XCR and VAIDELLAS.-they are in the charts, ABC-FM have decided to broadcast you see..." Makes you appreciate seven days per week. genuine Jocks that much more, for whom the music is far more PI R A T E' S AP P E A L IS important than 'lifestyle', le elitist WO N lifestyle.

A Kent -based pirate Radio operator FOOTIOTE ONE: Superb BILLY CONNOLY who was fined £800 a few weeks ago rant in a recent NEE, 'It makes me has appealed to Crown Court and had sick when DJs say they have a gig his £600 fine reduced to £300. tonight. They do not have a gig. The operator of M IR also had the THEY ARE RECORD PLAYERS.' A little Court order the immediate return of more humility requIred, methinks. studio equipment, including cartridge machines and a mixing desk. FOOTIOTE TVO: BANDUNG PRODUCTIONS A recent High Court ruling stated are said to be unhappy with the that 'Records and tapes' used by BIRMINGHAM FILM & VIDEO VORKSHOP pirate Radio stations could not be for using the clip of the SEC raid retained by the DTI - except for use without their permission. JHC, in in Court as evidence. turn, are unhappy with BANDUIG for The status of equipment, however, filming them in the first place as remains a highly debatable issue, they reckon the high profile and may not be fully resolved until presence of cameras led to them and if a prosecuted pirate takes getting busted by the MR ERIC GOTTS that matter before the High Court in A Co.-Life goes on.-! an Appeal. towardu the Itherall untion ot 1' 1 1.2 A "Fit: • the nfrwnveu "for Community • K J I ..1.. • 1Y1 1 Radio...' I N C 1 N 1 12 He claimed that, often, ; 1. A I I1E3 J3ti'I'( Il Pirate stationo broadcast over the top of existing, Junior Minister at THH HOMO legitimate Radio Operators. OPFICH, JOHN BUTCHIIR, has He said there were examples mlledged that Pirate Radio of emergency service operators caused a RADIO transmissions being INVESTIGATION SHRVICH interfered with by Pirate engineer to have a heart stations. attack, from which he later NOV RADIO spoke this morning, died. Tuesday, to one spokesman for The Minister said the the 'unlicenced' Radio scene engineer was dragged from his who said: vehicle and beaten up by 'Ye cannot ever support the Pirate's. use of non-peaceful methods BUTCHER claims the HIS staff used by any Radio station are coming under increasingly which cannot broadcast with a violent attacks from Home Office licence. At the operators of Unlicenced Radio moment we are unable to stations around the country. obtain that 'bit of paper' He has alledged a masked-gang required to make us as ambushed a van, and attacked 'respectable' as the likes of a HIS vehicle and its LBC and CAPITAL. No station occupants in London, using should ever use violence baseball bats. against the DTI, the The Minister also claimed Police...in fact anybody." certain senior officers and The spokesman continued; 'I their families had received think that JOUR BUTCHER has threatening telephone calls - taken a couple of very often in the middle of the isolated cases in an attempt night. to paint a very nasty picture "It's now happening more and of Pirate Radio. Getting more, and getting more and stories like this reported by more violent, and we are the media will mean that the concerned that some of these average man in the street people should be prosecuted." will believe all he hears said JOHN BUTCHER. He from a Minister.., it's a good continued: "Ve have made PR excersize by the HOME known what is going on (to OFFICE and DTI. Can we now the police) and hope that get publicity for th violence they will help us when it the HIS men cause? And the comes to assembling evidence damage they cause to people's to bring these people before personal property? I doubt the Courts." it! Perhaps this is a public Mr BUTCHER has produced an attempt to give credence to anarcist movement document their own illegal activities which describes how Pirate's - and not have a public should deal with officers of outcry at some of their most the RIS and the Police in the dubious methods of carrying event of a 'raid' on their out their legitimate station. business?" JOHN BUTCHER went on to say Another said, 'The police do it was unfortunate that such not normally appear to like attacks on RIS staffers were to be involved in raids and taking place at a time when this has upset the HIS guys. Government was looking This is a move to get the Poli ce to euppott their GW R IS 'A WI N N E R! " nometimus nasty methods..." NOV RADIO reports that the GVR RADIO has reached the top publication the DTI and the opot in the ratings for Beth, HONE °PRICE are worried about only throe weeks alter the Is available through several launch of a new opt-out fringe bookshops. However the service for that city. majority of Illegal Research figures show that broadcasters are seriously GVR has latched on to the wanting to become legitimate number one spot for the first no soon as new licences under time - overtaking highly proposed deregulation are popular BBC RADIO BRISTOL in available. the process. The established unlicenced The RSGB survey, to full Radio 'industry' abhors JICRAR speciications, puts publications and individuals the station also ahead of BBC who promote violence and RADIO ONE. abuse towards those in 31% of the Bath population authority and who have a now dial 103Fil and GVR in the rightful duty to attempt to average week. RADIO BRISTOL uphold the laws of the land. is heard by 26% of the It is this kind of worrying potential market. thing that resulted in the Community Radio experiment S I X Xkl R A. 1 r) being called off at the last c A WN/. 1 moment. S T' A. a' I 0 la However, JOHN BUTCHER, the DTI, the RIS and its officers 8 DTI/RADIO INVESTIGATION -as well as the general SERVICE officers and 8 public who have now heard Policemen raided the Canvey these amazing (and horrific) Island Pirate station CANVEY reports - should be made to RADIO on last Sunday week. understand that those who However, according to a have no respect for those member of the CAJIYEY RADIO with a job to do - in rather team, the Search Warrant was difficult conditions - should for adjacent premises and be dealt with in harsh terms they were asked to leave. by the Courts. The station resumed Those who operate without a broadcasting within about an licence, in a normal, hour. professional and peaceful way, should be left alone AN O T H E R C A R O LI N E JO C K until the day they can join TO LE A V E the (until now) elite brigade of legit Radio broadcasters. Another new recruit to CAROLINE 558, NICK BOLLARD, H U N T O N F O R S U F F O L K has said he wants to leave PI R A T E the station on the next tender. The Ipswich-based Commercial His departure brings to 3 the Radio station RADIO number of new deejays who ORVELL/SAXON RADIO has filed have quit the station after a report to the IBA and DTI only short periods aboard the over a new unlicenced pirate vessel in recent weeks. Radio station operating in A further report on this the Suffolk area. appears elsewhere In this The station identifies itself iseue of NOV RADIO as North Sound Radio. NEVSLETTER. TO P AG E N C Y HI T S HI T S .7•1 .1-2 I A 1 1 AJ I 0 AT , AI R C A I.72 C1-3.U CIC S

The ASSOCIATION OF IIDEPENDENT RECENTLY RECORDED IN CALIFORNIA AND RADIO CONTRACTORS has been condemed FLORIDA & FEATURING ALL THE TOP CUR by one of the largest advertising & AOR STATIONS INCLUDING: agencies, McCAIN-ERIESON, over its rejection of Rational Commercial KIIS-FX LOS ANGELES (ins RICK Radio in its response to the Green DBES in the morning) Paper. The agency described the AIRC stance KMEL SAN PRANSISCO on the i6.611C as 'narrow and frankly depressing.' KROY SACRAMENTO McCANI-ERIXSON say that the AIRC is out of step with the IBA, BBC, ISBA Y100 MIAMI and LPA on the issue - and says the AIRC view is a result of vested POWER 96 MIAMI and many, many interests of its members. more! Recorded on High Quality C90 McCANI-ERIKSON say that the long-- Cassettes. Yours for just £4.99 inc term future of Commercial Radio P&P... would be better with the introduction of new national 10V RADIO, FREEPOST, services. KETTERING, 1116 OBR 'The AIRC standpoint is similar to . that of a trade union which, despite all other arguments, must uphold the welfare of its members."' F R A S E R IS NE W B O S S IB A AN N U A L RE P O R T WELL FRASER, 48, has been appointed PU B LI S H E D the new Head of BBC RADIO SCOTLAND. He is a Gaelic speaker, who joined The Report for 1986/7 of the the Corporation in 1968 as a Radio INDEPENDENT BROADCASTING AUTHORITY Producer. is published today (Tuesday July 23). For the last 5 years he has been In his introduction to the Report, Head of Gaelic programming for both the Chairman of the IBA, Lord Radio and TV. Be was one of the main Thomson of Monifieth, says: The UK people responsible for the has reason to be proud of the establish ment of DEC Local Radio Independent Broadcasting system, and stations in the Vestern Isles and in to expect those who wish to see it Inverness. changed to demonstrate that their proposals will enlarge or improve IRI S H ST A TI O N C L O S E S the services which the public enjoys, A F T E R AI R C O N T R O L rather than weaken or destroy them." PR O B L E M S The 92-page Report carries a review of all IBA services, including BILR, Irish Private Radio station PULSAR ITV, CHANNEL 4 and DBS prospects. 9'1.8 in P.Ilbrigan, near Dublin, It costs £450 from HMSO and many received a visit from Irish good booksellers. Telecommunications officals in the last week who duly informed station H A W K S L E Y IN M A NI L A management their transmissions were causing some albeit minor In a bid to improve coverage of interference to communications with Philippines news and current affairs, planes leaving Dublin Au t. for UK DEC EXTERNAL SERVICES has appointed destinations. HUMPHREY HAVKSLEY as its Vitt: no hesitation the station pondent in Manila. closed down. No prosecution is likely He joined the BBC in 1983 as a Sub- as a remit of the stations action. Editor. CA R OLI N E GO E S HU NT ON TO FI N D KE Y WORLD- WI D E MA N A G E M E N T FI G U RE FO R RA DI O TA RA RADIO CAROLINE's Senior Transmitter Engineer, RADIO TARA, the Joint-venture between CHICAGO, is returning to the RIB and RADIO LUXEMBOURG, has begun RnRs REVENGE this coming a search to find and contract a weekend to begin work on a Chief Executive to run the station. new service which will result RADIO TARA is due to begin In a CAROLINE signal being broadcasting on 254 kHz Long Wave heard around the world. next July. The station is to extend its Transmission facilities on the VIEWPOINT service, currently outskirts of Dublin will provide a aired each evening on 963 kHz signal for the whole of Ireland and AK, to shortwave. the United Kingdom. The station will A 10kV RCA transmitter, broadcast during daytime hours - originally intended to be with spots near 'closedown' geared to used as a stand-by for the encouraging listeners to re-tune for operations 963 broadcasts the evening to RADIO LUXEMBOURG. (which include RADIO Applications for the post, in XONIQUE), will be converted strictest confidence, should be sent to carry the new service on to the Chairman, RADIO TARA Ltd, 61 the 49-metre band during Pitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. daylight hours and in the 31- metres band during hours of RA DI O SO V E R EI G N darkness in Britain. The service will carry mainly RADIO SOVEREIGN programmes will be US-based Evangelical broadcast from this coming Sunday programmes for up to 20-hours from transmitter facilities in per day. Ireland on 6240 kHz shortwave, 1521 A new studio is to be built kHz Al and 96.1 PI Stereo. on the stern portside of the Recent test-transmissions brought in ROSS REVENGE in a former hundreds of reports from Ireland, store room which had been Britain and the European continent, used as a Kennel for the including East Berlin. ship's dog, RAFFLES. It will Commercial time is being sold at £3 bring the number of studios per half-minute spots, with 'live- on the station to four. The read' and sponsored progra mming also first is used by CAROLINE being offered. 558, the second by RADIO The station follows the SOVEREIGN )IONIQUE, and the third - for SOLID GOLD format. VIEWPOINT. Contact Address: SOVEREIGN SALES, An additional and new c/o NOV RADIO CO MINICATIONS, PO antenna system will be built, Box 45, Kettering, Northants, 1I16 probably running from atop ONV. the main antenna mast to a forward mast, and based on CL O SI N G PI R A T E S MAY the standard 'sausage' BE PA R T OF D E A L design. The service will consist of A part of the deal between RTE and continuous pre-recorded taped RADIO LUMBIBOURG for establishing a programmes, played in aboard new International Long Wave the Radio ship by a team of Commercial Radio service, RADIO up to 3 tape-Jockey's. TARA, may be the introduction of A good proportion of income is legislation to closedown 'pirate' already generated by Evangelical stations and issue a limited number programming - and with the new of offical broadcasting permits, says service the station would be wholly our Dublin Correspondent. Legislation self-sufficient. may be introduced this autumn. 4 Now Radio Offshore

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M C L.— II,-- Vhen Philip Birch moved into 17, Curzon Street on September let, 1964, he was immediately Joined by EDITORS ROTE: Chris Elliot has American George Kuper, sent over to pointed out that we omitted a short London by the Texan backers to help but vital paragraph from Part 2 of Birch with publicity and to give The Radio London Files; the Radio London an acceptable 'face' in paragraph concerning the actual the eyes of the British press and decision to call the station Radio public. Birch's company would from London!!! Sorry Chris! So to put the now on be known as 'Radian (Sales) record straight before Part 3, we Ltd' and conduct its affairs under back track a little the terms of Kanter and Steffen's operational structure (see part 2). You will remember that by August 1964 there was still no firm Philip Birch was keen to see Radian decision in Texas as to the station 'seal' the station to potential name. Philip Birch, responsible for advertisers well ahead of its launch, the newly established British sales to demonstrate commercial radio's operation, had suggested 'Radio viability , and he wasted no time Galaxy', a name that also appealed to recruiting two experienced salesmen several of the Texan backers. to do Just that. First through the However station mentor Don Pierson door was Alan Keen whose successful had been so impressed with CLIP in track record selling advertising Dallas that he was determined to space for IPC had much impressed call the station 'Radio [LIP - Birch. Keen was followed shortly Lond on'! Belles was known as the 'Big afterwards by Dennis Xaitland, D' and so London could become 'Big formerly assistant Advertising M unger with Housewife magazine. With Philip Birch now assuming the Philip Birch felt this indecision was role of Radian's Kanaging Director, interfering with progress on his he, Keen and laitland would make up sales side and he made his feelings the company Board, along with the known to the Texans. lot long Company Secretary Geoffrey Bean, a afterwards what seemed like a very member of the firm of auditors sensible compromise was reached subsequently employed to look after between the Galaxy suggestion and the Radian books. The new company's the [LIP-London idea. The station authorised capital was now £1500 would be known as 'Radio London - with ten £1 shares being issued; The Big I.% while the Density/Pinnacle nine for Philip Birch and one for ship would be re-christened 'The his wife. (A British company must Galaxy'. always have more than one shareholder). leanwhile George Kuper low, Read On!! was hard at work converting number 17's attractive front office into a V.v. mu. v-- onm• vmv showroom, with the intention of officially opening Radian Sales for In the last issue of NOV business on Xanday September 21st. RADII:), we saw haw the farmer The showroom 'display' was to American minesweeper Density' was include several 'blow-up' photographs renamed CaLaxy' and converted into a of the Galaxy, her studio equipment flouting radio station. Vu saw how, and transmitters, etc, and even a after much debate, Radio London got model of the ship, painted in the its name and how the final business company colours of red, black and structure was formulated - to white (the Galaxy herself was not painted in these colours until the telephone system, but that is summer of 1905). Both Birch and nationalisation for youHr Kuper were shrewd enough to realise that such displays would help Of course, setting up Radian was install confidence in the size of the costing Birch a great deal of money Radio London operation right from and in a letter to Pierson dated the ward go and give the station September 18th, he reminded the valuable publicity. And it worked Texan that as yet there had been no because Just one week after opening, sign of any funds from the Radian Sales had sufficiently Xercantile Bank in Freeport and that impressed Royal (Standard Brands), $7,000 was needed urgently to cover Gheeseborough -Ponds, Vick CFormula expenses. One begins to sense a 44), Elco & Gibbs, all of whoa little antagonism growing between expressed the desire to advertise Birch and Pie rson here and the with the station the moment it coming weeks showed this to be all started. So pleased was Philip Birch too true (as you will discover in with this response that he offered the next issue). Philip Birch's the advertisers a large number of attitude to the whole concept of extra commercial 'spats' on a filler Radio London was rigourously basis during the first month of professional. He was a keen broadcasting. He realised that giving supporter of American commercial these first advertisers such extra radio, having witnessed it first value would also make Radio London hand whilst working for J. Valter sound very prosperous 'on-air' from Thompson, and wanted to prove that day one. such free enterprise broadcasting could be Just as successful here. He Although the advertisers were was not particularly impressed with showing great confidence in both the 'buccaneering' image of the early Radlon Sales and the proposed Radio offshore stations and wanted to give London, the same could not be said both Radlon Sales and Radio London for Philip Birch's feelings about an air of respectibility that would that great British institution, The be noticed in 'high places'. General Post Office! lo budding sales company could operate efficiently To achieve this, Birch and George without telephones and at that time Kuper had started discussions with it was taking the GPO two or three Patric Baker Limited, a public months to install switchboards in relations company, with a view to London. It annoyed Birch that Radian, them handling Radio London's all- because of the nature of their important introduction. Patric Baker business, could not really pull any later submitted a public relations strings to have things speeded up! plan which was immediately approved His frustration was somewhat by Birch, and the com[pany was alleviated when Radlon found authorised to get this very skilled themselves assigned to the work under way. prestigious XATfair exchange, with the number 5361 and nine consecutive The cost significant numbers immediately being reserved parts of this five page plan were as for them. Remember, of course that follows:- the GPO had no idea at this stage that yet another pirate radio station FAD 10 Timm' was gradually blossoming into life! Two phone lines were working by the Public Relations Plan middle of September, with the promise of another three a few weeks later, and another five a few more FITRODUCTIO1 weeks after that! As Philip Birch wryly commented to Don Pierson: This memorandum has This iG one hell of a way to run a been prepared in order to present a planned public relations campaign on beheld of Radio London and their on the air. These arrangements are British sales company. Our proposals subject to the story not breaking as are based on discussions: with Kr a result of your advertisers Birch and Kr Kuper. They take into negotiations within the next few account the many problems involved weeks. If the story diluO break all in putting a new radio station on media will receive an alternative the air, the climate of opinion at release which will be arranged in the present time and the need to advance of this hazard. 'play it cool' at the outset. (b) Ereuil at Advertisers' Parties BASIC RFOIRFMFI Th Ye understand that 1. To establish Radio you intend to hold a series of get- London as the most powerful, best togethers for prominent agency men organised and eqipped and most and prospective advertisers within effective commercial radio station the next few weeks. Coincident with serving Great Britain. the issue of the 'launching press release' we would suggest that you 2. To establish the sales auk along a limited number of company as the finest of its type, Journalists to see the exhibition, offering a new and vital service to meet your advertising friends and national, regional, and possibly members of the Radio London team. If local advertisers. this is done, facilities must be provided for informal questioining. 3. To do all in our power We will supply suitable names and to build goodwill for Radio London iSSUO the invitations on your behalf. among members of the Tstablishment. in an effort to frustrate possible is) Epecial FacilitiUS anti-commercial radioi legislation. It May be that some PROPc1Sil-S newspapers and magazines will wish to prepare features of their own 1 Launching nf Sttinn. choosing on aspects of the launching. In our experience, most publications make their own travel Far reasons already and photographic arrangements, but discussed we have agreed that it we must be prepared to offer them would be unwise to hold a full-scale every facility. Ye shall naturally do Press Conference on the day that all we can to generate feature ideas, Radio London goes on the air. We both at the launching and during the therefore propose to adopt the follow-up campaign. following technique: (d) ?rr'n Materia l (ni) Fmr.94.3 Release On Launching Ye will prepare This would be issued by 136 press kits for all Journalists to all national, provincial and local attending your parties. These should papers in the area served by Radio contain as much background as london, to selected Journals, possible, photographs and a personal magazines, agencies and the trade message from Mr Birch. Ye should and technical press. Ye suggest also need to build up a file of seperate versions for the various general information to enable us to media, with the offer of answer press queries on the spot and photographic material, if available. offer specallised stories to selected The timing of these relnanpr depends publications during the launching on the editorial closing dates of the period and subsequently whenever the selected periodicals. Dailies and opportunity arises. agencies should receive their 'shots' on the day before Radio London goes (e) Emilio London Fyhibitinn one for press distribution, the other as a direct mail-shot to everyone on As agreed at our Last your own mailing lists. Frequency of meeting, we will design and prepare issue would depend on the success of your proposed exhibtiom cf Radio the station and the news and facts London's background which you state available, but bi-weekly numbers will form a feature of your contact would be a sound target. Once the parties in Curzon Street. station is established, and there is no undue persection from official (f) priacw slationa quarters, the question of publishing a Radio London Magazine should also Ve shall be on hand be considered. throughout the launching period to deal with all press queries and to (k) Pestknaality FE act as a 'buffer' against the awkward minority. This simply means 'building-up' persons within an

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Frost - LiAF.nn public they serve as responsible During the weekc and opinion leaders and spokesmen for months following the launching we their particular profession or should maintain routine contact with industry. We have been very all journals in your field, feeding sutectvQ,ful in this specialised fora them with general releases on of PR and would suggest that we be programme news, personality and permitted to groom Kr Birch for general news items about the station, 'stardom'. Be would be encouraged to audience reaction, technical act as spokesman for properly developments, etc., etc. conducted commercial broadcasting etc. in this country through the (h) Euless Conference goodie of national and provincial newspapers, radio and television and As soon as you have been by lecturing and after-dinner

able to a SE OG s the probable speaking to responsible bodies and listenership figures and the reaction clubs. of advertisers to Radio London, we would recommend a full-scale Press IXPLFKEXTATIO1 Conference only if the general picture in promising This should be In orderto put the above proposals held mid-week at around 12-noon in into effect we should have to be your Curzon St. office and take the taken fully into your confidence. It form of a buffet luncheon. is absolutely essential that we have complete and accurate picture of each phase of your operations. We would suggest tubular twice-weekly (1) reoanotionS meetings in your office at which all Every opportunity should be matters affecting the PR ptobiamme taken to arrange Radio London can be freely discussed. This is promotions, i.e. talent competitions, what we would term a 'fluid account'. radio/postal bingo, special request It is not one for which a fixed plan rpogrammes, tie-ups with popular can be devised. Most of the follow- magazines and prv,,ibly record up or routine PR will have to be companies. played by ear. The whole project LG like running a newspaper and we must (j) Publications rely largely on the news of the day. This will entail quick thinking and We would suggest the issue cf a regular Radio London Iewsletter, At all times obtain snap decilifnmi possibly produced in two editions; from the dirvrtarrasmaccrileti. YEE & Bun ul in London so that people can come ashore far relatively short periods. Our fee for carrying out the above Also furnished apartments are much work would be t160 per month - this easier to get at coastal places, figure to be subject to review particularly at this time of year. annually. You would have the option of terminating the contract at the and of six months an one month's A couple of days prior notice. Llternatively, you Later Birch met with Captain Dove, would have the option of terminating then Karina Superintendent for the contract at the end of each full British Railways ships. Birch relayed year on two months prior notice. his conclusions to Pierson by phone and to ml Xcllwain by letter, dated We would suggest an Qgeratinna September 22nd:- APdget of t750 for thp first Rix acultha to cover the cost of:- 'There are two Press Releases posrible general areas recommended Photography fur anchoring the ship. One is at Entertaining Caroline's present location in the FT-066 northern port of the Thames Estuary Conference and the other is closer to London in Exhibition the southern part of the Thames Travel and Estuary. Facility Visits 'Enclosed are two charts.

Jo expense would be 'HIKES M -TU,LEY - IORTHERI PART incudied without your prior approval. The budget would be eubJect to- I have Barked on review after six montho. this chart Caroline's approx imate location east of Frin ton. I am advised that this is a reasonably safe location In that it is protected With Patric Baker Ltd now from the weather by the Gunfleet expertly handling the Radio London sandbar. It bis also a good location introduction and public relations In that it is only 8 or 10 miles campaign, Philip Birch, on the from Harwich where Customs and instructions of Don Pier-eon, turned Immigration Bainatoins a 24-hour his attentions to finding a suitable service. location for the XV Galaxy. In his The disadvantages to letter to Don, dated September 18th, this location are that from a he said: publicity point-of-view it is unimaginative in that we are copying '1 IDOW a chap who Caroline and of course from a signal is a Thames Pilot and will be seeing strength point-of- view it is not as bin shortly regaring the best close to London as the southern location for our ship in the Thames part. Estuary. 'One important IELKES ESTUARY - souriggi PART consideration is that the ship should be near a 24-hour manned This general area Customs and Immigration Piga so that contains two possible positions our tender does not have to travel which I have pinpointed on the long distances to clear Customs on chart, north of Vhitstable and Herne each Journey. Day. I am advised by Captain Dove "George (Kuper) that while those are fairly close to mentioned that you would like an the major shipping lanes, they are apartment for the crew, etc. I think quite safe and will not be a hazard this should be near the quay and not to shipping. Now Radio Rose's Ramblings

'If we choose either of A 13A 0 INF L U E N C E those two anchorages we will have to M&R pass through Customs at Sheerness. Sometime ago I was involved in The Customs and Immigration do not planning programming for ILR maintain a 24-hour service ham, but franchise applications for various are available with a reasonable areas of this country. As you will amount of notice. Thus it may be know, you cannot really set out to

passible to arrang-e our supplies to plan programming with a blank sheet go at a set time each day and have of paper. There are a number of pre- Customs men on duty far that requisites imposed by bath the IBA occasion. and the legislation covering ILR, the Broadcasting Act. Kind you, there is The advantages of these little in the legislation that I locations are that we are closer to would actually disagree with. Vho, in London for publicity, signal strength their right mind, would plan to offer and transpost reasons. a local area a local radio service which didn't concentrate on local 'Ary own view is that we news, current affairs and should take a chance on the southern information? part locations an an experimental The [BA's 'rules and regulations' are basis. At any event, I feel that far also nut as tough as one might the first week or two we should go imagine. Often they are not really on the air with continuous music and required - but when you have people frequent announcements indicating with no broadcasting experience, or that this is an experimental even without genuine realisation of b roadcast so that we can change the potential of 'wireless' location or wavelength without loss communication, you would need some of face. ground rules, wouldn't you? True, the IBA negotiated some pretty 'Incidentally, a new radio damn silly agreements with PRS, PPL, station, *Invicte, is going on the KU and XCPS - and they built a real air. I understand that its location monster of control in the hallowed Is fairly clone to my sqwected ones walls of that Ivory Tower in In the s outh ern Thames Estuary. Brompton Road - and ended up However, I do not think that it is charging their contractors for the going to have a very strong signal, priviledge of employing so many In which case it would not cover people, at vast salaries and in a Louden any better than Caroline; also way suitable to the TV industry - it is not likely to attract the but certainly not for commercial volume of publicity which we hope to Radio. get. In programming their controls often go unreported. The MOMO's to and Sincerely, from the IBA and Programme Controllers must number hundreds per Philip T. Birch. year - often on trivial matters. Inside the ILR station fear can be imposed from the IBA via their Regional Officer and as a result of the petty interference of some busy- body an the Local Advisory NEXT ISSUE: The Galaxy sails Committee. If the IBA has relaxed its into a sea of controls, it is only a cosmetic trouble.... Dissention in the exercise. They are perhaps ranks.. .Ronan O'Eahilly tries attempting to earn a few Housepoints to take the station in the desperate hope that the over.... But BIG L comes on Government will allow them to be the the air!!! regulatory body to oversee the non- BBC Radio industry following the V 19137 CHRIS ELLIOT/NOV RADIO Green Paper proposals being push ed have the potential to knock spots through in new legislation. Even the off LBC and RADIO FOUR and even pull IBA submission in respon se to the an audience away from the music- Green Paper has managed to fool a based stations and thus offer number of folk. The talk about the advertisers goad value for the money number of frequencies available they would spend with us for their (right now) for local radio cam paig ns. Above all, we wanted to development, fails to truly hide the offer the programme as an example of fact that the IBA wants to introduce ILR being able to offer more than new eevices where they will not be back to back music and the mentality in competition with their existing that makes one think news is not at contractors - and then only after a all important - indeed nothing more long, long traneistional period. than 'a tune-out factor' for the Team, that means! audience. Our programme would have So, the situation has not changed been something we could be proud of. since the 'seventies, and under IBA Another idea we looked at was an control, there is unlikely to be much evening 'Magazine of the Air' real development unless (a) the IBA sequence. Similar to the morning, but is not to run Radio or (b) they are as well as news, there would have told they must push ahead without been in-depth interviews and imposing delaying and unfair features. Again, no music. This was restrictions on potential new planned as a three hour slot - entrants. following an hour long news In preparing my programming plane programme at 5pm. At 9pm we would for those stations back in the have carried the obligatory 'seventies I thought that, whilst it 'specialist m usi c' show which it sends shudders through some people, seemed was one of the tickets to it might be goad to get away from getting on the LBA's good books at the kind of programming that runs the time. through just about every ILR station Even the show that followed, from in the country - and I wanted to lOpm until 2am, would be full of offer something that would be truly speech and contain little music. distinct from anything else being We were not particularly going after offered by commercial Radio. In one the biggest ratings - but knew that area I worked out that a 'rolling this kind of offering would have news/information' format, with no pulled an audience that would be music played whatsoever in the four good, talk about the station and feel hour a.m, drive show would work. The it was much more than another available competition was RADIO 01E, jukebox with commercials. RADIO TWO, RADIO THREE, CAPITAL It 6 0 Ca s a pity that these RADIO with music-based programming. programming ideas were never tried LBC and RADIO FOUR were perhaps in out, isn't it? the same business - but LBC was Why didn't they actually get on-air? supposed to be a London station and Well, the head of the organisation RADIO FOUR was nationwide. Vs would felt the IBA wouldn't think such be local. We could draw on IRS for ideas were 'safe' - they were far to some, but not all, the required progressive - and it 'would be best material - so we investigated to do just about what the other arrangements with other agencies - successful appli can ts are doing..." including three or four in our own Come the day when whoever controls area - and a number overseas. Vs Radio does not have the power to searched, found and spoke to influence programming decisions we potential hosts for the programme can perhaps try thie idea out. and found n couple of real Mind you, now I'd like to put a profeesional producers and engineers genuine ALL-JEWS station on the air who would ensure that the whole in London! sequence would flow, move fast and And Leeds-and Glasgow....and be exciting listening from start to liver-p si —and Birmingham...and finish. We thought that we would Kettering " D'ya want some ehro m? matters (an area in which the CABLE FREQUENCIES : G R E E N AUTHORITY admits it has no PA P ER CO M M E N T S experience). Thane include allocating R E VI E W E D the 105.0 to 107.9 XHz sub-band to Community Radio. Perhaps CLIVE &LOVER understandably, the IBA avoids for MN RADIO pointing to an obvioue flaw in the Green Paper prop osals - the How times have changed! Just a few potential for conflict between the months ago, the Green Paper finally new Radio Authority (whoever it is) admitted what a lot of people have and the BBC if both became frequency known for a long time; there are planning bodies. However, this point pinety of frequencies available far has been made in a number of new Radio services in the UK. Thin, submissions, including those by the however, was a major 'U-turn' for the AIRC, EAST NEWCASTLE COXXUIITY Home Office which for at least 20 RADIO and ?HO MY COXIIIIICATIONS. years before February had always All are concerned that the BBC could been able to turn down any simply refuse to allow, say, small sugg estions for new Radio services neighbourhood and community stations by simply stating that there were no to UGC frequencies within the frequencies available. And that was national networks sub-band (as that—until the Green Paper. suggested in the Green Paper and I have been looking at a number of endnrsed by the LBA). All therefore responses to the GP and what they advocate the establishment of just have been saying about frequency one body to allocate frequencies, availability. Hardly any I have seen including for the BBC. This is going bother to mention frequencies, except to be difficult for the Government to acknowledge that there are plenty to swallow (not to mention the BBC!). available (for example, the CRA And, speaking of national networks, 'welcomes the Hume Office's this is where real conflicts appear recognition that frequencies are between various ieepoudantn. The available for Community Radio'). It AMC doesn't want any new commercial Pint isn't an issue any more, which, networks at all, the VOICE OF THE I suppose, is a big step towards a LISTENER only wants one - and wants new, multi-channel future. it to be a 'CHANNEL 4' style network But, exactly how many frequencies with programmes made by independent are available? Perhaps surprisingly, producers, the IBA wants 2 instead it is the IBA (in their very well of 3 and the COXIUNITY RADIO presented, glossy submission) that ASSOCIATION predictably would prefer spells it out in some detail: 'On the Radio Authority to licence a few VHF/Fl there are 71 ILI? transmittern community stations before bothering and frequencies for 112 more' about national networks. (although the IBA Is trying to use Looking at the frequencies for up an many of thane as ponsible with national netw orks suggested by the 'rela ys' and 'extensions' before various organisations, there seems anyone else can get their hands on very little roam for any compromise. then). On MV/AX, there are currently The IBA says it is a high priority 110 BBC and ILR transmittern and to decide which frequencies the BBC there are frequencies for about 95 should give-up - and when. The IBA more: nearly 100 XV channels are wants RADIO VHF/Fl channel and available for new services right now, RADIO FOUR% XF/LF network. It °Wen although few are in the major cities not want RADIO TIIRBE's IF network, where demand LG greatest. which it says would not be viable The LEA's submission makes a number because of its poor night time of interesting suggestions for coverage. Predictably, this is the pnnrible chang es to the current only network the BBC is prepared to frequency plan for the VHF/Fl band offer up! The VOICE OF THE LISTENER and, in doing so, demonstrates its is adamant that RADIO FOUR's LF expertise in frequency planning frequency must stay with the BBC and also suggeete giving up RADIO CD P Eilst I 1NI G E3 THREE% IF frequencies. VOICE OF THE en mc -t x- LISTENER would also like a national frequency far the BBC WORLD SERVICE. LBC/IRN have a couple of Interestingly, all the submiseions I vacancies at the moment. One have omen have mimed an important will mean running around with a copy of your c.v. as the point which w as mentioned, albeit closing date for applications briefly, in the Green Paper: There are actually two LF frequencies is July 31st.. .they're allocated to the UK which could be looking for a SECRETARY for used for two different services. One JOHN PERKINS and his deputy. is 200kHz, used for RADIO FOUR from Word Processor experience Droitwich and Vaster-glen and the required and very good other is 227 kHz, which is net conditions of employment currently being used (Lund, to my offered. knowledge, never has been). The second vacancy is for a International agreement was reached PARLIANEITARY CORRESPONDENT at the 1975 Geneva IF Broadcasting for LEG/IRE. Conference for 227 kHz to be used LBC's address: Communications with up to 50kV from Vesterglen in House, Gough Square, London, Central Scotland. The high level of EC4P 4LP. int erfer ence at night from a very high powered station in Poland led LO O S E E N D S BBC Engineers to use the the:sen ate e x tr a on 200 kHz instead. However, although using it for a separate service on Can we expect sone maJor 227 kHz mould not provide complete changes in programming at coverage of the UK, it would give CAPITAL RADIO shortly"' good coverage of Scotland, much of Northea-n England, North Vales and On the move, this week, from 'Northern Ireland. This could well be CAPITAL to LEG is PETER a very attractive prospect for a BLACK. He's LBC's new SPECIAL cammercial network, especially in PROJECTS XAIAGER responsible view of the likely increase in LF for sponsorship and listening tram next year, stimulated pro motional programming by the Irish/Luxembourg station, arrangements RADIO TARA. All it needs is a quick move by a well-heeled Scottish BBC WORLD SERVICE programmes entrepreneur (191 buy shar es in will be appearing in THE it In) RADIO TIMES from August

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