Welcome to the new 2021 edition of the OFFSHORE ECHO'S COLLECTION of Compact Discs, DVD's and Books of interest to offshore and free radio enthusiast All prices include postage and packing within the European Community - valid up till 31-3-2021 OFFSHORE ECHO’S MAGAZINE Covering Offshore Radio News for more than 4 Decades The Worlds only magazine solely devoted to Offshore Radio News and Nostalgia. Offshore Echo’s magazine is published four times a year, and every issue covers offshore radio and news from around the world, personality interviews, features, as well as many exclusive photogra- phs, all in a glossy A5 format magazine, with full colour covers. Single copies cost £12.00/12.00€ each or subscribe (four issues) for £38.00 (UK) or 40€ (Europe) and get access to special offers reserved to OEM members. the creation of Radio Northsea International. false starts, Radio 270 made it onto the offshore DVDs/BLURAY Duration: 88 minutes. airwaves in June 1966. This documentary con- THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS REVISITED DVD: £26.50 (subscribers: £22.99) tains much previously unseen rare colour foot- NEW SERIES Bluray: £31.50 (Subscribers: £27.99) age of life aboard Radio 270, as well as interview clips, air-checks, and other audio visual material. THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS RE-VISITED NEW THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS RE-VISITED NEW DVD: £26.50 (subscribers: £22.99) VOLUME 16-- RADIO CAROLINE STORY - THE RNI BOX-SET Bluray: £31.50 (Subscribers: £27.99) DUTCH YEARS (1968-1974) This box set comprises Offshore Radio Years Caroline’s ships being seized seized in 1968, Re-visited Volumes 13, 14 & 15, as well as a THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS RE-VISITED to Caroline’s brief return in 1970. Caroline TV Bonus MP3 audio disc of rare Radio Northsea VOLUME 9 -- RADIO SCOTLAND didn’t manage to get off the ground, but Radio International recordings. Tommy Shields dream was to have a radio station Caroline, returned at the end of 1972, with DVD: £75.50 (subscribers: £59.99) solely for Scotland. He achieved that when Radio their ship anchored off the Dutch coast. There Bluray: £86.50 (Subscribers: £74.99) Scotland came on the air on New Years day 1966. was drama, with Mutiny, Storms and Masts The station was a great success, but problems falling down, and the Dutch government ban- THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS RE-VISITED with reception meant the radio ship had to move ning the radio stations broadcasting from off VOLUME 12 -- RADIO HAURAKI from one side of Scotland to the other, and when their coast. Radio Caroline continued, moving With radio in New Zealand controlled by the the ship was found to be within UK territorial wa- to the English coast. Duration: 104 minutes. state, a group of young people decided to fol- ters, it had to move back again. The dream was low the example of offshore radio in Europe, achieved, but at great cost, and Radio Scotland DVD double layer: £28.50 (subscribers: £22.99) to break the state broadcasting monopoly. closed with heavy losses. Bluray: £31.50 (Subscribers: £27.99) There were many highs and lows in the story, DVD: £26.50 (subscribers: £22.99) NEW including the loss of their first ship in a storm, Bluray: £31.50 (Subscribers: £27.99) THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS RE-VISITED and the sad loss of one of their deejays in the VOLUME 15 -- RADIO NORTHSEA 1973-1981 final days. However, they eventually achieved THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS RE-VISITED Radio Northsea International helped promote their goal to obtain a land-based broadcasting VOLUME 8 -- RADIO LONDON Dutch artists to a European audience. With the license. Radio London was undoubtedly the most suc- passing of the Dutch MOA, RNIs closed and the DVD: £26.50 (subscribers: £22.99) cessful of the 1960’s offshore radio stations. By Mebo was sold to the Libyan government. Du- Bluray: £31.50 (Subscribers: £27.99) taking a popular American Top 40 radio format, ration: 90 minutes. and adapting it for a UK audience, Big L quickly DVD: £26.50 (subscribers: £22.99) THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS RE-VISITED challenged the other offshore stations, and was Bluray: £31.50 (Subscribers: £27.99) VOLUME 11 -- RADIO ENGLAND soon eating into their audience. Duration: 135 NEW After being involved with setting up the success- mins. THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS RE-VISITED ful Radio London Don Pierson decided to start DVD Double layer: £28.50 (subscribers: £22.99) VOLUME 14 -- RADIO NORTHSEA 1971-1972 not one , but two radio station from a ship. Top Bluray: £31.50 (Subscribers: £27.99) This documentary looks at Radio Northsea In- 40 pop station Swinging Radio England, and Easy ternational’s surprise return in 1971, the Mebo listening Britain Radio were the result. They were THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS RE-VISITED II fire bombed by a competitor, an attempted not as successful as hoped, and Radio England VOLUME 7 - RADIO INVICTA-KING-390/RADIO hijacking, and allegations of the Mebo being a was replaced by Dutch language Radio Dolfijn, ESSEX/BBMS-RADIO TOWER spy ship. Duration: 72 minutes. which then became Radio 227, while Britain be- Fort based Radio 390 played music from the DVD: £26.50 (subscribers: £22.99) came Radio 355. wartime era and ballad singers from the 50’s. Bluray: £31.50 (Subscribers: £27.99) DVD double layer: £28.50 (subscribers: £22.99) On Sunk Head fort, Radio Tower, had big plans to Bluray: £31.50 (Subscribers: £27.99) launch a TV station. Tower Television never got THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS RE-VISITED NEW off the ground, and Radio Tower itself struggled. VOLUME 13 -- RADIO NORTHSEA 1970 THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS RE-VISITED Radio Essex was perhaps the first 24 hour music Radio Northsea International was the most VOLUME 10 -- RADIO 270 station. After it closed, owner Roy Bates moved colourful, dramatic, influential, and well Scarborough businessman Don Robinson, decid- to another fort, which was well outside British equipped of all of the offshore radio stations. ed that Yorkshire needed its own radio station, territorial waters, and set up the Principality of This documentary looks at the first year in the and found a willing partner in Wilf Proudfoot, Sealand. life of RNI, as well as the aborted attempt to who wanted to promote his chain of supermar- DVD: £26.50 (subscribers: £22.99) create a German offshore station, which led to kets. A suitable ship was found, and after a few Bluray: £31.50 (Subscribers: £27.99) 1 THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS RE-VISITED European radio was strictly state controlled covers the raid and its after effects, the final- off VOLUME 6 -RADIO & TV NOORDZEE until a group of Danish businessmen set up shore broadcast and the search for a 3rd world A group of Dutch businessmen decided to start, Radio Mercur on a ship in international waters, licence. This DVD concludes Caroline free radio not only a radio station but a TV station as well. and outside government control. The station years with the Ross Revenge taken into Dover An artificial island was constructed, becoming was quickly followed by Radio Syd. It was the and the control of the British authorities. known as the REM island, housing Radio and TV start of a broadcasting revolution that spread DVD: £26.50 (subscribers: £22.99) Noordzee. The Dutch public loved it, but their through Europe and around the world over the government hated it passing a new law to scup- following years. THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS VOLUME 15 - per it. The REM island was boarded, and the TV DVD: £26.50 (subscribers: £22.99) RADIO CAROLINE - THE 80s PART 3 and radio station forcibly taken off the air. Bluray: £31.50 (Subscribers: £27.99) Following storms in 1987, Caroline’s 300 foot an- DVD: £26.50 (subscribers: £22.99) tenna mast was weakened and came crashing Bluray: £31.50 (Subscribers: £27.99) THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS - down. With her usual tenacity, Caroline was soon Original Series back on air with a temporary mast , and a long pe- THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS RE-VISITED riod of mast building began. Easter 1989 saw Radio VOLUME 5 - RADIO SUTCH & CITY THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS VOLUME 20 - Caroline celebrate her 25th birthday. The British Shortly after Radio Caroline started, pop singer THE COMMUNICATOR/NANNELL/ARUTZ 2000 and Dutch authorities didn’t join the celebrations, Screaming Lord Sutch, climbed aboard the The Communicator was home to Laser 558 & as they were planning much darker deeds. abandoned Shivering Sands wartime fort. Radio Laser Hot Hits. Following their demise, the ship DVD: £26.50 (subscribers: £22.99) Sutch was the first of the fort based stations, moved to Portugal for re-fitting, and a planned later becoming Radio City, when Sutch sold out return to Europe. The Nannell was to have THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS VOLUME 14 - to his manager Reg Calvert. 80 minutes housed Stereo Hits 576, broadcasting in AM ste- RADIO CAROLINE - THE 80s PART 2 DVD: £26.50 (subscribers: £22.99) reo in a major marketing deal for Japanese AM Caroline being joined by Laser 558, led to an Bluray: £31.50 (Subscribers: £27.99) stereo radio sets. Arutz 2000 started with a der- offshore radio revival, that quickly captured a elict lightship in a Portsmouth scrapyard, then huge audience. UK commercial radio was los- THE OFFSHORE RADIO YEARS RE-VISITED towed to a position off the Israeli coast, where ing listeners and pressured the government to VOLUME 4 - RADIO CAROLINE - The Sixties it began broadcasting religious programmes. take action, leading to Laser being forced off The story of Radio Atlanta, Caroline North and DVD: £26.50 (subscribers: £22.99) the air.