This blog is intended for me to post my pirate radio recordings. Most of the recordings are from Bristol, most will be pirate but there will be some legal stations and stations from other cities or national stations.
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Thursday, 12 January 2012
Community Channel Anti-pirate news report
A rather anti-pirate report from the Community Channel. Sorry, my original comments got lost, but I reckon Ofcom had something to do with this report.
JUMP TO 11:02 FOR THE REPORT! (sorry, I'll stop shouting now)
1 comment:
Terry
said...
I hadn't thought of that: Ofcom might well have been meddling in the production of this piece. In 1991, the BBC Arena strand produced a program on the offshore pirate Radio Caroline. According to the free radio press at the time, the DTI (as it was then), intervened to ensure that the Beeb did not "promote" Caroline's more recent activity. Even though the draconian Broadcasting Act had by then precluded any further offshore radio activity round Britain's shores.
If it's of any consolation, lots of people involved in radio that I have met acknowledge the vital contribution of unlicensed operations in the development of both music, radio technique and sound. Others go further - socioligist Paul Gilroy (author of "Aint No Black in the Union Jack") has said that pirate radio in the 1980's had an effect on society and helped black and white people toward the much more integrated land we now inhbit.
1 comment:
I hadn't thought of that: Ofcom might well have been meddling in the production of this piece. In 1991, the BBC Arena strand produced a program on the offshore pirate Radio Caroline. According to the free radio press at the time, the DTI (as it was then), intervened to ensure that the Beeb did not "promote" Caroline's more recent activity. Even though the draconian Broadcasting Act had by then precluded any further offshore radio activity round Britain's shores.
If it's of any consolation, lots of people involved in radio that I have met acknowledge the vital contribution of unlicensed operations in the development of both music, radio technique and sound. Others go further - socioligist Paul Gilroy (author of "Aint No Black in the Union Jack") has said that pirate radio in the 1980's had an effect on society and helped black and white people toward the much more integrated land we now inhbit.
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