Thursday, March 29, 2007

 

Radio Veronica : 'Pirate off shore radio station'

In Europe during the sixties we had the pirate off shore radio stations. Actually they weren't pirate stations because they acted according to the law.

One of the first was Dutch Radio Veronica. The name was taken from VRON (translated : Free Radio Company Netherlands), the vessel was the Norderney.
(Co-)Founders/sharehoulders were the brothers Verwey ("Uncle Bull", this posting is dedicated to you ...) from Hilversum who had a discount shop Televersum over there. Famous became the jingles who were made just to promote their own shop/stuff....
They were one of the first who introduced parallel import .... :-)

Radio Caroline, Radio Mi Amigo, Radio North Sea International, Lord Sutch are also familiar names.

A European law introduced in 1974 stated those pirate stations illegal and so they had to stop broadcasting. Radio Veronica stopped 1974_08_31.

Nowadays from time to time there are efforts to kinda revive those days, but in a modern way.
Laser Radio is such an example. Famous Dutch technician Ad Bouman is one of the founders. He and some others also founded a kinda Veronica museum called Norderney.
Next saturday there will be a meeting again in the old Lapershoek studios in Hilversum Holland.
Of course I will be present again. Looking forward to meet again friends since 40 years. Those were the days (my friend).

I must own all of the original Veronica Sonovox jingles.
I must have all (or a lot/most) of the original midwave commercials.
At least four times a week I listen to a complete hour of those 60's years.

Do you comment ?

# posted by JeansMusicBlog @ 20:00
Comments:
Yes I comment!
Radio Veronica, like Radio Caroline & Radio London, was the only way to escape from "national radio" from France. National radio means "offcial radio", that means boring music, only for 40-60 years old, and even if now I am 40 years old, I wasn't at this time !
Can you upload your fantastic collection like Radio Caroline on Lost In Tyme blogspot? since I have, I listen to it over and over. It's a kind of revange, isn't it ?
Thank again for all your great vynils.
CU
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : Friday, 30 March 2007 at 09:33:00 CEST
 
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