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The 46th Anniversary of the 'Marine Broadcasting Offences Bill' - 4+13
Final 2 from the set. The Marine Broadcasting Offences Bill was designed to prevent, i.e. make illegal, UK businesses and Advertisers from buying time on the Pirate Radio Stations, effectively cutting off their revenue stream. This was just about all that could be done as the stations themselves were outside UK territorial waters. So, these last 2 pictures are rather telling as both were taken from news cuttings in the same paper at the time. On the left, the mayhem which ensued at Liverpool St Station when the train came in from the south-east coast town of Clacton-on-Sea and porters had to deal with what looks like very quiescent sets of teenagers? as Radio London complied with the bill by closing not at midnight, but 3pm on Monday August the 14th. After weeks of attempting to raise support for their case, the management decided they were not about to break the law, and Radio London's transmitters went silent at 3pm, I was listening all day and continued to do so until the 266m carrier wave was turned off, which meant the transmitter had been shut down for the last time. So, what to do, what did teenagers and their peers do with their hard earned cash well, smoking was one thing, rampant everywhere in the 60's and on right into the turn of the century, but now things are changing. And look at the money wasted in the habit, 20 a day will cost you 60 quid a year; almost 50 times less than the current price... with typical 60's designed T-shits with Top-of-the-Pops wobbly font and all smiling and having a jolly good time, a replacement would have to be found the the hugely popular output of the Offshore Broadcasters. It came when the BBC revamped its Radio image and split its services, well just called them new names really, to now include popular music on one of its medium wave frequencies, 247m, it became known as 'Radio One', not too inspiring but in the event probably as good as it could get. The others Radio 2, ex-light program, Radio 3, ex-Third Network and Radio 4, the Home Service were also changed at this time, Saturday September the 30th 1967 at 7am, I was again tuned in and listening to events, when Tony Blackburn, newly hired from Radio London, commenced broadcasting on 247m, Radio One with the 1st record, 'Flowers in the Rain by The Move, the rest as they say, is history....
The 46th Anniversary of the 'Marine Broadcasting Offences Bill' - 4+13
Final 2 from the set. The Marine Broadcasting Offences Bill was designed to prevent, i.e. make illegal, UK businesses and Advertisers from buying time on the Pirate Radio Stations, effectively cutting off their revenue stream. This was just about all that could be done as the stations themselves were outside UK territorial waters. So, these last 2 pictures are rather telling as both were taken from news cuttings in the same paper at the time. On the left, the mayhem which ensued at Liverpool St Station when the train came in from the south-east coast town of Clacton-on-Sea and porters had to deal with what looks like very quiescent sets of teenagers? as Radio London complied with the bill by closing not at midnight, but 3pm on Monday August the 14th. After weeks of attempting to raise support for their case, the management decided they were not about to break the law, and Radio London's transmitters went silent at 3pm, I was listening all day and continued to do so until the 266m carrier wave was turned off, which meant the transmitter had been shut down for the last time. So, what to do, what did teenagers and their peers do with their hard earned cash well, smoking was one thing, rampant everywhere in the 60's and on right into the turn of the century, but now things are changing. And look at the money wasted in the habit, 20 a day will cost you 60 quid a year; almost 50 times less than the current price... with typical 60's designed T-shits with Top-of-the-Pops wobbly font and all smiling and having a jolly good time, a replacement would have to be found the the hugely popular output of the Offshore Broadcasters. It came when the BBC revamped its Radio image and split its services, well just called them new names really, to now include popular music on one of its medium wave frequencies, 247m, it became known as 'Radio One', not too inspiring but in the event probably as good as it could get. The others Radio 2, ex-light program, Radio 3, ex-Third Network and Radio 4, the Home Service were also changed at this time, Saturday September the 30th 1967 at 7am, I was again tuned in and listening to events, when Tony Blackburn, newly hired from Radio London, commenced broadcasting on 247m, Radio One with the 1st record, 'Flowers in the Rain by The Move, the rest as they say, is history....