ARLA/CLUSTER: Radio Caroline

[João Gonçalves Costa]

Pois esta foi uma das RADIO da minha adolescência, estou a ficar velho. 

Alias, esta estação, conjuntamente com a Radio Luxemburgo marcou uma geração, tanto de ouvintes como de locutores na Europa, era na altura aquilo que nós considerávamos uma verdadeira escola de radio, isto é, tendo por base toda a maneira de fazer radio importada dos EUA. 

Naquela altura, anos 60 e 70 o que abundava na Europa eram unicamente as rádios publicas com a escola da BBC á cabeça. Então em Portugal, nem a escola da BBC conseguia entrar, tão cinzento era o nosso panorama radiofónico. 

Quem não se lembra do "Quando O Telefone Toca" apresentado pelo Matos Maia esse era para a maioria o programa de referencia. Para nós representava um, imaginem, "autentico vómito" e tudo aquilo que não devia ser um programa de radio. 

Penso que alguns, a começar pelo meu querido AMIGO João Porto já ouviu falar do  Robert Weston (Bob) Smith esse expoente maximo mais conhecido por Wolfman Jack, era essa a maneira de fazer radio a que me refiro e que nos fascinava a todos. Para nós, jovens adolescentes rebeldes, Matos Maia e Wolfman Jack eram e foram a antítese total. Por fim, em Portugal, lá apareceu esse grande marco que foi o Rock em Stock e o Luis Felipe Barros.

O Howard Stern, na actualidade, não chega aos calcanhares na importância que teve para o mundo da radio, naquela altura, anos 60 e 70 do século passado, o Wolfman Jack .

Ó Tiago muito obrigado por desenterrares do baú das minhas memórias estas recordações que guardo com tanto carinho. Para mim e para muitos, estes foram os verdadeiros anos dourados da radio. 

Vocês não são capazes de imaginar esses tempos, só mesmo para quem os viveu sabe o que era aquilo.

João Costa
CT1FBF

-----Original Message-----
From: cluster-bounces  radio-amador.net
[mailto:cluster-bounces  radio-amador.net]On Behalf Of Salomao Fresco
Sent: segunda-feira, 25 de Setembro de 2006 21:27
To: Resumo Noticioso Electrónico ARLA
Subject: Re: ARLA/CLUSTER: Radio Caroline


Olá a Todos!

Mais infos em:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline

A Radio Caroline começou (e continuou) por ser um desafio às fleumáticas
rádios oficiais britânicas que se recusavam a passar determinados estilos e
géneros musicais, tais como o Rock e a Pop, rotulando-os como decadentes e
subservivos.
Quantos de nós não se lembram destes mesmos epitetos aplicados às mesmas
situações cá no rectângulo durante a década de sessenta e parte da de
setenta?
A Caroline sobreviveu sempre à custa dos esforços de centenas senão milhares
de ouvintes que contribuiam de forma anónima para que as embarcações
recebessem mantimentos e combustivel.
A Caroline foi sempre uma rádio de vanguarda difundindo o que de mais
recente se produzia na música a nível mundial.

Vale a pena visitar o link oficial e acompanhar a história desta Estação que
apesar de considerada "pirata" por muitos países conseguiu sobreviver mais
de 40 anos.

Cumprimentos

Salomão Fresco
CT2IRJ



On 9/25/06, Tiago Santos <ct2hcq  gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ouvi um colega contar uma historia de uma radio que custumava ouvir em
> onda
> curta, em que a emissão para a inglaterra era feita a partir de um barco
> em
> aguas internacionais. Este colega e amigo financiou a radio durante 20
> anos
> para que fosse possivel continuar em emissão. Aqui vai a historia e o link
> no final para lerem mais se quiserem. Vão ainda umas fotos dos barcos onde
> operaram.     August 19th, the day the music (almost) died.
> In 1967 a law had been passed, attempting to silence the station, but this
> law was not regularly or strenuously applied.
>
> Certainly, in the early days, some over zealous officials did prosecute
> supporters for wearing Radio Caroline T shirts. A tender, bringing staff
> ashore, was intercepted and DJs were taken to court, but presenter Johnny
> Jason pleaded not quilty and the case collapsed. One boatman, Howard Beer
> was sentenced to a year in prison for supplying fuel to the Ross Revenge.
>
> However, for the most part there was a truce as staff and goods were taken
> out from UK ports and officials either did not know or chose not to
> notice.
> A broad view formed within Caroline that the station was almost accepted
> by
> the establishment, with the law still being in place to prevent Caroline
> getting too complacent or cheeky.
>
> Of course, the factor that allowed all Radio Ships to function was that
> they
> were in International Waters, where the laws of the surrounding states did
> not apply and where their officials had no powers. Therefore while
> governments could pass any law they wished, all were confident that they
> could never act directly against the ships or the broadcasts coming from
> them.
>
> In late summer 1989 though, staff on the Ross Revenge began to notice that
> they were getting more attention than normal from official and Naval
> vessels. Then, on August 18th 1989, the chartered launch Landward drew
> close
> to Ross Revenge and on board were members of the Dutch and UK Radio
> Authorities. They attempted to negotiate with the crew to switch off the
> various radio signals coming from the ship. This of course was refused.
>
> What the crew did not know was that early that day, many arrests had been
> made in Holland of people who were thought to be working for Radio
> Caroline
> or her sister station on board, the Dutch language station Radio 819. The
> major amount of the required supplies for the ship came from Holland,
> Belgium and France and now this lifeline was cut.
>
> In the UK, no land staff were arrested, but calls were made inviting them
> to
> give themselves up. Again, these offers were refused. The people on the
> Landward, while becoming ever more insistent, still took great care not to
> attempt to board Ross Revenge or even to let the two vessels touch.
>
> What was thought then, with the information available at the time, was
> that
> perhaps a blockade was intended, but the Landward was not a big ship, it
> could not remain on station for long or at all, in bad weather. The crew
> thought that they just had to stand firm since the action could not be
> escalated beyond what had already happened, but the officials warned that
> non compliance would cause them to use more extreme methods.
>
> In the early afternoon of the 19th, the Landward moved away from Ross
> Revenge, but then a massive Dutch vessel, the Volans appeared and quickly
> came alongside the radio ship without permission and without announcing
> their intentions, other than to suggest that they wanted to take
> photographs. Armed men from the Volans boarded the radio ship by force and
> in considerable numbers. In a very short time the ship was under their
> control, but since it took a while to storm the studios and silence the
> transmitters, dramatic broadcasts continued for about twenty minutes.
>
> Thereafter, the boarders stripped the vessel of all broadcast equipment or
> smashed items that were too large to remove. By the end of the afternoon
> the
> Ross Revenge was, in broadcast terms, just a shell as all her records,
> studios and transmitters were swung on to the Volans to be taken to
> Holland.
>
> British officials came on board, even though their presence was denied by
> the UK government and they attempted to interrogate staff under threat of
> arrest.
>
> In the early evening Caroline's own tender arrived, carrying members of
> the
> press and on the arrival of this vessel all boarders on both ships ceased
> their actions and departed, leaving the disabled Ross Revenge with her
> crew
> still on board.
>
> The repercussions from this unsatisfactory day were widespread. In the
> short
> term, the Radio 819 operation that had provided so much required material
> on
> the ship, was destroyed and never reformed. The crew, with great defiance,
> began to rebuild what they could and indeed a signal issued from the Ross
> Revenge only weeks after the raid.
>
> The legality of the whole operation was soon challenged. Being in
> International Waters, none of the boarders had any official powers, to
> board, confiscate or interrogate and they achieved their aims mainly by
> bluff and force of numbers and of course by being armed, in the case of
> the
> Dutch.
>
> In real terms, the raid crippled Radio Caroline. A spirited and expensive
> legal action was started by Caroline against the UK government, but was
> not
> successful. On the ship, conditions deteriorated until broadcasts could no
> longer be made and finally Ross Revenge was shipwrecked on the Goodwin
> Sands
> and brought in to Dover Harbour in a ruined condition.
>
> This was very nearly the end of the Radio Caroline story had not a few
> individuals banded together to see if anything at all could be rescued
> from
> the disaster. This commenced a very slow path to recovery and the
> emergence
> of a very different incarnation of Caroline.
>
> In summary, it does seem that in our case and no doubt in many other
> instances, governments will do anything they wish in order to achieve
> their
> required result even to the extent of breaking the law when they know they
> can do so with impunity.
>
> In human terms, the British Policeman in charge of the UK side of the
> action, Jim Murphy, later became a good friend to Radio Caroline. In the
> same way, Marten Roumen, the unusual Dutch Policeman heading the raid on
> behalf of the Netherlands, later went to great pains to return every
> single
> item taken from the ship on that unfortunate day. It can be assumed that
> on
> a personal level both men later regretted what they had done to a harmless
> organisation doing nothing other than providing pleasure and
> entertainment.
> Our History section on this site provides additional information.
>
> If you are moved by the events of August 19th 1989, we invite you to join
> our Supporters Club <http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/supportgroup.asp>, to
> help continue our recovery and expansion.
>
> Peter Moore,
> August 2006
>
>
>
> --
> Tiago Santos
> CT2HCQ Setúbal Portugal
>
>
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Salomão Fresco
CT2IRJ

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