ABC (Australia) National News Report 130817 - UK Pirate Radio

[@sambrown9494]

To avoid detection? Yes that was the reason ...

[@bill1952]

The stations were not "Illegal" as they were outside territorial waters , not to avoid detection as this news item says, but so that no counties laws applied to them as they were in international waters. The government act could not make them illegal as they were not under any countries jurisdiction, instead it made it illegal for british citizens to work for them and for british companies to advertise on them therefore denying them any revenue. Governments don't like anything they don't control and a free voice out in the North Sea was not wanted, neverthless Caroline continued to broadcast legally on and off from the freedom of international waters until November 5th 1990. She is now legit' and has ironically been allocated the old BBC World Service frequency of 648khz and even more ironically is using one of the exBBC masts at "Orford Ness" an exBBC transmitting site. Caroline continues ....... :-)

[@charlesloukas1946]

Radio Scotland was a popular pirate moored off of Scotland

[@erickpaolod.santos3719]

I remembered on the movie The Boat That Rocked directed by Richard Curtis

[@erickpaolod.santos3719]

Year in 2009

[@2prtv]

Wish we had OFCOM in australia, rather then the greedy ACMA, they seem to be more generous with licenses.