Talk:Radio City (pirate radio station)

Radio City was eventually to provide the Government with a much more compelling reason for their closure. [end of article]

And...? Are we missing a piece of text here? Flapdragon 00:25, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm gonna guess it's this from the Maunsell Sea Forts article

''In 1964, a few months after Radio Caroline went on air, Screaming Lord Sutch set up Radio Sutch in one of the towers at Shivering Sands. Sutch soon became bored with the project and sold the station to his manager Reg Calvert who renamed the station Radio City and expanded operations into all of the five towers that remained connected. It was Calvert's killing in a dispute over the station's ownership (found to be self-defence rather than murder) that led to the Government finally passing legislation against the pirates in 1967.''

But not being a brit, I feel unqualified to insert this with confidence :) - MJB, Dec 28, 2005


 * Mea culpa. I originally wrote this thinking "I'll go to bed now and finish it tomorrow...or the next day...or next week..." and then forgot about it. But yes, I did intend to fill in the missing details: namely, how a dispute over the station's ownership led Calvert to confront a business rival and allegedly threaten him with violence, which led to his death in what the rival claimed to be self-defence. Lee M 00:13, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, please do share the dirt. I like poking fun at wigged-out LSD addled brits :)- MJB, Dec 28, 2005

I've added a discussion paraphrased from http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/djsc.htm, stripping it down to NPOV and fair use. - MJB, Jan 2, 2006

Radio Sutch
This piece was included in Pirate radio in Europe with no source nor attribution. One editor tried cleaning it up, otherwise it appears as written.


 * Radio Sutch did not last and soon gave way to Radio City which called itself "The tower of power" due to the height of its antenna. This station was financed in part under a joint venture with investors in the original Radio Atlanta project. See under 1966 for the Radio City Death. Radio Sutch was the third pirate radio station to start broadcasting in May 1964. The very first disc jockeys were Reg Calvert, David Sutch, Colin Dale-Mills known as Colin Dale, Brian Paull, and Geoff Mew. Broadcasting started at 12 noon each day until midnight. In the beginning Radio Sutch only reached the south coast. Later on Reg Calvert used a transmitter from his home in Rugby. Reg knew that the post office detection people in those days did not work on a weekend, so he fired up this transmitter at his house in Rugby Warwickshire on a Saturday and Sunday. This enabled him to transmit as far as Europe. The signal would go way into Europe, as far as Germany and Scandinavia. Because of this we used to get a certain amount of fan mail from foreign listeners. However it always made us chuckle when the local UK fan mail came in being mystified at how we were so good at the weekends during the day but not so good during the daytime working week. So even the British government contributed to pop radio if only default because the detection gang in those days didn't usually work at weekends. Radio Sutch was started as a publicity stunt for pop singer David Screaming Lord Sutch, but by popular demand became Britain's third pirate radio station.

"Fire" movie
In the article it is stated that the Radio City scene was shot on Shivering Sands. However, an undamaged station with all towers can be seen. As both Shivering Sands and Nore had lost one resp. two towers through ship collisions, this would leave Red Sands as only possible site. Is Shivering Sands explicitly stated in the movie's documentation?--Matthiask de (talk) 08:59, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Do you mean the Slade in Flame movie?

Also noticed this "In real life interviews on pirate stations would have been taped on land rather than exposing musicians to hazardous and expensive sea crossings."

Sometimes stars did make the trip out to the pirate stations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.64.134.247 (talk) 15:12, 24 November 2020 (UTC)