{"id":42931,"date":"2020-04-20T19:24:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T23:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42931"},"modified":"2020-04-20T19:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T23:24:53","slug":"radio-carolines-founder-ronan-orahilly-dies-aged-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/radio-carolines-founder-ronan-orahilly-dies-aged-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Caroline’s Founder, Ronan O’Rahilly, dies aged 79"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo of Ronan O’Rahilly 16 August 1967 by Eric Koch \/ Anefo<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: BBC News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The founder of Radio Caroline – the first pirate radio station off the UK – Ronan O’Rahilly has died aged 79.<\/p>\n

His death was announced by the current Radio Caroline, which still exists off the Essex coast.<\/p>\n

The station was founded in 1964 to compete with the BBC and launched the careers of many well-known DJs, achieving enormous popularity.<\/p>\n

Mr O’Rahilly, who lived in Ireland, had been diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2013.<\/p>\n

Radio Caroline was the first of several pirate radio stations that challenged BBC radio’s dominance in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

The station played pop music all day, while the BBC only played pop for an hour a week.<\/p>\n

[…]After the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act was passed in 1967, Radio Caroline continued to broadcast from ships until 1991, when the Ross Revenge was shipwrecked off the Kent coast<\/p>\n

The station, which started broadcasting again on medium wave in 2017, helped pave the way for modern commercial radio.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full story at the BBC.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: BBC News) The founder of Radio Caroline – the first pirate radio station off the UK – Ronan O’Rahilly has died aged 79. His death was announced by the current Radio Caroline, which still exists off the Essex coast. The station was founded in 1964 to compete with the BBC and launched the careers 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