[HCDX]: Special broadcasts to celebrate 40 years of offshore radio

[Andrea Borgnino IW1CXZ <a.borgnino@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

News from www.newstide.com:

- Special broadcasts to celebrate 40 years of offshore radio -

A group describing itself as "an international group of friends of
offshore radio" is planing a special broadcast later this month.
Newstide is not sure exactly who these people are, but we assume
that their proposed transmission is legally authorised by a European
country, probably on a special event basis.

We reproduce their statement below:

"During the summer of 1958, the first commercial radio station on board
a ship started broadcasting off the European coasts: RADIO MERCUR.
This station reached ten thousands of listeners in Copenhagen and
Malm . By using the freedom of the international waters, the monopoly of
the state operated broadcasters was shattered. Finally, RADIO
MERCUR had to stop the operation. Sooner or later, the same happened
with all the other watery wireless stations that followed the idea of
operating from the high seas. In the years to come, there were different
reasons for their failure.

But in some countries offshore radio led to changes in media politics:
Commercial radio was introduced on shore. But strange things happened
as these new local and nationwide stations did not want to share their
audience with the offshore based competitors...

An international group of friends of offshore radio will reminisce this
important part of the European media history.

There will be special non-commercial broadcasts from a ship in the North
Sea.

    OFFSHORE 98 is scheduled for October 17th and 18th.

    Depending on conditions, this real offshore radio event will be
audible on

    longwave 279 kHz    mediumwave 1566 kHz    shortwave 6210 kHz"



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