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A pirate radio station is a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license. [1] In some cases, radio stations are considered legal where the signal is transmitted, but illegal where the signals are received—especially when the signals cross a national boundary.
pirate radio, unlicensed radio broadcast intended for general public reception. While many pirate radio stations have been short-lived low-power entities operated by amateur hobbyists, others have been elaborate professional undertakings that skirted government regulation by transmitting from outside the national boundaries of the signal’s ...
Director Richard Curtis' 2009 comedy-drama stars the late Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Count, a disc jockey for an unlicensed rock radio station that broadcast from a rusty, decrepit ship off the British coast in the mid-1960s, defying government authorities to spin the rock records that weren't allowed on the BBC at the time.
This film is dedicated to all who worked and broadcast on the pirate stations - all those wonderful years, all day and all of the night. Alternate versions US distributor, Universal have chosen to re-title the film as "Pirate Radio" and release it under Focus Features in US territories.
Set in 1966, it tells the story of the fictional pirate radio station "Radio Rock" and its crew of eclectic disc jockeys, who broadcast rock and pop music to the United Kingdom from a ship anchored in the North Sea while the British government tries to shut them down.
Nov 11, 2023 · Q: What is Pirate Radio? Pirate radio is a form of illegal, unlicensed broadcasting that appeared in the 1960s and remained popular throughout the decades in the UK. Original pirate radio stations were maintained on ships in ports around the UK. Today, most pirate radio companies operate on land. Q: What was the first pirate radio ...
Sep 28, 2017 · Pirate radio brought a new music to the mainstream. All it took was a gutsy Irishman, a murder acquittal and a few rock ‘n’ roll hits.
Quentin (Bill Nighy) is the commander of such a pirate station, overseeing a host of seedy, lusty and dope-smoking DJs, including the Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Dave (Nick Frost), who...
Nov 13, 2009 · The Boat That Rocked: Radio Caroline, broadcast at sea from the vessel Mi Amigo, was one of the many pirate-radio stations that anchored off the coast of England during the 1960s.
Jan 22, 2016 · 1966 was the peak of pirate radio – the seaborne broadcasting revolution that saw radio stations anchored in international waters meet British youth’s demand for 24-hour pop radio just as rock’n’roll was coming of age.
