LBC
Dear Editors,
As a great fan of "free" radio stations. I read your "Death of a radio station" article in the October issue with great interest.
What great news it was to hear that LBC has lost their broadcasting licence. I’m overjoyed.
The moronic prattlers at LBC and other licensed radio stations have a damned cheek to start shouting "unfair — disgraceful" when they have found out that the Tory Party they have grovelled round have had happen to them what happens to most of us working-class people — being shit upon (when they lose their licence).
What really annoyed me was when I read in your article that LBC groaned that the Government has no right to say who. and who may not, broadcast. LBC and the "others" didn’t have this view when on Saturday August 19 1989, somewhere in the international waters of the North Sea. Radio Caroline, from the MV Ross Revenge w'as being wrecked — not by gale-force winds but by Dutch and UK government officials, with no doubt the likes of LBC gleefully hearing about the events where DJs on board were assaulted, transmitters violently smashed with sledgehammers and the ship’s record library confiscated. Everything on board that ship was either "stolen" by UK officials or smashed to pieces. We are talking about a vessel being in international waters where the UK authorities had no jurisdiction over.
The likes of LBC were responsible for this raid. They protested (since 1983) that Caroline had no right to broadcast etc etc.
Now LBC — poor dears — are “in the same boat" so-to-speak. Well isn’t that tough.
The ILRs wouldn’t be around if it wasn’t for the likes of Caroline and the ’60s stations that broadcast offshore. Surely everybody has the right to broadcast. The airwaves are just that — air isn’t that free?
"We live in a democratic free society". So says Johnnie and his boys. Well, you could’ve fooled me!
Thanks again for the excellent article. Steve Coleman is certainly on my "wavelength".
Best wishes and thanks for an excellent journal.
Dear Editors,
As a great fan of "free" radio stations. I read your "Death of a radio station" article in the October issue with great interest.
What great news it was to hear that LBC has lost their broadcasting licence. I’m overjoyed.
The moronic prattlers at LBC and other licensed radio stations have a damned cheek to start shouting "unfair — disgraceful" when they have found out that the Tory Party they have grovelled round have had happen to them what happens to most of us working-class people — being shit upon (when they lose their licence).
What really annoyed me was when I read in your article that LBC groaned that the Government has no right to say who. and who may not, broadcast. LBC and the "others" didn’t have this view when on Saturday August 19 1989, somewhere in the international waters of the North Sea. Radio Caroline, from the MV Ross Revenge w'as being wrecked — not by gale-force winds but by Dutch and UK government officials, with no doubt the likes of LBC gleefully hearing about the events where DJs on board were assaulted, transmitters violently smashed with sledgehammers and the ship’s record library confiscated. Everything on board that ship was either "stolen" by UK officials or smashed to pieces. We are talking about a vessel being in international waters where the UK authorities had no jurisdiction over.
The likes of LBC were responsible for this raid. They protested (since 1983) that Caroline had no right to broadcast etc etc.
Now LBC — poor dears — are “in the same boat" so-to-speak. Well isn’t that tough.
The ILRs wouldn’t be around if it wasn’t for the likes of Caroline and the ’60s stations that broadcast offshore. Surely everybody has the right to broadcast. The airwaves are just that — air isn’t that free?
"We live in a democratic free society". So says Johnnie and his boys. Well, you could’ve fooled me!
Thanks again for the excellent article. Steve Coleman is certainly on my "wavelength".
Best wishes and thanks for an excellent journal.
Doug Sharrard,
Leicester
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Originally this letter - and the previous two from December 1993 - were posted on the blog under Bill Robertson's letter on booms and slumps but I've since decided that, where possible, I'd like to post the letters to Standard as individual blog posts.
What do you mean I'm just doing it to pad out the post count? How dare you ! I resemble that remark. (An old joke for an old magazine.)
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