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32-699: MV Norderney was from November, 1964 until 31 August 1974 the transmission ship for offshore radio station Radio Veronica . Norderney was built in 1949 as the MV HH 294 Paul J Müller in Hamburg-Finkenwerder . This 50 metre long trawler was in service as fishing-vessel in the waters around Iceland from 1950 until 1956 and in July of that year it was sold to the Niedersächsische Hochseefischerei GmbH. ( Lower Saxony deepsea fishing Ltd.) and

64-527: A radio ship . As a (former) light-vessel Borkum Riff had her name printed in large letters on the hull of the ship: this idea was copied on Norderney , even though she wasn't a light-ship. On the Zaanlandse Scheepsbouw Maatschappij shipyard in Zaandam the trawler was transformed into an offshore radio-ship. The works included placement of two 25 meter high wooden antenna-masts to connect

96-544: A channel of its own. SBS and Veronica could not get an agreement and it would take more than two years before both parties closed a deal. V8 was focused to young adults. The channel mainly broadcast action series , action films and erotic programmes late at night. Eventually, Veronica Association closed a deal with SBS, and V8 was rebranded as Veronica on 20 September 2003. The German ProSiebenSat.1 Media took over SBS Broadcasting Group (including its Dutch activities) on 27 June 2007. In 2011, all of SBS's activities in

128-454: A later date a second similar transmitter was installed as backup. In November 1964, Norderney entered service and took over the role of the old Borkum Riff . During a severe storm on 2 April 1973 at 20:54 hours the anchors of the Nordeney didn't hold and the vessel was drifting. As the ship had no engines she drifted towards the coast at Scheveningen and around 23:30 she ran aground high up

160-438: Is a Dutch free-to-cable commercial television channel currently a part of Talpa TV ( Talpa Network ). The channel was launched as TV10 Gold on 1 May 1995, then became TV10, Fox, Fox 8 and V8, before becoming Veronica on 20 September 2003. The channel is dedicated to young adults (13-35 demographic) and the male audience. Veronica is time-sharing with Disney XD : Disney XD broadcasts on daytime and Veronica on night time,

192-528: Is usually associated with European unlicensed radio stations; the trend never caught on as much in the United States as most organizations that could afford an offshore broadcasting boat would instead buy a legal station. Still, there were a few American offshore stations that made a lasting impression. The first station to broadcast in the U.S. from international waters was RXKR off of the coast of California . and broadcast from May 1933 until August 1933. It

224-538: The Daily Mail ) acquired the yacht Ceto and installed radio equipment. Unfortunately, the apparatus could not operate properly on board, the signal being heavily affected by the climate conditions. The transmitter was then replaced by Siemens loudspeakers and the Ceto toured England "broadcasting" gramophone records interspersed by advertising. Unauthorized offshore broadcasting stations operating from ships or fixed platforms in

256-835: The Netherlands . On December 12, 1964, a law, which split the North Sea into continental sections was passed in the Netherlands. The sea bed under REM Island, to which the structure was attached, was declared Dutch territory. Five days later, Dutch Marines boarded the platform and ended the broadcasting. The Council of Europe in 1965 passed the " European Agreement for the Prevention of Broadcasts transmitted from Stations outside National Territories " to address this loophole, although some member states were slow to implement this in national law. Radio broadcasts from ships that are unauthorized under

288-469: The washing-line antenna (nickname for the random wire antenna ). Originally Norderney was built as a steamship and the boiler and engine was already removed from the ship when it was bought by the Verweij brothers. This provided the required space for a large studio and a separate large room for the transmission equipment . A Continental Electronics 316 C medium wave transmitter of 10 Kilowatt . At

320-405: The 538 meter-band as well as on 259 meter via the transmitter of Radio Caroline. In spite of the above mentioned large demonstration of 18 April 1973 and large popular support for Radio Veronica and other off-shore radio stations, new laws were introduced that made transmitting from sea, even in international waters, a crime. Also advertising via an off-shore radio station became illegal which meant

352-770: The City , Dawson's Creek , Malcolm in the Middle and Charmed premiered on the channel. Fox became Fox 8 in September 1999, but it rebranded back to Fox in September 2000. However, Fox could not get rid of TV10's image as an old-fashioned rerun channel. In 2001, SBS Broadcasting B.V. , then the Dutch branch of the SBS Broadcasting Group , bought the channel from the News Corporation . 21st Century Fox (the legal successor of

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384-657: The UK population began to turn to radio stations from abroad , such as Radio Lyon , Radio Normandy , Radio Athlone , Radio Mediterranee and Radio Luxembourg , especially on Sundays, when the BBC did not carry any entertainment programmes. However, English-speaking broadcast hours were limited and parts of the UK were unable to receive most stations properly during the daytime. The earliest attempt to establish an offshore broadcaster in England occurred in 1928, when Associated Newspapers (owners of

416-514: The beach of Scheveningen. The crew was already taken off-board by the KNRM lifeboat Bernard van Leer . Just before the crew left the ship they removed the crystals from the radio-transmitter so that Norderney was legally not being a radio-ship (as that would have been against the law in the Netherlands). The ship stranded high up on the beach and it took until 7 April before they managed to turn

448-519: The coastal waters of the North Sea first appeared in 1958. There were as many as eleven such stations in the mid-1960s. One of the most popular offshore radio broadcasts in Europe came from Radio Caroline , which developed out of both the strict broadcasting regulations in England in the 1960s as well as the fact the major labels had left little to no airtime to less established acts. The Radio Caroline name

480-486: The coasts of Belgium , Denmark , Israel , The Netherlands , New Zealand , Sweden , The United Kingdom , Yugoslavia and the United States . By the late 1920s, the " UK government concluded that radio was such a powerful means of mass communication that it would have to be in state control", and gave the publicly funded BBC a monopoly on broadcasting. Because of rigid governmental controls and programming mostly consisting of serious music and highbrow issues, much of

512-562: The democracy died. After that they played a part of the Dutch national anthem , the Wilhelmus , and then a bit of the main Veronica jingle . With the removal of the crystal from the transmitter the story ended. Although all transmissions had ended, Norderney remained at sea. While the VOO was applying to enter the Dutch public broadcasting domain speculations were made that Veronica would come back from

544-475: The end for Radio Veronica and other "pirate radio stations". The people behind Radio Veronica formed the Veronica Omroep Organisatie (VOO) who applied for a broadcasting status. Although the government was accused of trying to keep this follow-up of the former pirate out of the public broadcasting system, the VOO got a license. In 1976 the VOO got a license and the first programmes were broadcast via

576-490: The equipment on board of the ship Mi-Amigo. In the early hours of 18 April, exactly the day of the planned demonstration in The Hague, tugboats managed to get Norderney back afloat and she was brought back to her original position, some 6 nautical miles from the coast - just outside the territorial waters . At around 16:00 that day, Norderney was back in service and Radio Veronica could be received via her own frequency on

608-454: The last day of the old pirate station was relived, 25 years after the day the offshore station ended transmissions. Offshore radio The claimed first wireless broadcast of music and speech for the purpose of entertainment was transmitted from a Royal Navy craft, HMS Andromeda , in 1907. The broadcast was organized by a Lieutenant Quentin Crauford using the callsign QFP while the ship

640-596: The laws of the recipient may cause radio frequencies to be unusable. This can be potentially detrimental to certain emergency and security services. The 1965 agreement was an attempt to resolve this by treaty. In 1967, the UK Government enacted the Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 , outlawing advertising on or supplying an unlicensed offshore radio station from the UK. Several other European countries passed similar legislation. Veronica TV Veronica

672-404: The national radio and TV stations. Veronica remained a public broadcaster for many years, but when it was all legalized they switched back to a commercial station in 1994. On 31 August 1974 at 18:00 the station ended her transmissions. During the last hour one could hear a clock ticking counting down and a very emotional Rob Out held a speech saying that with the end of Radio Veronica a part of

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704-492: The original News Corporation ) later launched the second incarnation of Fox on 19 August 2013 through Eredivisie Media & Marketing CV, in which Fox Networks Group Benelux has a 51% share. SBS, having bought the channel from News Corporation, renamed it into V8 on 1 May 2001 in anticipation of Veronica. Earlier in 2000 Veronica Association announced that it would leave the Holland Media Groep and wanted to start

736-942: The practice began when Saban International bought TV10 in January 1997, and launched a Fox Kids slot on the channel. It is not to be confused with the Veronica Association ( Dutch : Vereniging Veronica ). In 1995, Dutch media company Arcade launched two television channels in the Netherlands: The Music Factory , a competing music channel for MTV , and TV10 Gold which launched on 1 May 1995. TV10 Gold's programming focused on reruns of classic TV series such as Dynasty , Fantasy Island , James Herriot , Hill Street Blues , Are You Being Served? , The Monkees , The Onedin Line , Sanford and Son , Bergerac and Colditz . In 1996, TV10 Gold became part of

768-534: The second largest Dutch media corporation Wegener Arcade. On 1 January 1996, Arcade merged with publishing company Wegener . In the first quarter of 1996, TV10 Gold changed into just TV10 to modernize its image. British sitcoms such as 'Allo 'Allo! and You Rang, M'Lord? remained part of the programming, along with the American TV series M*A*S*H . In January 1997, Saban International bought TV10 and partnered with Holland Media Groep . Fox/Saban's Fox Kids

800-582: The ship and get the bow pointing towards the sea. It had already been planned to organise a large demonstration on the Binnenhof in The Hague to convince members of parliament not to support new legislation that would outlaw off-shore radio stations. In support of this Radio Veronica needed to be on air during the demonstration the management of Veronica accepted an offer from competitor Radio Caroline to use her ship and transmitter if Veronica assisted in repairing

832-459: The ship one way or the other. On 11 August 1975, nearly a year after the last transmission, Norderney was towed into the harbour of IJmuiden . Most of the former Veronica DJ's and director Bull Verweij . The ship moored in Amsterdam until 28 August 1975. In Zaandam, and later Dordrecht , the ship was initially adapted to become a museum - but she ended up as a disco club and over the years she

864-567: Was anchored off Chatham in the Thames Estuary , England . However, the majority of offshore broadcasters have been unlicensed stations using seaborne broadcasting as a means to circumvent national broadcasting regulations, for example the practice has been used by broadcasting organizations like the Voice of America as a means of circumventing national broadcasting regulations of other nations. Unlicensed offshore commercial stations have operated off

896-428: Was introduced in the Netherlands, time-sharing with TV10. Within the year, the partnership ended and Holland Media Groep's shares of TV10 were bought by Fox. On 19 December 1998, TV10 was rebranded into Fox. Rupert Murdoch's Fox International Channels wanted to expand in Europe and through its cooperation with Saban it could make its first try-outs in the Netherlands with TV10 . Popular TV series such as Sex and

928-581: Was operated from a cargo carrier named the S.S. City of Panama, a ship that was actually supposed to be advertising tourism in Panama to Americans from California . The operators of the ship actually broadcast popular music and advertisements, fooling the Panamanian government and eventually being shut down at the request of the U.S. Department of State . Unlicensed Radio and TV Noordzee since August 1964 used REM island offshore platform for broadcasting aimed at

960-429: Was re-christened as NC 420 Norderney. In 1960, the then 11-year-old vessel was sold to a Dutch company for scrapping. In early 1964 the brothers Verweij bought the ship. The 3 brothers formed the management of Radio Veronica . Norderney was bought to replace the former German lightvessel Borkum Riff from 1911 as that vessel was completely worn-out and also a little bit too small to continue to be operated as

992-459: Was used as a nightclub in different places around the country. In 1990 the public broadcaster VOO hired the ship to celebrate "30 years Veronica" and she was used for one day anchored off the coast of Scheveningen as a platform for live radio and TV programmes. In 1994, 20 years after the closure of the offshore radio transmissions the VOO left the public broadcasting domain and went commercial again In 1999

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1024-499: Was used to broadcast from international waters, using five different ships of three different owners, from 1964 to 1990. Radio Caroline was the brainchild of Ronan O'Rahilly, who dreamed up a way to air music by "unestablished" rock and roll artists Other well-known stations of the period were Radio Atlanta , Radio London , Radio 270 (broadcasting of the coast of Filey , Yorkshire) Radio 390 , Radio Scotland , Radio Northsea International and Radio City . Most offshore broadcast

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