Recently
the Jenni Baynton was visited by a world famous broadcaster who was on
board the Radio Carolineship Mi Amigo when at 12 midnight August 14th
1967 broadcasting from ship outside territorial waters of the UK became
illegal. Robbie
Dale,
nick named "The Admiral" , has quite a career in radio. Radio Caroline,
Radio Veronica end even the Dutch legal broadcaster TROS had him on the
payroll.
Robbie Dale does the time checks on the top of the hour on Radio Seagull
and that is his only radio-activity nowadays. Robbie and his wife stayed
on the ship for several hours.
The Radio
Seagull Top 50
The
response to the Seagull Top 50 has been truly incredible, not only great
choices of music but it’s also been interesting to see from which
countries you are all listening to Radio Seagull, not just Europe &
Scandinavia but as far away as Australia!!!!!, but overall a BIG THANK
YOU for those of you who took part in supplying your favorite top 5
bands and tracks, which has made the Radio Seagull Top 50 possible.
Don’t
forget out of all of you who sent us your Favorite 5 tracks, you will
be entered into a competition, your names will be placed in a hat and
one lucky winner drawn out of the hat is will win the CD album or DVD
from which the No1 track in the Radio Seagull Top 50 for 2010 comes from
and will be announced during the programme, so make sure you tune in, it
could be you!! .
The Radio
Seagull Top 50 will be broadcast on 1602 AM & via the internet on the
14th August 2010 between 21.00 – 01.00 CET and on the morning of the
14th August on the internet only between 09.00 – 13.00 CET and repeated
on the 15th August between 09.00 – 13.00 CET.
I would
also like to say in advance WELL DONE to Norman Barrington & Brian
Anderson your hosts for the Radio Seagull Top 50 and I know the
programme will be a tremendous success, not to mention Normans pre
production work on all the Promos, Jingles and Trailers you have heard
before and will hear during the programme.
Congratulations to Rob Bulte from the Netherlands, who has won a signed
copy of My Seagull Friend by Nick Barnes in our monthly competition.
We still
have the Competition going on every month, so if you’re feeling lucky,
just click on the Competition button on our website.
Martin Smith
Radio
Seagull on FM !!!
Since
July 1st Radio Seagull broadcasts on FM in Tenerife on 99.7 FM. To serve
the Dutch contingent on the Islands the programs during day time (7 am -
7pm CET) are Radio Waddenzee's and after 7 pm CET Radio Seagull takes
over.
More news
to be expected soon, watch this space !
Ship back
from offshore with a stowaway
Monday
May 17th the Radio Seagull ship Jenni Baynton has safely returned to her
home port Harlingen. For now we are moored at a temporary mooring to
allow easy access to a quay side. Lots of supplies as well as the spare
generator had to be taken off the ship.
The offshore broadcast was a great success. Many visitors (over 100)
made a trip out to the ship and had the time of their lives. the last
weekend (15 and 16 May) was the Seagull weekend. A splendid experiment
with Seagull 24/7 from the ship. The likes of Norman Barrington, Stevie
Gordon, Dave Foster, Chris Kennedy, Mandy Marton and Andy Brooks came
out to the ship and made it a terrific weekend. It turns out we have a
stowaway. Our guest presenter Steve Conway has joined the station
permanently. A warm welcome to yet another new kid on the block.
558
broadcast terminated
Radio
Seagull has, for now, ceased bradcasting daily on 558 in London.
Spectrum Radio and Radio Seagull were very happy with the co-operadtion,
however the timeslot was uncomfortable to say the least. At the moment
both Seagull and Spectrum are looking into more courant alternatives.
Watch this space!
Crystal
cube
Soon to
be expected in the webshop is a crystal cube of 2,5 inches in which is a
brilliant copy of the Jenni Baynton in 3 D! The examp[le showed on board
during the offshore weeks was gazed at by dozens. The cubes are for sale
for GBP 39. At the moment we are looking into the costs for shipping it
safely. Once again, watch this space.