It wasn’t Ronan’s original idea to bring offshore commercial radio to the UK. Had the Texan’s not messed around, Crawford would have been first.
Would offshore radio have ever happened in the UK, without Ronan?"
Well yes, absolutely. Project Atlanta started by Alan Crawford in 62 with the purchase of the Radio Nord ship later named Mi Amigo would have come to air at some point and others would surely have followed.
It did rather wizz through the 1970s, but otherwise pretty good & interesting.
I do wonder still,: "Would offshore radio have ever happened in the UK, without Ronan?"
Something we will never know
Thanks for posting Mike Terry -- good interesting read .
Kev
That article was first published on March 18th 2014. Link to that now comes up as error 404 and was quite often linked to in offshore radio forums/discussion threads.
Original article still on Wayback Machine. Don't know if there have been any changes in the 2024 article other than changing 50th to 60th.
An interesting article written by Colin Morrison published today, 15 March.
https://flashesandflames.com/2024/03/15/how-a-radio-ship-and-7-men-shook-up-britain-in-1964/