I had been listening to the offshore stations for around a year and a half when on August 31st 1974 RNI, Atlantis and Veronica left the air. The latter I heard only the one time but Atlantis and RNI were regulars for me. My home on the west coast of Scotland was something of a radio wilderness with no landbased pirates that I could easily hear on medium wave and a parochial sounding ILR station.
As a 12 year old my musical tastes were developing rapidly and thats where post MoA Caroline came in. I had never been a big Caroline fan during the Mike Hagler era. As mentioned elsewhere I probably didn't "get it" due to my young age. However after the Mi Amigo returned to England the programmes seemed to become more commercial with the likes of Tony Allan and Dave Owen. I remember loads of Barclay James Harvest, Stevie Wonder and of course, George Harrison.
I don't remember being that upset when RNI went, I think due to the fact that all the talk pre closedown was that "we will be back". I assumed that I would be able to listen to the new RNI from Italy at least on short wave.
I also remember being excited about the news that Atlantis was due to return just before Christmas.
Of course neither station returned as had been predicted so Caroline and Mi Amigo were my listening choices thereafter.
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