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As you are likely to know, Radio Nord was a Swedish offshore commercial station that operated briefly from 8 March 1961 to 30 June 1962 from a ship anchored in international waters of the Baltic Sea off Stockholm, Sweden. Behind the station was Gordon McLendon who is credited by most broadcast historians with having established the first mobile news units in American radio, the first traffic reports, the first jingles, the first all-news radio station, and the first "easy-listening" programming. He also helped develop Top Forty radio into a successful and popular business model. The McLendon family built a communications empire that included radio stations across the United States. In addition to KLIF, McLendon owned KNUS–FM in Dallas, KOST in Los Angeles, WYSL–AM and FM in Chicago, WWWW–FM in Detroit, WAKY in Louisville, KABL in Oakland, KABL–FM in San Francisco, KILT in Houston, KTSA in San Antonio, and KELP in El Paso. He owned television station KCND in Pembina, North Dakota, which broadcast into Canada. So with all that was happening in the USA at that time why bother with Radio Nord? McLendon's Radio Nord venture was funded by Clint Murchison Jr who was a businessman and founder of the Dallas Cowboys football team. A son of Clint Murchison Sr., who made his first fortune in oil exploration and became notorious for exploiting the sale of "hot oil", Clint and his surviving brother inherited their father's wealth and business interests to which Clint Jr. added ventures of his own. Again he was busy with so many ventures why would Radio Nord with all the financial risks and legal unknowns be worth putting money into? Two other US people involved were Bob Thomson and Jim Foster. Jim was a schoolmate with financiers Gordon McLendon and Bob Thompson and was named "marine expert" in the company, though without any major expertise in the field. It was Jim who decided that German m / s Olga (later Bon Jour) would be used. The focal person for Radio Nord was Swede Jack S Kotschack (1915-1988) who acted as radio manager. He was head of Radio Reklam Produktions AB, which had the task of producing radio programs as well as producing and selling advertising. The whole operation was professional however had so many personnel (seventy plus involved with Radio Nord) it's hard to see where any profit would come from. The station even ceased broadcast a month before the Swedish Governments legislation came into effect. It has been suggested elsewhere that Radio Nord had a secondary target audience namely the Baltic States, Certainly from an anchorage off Stockholm the signal had a clear water path to Estonia and Latvia. Interestingly from that location the signal would also have a similar path across the Gulf of Finland all the way to St Petersburg in Russia. Sometimes the conspiracy theories are hiding in plain site.
41 Comments
29/12/2019 08:36:21 am
Yes, Mike, according to Bill Weaver this was a CIA operation and anyone who knows anything about McLendon/Murchison/Thompson knows that they were into making money and not into providing pop music in a foreign language to Sweden. It is the CIA which links all of the various obscure stations from Radio Goa to Radio City and yet, people writing about these various activities can only see fractions of the big picture, and what they see are different fractions. But put all of these researched pieces together and a totally different picture emerges. By the way, another fraction of the big picture makes it to the UK TV screens tonight. It is a new series about Christine Keeler and her real life story takes place against the backdrop of the lies and mythology spun by Ronan O'Rahilly and his side-kick Ian Cowper Ross.
Swervin Mervyn
29/12/2019 10:21:19 am
Yes, Mike. That year Flymo sold it's first hover mower, against the backdrop of the lies and mythology spun by Ronan O'Rahilly and his side-kick Ian Cowper Ross. Stripes became a thing of the past.
Admin - Mike
29/12/2019 08:56:32 pm
When presented with facts and reasonable questions why does it go quiet here? Hey Swervin your not remotely funny! I wish you were but you are not, just another brick in your own denial wall.
Swervin Mervyn
29/12/2019 10:14:50 pm
I think you will find that it's 'you're' as in 'you are', not 'your'. 5/10. Must try harder.
Mervyn Hagger
29/12/2019 10:23:16 pm
Put bluntly Swervin you are a fool, a troll, a little jackbooted bigot who can only recite the mantras that your peers have stuffed into your empty mind. But now that you have read this, recall it in 10 years from now, if you can, if you are still healthy and alive and admit to yourself that when you wrote it you were a empty-headed idiot. I do hope that in 10 years time you see yourself for what are now - a fool, and likewise I hope that in 10 years time you are not running into fools like you are right now. You will cringe, or you will be hooked on drugs or booze and remember nothing.
Swervin Mervyn
29/12/2019 10:34:53 pm
I have made a note in my diary for 10 years hence to reflect on my comments and consider them against the backdrop of the lies and mythology spun by Ronan O'Rahilly and his side-kick Ian Cowper Ross.
Mervyn Hagger
29/12/2019 10:16:26 pm
I just watched the first part of the program about Christine Keeler, and while they flitted on the Flamingo, they did not stay focused there. The problem with all of these programs is that they are only one part of a gigantic puzzle that shows a very different picture about world events than the one most people are aware of. Not only does the story of Radio Nord fit into this matrix, but so does the the assassination of the JFK, and now I have discovered a common denominator that even links to that infamous KCUL transmitter that led to the murder of Reg Calvert. Unfortunately there are too many little groups focused upon little bits of the same puzzle and this means that none of them can see the woods for the trees. Compounding this are the idiotic books like 'Pirate Gold'and 'Caroline Bible' where their editors have such high self-opinions of themselves, but their works show that their understanding and comprehension is nil. I would like to stage a symposium and bring together people who are interested in investigating the big picture, but that seems to be a remote possibility, the vanity of these pontificating fools won't permit them to admit their mistakes.
Swervin Mervyn
29/12/2019 10:56:41 pm
Would that be a symposium in E flat minor set against the backdrop of the lies and mythology spun by Ronan O'Rahilly and his side-kick Ian Cowper Ross? 'A drinking party or convivial discussion, especially as held in ancient Greece after a banquet' does sound like fun, though. Will there be Twiglets? You can't have a party without Twiglets.
Swervin Mervyn
29/12/2019 10:25:10 pm
Meanwhile, in the very same year, the lava lamp was introduced, against the backdrop of the lies and mythology spun by Ronan O'Rahilly and his side-kick Ian Cowper Ross. Coincidence? I don't think so. 30/12/2019 10:32:23 am
Sorry I wrote that lava lamp rubbish if I could remove it I would.
James M Parraffin Lantern
30/12/2019 02:29:17 pm
No he did not, don't start that again. James drained the Grundfos pump and drank the parraffin. Coping with life was getting on his wick. I know I was there
Wood and Trees
29/12/2019 11:01:28 pm
Just can't bloody can he see it can he
James Kenya Coffee bars McGregor
30/12/2019 12:51:08 am
This is complete and utter balderdash and prefabricated Caroline Housing Nonsense. It bears no relation what so ever to my reality and I look forward to it being on Saturday's BBC4 Scandi Nights slot so my mother can pay my licence fees for real factual programmes for a change
James M, alias Optibore and all manner of stupid names like the one above this
30/12/2019 10:27:49 am
I really am being stupid I admit but I love Peter Moore's Radio Caroline and so anyone who says something contrary to what a wonderful station it is will be attacked at random by me using any name I chose to use, but I suppose if I am honest that I should use my real name, but I am not honest and so I don't.
James M Optibore
30/12/2019 10:33:38 am
Yes, James Kenya is me when I am not taking my meds.
Mervyn Hagger
30/12/2019 06:20:57 am
Mike, there is no point in trying to have any sort of sensible discussion while James M; Obtibore, and all of the many other names he uses is allowed to try to wreck your site. He may use more than one IP but it would be worth eliminating him from whatever source he uses.
Swervin Mervyn
30/12/2019 07:57:51 am
I couldn't agree more. You don't want nutters ransacking every post, especially when set against the backdrop of the lies and mythology spun by Ronan O'Rahilly and his side-kick Ian Cowper Ross.
The AssassinLek
30/12/2019 02:38:39 pm
He will be Eliminated. Exfoliate, Exfoliate.
James M Wood and Trees and Swervin
30/12/2019 10:20:56 am
Garry Stevens wrote "Please take note we will not tolerate ANY FORM of direct attacks on any individual, and or their projects and companys!!" He won't let me tell him that "companys" should be companies. Garry Stevens views it as an attack on himself and his project, but I don't think he is a company - at least not a registered one.
Swervin Mervyn
30/12/2019 10:24:08 am
I get it, you mean that Ronan O'Rahilly and his side-kick Ian Cowper Ross did spin lies and mythology. It's true, they did. Sorry I did not notice this before. .
James M Optibore
30/12/2019 10:30:42 am
I have told Garry Stevens about his misspelling of "companies" but he doesn't seem to care just as I don't care who attacks me because I know that I am being stupid and childish.
Swervin Mervyn
30/12/2019 10:33:28 am
'Coming in 2020 as an exclusive and original true-crime forensic investigation in book format.
scottg
30/12/2019 10:36:03 am
Is this true? "It has been suggested elsewhere that Radio Nord had a secondary target audience namely the Baltic States, Certainly from an anchorage off Stockholm the signal had a clear water path to Estonia and Latvia. Interestingly from that location the signal would also have a similar path across the Gulf of Finland all the way to St Petersburg in Russia. Sometimes the conspiracy theories are hiding in plain site."
Swervin Mervyn
30/12/2019 12:00:01 pm
Yes, if you stood on top of The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood and wired your receiver up to the lightning conductor, you could pick up a signal. This was, of course, long before the backdrop of the lies and mythology spun by Ronan O'Rahilly and his side-kick Ian Cowper Ross.
Testing 1,2.3
30/12/2019 11:21:40 am
Admin -- Mike .You asked earlier "When presented with facts and reasonable questions why does it go quiet here?" 2 words Mervyn Hagger. Mervyn, some idiotic Caroline Anorak/Fantasist who criticises everything you write, has now posted using using MY NAME! This is NOT on. To this person - HAVE a go at me. This persons 'Hero' who was the Publicity Spokesman for Radio Caroline in the 60's had ideas, but NO business knowledge, or qualifications to set up a radio station from scratch, let alone run it day by day. It was ALL posing. Everywhere he went -Drugs followed. Everywhere from the Scene Club, and other clubs, 6 Chesterfield Gardens, the Mi Amigo in the 60's, Amsterdam, the Mi Amigo in the 70's - the Drugs Ship, and the Ross Revenge in the 80's onwards, drugs were there. (Source - various biography's by artists or DJ's). Now to whoever used (scottg), stick that in your pipe and smoke it. Sincerely Scottg.
Scottg
30/12/2019 03:22:37 pm
That is not me. I don't smoke - scottg
Testing 1,2.3
30/12/2019 11:39:00 am
"(Source - various biography's by artists or DJ's)"
Swervin Mervyn
30/12/2019 11:42:15 am
It's all a big jigsaw puzzle isn't it? Where do all the pieces fit? Some are from an entirely different puzzle, but don't let that stop you pounding them into the tabletop until they fit. I've just finished one. It's a lovely picture of some kittens, set against the backdrop of the lies and mythology spun by Ronan O'Rahilly and his side-kick Ian Cowper Ross.
Testing 1,2.3
30/12/2019 12:03:26 pm
When I do jigsaws I have a pair of scissors nearby to make sure the pieces fit.
James M
30/12/2019 12:10:09 pm
I have to laugh, Testing 1.2,3 and all the other comments are really just me screwing everything up so that Hagger can't get a look in. We don't want to read anything he has to say so we just blot out his comments in the hope he will give up and go away and then the supporters of Caroline can communicate with other.
James M
30/12/2019 12:11:19 pm
Has he gone back to the USA yet?
Swervin Mervyn
30/12/2019 12:27:41 pm
Is he allowed, when it's against the backdrop of the lies and mythology spun by Ronan O'Rahilly and his side-kick Ian Cowper Ross?
Mike M Simmonds II
30/12/2019 02:53:36 pm
I am quite concerned about the high tedium and low bit rate of Radio NordseeNought on Digital Radio MoonworshipperDiale. Can anyone let the Sunshine in on this without Dave Martin Bovvering me with patronising charts and graphs
Mike Simmonds
30/12/2019 03:25:03 pm
C'mon lads, this is not right using someone's real name.
The Job Coach
30/12/2019 03:40:15 pm
YOU WILL apologise RIGHT NOW James M
Swervin Mervyn
30/12/2019 05:37:08 pm
Meanwhile, in the real world, someone does something useful.........https://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/news/why-david-still-holds-a-tune-for-sweet-caroline-9094961/ Yes, Mervyn, we know this didn't happen and that didn't happen, so there's no need to comment or go off on one, even if this is set against the backdrop of the lies and mythology spun by Ronan O'Rahilly and his side-kick Ian Cowper Ross.
Testing 1,2.3
30/12/2019 06:18:11 pm
Thanks for the link Swervin Mervyn. Good to read something positive and not full of hate even if this is set against the backdrop of the lies and mythology spun by Ronan O'Rahilly and his side-kick Ian Cowper Ross.
Possibly related to James
30/12/2019 05:58:38 pm
Things are heating up
Lucky Gordon McLendon
30/12/2019 07:30:09 pm
Hi, I'm David James M, perhaps you remember me from social media and adopting a Radio Caroline Rescue cat on the advice of a Peter Phillips voice-over. I was nearly stuck with a tortoise of a pension fund until I took the advise of the saucy Lea and Perrins and found out by the fortune cookie of chance she was born the same year as me and her pension pot was maturing nicely. WHOA James calm down there you nearly made a joke about waxing your pants with paraffin. Any more insight and you will have to be banished from Housewives Choice BBC and live off rice in a mental ward
Swerving Mervyn
30/12/2019 07:34:43 pm
It may be just me, but being a bear of little brain, I have no idea what this is about, even if I set it against the backdrop of the lies and mythology spun by Ronan O'Rahilly and his side-kick Ian Cowper Ross. Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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