What is Radio Caroline?
'''Radio Caroline''' is a British radio station founded in 1964 by [[Ronan O'Rahilly]] and George Drummond.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=Daytona Beach Morning Journal | date=February 5, 1966 | title=Radio 'Pirate' Backing Ferrari Entry | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19660205&id=pnooAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SskEAAAAIBAJ&pg=656,746588&hl=en}}</ref> It was made to compete against the [[BBC]]'s radio broadcasting monopoly.<ref>{{cite book |last = Harris |first = Paul |author-link = Paul Harris (author) |title = Broadcasting From The High Seas |publisher = Paul Harris Publishing Edinburgh |year = 1977 |isbn = 0-904505-07-3}}</ref> It was a pirate radio station that never became illegal as such because of operating outside any national jurisdiction. ==References== {{reflist}} {{stub}} [[Category:1964 establishments in the United Kingdom]]