Talk:Radio City (pirate radio station)

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Radio City was eventually to provide the Government with a much more compelling reason for their closure. [end of article]

And...? Are we missing a piece of text here? Flapdragon 00:25, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm gonna guess it's this from the Maunsell Sea Forts article

In 1964, a few months after Radio Caroline went on air, Screaming Lord Sutch set up Radio Sutch in one of the towers at Shivering Sands. Sutch soon became bored with the project and sold the station to his manager Reg Calvert who renamed the station Radio City and expanded operations into all of the five towers that remained connected. It was Calvert's killing in a dispute over the station's ownership (found to be self-defence rather than murder) that led to the Government finally passing legislation against the pirates in 1967.

But not being a brit, I feel unqualified to insert this with confidence :) - MJB, Dec 28, 2005

Mea culpa. I originally wrote this thinking "I'll go to bed now and finish it tomorrow...or the next day...or next week..." and then forgot about it. But yes, I did intend to fill in the missing details: namely, how a dispute over the station's ownership led Calvert to confront a business rival and allegedly threaten him with violence, which led to his death in what the rival claimed to be self-defence. Lee M 00:13, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, please do share the dirt. I like poking fun at wigged-out LSD addled brits :)- MJB, Dec 28, 2005

I've added a discussion paraphrased from http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/djsc.htm, stripping it down to NPOV and fair use. - MJB, Jan 2, 2006