The REM Island – August 1972

REM Island was a marine platform originally located in international waters about six miles off the Dutch coast near Noordwijk and anchored to the sea-bed. The REM island‘s purpose was for offshore “pirate” radio and TV broadcasting by Radio & TV Noordzee which had been founded a year earler, in 1963.

REM is an acronym, standing for Reclame Exploitatie Maatschappij, which means advertising exploitation company. Commercial broadcasts aimed at the Dutch market commenced in mid August 1964 with a radio programme on 1400kHz and TV using Channel E11 (System B).

The Dutch authorities took action against the station by passing the REM Law on 12th December 1964, which designated the sea bed under the REM Island as Dutch territory. Five days later Dutch authorities boarded the platform and ended broadcasting. About one year later, Radio Noordzee resumed transmissions legally, on land, as the TROS.

Meantime the REM Island itself was abandoned and was for some time used by the Dutch government to measure sea temperature and salt concentrations. In 2004, after a failed attempt to sell the REM, it was eventually dismantled in 2006.

Since March 2011 the REM platform has been located in the harbour of Amsterdam and serves as a restaurant.

More information about the REM island is available here and here.

Pictures of the abandoned REM island shown below were taken by Fred Bunzl during a sight-seeing boat trip in August 1972.


All photos © Fred Bunzl

Jingles

Below you will find recordings of radio station jingles and examples of programming formats which have been submitted to us over the years.

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Documents Archive
Please follow the following link for a list of archived NCRM (National Commercial Radio Movement), CIB (Campaign For Independent Broadcasting) and related documents.


Drake-Chenault
1973 March, Drake-Chenault Demo Promotional 2-disc album, .mp3 92 mins.
You can view graphics of the album sleeve including the front, the back and the album contents list, as well as an accompanying letter from D-C’s Executive Vice President, Pat Shaughnessy. This double album includes demos for the automated radio station format that arguably helped ruin music radio by eliminating the personal touch between the DJ and his/her listener. Details…
Side 1: Stereo
“Hit Parade” format for WLCY Tampa, Florida.
“Solid Gold” format for KXOA Sacramento, California.
Side 2: Stereo
“Classic Gold” format for KRTH (K-Earth) Los Angeles California.
“Great American Country” format for KRSI Minneapolis.
Side 3: Mono
“History of Rock’n’Roll” program feature.
“Golden Years” program feature.
Side 4: Mono
“Top 100 of the 60s” program feature.
Drake Jingles: Series 1.
Drake Jingles: Double A.

PAMS
1964-1968, Pams jingles for WABC, New York City and KLIF, Dallas, .mp3 29-1/2 mins.
This set of PAMS jingles includes the following:
1964, series 27 “Jet Set/Action” for WABC, New York City.
1965, series 29 “Go-Go” for WABC, New York City.
1967, series 32A “Swiszle” for WABC, New York City.
1968, series 35A “All Sound” for KLIF, Dallas.
1972, Pams series 43 “Textures” for WABC, New York City, .mp3 11 mins. View box.
1973, Pams “Custom ’73” promo, .mp3 8-3/4 mins. View box.

Radio Caroline
1968, Radio Caroline South jingles, .mp3 6-1/2 mins.
On 3rd March 1968, both radio Caroline ships “Mi Amigo” and “Caroline”, were seized and towed to Amsterdam by the Wijsmuller salvage company to secure unpaid servicing bills. The mv. Caroline was scrapped but in 1972, the Radio Caroline South ship, mv. Mi Amigo, was sold at auction to Gerard van Dam. Some of the Mi Amigo’s studio equipment, including this Ampex tape recorder, a Spotmaster cassette player and some tapes, were purchased by free radio enthusiast, John Ker, who subsequently very kindly provided these few remaining 1968 recordings dubbed direct from the Spotmaster to the Ampex tape recorder. The recordings include:
1. Johnnie Walker announcing the Andy Archer show with theme tune “Flamingo” by Herb Alpert. (2’14”).
2. Announcement for the Henry Morgan show with theme tune “Sucu Sucu” by the Laurie Johnson Orchestra. (2’20”).
3. “Headline International News” jingle. (7″).
4. “Caroline the sound of the nation” jingle (no vocal). (5-1/2″).
5. “Sounds fine it’s Caroline” jingle (vocal). (17-1/2″).
6. “Boing” sound. (5″).
7. “This is the Spangles Muldoon lunchtime show”. (3″).
8. Advert. for Crosse & Blackwell chicken soup. (27″).
9. Advert for “Motorcycle” magazine. (17″).

William B. Tanner
1973, Demonstration tape for “Mini-Hits” jingles, .mp3 8-1/4 mins. View box.
1973, Demonstration tape for “Creative Sales Service”, .mp3 17 mins. View box.
Bill Tanner created the William B. Tanner Company in 1972, but earlier, from 1957 onwards the company was known and run together with John Pepper and Floyd Huddleston as Pepper Sound Studios and from about 1967 was known as Pepper-Tanner. The company was sold in 1982.

TM Productions
1973?, Demonstration tape for “Propellants” jingles, .mp3 13-1/4 mins. View box.
TM stands for Tom Merriman who, with Jim Long, founded TM Productions (later known as TM Communications Inc.) in 1967. More…

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