{"id":473157,"date":"2024-03-18T17:05:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=473157"},"modified":"2024-03-18T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:05:12","slug":"on-this-day-march-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=473157","title":{"rendered":"On This Day&#8230; March 17th."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day&#8230;<br \/>\nMarch 17th.<br \/>\n17 Mar. 1971<br \/>\n+  GBR. Edinburgh. 1322 kHz MW. 01:00-02:30 Radio Free City is on air tonight<br \/>\n17 Mar. 1973<br \/>\n+ GBR. London. 92.8 FM. Radio Free London [RFL] re-appears, from a vicarage, initially Saturday evenings but later this year it moves to 92.0 FM and all-day Sundays. Staff at the time include: &#8211; Kenny Myers, Mark Ashton, and others. It is during this reincarnation, (the date is not known,) that a raid takes place at a transmitter site on a Saturday night in Bedford\u2019s Park, Havering, on very high ground with a wood, where the two DJs who are caught, try pretending to be there for \u2018romantic reasons\u2019 until the police threaten to charge them with indecent acts in a public place, whereupon they admit to operating a free radio station. Another DJ who avoids the raid, later rescues them from Collier Row police station!<br \/>\n17 Mar. 1974<br \/>\n+ IRL. 6317 kHz SW. Radio Valleri is on air today<br \/>\n17 Mar. 1978<br \/>\n+ GBR. Wolverhampton. 1332 kHz MW. UK Radio is on air this evening<br \/>\n17 Mar. 1979<br \/>\n+ GBR. Wolverhampton. 104.0 FM. UK Radio is on air this evening<br \/>\n17 Mar. 1980<br \/>\n+ GBR. Wolverhampton. 1332 kHz MW. UK Radio is on air this evening 19:00-22:00 with Paul Johnson and David Jarvis<br \/>\n17 Mar. 1982<br \/>\n+ IRL. Tramore. 729 kHz MW ABC Radio is on air 07:00-01:00 today<br \/>\n17 Mar. 1983<br \/>\n+ IRL. Tramore. 1026 kHz MW and 101.0 FM. ABC Radio is on air 07:00-01:00 today<br \/>\n+  GBR. London. 94.4 FM. Horizon Radio is on air 24 hours today<br \/>\n17 Mar. 1984<br \/>\n+ GBR. Ludlow. 1017 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Sunshine Radio is on air today<br \/>\n+ IRL. Tramore. 1026 kHz MW and 101.0 FM. ABC Radio is on air 07:00-01:00 today<br \/>\n+ GBR. SW London. 1332 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Radio Jackie is on air today<br \/>\n+ GBR. SE London. 1413 kHz MW and 90.2 FM. on air 7 days a week, Skyline Radio is on air today 06:00-00:00<br \/>\n+ GBR. London. 92.5 FM. On air 7 days a week, LWR is on air today<br \/>\n+ GBR. London. 102.5 FM. Horizon Radio is on air 24 hours a day<br \/>\n+ GBR. London. 102.8 FM. JFM is on air 24 hours a day<br \/>\n17 Mar. 1985<br \/>\n+ IRL. Tramore. 1026 kHz MW and 101.0 FM. ABC Radio is on air 07:00-01:00 today<br \/>\n+ BEL. 6205 kHz SW. Radio Delmare relays Free Radio Service Holland [FRSH] today, but the conditions on Short Wave are again poor<br \/>\n+ GBR. Telford. 94.2 FM. Wrekin City Radio is on air this afternoon<br \/>\n+ GBR. Telford. 96.1 FM. On air 7 days a week, Shropshire Sound is on air today 08:00-20:00<br \/>\n+ GBR. West Midlands. 102.5 FM. Subway Sounds in on air this morning<br \/>\n+ GBR. West Midlands. 103.5 FM. UK Radio is on air today<br \/>\n17 Mar. 1986<br \/>\n* GBR. London. An attempt to move RFM studio equipment into Claire\u2019s flat turns into a &#8216;piss-up&#8217; at the pub.<br \/>\n+ IRL. Tramore. 1026 kHz MW and 101.0 FM. ABC Radio is on air today<br \/>\n17 Mar. 1987<br \/>\n+ IRL. Tramore. 1026 kHz MW and 101.0 FM. ABC Radio is on air today<br \/>\n17 Mar. 1988<br \/>\n+ IRL. Tramore. 1026 kHz MW and 101.0 FM. ABC Radio is on air today<br \/>\n+ GBR. Camborne. 1503 kHz MW. Radio Argus Cornwall is on air 07:00-23:00<br \/>\n17 Mar. 1989<br \/>\n+ IRL. Monaghan. 981 kHz MW. Radio Star Country is on air today, it goes off air when a visit from the Dept of Communications turns up, but later fires back up after they have gone<br \/>\n+ GBR. Cornwall. 1503 MW [Camborne], 1602 MW [St. Dennis], 102.8 FM [St. Agnes], and 103.1 FM [St. Ives]. Radio Argus Cornwall is on air today<br \/>\n+ GBR. Bromley. 1611 kHz MW. Radio Argus London is on air today<\/p>\n<p>Bert<\/p>\n<p>Info via Bert Bridges on Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day&#8230; March 17th. 17 Mar. 1971 + GBR. Edinburgh. 1322 kHz MW. 01:00-02:30 Radio Free City is on air tonight 17 Mar. 1973 + GBR. London. 92.8 FM. Radio Free London [RFL] re-appears, from a vicarage, initially Saturday evenings but later this year it moves to 92.0 FM and all-day Sundays. Staff at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=473157\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On This Day&#8230; March 17th.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5CD59-1Z5z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":473106,"url":"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=473106","url_meta":{"origin":473157,"position":0},"title":"On this day&#8230; February 29&#8230;","author":"Administrator","date":"February 29, 2024 15:30","format":false,"excerpt":"so... 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