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Broadcasting Banned Radio Nordsee
International - jammed by the British Government
and then banned! Before that we had a state of
mini criminals listening to Radio Luxembourg and
Radio Normandy.
Banned:
offshore radio, political radio, video senders,
CB radio (licensed to a UK-only standard after
mass use by the public), baby alarms, electronic
garage doors, wireless 'phones (licensed
following public pressure), electric zappers for
personal defence.
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Banned: offshore
radio, political radio, video senders, CB radio
(licensed to a UK-only standard after mass use by
the public), baby alarms, electronic garage
doors, wireless 'phones (licensed following
public pressure), electric zappers for personal
defence...
Before Radio Luxembourg, Captain
Plugge toured France with the very first car
radio manufactured by Philco and beamed music
from Radio Normandy to Britain after midnight.
'Auntie' was not amused. Even less so when she
heard the French government was behind the 200
kilowatts of dance music pumping out from
Luxembourg to England every night. The Postmaster
General wrote to the Head of the BBC saying:
"We must use all our influence to stop
this." In an internal memo of 7 April 1933,
the BBC suggested persuading leading newspapers
not to refer to it. It went on to say: "It
seems to me that a possible way of combating
Luxembourg would be to allot the wavelength to
somebody else, not as their only wavelength, but
to get someone with a sporting spirit to take it
on and try and clear the channel."
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