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Radio Veronica, the Glossary

Radio Veronica was an offshore radio station that began broadcasting in 1960, and was on air for over fourteen years.^[1]

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1960 establishments in the Netherlands
1974 disestablishments in the Netherlands
Defunct radio stations in the Netherlands
Offshore radio
Pirate radio stations
Radio stations disestablished in 1974
Rock radio stations

Adult contemporary music

Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence.

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Anchor

An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current.

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Annie M.G. Schmidt

Anna Maria Geertruida "Annie" Schmidt (20 May 1911 – 21 May 1995) was a Dutch writer.

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Arend Langenberg

Arend Willem Langenberg (19 January 1949 – 30 December 2012) was a Dutch voice-over, voice actor and radio presenter.

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Blosenbergturm

The Blosenbergturm is a former radio transmission tower built for the German-language radio station DRS at Beromünster in the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1937.

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Breach of contract

Breach of contract is a legal cause of action and a type of civil wrong, in which a binding agreement or bargained-for exchange is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract by non-performance or interference with the other party's performance.

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Bull Verweij

Hendrik "Bull" Verweij (12 September 1909 – 19 February 2010) was one of the founders of the Dutch offshore radio station Radio Veronica, and was president of the station from its founding in 1959 until 1975.

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Capital London

Capital London is an Independent Local Radio station owned and operated by Global Media & Entertainment as part of its national Capital Network.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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Commercial Neutral Broadcasting Company

The Commercial Neutral Broadcasting Company (CNBC) was an English language pirate radio station which hired airtime for a few hours each day from the Dutch pirate Radio Veronica in 1960–1961. Radio Veronica and Commercial Neutral Broadcasting Company are offshore radio.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Fishing trawler

A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls.

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Frequency modulation

Frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave.

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Harmen Siezen

Harmen Siezen (born 26 December 1940) is a Dutch former journalist and presenter.

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Hilversum

Hilversum is a city and municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands.

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The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was the regulatory body in the United Kingdom for commercial television (ITV and Channel 4 and limited satellite television regulation – cable television was the responsibility of the Cable Authority) – and commercial and independent radio broadcasts.

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Jingle

A jingle is a short song or tune used in advertising and for other commercial uses.

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Lightship

A lightvessel, or lightship, is a ship that acts as a lighthouse.

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List of radio stations in the Netherlands

This is a list of radio stations in the Netherlands.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Long Tall Sally

"Long Tall Sally", also known as "Long Tall Sally (The Thing)", is a rock and roll song written by Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, Enotris Johnson, and Little Richard.

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Lots Road Power Station

Lots Road Power Station is a disused coal and later oil-fired and later gas-fired power station on the River Thames at Lots Road in Chelsea, London in the south-west of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, which supplied electricity to the London Underground system.

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Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967

The Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 (c. 41), shortened to Marine Broadcasting Offences Act or Marine Offences Act, became law in the United Kingdom at midnight on Monday 14 August 1967. Radio Veronica and Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 are offshore radio.

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Mayday

Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications.

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MV Mebo II

The Mebo II was originally the Dutch freighter, "Silvretta", built in 1948 by De Groot en van Vliet, Slikkerveer.

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MV Norderney

The MV Nordeney was from November, 1964 until 31 August 1974 the transmission ship for offshore radio station Radio Veronica. Radio Veronica and MV Norderney are offshore radio.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (organisation)

(abbreviated to NPO; literally "Dutch Public Broadcaster") or Dutch Foundation for Public Broadcasting is a Dutch public broadcasting organisation that administers public broadcasting services in the Netherlands.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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NPO Klassiek

NPO Klassiek is a public-service radio channel in the Netherlands, broadcasting chiefly classical music.

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Offshore radio

Offshore radio is radio broadcasting from ships or fixed maritime structures.

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Radio 538

Radio 538 is a Dutch commercial radio station founded in Hilversum, Netherlands in 1992.

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Radio Atlantis

Radio Atlantis was a Belgian-owned offshore pirate radio station, which operated in 1973 and 1974 from the coast of The Netherlands and Belgium. Radio Veronica and radio Atlantis are Defunct radio stations in the Netherlands, offshore radio, pirate radio stations and radio stations disestablished in 1974.

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Radio Caroline

Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly and Alan Crawford initially to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly. Radio Veronica and radio Caroline are offshore radio.

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Radio City (pirate radio station)

Radio City was a British pirate radio station broadcasting from Shivering Sands Army Fort, one of the abandoned Second World War Maunsell Sea Forts in the Thames Estuary. Radio Veronica and radio City (pirate radio station) are offshore radio.

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Radio jamming

Radio jamming is the deliberate blocking of or interference with wireless communications.

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Radio North Sea International

Radio North Sea International (RNI) was a European offshore radio station run by the Swiss firm Mebo Telecommunications, jointly owned by Swiss engineer Edwin Bollier and his business partner, Erwin Meister. Radio Veronica and radio North Sea International are Defunct radio stations in the Netherlands, offshore radio, pirate radio stations and radio stations disestablished in 1974.

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Radio Veronica (Talpa Radio)

Radio Veronica is a Dutch commercial radio station owned by Mediahuis since June 2023, before that it was a subsidiary of Talpa Network.

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REM Island

REM Island is a platform built in the Republic of Ireland and towed off the Dutch coast in 1964 as the pirate broadcasting home of Radio and TV Noordzee. Radio Veronica and REM Island are offshore radio.

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RTL Group

RTL Group S.A. ("Radio Télévision Luxembourg") is a Luxembourg-based international media conglomerate, with another corporate office in Cologne, Germany.

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RTL Nederland

RTL Nederland is a Dutch media network, a subsidiary of DPG Media.

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Sabotage

Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity, government, effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction.

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Sandman

The Sandman is a mythical character in European folklore who puts people to sleep and encourages and inspires beautiful dreams by sprinkling magical sand onto their eyes.

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Scheveningen

Scheveningen is one of the eight districts of The Hague, Netherlands, as well as a subdistrict (wijk) of that city.

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Shortwave radio

Shortwave radio is radio transmission using radio frequencies in the shortwave bands (SW).

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Sky Radio Group

Sky Radio Group is a chain of radio stations in Netherlands.

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Swinging Radio England

Swinging Radio England ("SRE") was a top 40 offshore commercial station billed as the "World's Most Powerful" that operated from 3 May 1966 to 13 November 1966 from a ship in the North Sea, four and a half miles off Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, England. Radio Veronica and Swinging Radio England are offshore radio.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands.

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Tineke de Nooij

Christina Hendrika (Tineke) de Nooij (born 27 April 1941 in Baarn) is a Dutch radio and television presenter.

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Tony Allan

Tony Allan (22 September 1949 – 9 July 2004) was a British broadcaster and voice over artist.

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Veronica is a brand name of successive Dutch commercial and public radio and television broadcasters.

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Veronica TV

Veronica is a Dutch free-to-cable commercial television channel currently a part of Talpa TV (Talpa Network).

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Watergate scandal

The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation.

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Wilhelmus

"Wilhelmus van Nassouwe", usually known just as "Wilhelmus" (italic;; English translation: "The Wilhelmus"), is the national anthem of both the Netherlands and its sovereign state, the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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Willem van Kooten

Willem van Kooten (born 7 January 1941 in Hilversum) is a Dutch entrepreneur and former DJ under the name Joost den Draaijer.

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Wonderful Radio London

Radio London, also known as Big L and Wonderful Radio London, was a top 40 (in London's case, the "Fab 40") offshore commercial station that operated from 23 December 1964 to 14 August 1967, from a ship anchored in the North Sea, off Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, England. Radio Veronica and Wonderful Radio London are offshore radio.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Veronica

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Radio Veronica, the Glossary

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1960 establishments in the Netherlands

1974 disestablishments in the Netherlands

Defunct radio stations in the Netherlands

Offshore radio

Pirate radio stations

Radio stations disestablished in 1974

Rock radio stations

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