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Skyport Radio was a land-based Short Wave pirate station which broadcast to Europe from 1971 to 1982, it was the only UK based pirate station to have a left-wing slant to its programmes.[1][2][3][4]
There is an entry for the station in the 1978 edition of the World Radio & TV Handbook[5] on page 43 of the appendix.
Skyport Radio operators were concerned about another pirate station Radio Enoch's [6] far-right broadcasts, and sent listeners Communist Party of Great Britain[7] anti-National Front leaflets, but the station was never officially connected to the Communist party. On visiting the station in 1974 the CPGB Feltham branch secretary (David Howell MBE 1943–2014,[8]) said the station could not be endorsed by the party as it was unlicensed.
There is an article written in October 2019 about how Skyport Radio has been used as part of an art exhibit, this can be found at the site of the artist Dr. Magz Hall.[9][10][11]
According to their official website they have made several broadcasts in 2021 to mark their 50th Anniversary these have been streamed from Prague, Czechia and Medellín, Colombia and were broadcast on a local FM station in Prague. More streamed programming has been announced as originating from a studio in Falmouth UK.
References[edit]
- ^ Time Out Magazine 23–29 March 1979 No.466
- ^ "Time Out Cover 1979".
- ^ "Air on a shoestring Time Out article".
- ^ "SKYPORT RADIO". www.dxarchive.com. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "WRTH Online". wrth.com. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
- ^ Hebditch, Stephen. (2015). London's pirate pioneers : the illegal broadcasters who changed British radio (First ed.). London. ISBN 978-0-9932652-0-4. OCLC 918984740.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "The Communist Party of Great Britain". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
- ^ "Tribute to a loving husband and Feltham's community champion". 26 June 2014.
- ^ "Dr Magz Hall, Senior Lecturer – Media, Art and Design, Canterbury Christ Church University". www.canterbury.ac.uk.
- ^ "Magz Hall". British Music Collection. 27 February 2015.
- ^ "Air Matters | Pervasive Media Studio". Watershed. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
