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Radio Veronica was an offshore radio station that began broadcasting in 1960, and broadcast from offshore for over fourteen years. It was set up by independent radio, TV and household electrical retailers in the Netherlands to stimulate the sales of radio receivers by providing an alternative to the Netherlands state-licensed stations in Hilversum. After the station's closure, some of its staff applied for a broadcasting licence and continued as a legal organisation with the same name.

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  • Radio Veronica
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  • Radio Veronica was an offshore radio station that began broadcasting in 1960, and broadcast from offshore for over fourteen years. It was set up by independent radio, TV and household electrical retailers in the Netherlands to stimulate the sales of radio receivers by providing an alternative to the Netherlands state-licensed stations in Hilversum. After the station's closure, some of its staff applied for a broadcasting licence and continued as a legal organisation with the same name.
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Name
  • Radio Veronica
Sister stations
  • Sky Radio and Classic FM
Airdate
  • 1960-05-17(xsd:date)
Frequency
  • Historical on wavelength = 192 meters
wavelength
  • 538(xsd:integer)
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Owner
Slogan
  • Alleen Echte Hits!
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  • Radio Veronica was an offshore radio station that began broadcasting in 1960, and broadcast from offshore for over fourteen years. It was set up by independent radio, TV and household electrical retailers in the Netherlands to stimulate the sales of radio receivers by providing an alternative to the Netherlands state-licensed stations in Hilversum. Broadcasts began on 21 April 1960. The station announced itself as VRON (Vrije Radio Omroep Nederland; Free Radio Station [of the] Netherlands) but changed to Radio Veronica, after the poem "Het Zwarte Schaap Veronica" — The Black Sheep Veronica — by the children's poet Annie M. G. Schmidt. After the station's closure, some of its staff applied for a broadcasting licence and continued as a legal organisation with the same name. The original Radio Veronica became the most popular station in the Netherlands. It broadcast from a former lightship Borkum Riff anchored off the Dutch coastline. The ship was fitted with a horizontal antenna between the fore and aft masts, fed by a one-kilowatt transmitter. Most of its programmes were recorded in a studio on the Zeedijk in Hilversum. At the end of the 1960s the studios and offices moved to bigger premises on the Utrechtseweg in Hilversum. For a short time the station also ran an English-language service under the call letters CNBC (Commercial Neutral Broadcasting Company). Later the Borkum Riff was replaced by a former trawler, the MV Norderney.
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