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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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