Who's Who in Pop Radio - Radio Caroline (South)

Wavelength: 259 metres.
Situation: Ship 3½ miles off Frinton, Essex.
Broadcasting Hours: 24 hours a day.
Reception area: Greater London, the Home Counties, the South, Midlands, East Anglia and Northern Europe.
Station Music Policy: Top 50 records; during hours when housewives are the major part of the audience light music is also played. The station puts out jazz, folk, C & W and other specialised types of music during the week. Unknown artists and new record companies are also given air space.

Radio Caroline (South) was the first water-based pop radio station to begin broadcasting to Britain. The original Caroline--it has since steamed North and been replaced as you will read in the Caroline (North) section-anchored off the coast of Essex on Good Friday, March 27, 1964, and began test broadcasting. Two days later, on Easter Sunday, regular programmes went on the air and have continued ever since. The reception the station received is now part of history, but the vast numbers of letters that poured in convinced the organisers that a fan club was needed. "The Caroline Club" charges a fee of ten shillings and supplies members with information, car stickers, identity bracelets, and a card entitling them to cut-price offers and bargains. The club's address is: 6, Chesterfield Gardens, London, W.1. In July 1964 a club programme was started over the air to play records to and from members. A special Caroline programme broadcast on Station CKLW in America produced several thousand applications from U.S. teenagers and the club also boasts a large number of members in European countries. There are also plans to hold more club balls after the enormously successful first one--"Zowie 1''--held in December 1965. The Caroline Club is, of course, also open to listeners to Radio Caroline North . .

	MIKE AHERN A man of considerable enterprise is Mike Ahern--he and a friend opened a club "The Teen-Beat Club" in Liverpool which attracted such a crowd of raving patrons that the council closed it down because the floor had become unsafe! A Scouse by birth, Mike was educated at St. Bedes Secondary Modern School leaving when he was fifteen to enter a mens-wear shop as a salesman. The position lasted three months when, according to Mike, there was a slight mishap involving a thirty guinea suit, and he had to seek employment elsewhere. For two years he had a variety of jobs including clerk, barman and factory hand, before he took himself off to France and worked for two years as a grape picker. During this period he improved his education enormously by learning French, Greek, Spanish, German and Italian-and learning them well enough to use over the air if the need ever arose. On his return to England he ran the ill-fated and weak-floored teen club before auditioning successfully for Caroline. Mike, who was barn on September 30, 1942, is 5 ft. 10 in. tall, has fair hair and blue eyes. He is a great fan of Bugs Bunny and likes the "smooth singers'' such as Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Andy Williams. He lists his hobbies--with his typical and ever-present grin--as photography, motor racing and GIRLS!
	ROBBIE DALE Robbie Dale is known over Caroline's air waves as "the one with the sexy voice". He came to the ship without any knowledge of broadcasting but has grasped the technique with the speed of a Beatle fan after the foursome's latest release. Twenty-six-year-old Robbie was born in Littleborough, Lancashire, and started earning his living as a bellboy at the Mayfair Club in London. Apart from five years in the Army he was also an antique dealer, a press agent, and a sales promotion expert before turning to the pop music scene. He has toured the Far East and spent time in South East Asia. He made his first public appearance in January 1966--and those who knew him just as a sexy voice found he had an appearance and personality to match it! Robbie is 5 ft. 10½ in tall , has fair hair and hazel eyes. His major ambition is to be a top entertainer, but in his spare time on shore he enjoys motor racing, horse riding and modern art. He even--as if he didn't get enough!.--enjoys listening to music of all kinds when off the ship.
	RICK DANE An actor of no mean repute, Rick Dane brings the touch of the real professional to his sessions as Caroline's man at the mike. Twenty-two-year-old Rick was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and displayed a talent for acting from a very early age. He came to London when still in his teens but already had a distinguished list of achievements behind him-including broadcasts on Springbok Radio and the compering of pop package shows including the Jim Reeves tour of South Africa with Chet Atkins and Floyd Cramer. In England he went to study at the Webber Douglas Academy and in 1965 was awarded the Best Actor Gold Medal. Following on this he landed a season with the New Shakespeare Company, a part in the stage version of "The Knack'' and-highlighting it all--the lead opposite Vanessa Redgrave in "The World's Baby" at the Royal Court Theatre. Proud as he is of all this-and his other film and TV work--Rick still lists as his most outstanding achievement the fact that he did his first professional job in New York. Apart from Caroline, Rick has also been resident d.j. at the Wimbledon Palais and is well remembered there. When off the air he enjoys swimming and (when on dry land) riding and photography.
	ROSKO Behind the name Rosko lurks the famous son of a famous father-for this d.j.'s name is really Michael Pasternak and he is the son of the internationally-known Hollywood film producer, Joe Pasternak. Educated in Los Angeles, Paris and Switzerland, Mike-or "Emperor Rosko" as Caroline listeners know him-has mode the world his oyster, travelling far and wide in his career. He first worked in commercials then graduated to a programme syndicated to several European countries. The next step was as compere on the big Sunday "rock show" on Radio Europe followed by a similar stint on Station KCVA--a floating radio station operated on board an aircraft carrier by the U.S. Navy. During this period he was on the air non-stop for two days setting a mammoth d.j. endurance record I He also achieved another "first''--this time in Australia where he was co-compere with Bob Rodgers of the first ever record hop in Sydney. Despite all this Rosko still maintains that his toughest stint of all was when he was compere at the famous Olympia Theatre in Paris and had to hold off--almost single-handedly--a theatre-full of delirious fans after a Rolling Stones' concert while the lads made their escape! Now Rosko only needs to battle the occasional wave buffeting the ship, but still communicates excitement to his fans. When he has the opportunity he enjoys bear hunting, producing records and car racing. No doubt the "Emperor'' has still many fresh fields to conquer!
	DAVE LEE TRAVIS Dave Lee Travis has learned the art of being o d.j. the hard way--taking his own portable studio with him wherever he goes! He came on the music scene in Manchester--not for from his home town Buxton--where he worked at the Oasis Club playing records on a part-time basis. His popularity soared quickly and he thereafter established himself as a touring one-man show by building a stereophonic record-player system. He recalls ruefully how he had to 'drag the monster around" the clubs, ballrooms and theatres in Lancashire to present and promote his own shows. However, all his hard work did not go in vain for he was seen by Herman (of the Hermits) and asked to go with the chart-toppers on a tour of America. On the jaunt he made numerous TV and radio appearances and when he returned to the U.K. his popularity took another huge bound. After a further round of shows with "the monster" Dave applied to join Caroline and is now on important member of the ship's d.j. contingent. Subjected to a lot of leg-pulling from the other d.j.'s because of his delight in wearing a red rose in his buttonhole, he likes most kinds of music (depending on the circumstances) and is a keen archer and vintage car enthusiast. Note for the girls. D.L.T. is a sturdy six-footer with hazel eyes and brown hair.
	TOM LODGE (Senior d.j.) There is not another d.j. on the air waves of Europe who has led such an adventurous life as blond, good-looking Tom Lodge. Although he has spent much of his life in America and Canada, Tom was actually born in Liverpool, being taken to the U.S. by his parents when he was only four. After his schooling, the call of the vast American wilds made him set off with an Indian for a two-year expedition into the wilds of the Arctic. His life hung by the slenderest threads on several occasions and in one instance was saved by a timber wolf which he kept and named Mohair Sam. He saw more of the world--including the West Indies--before returning to Canada where he took a job as a cowboy on a ranch in Alberta. In his spare time he wrote a book about his two-year trip in the frozen wastes, Beyond The Great Slave Lake, which became an over-night best-seller in both America and Great Britain. Content for a time with roaming, Tom then took a fancy to radio work and got himself the position of d.j. with C.B.S. He soon found he had a natural talent for the work, and, anxious to find an excuse to return to his homeland, came to England as a freelance broadcaster for C.B.S. It was only a short step-and a natural one for a man as full of the spirit of adventure as Tom--to joining Radio Caroline, and he has served on both ships before getting his present job as head man on Caroline North. Apart from his ability as a d.j.--shown by his great popularity--Tom Lodge has a family connected with wireless: his grandfather, Oliver Lodge, was one of the inventors of wireless telegraphy.