Alderney-based Quay-FM 107.1’s latest presenter is a true radio pioneer and icon of the 1970s and will be a familiar name to many ‘older’ listeners.
At 10am on 14th August, Quay-FM 107.1 is set to bring a very special programme on the anniversary of ‘the day that music died’, when all but one of the pirate radio ships that dotted the British Coastline in the swinging sixties fell silent following the Wilson Government’s enactment of the Marine Offences (Broadcasting) Act 1067.
Emperor Rosko, born Mike Pasternak, was one of the early presenters to be heard on Radio 1, and inspired the character of ‘the Count’ who was played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman in the Richard Curtis film “The boat that rocked”.
The Emperor himself will present the Alderney radio station’s mid-morning programme which can be heard throughout the islands and exclusively to Quay-FM will commemorate the day when nearly all of the pirate radio ships that dotted the British coastline in the swinging sixties fell silent.
DJs such as Rosko and other equally familiar names such as Tony Blackburn and Dave Lee Travis found a home on the newly launched Radio 1 and were at the forefront of the development of the music scene of the 1970s.
Rosko now lives in his native Los Angeles from where he will be presenting the programme.
He is still very much involved with UK broadcasting – he also presents a breakfast programme on Radio Caroline. Former pirate station Caroline broadcasts on 648 AM from studios aboard the M.V. Ross Revenge moored in the River Blackwater under the same community radio licence, issued by the UK’s Ofcom, that Quay-FM has had since it commenced full time broadcasting in 2015.
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