Relays

The Rock Of The Riviera

The Rock of the Riviera operates on 88.4 Mhz and is licensed for an authorised power of 45KW. The antenna used by  Rock of the Riviera is approximately 1230 meters above sea level atop Mt Bignone near San Remo in Italy and only a few miles from the France/Italy border. The system is directional and is optimised to cover the maximum possible area along the Cote d'Azur. Although it is a distance of about a hundred miles, the Rock can be heard as far away as St. Tropez. The nearer communities of Antibes, Cannes and Monte Carlo have excellent signal levels.

The station is co-owned along with Radio International. Both stations feature programming geared primarily to an anglophone audience. The Rock features Classic Rock -- the all-time best selling hits of Rock -- from Chuck Berry and Elvis, through the Stones, Beatles, Zeppelin, Van Halen, on up to Coldplay, Nickleback and Staind.

The Rock of the Riviera is dedicated to the premise that if you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.

So, if you are visiting the area, don't forget to check out the station. And, if you are lucky enough to be there on the weekend, be sure to put the top down on that rented convertible one evening and cruise the Riviera to the unmistakable sound of Radio Caroline.

Wilhelm.tel

This is a fibre optic cable network established in the Norderstedt district of Germany, close to Hamburg. It is operated by the Ministry Of Works, so if it was a UK operation it would effectively be run by the local Council. They have 85,000 homes cabled up and we have our own full time channel. The operators now plan to expand their service in to Hamburg proper and then extend from there.

NTL Ireland

We negotiated for a long time to achieve cable coverage here and the deal was finally closed by our Richard Lavelle. We are now on digital channel 927 full time. NTL have 100.000 homes connected in Dublin where of course there was once major FM pirate activity. While we may be sad that most of these pirates have now been closed down it does create more opportunity for people to instead listen to Caroline. We are waiting for additional coverage of Cork and Waterford.