50 years of Radio Veronica!
Special programming in August and exhibition

It will be Radio Veronica's 50th anniversary in a few month's time.

Radio Veronica was an offshore radio station that began broadcasting in 1960, and has the distinction of having broadcast from offshore for the longest continuous period - more than fourteen years.

(Radio Caroline broadcast offshore over a longer period - more than twenty-six and a half years - but this included non-consecutive periods totalling around eight and a half years off the air.)

Radio Veronica was set up by independent radio, TV and household electrical retailers in the Netherlands. They hoped to stimulate the sales of radio receivers in the country by broadcasting more popular programmes than the established and 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 closure of the radio station 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, broadcasting 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.

The majority of 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 Utrechseweg 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.

For many years Veronica has been an independent broadcasting station in the Netherlands, its on various FM frequencies and the internet..

The above extract from Wikipedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Veronica

This from Alan Milewczyk on Anorak Nation
http://www.anoraknation.com/discussion/
messages/3304412

Veronica192.nl will be running comemorative programming "50 years of Veronica" throughout August.

The following taken from the norderney.nl website:

50 YEARS OF RADIO VERONICA special programmes on Veronica192.nl
Posted on norderney.nl July 21, 2009

The entire month of AUGUST is marked on Veronica192.nl by "50 years of Radio Veronica".

This will include almost all the commemorative broadcasts that have been made since the end of Radio Veronica on August 31 1974
    14 Leading Years (1999),
    The Never Ending Story (2004),
    August 31, 2007 (Loosdrecht) and
    August 31, 2008 (Rock Art Museum, Hook of Holland).

Plus the complete last week's programming of Radio Veronica from 1974.

Quite a celebration!

And there's more:

EXHIBITION: 50 Years Radio Veronica at RockArt Museum in Hook of Holland

From July 9 to DECEMBER 19, 2009
Take a journey through the turbulent history Veronica from year to year.
Many unique exhibits
Take a journey through the turbulent histoy of Radio Veronica

Radio Veronica studios from the 60s
Studios from the 70s
The last studio on board the ship Norderney
On display Radio Veronica jingles are played plus singles, lps, posters,
t-shirts and more
Unique Veronica pictures, with original footage of the leading artists from
the sixties and seventies
Come see .. come see...
Museum RockArt
Zekkenstraat 42
Hook of Holland
Museum RockArt location on Google Maps
http://tinyurl.com/nushl2

Our thanks to Mike Terry for spotting this item