Please note that due to the weight of this item, the following postage rates will apply to your order. UK: £3.50 per book, Europe: £6.50 per book, Rest of World: £8.50 per book. ** Other postage offers on this site do not apply when including this title as part of your order ** . A Nation's Station - The Story of Manx Radio 1964-2004 by Derek Winterbottom, with contributions from David Callister, Terry Cringle, John Grierson, Charles Guard, Alan Jackson, Chris Musk, Bernie Quayle, Su Richardson and Stewart Watterson. Manx Radio made its first tentative broadcasts from a caravan parked in a field near Douglas in the summer of 1964 and it was officially opened in November that year. Manx politicians hoped it would quickly develop into another 'Radio Luxembourg', a successful commercial station which would broadcast into the UK and Europe, thus bringing fame and profit to the Isle of Man. These hopes were dashed by the determined refusal of the UK to grant the necessary broadcasting licence, a stance which created serious political tension between Douglas and London for several years, increased when the Island, in revenge, gave refuge to the pirate ship 'Radio Caroline'. Eventually, Manx Radio had to accept a lesser role as the Island's national station, running on an uncomfortable mixture of advertising revenue and government subsidy. This, in turn, led to many conflicts and misunderstandings and when Tynwald was tempted to sell Manx Radio to the highest bidder in the 1990s a furious battle began. By the end of its first 40 years Manx Radio had just about convinced Tynwald that it needed substantial government funding in order to provide a good public broadcasting service, but by this time its monopoly on the island was being challenged by several new radio stations. |