How Radio One started back in 1967

We were given a brief run down of how Radio One started and how listeners had a chance to listen to music from the British Broadcast Corporation, better known as the BBC, who back then had all the broadcasting rights and a monopoly. They were only able to broadcast for the odd hour.

Then a radio station called Radio Caroline came along and changed all this, Radio Caroline started to broadcast music 24 hrs a day from the ship called MV Mi Amigo that was situated outside territorial waters. New radio stations like Britain Radio started to appear and broadcast music 24 seven, this meant there was a new revolution developing. This indicated that the British Broadcast Corporation no longer had the monopoly. Then in 1967 the British government outlawed the radio stations like Britain radio and Radio Caroline as they were thought as pirate stations.

It was now clear that they were going to need a replacement radio station, so this was when Radio One was created. Then came along Tony Blackburn in 1967 to broadcast the first show on radio 1 at 7 am with the song Flowers in the Rain.