Big L back to the seas

The UK commercial station Big L is currently broadcasting its programmes from studios on board a ship to mark the 40th anniversary of the original Big L’s closure at 1500 UK time on 14 August 1967. Yesterday a spokesman for BigL - which was reborn as a legitimate station in 1995 - said: “We are reliving the pirate past for two-and-a-half days to commemorate the end of what was an instrumental part of British culture in the 1960s, and one that launched household names such as Ed Stewart, Emperor Rosko and Johnnie Walker. “The conditions today were pretty stormy, but everyone has coped all right - I think they have the sea in their blood.”
Big L will continue broadcasting from offshore until around 1pm (1200 UTC) tomorrow, relayed through its Holland-based transmitter on 1395 AM (mediumwave), on Sky Channel 0190 or online at http://www.bigl.co.uk/.
(Source: East Anglian Daily Times/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)