Word: mercur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radio Nord is only the latest radio pirate to steal onto the airways. The Swiss-owned Radio Mercur began broadcasting to Danish listeners from a freighter off Copenhagen three years ago, now takes in some $700,000 annually, boasts some 300,000 listeners, recently expanded to a bigger, better ship. A year ago, Radio Veronika began pirate broadcasts into Holland from an old German lightship, is still going strong, even tried an abortive beaming into England (they stopped because Dutch listeners complained, wanted all the programs in Dutch...
...Fortnight ago, Sweden issued an edict that it would confiscate Radio Nord's transmitting equipment if it came into Swedish waters. But authorities did not revoke the export permit that allows Nord to ferry its tapes out to the ship. Though Danish officials rail in print against Radio Mercur. the government's official newspaper, Aktuelt, sells the pirates its news service...