Radio Decibel (pirate radio)

Radio Decibel was an illegal radio station in Amsterdam during the eighties of the twentieth century.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == The transmitter was founded in 1977 by Eddie Kleyn, René de Leeuw and Cees Kreuger, several years after the Dutch Government had made an end to the zeezenders. The first broadcast was on september 17, 1977.After four hours, the station was taken off the air by the RCD (Radio Control Service). After three or four broadcasts seemed done with decibels.
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In december 1979 sending Ruud Huisman and Theo Visser in on the Amsterdam cable network (frequency of the then WDR 3) and they are started with frequent broadcasts on weekends. The station, which broadcast only on weekends in the early years, turned top 40 music with the emphasis on the disco pictures. Only after the new start, a new format was chosen in december 1979 by Dance and New wave music. With the support of Atalos Import Records and (later) Boudisque in Amsterdam there are many English and American import was dance music. This was later translated to two own charts, The Decibel Dance report and Blitz top 10 (wave). ===Extension[ Edit] === After 3 months (early 1980s) were the employees of Radio Decibel invited on a competition for club DJs. As a result, it became clear how popular and important input from Radio Decibel was for the clubs in Amsterdam.This was the sign for the old guard to attract and expand programming. Jeroen van Inkel Radio Nova 's stepped over to Decibels at the moment that there is still no live broadcasts were provided. In the first period were the programs recorded on tape. Later there were direct shows from Jan van galenstraat presented in Amsterdam. There were also the old Decibeljocks René Kleijn again attracted the Lion and Eddie and Jeroen van Inkel introduced the 17-year-old Adam Curry, who under the pseudonym John Holden an American (English language) radio program presented and over time by Veronica-dj Lex Harding was discovered and for television was asked (Countdown).

After several months there was moved to the Da costakade in Amsterdam, where Decibels would remain for many years. On the Da costakade was greatly expanded the number of deejays with Rob van Someren,Simone Walraven (first as a television anchor), Frank van Houten, Robb St. Johann, Dennis van Rooyen, René de Leeuw, Linda Davis, Hanno Thick, Lion Keezer, Sjors Hamasaki and Hans van der Plas. We also read the news, where Simone Walraven and Roderick Veelo (now RTL-Z) their inaugural did. In 1984 were the deejays Adam Curry and Jeroen van Inkel contracted by Veronica, Rob of Someren (laterTROS, Veronica) and Daniël Dekker (TROS) went after them at a later stage. ===Freewave[ Edit] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1985 sent Decibels by the end its illegal are still several months from Lead Free wave Radiothrough. The station was dealt with by the Radio Control Service so hard that one no longer could stay in the air from Amsterdam. The Leiden pirate Freewave offered the evening hours, whereby Decibel the broadcasts, including Amsterdam advertisers, could continue from Leiden .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The legalization of Decibels through the Amsterdam cable network was the demise of the station. The commercial activities had to be discontinued making it was not financially feasible to maintain the station. One was dependent on sponsorship and there should no longer be advertised, in addition were the broadcasts over the air is not possible anymore, the death blow for decibels.