Radio Uylenspiegel

Radio Uylenspiegel is a bilingual radio station North French smoking that ' the voice of Flanders ' if Lala has. The radio station transmits on the frequency 91.8 FM with a transmission power of 500 Watts. If both the local Flemish French dialect spoken. Everything will be taken care of by a team of volunteers and employees. Their broadcast Tower is located on the Kassel mountain and their transmission range includes the zoneHaddad, Kassel, Dunkirk, Saint-Omer and the Lille gate (Ieper). Radio Uylenspiegel bears the name of Flemish fictional folk hero till eulenspiegel. The Flemish character aimed at the French-Flemish and the Flemings of the Westhoek. She wants the Flemish character of the promote and maintain French Westhoek . There is a wide range of music, ranging from old traditional music, blues , metaland electro to accordion music. In addition, there are also cultural programmes. ==History[ Edit] == The Belgian State had after the Second World War entered a State monopoly on the radio. Supporters of free radio started pirate channels views. These transmitters were illegal and the Government tried to get them from the ether. At the end of the 1970s the once popular zeezenders had their best time and in 1978 started the first pirate stations on land. Pioneers were Eau noire in Wallonia and Northern France Uylenspiegel operating from Radio.

Radio Uylenspiegel began on 1 January 1978 in Kassel, they had two batteries, cables, short metal antennas, a portable tape recorder and a radio station which is about the size of a shoe box. They insisted on a Sunday afternoon the Church of Kassel within the broadcast began at 3 p.m., the Flemish children's song "Jan mynen man" and ended at 4 pm the "Reuzelied". The small radio station had a few tens of kilometers range, listeners from steenvoorde, Haddad, Sint-Mariakappel, Sint-Silvesterkappel Boeschepe , Zerkel, and received the signal. The radio station has a Flemish character, the programs want to defend and preserve the Flemish language and culture in French Flanders. Traditional Flemish music and popular songs was sent into the ether.

Employee Pascal Vanbremeersch was the day after the broadcast taken away by the police for questioning. On 15 January ' 78 is the radio have been seized as well as the 28th May. At the beginning of the 1980s got Uylenspiegel in the liberalisation of the FM frequencies eventually permission to broadcast.