Pirate Radio and Television Stations

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Posts and Telecommunications – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 July 1970.

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Photo of Mr Christopher Chataway Mr Christopher Chataway , Chichester 12:00, 6 July 1970

While we intend to introduce commercial radio, we cannot condone the illicit use of frequencies contrary to our laws and to international agreements, which expressly prohibit broadcasting from ships and aircraft outside national territories. We are bound, therefore, to continue counter-measures, not least in order to protect the frequencies allocated to other countries, which the pirate is now using. I am determined to keep interference to B.B.C. services to the minimum; but the evidence is at present that virtually all the interference is caused by the pirate's own transmissions.