The Commercial Neutral Broadcasting Company (CNBC) was an
English language pirate radio station which hired airtime for a few hours each day from the
Dutch pirate
Radio Veronica in 1960–1961. Programmes were pre-recorded at Veronica's
Amsterdam studio together with the Dutch programmes, and broadcast from the Veronica ship ''Borkum Riff''. The address for prospective advertisers was given as Ross Radio Productions Ltd, 23
Upper Wimpole Street,
W1.
CNBC has the distinction of being the first pirate station to broadcast to the
United Kingdom, almost four years before
Radio Caroline, although few British listeners ever heard it as its signal originated from the Dutch side of the
North Sea and did not penetrate very far inland. After only a few months Veronica terminated its contract because the
advertising revenue from
Dutch programming was more lucrative.
[{{cite book , last1=Leonard , first1=Mike , title=From International Waters 60 Years of Offshore Broadcasting , date=1996 , publisher=Forest Press , isbn=9780952768401 , page=53, url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/From_International_Waters/WEG4AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=%22radio%20caroline%22%20%22keith%20martin%22]
See also
*
Pirate radio in the United Kingdom
*
Keith Martin (broadcaster)
References
External links
Remembering CNBC Radio
Offshore radio