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Free Radio in Finland
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In this second article about Free
Radio we discuss about the free radio
in Finland.
It's not a very well-known fact that
were we to go to talk about the birth
of Finnish pirateradios, we would have
to go back to the 1940's. The first
illegal radio stations in Finland were
very radical political stations which
operated during the World War II. They
were operated by the Finnish left-wing
communists and they broadcast from
forests near Lahti and Helsinki in the
southern Finland. The "programs" were
of course radical political speeches
against legal government of Finland and
the war with the Soviet Union.
Next pirate which could be described
as 'Finnish' was Radio Nord. In fact,
Radio Nord operated off the Swedish
coast near Stockholm in the early
1960's.The station could be heard very
well here in Finland, too, and the
founder of Nord,Jack Kotschach,was born
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in Finland. Radio Nord was closed down
in the early 1960's after a short but
succesful life,and soon after that were
born the first real Finnish pirates.
Although we have only few details
from the 60's,we believe that the first
Finnish landbased pirate radio was
Radio Troyan. Troyan operated in the
south of Finland broadcasting both on
FM and on the medium long waves. Troyan
started broadcasts right in 1964, and
they were still operating in 1968.
When we arrive to the 70's, we find
that the idea of free radios became
more and more common. Right in the
early 70's there were several small
pirate projects especially in the
coastal areas, for example Pori, Rauma
and Turku. In 1973 and 1974 The Public
Broadcasting Company of Finland had
some long strikes. People who were
interested in free radio noticed that
now it was a good time to get hundreds,
even thousands of listeners when there
were no other stations on the air on
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