Radio Atlantis was a Belgian-owned offshore pirate radio station, which operated between 1973 and 1974 from the coast of The Netherlands. The station began broadcasting from the Radio Caroline ship MV Mi Amigo on July 15, 1973. The station was owned by Belgian businessman Adriaan van Landschoot who ran a chain of boutiques trading under the name Carnaby, and the record company Mouse Music. The station broadcast taped programmes aimed at Flemish and Dutch audiences, and were recorded in a studio at Oostburg, Netherlands.
In October 1973 the station terminated its contract with Radio Caroline, following the collapse of the mast on the Mi Amigo, and acquired its own ship, naming it after van Landschoot's wife, the MS Jeanine (or Janiene - sources differ). Following three weeks of tests the station recommenced broadcasting on December 30, 1973. Both taped Flemish and mostly live English programmes were broadcast until the station was forced off the air by the Dutch Marine Offences Act. Radio Atlantis closed on the evening of 31 August 1974, the day before the act came into force. (Radio Veronica and Radio North Sea International also closed, though Radio Caroline and its new Belgian partner Radio Mi Amigo defied the act and remained on the air.)
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