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Voice of Peace ((ヘブライ語:קול השלום), ''Kol HaShalom'') was an offshore radio station that served the Middle East for 20 years from the former Dutch cargo vessel ''MV Peace'' (formally ''MV Cito''), anchored off Tel Aviv. Founded by Abie Nathan and the New York-based Peace Ship Foundation, the station broadcast almost continuously between 19 May 1973 and November 1993. The station was relaunched but solely as an online station in August 2009. A second online channel was added in 2014 called The Voice of Peace Classics. ==History== The aim of the Voice of Peace, rumoured to have been established with money from John Lennon, was to communicate peaceful co-existence to the volatile Middle East. The output was popular music presented by mostly British DJs broadcasting live from the ship. The main on-air studio consisted of a Gates Diplomat mixer, Technics SL-1200 turntables, Sony CD Players, and Gates NAB cartridge machines, on which the jingles and commercials were played. The second studio, for production, had a Gates turntable, reel-to-reel tape recorders, and an NAB cartridge recording unit. Voice of Peace was Israel's first offshore pop station and the first commercially funded private operation. The station’s American PAMS, CPMG, JAM, and TM Productions jingles, English-speaking DJs, and Top 40 hits attracted sponsors such as TWA and Coca Cola. Initially, the station transmitted on 1539 AM (announced as 1540 AM) and in 1980 added a signal at 100.0 FM. The original AM/MW transmitter was installed in New York before 1972 and consisted of two 25,000-watt Collins units and a Collins combiner, giving the station a potential 50 kW AM signal. The MW signal was broadcast from a centre-fed horizontal antenna slung between the fore and aft masts, a design similar to those used by Radio Veronica and later Laser 558. The station normally ran at 35 kW until late 1976, when it was decided to operate just one transmitter at a time, keeping the other in reserve. In 1985, Keith York's repair of the combiner enabled the two Collins units to be run together again, resulting in a large mailbag from Turkey, Crete, Greece, and Cyprus, areas the Voice of Peace message hadn't reached for nine years. After these AM transmitters became unserviceable, a Canadian Nautel 10 kW AM transmitter was installed. The 20 kW FM transmitter installed in Israel was manufactured by Harris. This, with the antenna array, delivered around 80 kW ERP (Effective Radiated Power) of stereo. A second 20 kW Harris FM transmitter was also installed on board the peace ship. Notable personalities were involved in broadcasting. John Lennon, The Carpenters, Johnny Mathis and others recorded messages of peace. John and Yoko Lennon signed hundreds of peace posters which Abie Nathan could sell in hardtimes. During the mid-1970s, the station boasted more than 20 million listeners from the Middle East to southern Europe and Turkey, thanks to the format used by professional broadcasters led by Keith Ashton. The VoP had mostly short-lived rivals. The best known was the right-wing Arutz Sheva (Channel 7). Presenters with Voice of Peace included Tony Allan, Bob Noakes, Ken Dickin, Phil Brice, Richard West (now using real name Richard Harding on Island FM), Steve Gordon, Richard Wood, Don Stevens, Alan Roberts, and Crispian St John, who sailed through the Suez Canal on board with Abie Nathan in early 1977; Gavin McCoy, Tony Lyman (as Vince Mould), Malcolm Barry, Chris Phelan now known as Chris Williams, Guy Starkey, Peter Quinn, Tom Hardy, Norman Lloyd, Richard Jackson, Keith York, Kas Collins, Nathan Morley, Mark Hurrell, Steve Marshall, Chris Pearson,Keith Lewis, Graham Day, Geoff Fitch, Paul James, Guy Bradley, Ian Stewart, Steve Silby, Rob Charles, Dave Shearer, Doug Wood, Digby Taylor, Tony Mandell, Nigel Harris, Mike Kerslake (Davis/Coconut), Cliff Walker, Alex Skinner, Andrew Yeates, Neil Turnbull, Nigel Grover, John Macdonald, Steve Rowney (aka Carlos the Chicken), and Grant Benson. Johnny Lewis appeared in the early 1980s as Johnny Moss. Steve Greenberg, who became a Grammy-winning producer and president of Columbia Records, was another early-1980s broadcaster. Kenny Page was one of the longest-serving presenters, on board from the 1970s to the 1990s. Paul Rogers (ex-Radio Elenore, Liverpool) spent one year on board from 1984–1985, before becoming Dave Collins on Radio Caroline. He still works in radio in Belgium. Writer-producer Richard Doran Ticho was a DJ in 1985, and bought the domain name http://www.VoiceOfPeace.com in the early 1993, around the time the ship was scuttled. The site is designed to educated and entertain. A reunion in Amsterdam, on November 4, 2006, Radio Day, to celebrate a book by Hans Knot of station memories and was attended by many, including Channel Two Israel, which interviewed Don Stevens, Chris Pearson, and Steve Silby, and broadcast the newsreel worldwide. This resulted in Don Stevens contacting with his long-lost child, Sarit. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Voice of Peace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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