Pirate radio makes a come back this weekend as Radio London is revived, a whopping 38 years after being closed down when broadcasting regulations were tightened in the late 1960s.

Ray Anderson who is behind the comeback states �I have been very disillusioned with the Radio Authority and now Ofcom. They don’t allow competition in to the market and protect exiting franchises. I have applied for licences before for other projects and it’s an exclusive club.” He has attempted to gain licences for the station during the past eight years and failed.

Instead of broadcasting from a rusty ship in the North Sea like pirates Radio Caroline in the 1960s, programmes will be recorded [on land] in England before being sent to The Netherlands to be transmitted back again. The station will also be streamed over the internet and on sky channel 940. By transmitting from the Netherlands, Anderson will bypass pirating rules set by the media regulator in the UK.

However, Ofcom is offering new community licences for stations run for and by local people in an attempt to disband pirate stations.