Steve England Steve England Steve England is a radio producer and former radio disc-jockey, and at present runs a jingle production company in Leek, Staffordshire, which was established in 1997. He has been called a "guru of radio advertising" and is a former member of glam punk band The Flowers of Romance. England was a disc-jockey on the offshore pirate radio stations Radio Caroline, Radio Mi Amigo and Radio Atlantis, and one of the first independent local radio stations in the UK, Piccadilly Radio in Manchester. After spending time as head of commercial production, England started a partnership with Alan Fawkes and
Pirate radio and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." In Europe, Denmark had the first known radio station in the world to broadcast commercial radio from a vessel in international waters without permission from the authorities in the country that it broadcast to (Denmark in this case). The station was named Radio Mercur and began transmission on August 2, 1958. In the Danish newspapers it was soon called a "pirate radio". In the 1960s in the UK, the term referred to not only a perceived unauthorized use of the state-run spectrum by the unlicensed broadcasters but also the risk-taking nature