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
Offshore radio broadcast is usually associated with European unlicenced radio stations; the trend never caught on as much in the United States as most organizations that could afford an offshore broadcasting boat would instead buy a legal station. Still, there were a few American offshore stations that made a lasting impression. The first station to broadcast in the U.S. from international waters was RXKR off of the coast of California. and broadcast from May 1933 until August 1933. It was operated from a cargo carrier named the S.S. City of Panama, a ship that was actually supposed to be advertising tourism in