{"id":17875,"date":"2022-11-27T01:11:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T01:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/11\/27\/dread-broadcasting-corporation-the-pirate-that-changed-british-radio\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T01:11:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T01:11:44","slug":"dread-broadcasting-corporation-the-pirate-that-changed-british-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=17875","title":{"rendered":"Dread Broadcasting Corporation: The pirate that changed British radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In 1981 Rita Marley\u2019s brother Leroy Anderson aka Lepke launched the Dread Broadcasting Corporation (DBC), Europe\u2019s first dedicated black music station.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Frustrated by the lack of airtime for reggae music in the UK, Lepke setup a mast in his back garden and began to broadcast to a small area of West London every Sunday afternoon. DBC soon expanded to cover all styles of black music and with its unmistakable logo featuring a dread with headphones and a spliff became a trailblazer for the future of black British radio in the UK. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Carmella Jervier aka Sister C told Witness History how hearing black female DJs like the Ranking Miss P on DBC inspired her to become a DJ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p004t1hd\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Witness History<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">: The stories of our times told by the people who were there.  <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/stories-63746512?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In 1981 Rita Marley\u2019s brother Leroy Anderson aka Lepke launched the Dread Broadcasting Corporation (DBC), Europe\u2019s first dedicated black music station. Frustrated by the lack of airtime for reggae &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}