{"id":7794,"date":"2022-11-28T23:50:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T23:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/dread-broadcasting-corporation-the-pirate-that-changed-british-radio\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T23:50:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T23:50:22","slug":"dread-broadcasting-corporation-the-pirate-that-changed-british-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/dread-broadcasting-corporation-the-pirate-that-changed-british-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Dread Broadcasting Corporation: The pirate that changed British radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <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><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>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 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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1591,5039,854,5040,5038,5041,313],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7796,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions\/7796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}