November 1990 |
Ghiora Izsak, Marketing Manager for Aruts Sheva left to set up his own offshore radio station |
15th January 1991 |
Radio One started broadcasting with a full schedule of news and information programmes from the outset due to the outbreak of the Gulf War (rather than, as had been planned, spending the first month operating test transmissions of continuous music) |
31st January 1993 |
A severe storm in the eastern Mediterranean drove the Radio One ship, Polaris, aground outside Haifa Harbour, but programmes continued to be relayed from landbased studios to the stranded ship. |
23rd March 1993 |
Polaris re- |
** April 1993 |
After local elections which resulted in a change of Mayor and Council in Haifa, the authorities raided the Polaris and forced Radio One to close, (although it did re- |
end of 1994 |
Shortly before contracts for local commercial radio were about to be advertised, Radio One closed voluntarily because to have continued as a landbased pirate would have prevented the station tendering for a licence |
18th October 1995 |
Radio One awarded a licence for the Haifa area and began legal broadcasts using the call sign Radio Haifa. |