Voice of Peace
The ship MV Peace in East of the Mediterranean and the antenna of the "Voice of Peace" radio station broadcasting to the Middle East
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| Broadcast area | East of the Mediterranean Sea |
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| Slogan | From somewhere in the Mediterranean, we are the Voice of Peace |
| Frequency | 1539 Khz AM (although it would announce it as 1540 Khz) (1973-1993) 100.0M Hz FM (1980-1993) |
| First air date | 19th May 1973 - November 1993 |
| Format | Pop / Variety |
| Owner | Abie Nathan |
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| Broadcast area | Online streaming from Tel Aviv, Israel |
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| Slogan | The Voice of Peace, One Great Station, Two Fantastic Channels |
| First air date | November 7, 2009-present 2014-present - The Voice of Peace Classics (2nd channel) |
| Format | Pop / Variety / Oldies |
| Website | http://www.thevoiceofpeace.co.il/ |
| Broadcast area | Streaming from London, England |
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| Slogan | The Vault of Pop all Time Hits |
| First air date | 2010-present |
| Format | Pop / Variety |
Voice of Peace (Hebrew: קול השלום, Kol HaShalom) was an offshore radio station that served the Middle East for 20 years from the former Dutch cargo vessel MV Peace (formally MV Cito), anchored off Tel Aviv. Founded by Abie Nathan and the New York-based Peace Ship Foundation, the station broadcast almost continuously between 19 May 1973 and November 1993. The station was relaunched but solely as an online station in August 2009. A second online channel was added in 2014 called The Voice of Peace Classics.
The aim of the Voice of Peace, rumoured to have been established with money from John Lennon, was to communicate peaceful co-existence to the volatile Middle East. The output was popular music presented by mostly British DJs broadcasting live from the ship. The main on-air studio consisted of a Gates Diplomat mixer, Technics SL-1200 turntables, Sony CD Players, and Gates NAB cartridge machines, on which the jingles and commercials were played. The second studio, for production, had a Gates turntable, reel-to-reel tape recorders, and an NAB cartridge recording unit.
Voice of Peace was Israel's first offshore pop station and the first commercially funded private operation. The station’s American PAMS, CPMG, JAM, and TM Productions jingles, English-speaking DJs, and Top 40 hits attracted sponsors such as TWA and Coca Cola. Initially, the station transmitted on 1539 AM (announced as 1540 AM) and in 1980 added a signal at 100.0 FM.
The original AM/MW transmitter was installed in New York before 1972 and consisted of two 25,000-watt Collins units and a Collins combiner, giving the station a potential 50 kW AM signal. The MW signal was broadcast from a centre-fed horizontal antenna slung between the fore and aft masts, a design similar to those used by Radio Veronica and later Laser 558. The station normally ran at 35 kW until late 1976, when it was decided to operate just one transmitter at a time, keeping the other in reserve. In 1985, Keith York's repair of the combiner enabled the two Collins units to be run together again, resulting in a large mailbag from Turkey, Crete, Greece, and Cyprus, areas the Voice of Peace message hadn't reached for nine years. After these AM transmitters became unserviceable, a Canadian Nautel 10 kW AM transmitter was installed.
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