A community radio station breached the rules after accidentally announcing the death of King Charles III in a May broadcast, a UK watchdog said on Monday. Radio Caroline, a former pirate radio that now mostly plays rock music, apologised in May after airing messages falsely announcing the monarch’s death. The staff member played the files “out of curiosity”, which stopped the stream from the presenter’s remote location and broadcast the files on air. Radio Caroline said the remote presenter “would not realise that they had gone ‘off air’ unless they were monitoring their output via an internet monitor.” The station said the person who played the files had been “reprimanded” and had “apologised”.