On This Day…
October 12th.
12 Oct. 1971 GBR. Edinburgh. 1322 kHz MW. 01:00-02:30 Radio Free City is on air tonight
12 Oct. 1978 GBR. Wolverhampton. 1332 kHz MW. UK Radio is on air this evening
12 Oct. 1980
+ GBR. Birmingham. 1323 kHz MW. Radio Free Birmingham [RFB] is on air this afternoon
+ GBR. West London. 1350 kHz MW. Radio Floss is on air today
+ GBR. 6310 and 6850 kHz SW. Radio Caroline Short Wave [RCSW] is on air this morning. The transmission sites vary between Thetford Forest and the Malvern Hills, usually running 50 watts
+ GBR. London. 92.8 FM. Radio Telstar South is on air this evening
+ GBR. West London. 94.4 FM. Uptown Radio is on air this evening
+ GBR. London. 102.5 FM. Horizon Radio begins broadcasts on Sundays, using a two-hour pre-recorded black music programme.
12 Oct. 1981 GBR. Merseyside 1107 kHz MW. Radio J1000 is on air 7 days a week
12 Oct. 1983
+ GBR. Ludlow. 1017 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Sunshine Radio is on air today
+ GBR Twickenham. 1494 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Sovereign Radio is on air today
12 Oct. 1984
+ GBR. Ludlow. 1017 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Sunshine Radio is on air today
+ GBR. SW London. 1323 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Radio Jackie is on air today
+ GBR. SE London. 90.2 FM. Skyline Radio is raided today
+ GBR. London. 92.5 FM. LWR is raided today
+ GBR. Telford. 96.1 FM. Shropshire Sound is on air today 08:00-20:00
+ GBR. London. 103.4 FM. JFM is raided today
12 Oct. 1985 GBR. Chelmsford. 90.7 FM. Radio Galaxy is on air today
12 Oct. 1986
+ GBR. West Midlands. 3465 kHz SW. Radio Orion is on air 20:00-21:00
+ BEL. 6205 kHz SW. Radio Delmare relays FRSH today
+ IRL. 6830 kHz SW IRRS also relays FRSH today
+ GBR. Chelmsford. 90.7 FM. Radio Galaxy is on air today
+ GBR. London. RFM rig pops after 10 minutes.
+ GBR. St Ives. 103.0 FM Radio Argus gets a new DJ, when Fred Boggs joins. He is a practical joker and one of the first things he does is set fire to Pete’s newspaper, while he is reading it out on the air!
12 Oct. 1987 GBR. Redruth. 1503 kHz MW. Radio Argus Cornwall is on air today 07:00-23:00
12 Oct. 1989
+ GBR. Bromley. 963 kHz MW and 92.0 FM. Radio Argus London is on air today
I plan to do a large upgrade this coming Sunday, so if people could send in details, particularly in 1984 of when the raided stations returned, I would be grateful. Someone has said that LWR was the first back on from a back up studio… was that the same day, a day after or… when? Was this raid after which Skyline dropped the AM when they returned, or was it kept a while longer? When did JFM return?
All this plus a lot of facts and figures already sent to me will be gone through and hopefully a lot of it added to the document, currently on 500 pages
Regards
Bert Bridges
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