{"id":463477,"date":"2020-06-12T14:02:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=463477"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:02:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:02:12","slug":"wmr-pioneer-robin-j-king-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=463477","title":{"rendered":"WMR pioneer Robin J. King passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Music Radio wrote on Facebook<br \/>\n12 June 2020<br \/>\nWMR pioneer Robin J. King passed away unexpectedly in the early hours of today June 11th 2020.<br \/>\nRobin joined World Music Radio in January 1973 &#8211; only six years after WMR commenced broadcasting. Robin King was known \u2018on air\u2019 as Lee Alvin.<br \/>\nAfter WMR was raided by the Dutch authorities in August 1973, Robin J. King played a key role in getting WMR back on the air via AM-transmitters in Italy, Ireland, and Andorra \u2013 as well as via local FM-stations in France and Italy, where the more than 600 hours of WMR programmes often were aired at night.<br \/>\nAfter having lived in the Netherlands for many years, Robin married Sarah in 1989 and they soon moved to Luxembourg to live in an old stone farmhouse. He had also bought a house in Portugal, where he and Sarah lived a few years.<br \/>\nBy the mid-1990s Robin King had stopped being actively involved in WMR.<br \/>\nRobin King was 77 years old.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WorldMusicRadioWMR\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WorldMusicRadioWMR\/<\/a><br \/>\nIan B adds on the Free Radio Forum:<br \/>\nSome may remember Robin as Phil Hazelton on Radio Kaleidoscope and Radio Jackie and as Lee Alvin on ABC Europe. and World Music Radio.<br \/>\nA great broadcaster, RIP<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mb.boardhost.com\/FreeRadioForum\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/mb.boardhost.com\/FreeRadioForum\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Music Radio wrote on Facebook 12 June 2020 WMR pioneer Robin J. King passed away unexpectedly in the early hours of today June 11th 2020. Robin joined World Music Radio in January 1973 &#8211; only six years after WMR commenced broadcasting. Robin King was known \u2018on air\u2019 as Lee Alvin. After WMR was raided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=463477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WMR pioneer Robin J. King passed away<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,24],"class_list":["post-463477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-am","tag-fm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5CD59-1Wzr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1167,"url":"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=1167","url_meta":{"origin":463477,"position":0},"title":"WMR Weekend Music Radio","author":"Administrator","date":"November 12, 2006 14:58","format":false,"excerpt":"WMR Weekend Music Radio is on 6401 Khz at 1455 Utc with SINPO 23333 S=7. 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