On This Day.
September 8th.
08 Sep. 1971 GBR. Edinburgh. 1322 kHz MW. 01:00-02:30 Radio Free City is on air tonight
08 Sep. 1973 GBR. London. 92.8 FM. Radio Free London [RFL] is on air this evening
08 Sep. 1974
+ IRL. 6210 kHz SW. Radio Valleri is on air today
+ GBR. 6225 kHz SW. Radio Venus North’s International Service is on air today
08 Sep. 1979 GBR. London. 92.0 FM. Radio Free London [RFL] puts out programmes by Mark Ashton, Jerry James, and Mike Burnett.
08 Sep. 1981 GBR Merseyside 1107kHz MW. Radio J1000 is on air 7 days a week
08 Sep. 1983 GBR Twickenham. 1494 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Sovereign Radio is on air today
08 Sep. 1984
+ GBR. Ludlow. 1017 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Sunshine Radio is on air today
+ GBR. SW London. 1332 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Radio Jackie is on air today
+ GBR. SE London. 1413 kHz MW and 90.2 FM. Skyline Radio is on air today 06:00-00:00
+ GBR. London. 102.5 FM. Horizon Radio is on air 7 days a week
+ GBR. London. 103.4 FM. JFM is on air 7 days a week
08 Sep. 1985
+ GBR. London 1188 kHz MW. South East Sound is on air this afternoon playing rock and pop
+ GBR. NW London. 1350 kHz MW. 3 Boroughs Radio is on air today. Bob Williams, Dave Scott, and Trevor Hayes appear
+ GBR. Chelmsford. 90.7 FM. Radio Galaxy is on air today
+ GBR. London. 90.9 FM. Radio Phoenix returns with test transmissions
08 Sep. 1986
+ GBR. St Ives., 103.0 FM 19:00-21:00, Sue Jacobson puts out a last Radio Argus show, due to larger than expected mail sent in. The station then closes, announcing a Christmas, or summer return. DJs not living in Cornwall return home.
08 Sep. 1987 GBR. Redruth. 1503 kHz MW. Radio Argus Cornwall is on air today
08 Sep. 1988 GBR. Camborne. 1503 kHz MW. Radio Argus Cornwall is on air 07:00-23:00
08 Sep. 1989
+ GBR. Bromley. 1125 kHz MW and 92.0 FM. While Radio Argus London as well as Radio Free London and Rock FM [RFM] are using 92.0 FM, Argus continues to try out different MW channels. Now they use a channel that is to become their favourite… 1125 kHz. Its wavelength ‘266m’ is to give the opt-out service for the older music its name – Planet 266 – felt to be ‘anoracky’ enough without being contrived.
(On the last point, it seems several rock stations have tried different services as alternative or opt-out channels to the main one, Alices and Phoenix, RFM and Jennifer. In the case of Argus the name of the opt-out laidback channel changed names a bit. Radio Seagull, was reincarnated but that was felt too contrived, so it was dropped in favour of Union Silver, [most of its music being around 25 years old, so not ‘gold’ which we argued should be 50..]. Planet 266 was the ultimate name, and at one time we had two aerial wires down the garden for 1593 and 1125, with a simple switch panel that allowed the mixer output and a walkman output to go to either channel or both!) 🙂
But that’s enough about that 🙂
As ever, if you have any corrections or additions to the items I am posting please let me know!
Regards, and goodnight.
Bert Bridges
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