Twilight broadcast programmes for the Afro-Caribbean community in Nottingham If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads To save any item from this list then Right Click and ‘Save Target As…’ Audio Mr Fingers – 10/5/91 80 mins Test – 12/5/91 11 mins Boss – Image – Dread…
Midlands Underground broadcast from Wolverhampton on 107 FM. They were first heard in November 1995 and continued well into the 21st century. They broadcast a wide variety of dance music. Downloads To save any item from this list then Right Click and ‘Save Target As…’ Cuttings Cutting 1 Audio Midlands Underground – 107 – Unknown…
Boomerang FM broadcast from Edinburgh in the early 1990s. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads To save any item from this list then Right Click and ‘Save Target As…’ Audio Boomerang 100 FM – Edinburgh – DJ Menace – Early 1993 46 mins Boomerang 100 FM…
Although born on the Shetland Isles, Ian Anderson started his broadcasting career on Radio Caroline in 1974, before moving onto other offshore stations Radio Atlantis and Radio Northsea International. He was then in at the start of land based commercial radio in Scotland at Radio Forth. The idea of a local radio station in his…
Calderdale Sound were first heard in 1976, with occasional broadcasts until 1984. They were based in the small town of Todmorden in the Calder Valley. The town is set between 3 valleys, so reception of nearby local stations was poor In 1984 a new transmitter was bought and the station re-launched on 1405 kHz with…
Music City Radio (MCR) were first heard across Leeds in late 1986 on 90.3 FM. They were set up to serve the city’s black community playing mostly reggae and soul music. The station always had a good signal, and then following a raid in 1988, decided to go even further with the addition of another…
ABC FM (Alpha broadcasting Company) were first heard across Leeds in late 1986. They were based in the Chapeltown area of the city and played mostly reggae and soul music. They could be heard at weekends and weekday nights initially on 94.6 FM. Following some raids and a period off air, they returned in December…
In the late 1970s, there was a station called Phoenix Radio, that broadcast progressive and alternative rock on 214m to East London and Essex. That station closed in September 1980 and most of the people involved went on to start Alices Restaurant (although later on, Alice would split into 2 stations and the Phoenix name…
Charles Turner had been involved in the 1970s station Radio Aquarius and Alistair Bates in the early 1980s station RFM. In 1983 they decided to join forces in a new venture that would become KFM. This was to be a professional operation from the start, so a company was formed, Mersey Valley Electronics, and a…
In May of 1988, there were rumours of new reggae, soul station starting in Leeds, but it wasn’t until June that the first tests took place for Rapid Radio. Regular broadcasts started in June 1988, on 105.8 FM. By August they had shifted down to 103.6, and in September were on 98.1. By this point…