Complete North West Stations List
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EST-FM “Your alternative friend in Sound” broadcast to Birmingham between 1981 and 1984, but the roots can be traced back to the short-wave station Empire Radio, which took to the air in 1978. “The Empire” developed a good reputation for innovative programming, mixing contemporary music with comedy, but the limitations of short-wave reception were not…
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Magnum 100 FM first broadcast as SLR, Sophisticated Local Radio, and was linked to the SLR Radio in London. They started in 1990 as SLR for maybe a few days but turned into ‘Magnum Force’ quite quickly. It was originally run by Wile-up and Iroy, but Wile-up seemed to continue alone after a short time.…
Interference began as a radio project amongst some people in London and Bristol who were involved in direct action politics. Some of them also had a pirate radio pedigree. The idea was to splice together both these outlaw scenes and develop the overlap. The seeds were sown in summer 1997 following the Trafalgar Square ‘Never…
On May 8th 1990, Inner City Radio opened after a few days of tests playing ‘Soul II Soul’ tapes on 102FM and announced it would broadcast Thursdays to Sundays from 10am to 10pm on 101.75FM. Like most other pirates in Bristol the schedule would be filled with Reggae, Soul, Hip Hop and black-influenced chart stars…
FPR, Fran’s Pirate Radio, aka Radio Active, aka Solid State, was a one-man station run by a teenager from the Kingswood / Speedwell area of Bristol. They were on from sometime around late 1989 or early 1990 until July 1991. Inspired by Black FM, Fran explains how it got started… “What happened was someone went…
The story of Flight FM starts in about 1990. Two 15 year old lads, ‘Skinny D’ and ‘DJ Techno’, had been broadcasting using various station names (Spin FM, Bass FM, Hardcore FM…) using 50mW transmitters, drifting and humming up and down the dial for a couple of years. This was in the days before the…
Bristol has not had many stations playing purely dance music. Fantasy was one of the few to focus on the dance audience, but it did not last long. They were on at weekends only for between 2 and 4 weeks during spring and summer 1997. It boomed out various dance genres with a strong signal…
Between 1988 and 1989, SYT Radio had provided an alternative to both the legal stations and the other pirates in Bristol, broadcasting pre-recorded shows from cassette. Activist Heath Bunting knew the technician for SYT and fancied having a go at broadcasting himself, so having access to a functioning transmitter he decided to re-launch SYT Radio…