When R.A.W. first emerged out of the ether on the 5th November 1988, the station, thought to be an ‘overspill’ for F.T.P DJ’s, was initially called Superfresh FM. They lasted little more than a month or so, but for such a short-lived station they boasted quite an impressive studio from the sounds of it. Not…
This station started after SPEC Radio closed in 1992, playing cassettes for weeks on end and linking over Pukar Radio at one point. This caused the Pukar DJs to rant with fury, “SPEC Crew, we know it’s you, 105 is Pukar’s frequency”, once the link jamming had stopped and Pukar’s audio returned. Raw FM then…
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Storm FM ran for a month or so around March 2001 and it was a spin off of Passion FM. The station was purely for dance music of all kinds such as House, Techno, DnB, Garage and so on. It featured DJs such as Pod, Pink Dean, Clipz, Anon Lee, The Psalmist, Paz, and others…
TYHM (or THYM – it is not certain exactly how it was spelled), pronounced ‘Time’ Radio, was a cassette based station playing only Soul music on 106FM during 1996 and possibly into 1997. There were no DJs, just a sprinkling of jingles and ads to break up the music. The ads on the recordings of…
Phase One, September 1988 to August 1989 SYT Radio was political – with a small “p”, in the same way that community radio itself is political. You could reference it into the wider story of political radio and the long history of broadcasting, on the subject of which there are now many books on the…
ON S.P.E.C. Venue Magazine – March 16th 1990 Since December, SPEC (St. Pauls and Easton Community) Radio has been the new mellow sound on your FM dial, but the decision to set up this new Bristol pirate was made back in July, before Black FM were on the air. Now broadcasting wit a regular schedule…
SPEC Radio was set up by DJ Stax and Junior Ash to try and achieve what they thought the legal version of FTP would fail to achieve – to give a real community voice to the Black and Asian communities of Bristol, especially in the areas of St. Pauls and Easton. The station was first…
Black FM hit the airwaves on 97.9 MHz on 21st July 1989, defining itself as being “…NOT a community radio station but a privately owned music enterprise which likes to help out in the community.” They managed to cover most of Bristol quite well, although not quite getting a listenable signal out as far as…
SAVAGE YET SERIOUS Venue Magazine, 8th – 22nd November 1991 page 27 Previously mocked as the most amateurish pirate radio station in town, SYT Radio has gone dead serious with deep commitment to professional-standard broadcasting. Or maybe not, as John Mitchell finds out. It’s 6.30pm on a very dark Sunday evening in Bristol. Deep in…