J-2739
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The thread title says it all!
Capital FM: Yorkshire's no.1 Hit Music Station!
Sometimes Hallam also.
Capital FM: Yorkshire's no.1 Hit Music Station!
Sometimes Hallam also.
Britain's commercial radio stations used to be ace in the 70's and early 80's, but now they are indistinguishable, unlistenable and plagued with adverts.
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I stopped listening to my local "independent" radio station (MFR) for precisely that reason. Loss of local programming and an increasing amount of "network" content was another.
Capital FM: Yorkshire's no.1 Hit Music Station!
Unfortunately, most of your fellow forum members seem to be quite happy to listen to bland, networked stations, especially those from Global Radio.
How idea if it's owned by Global, but when I had workmen in the other week they asked if they could have their radio on, does anyone ever say no...?? and it was something called "Heart".
Britain's commercial radio stations used to be ace in the 70's and early 80's, but now they are indistinguishable, unlistenable and plagued with adverts.
Yes, Heart is owned by Global and is the most extreme case of Global Radio networking and extreme blandness. At least 20 local stations have been lost to the Heart brand.
Yes, Heart is owned by Global and is the most extreme case of Global Radio networking and extreme blandness. At least 20 local stations have been lost to the Heart brand.
It does seem quite bizarre that Global (and its predecessors) seem happy to use the Capital brand outside London, leading to odd sounding phrases like the above. Originally it was just Capital Radio, then Capital FM and Capital Gold, all serving London. Then when the big radio takeovers started being allowed, the Capital Radio group bought BRMB and Xtra AM, its AM counterpart. So they networked Capital Gold to Birmingham, creating the bizarrely named station of Capital Gold Birmingham. Now Capital is a brand that is even considered usable in Scotland.
Those of us old enough to remember the 1960s pirate radio stations tend to do so through rose-tinted spectacles, although they undoubtedly set in train Radio One and the commercial stations of the early/mid 1970s, but there were some shockers floating alongside Radio Caroline and Radio London. .
Those of us old enough to remember the 1960s pirate radio stations
Stations I used to listen to when I used to reside in my native West Midlands:
Beacon Radio
60's?? In the early to mid 80's in Manchester we had KFM pirate based in Stockport which was, if memory serves, the first to play CD's ahead of our local BBC and commercial stations!
I still have recordings which, if it weren't for copyright issues, I'd love to put on Youtube.
I listened to the first day of KFM when it went legal and I still have my recordings.
I wouldn't be afraid of putting up your recordings on YouTube. There are loads of old radio recordings on there. If commercial music is part of the recording then YouTube sometimes automatically blocks it so it is best to edit out the songs.