What radio stations gave you the bug for radio?

[Deleted User] · 22/08/12 - 19:59

For me it was radio 1,Atlantic 252 and rock fm (when it first aired)

jeffrey4670 · 22/08/12 - 20:16

From a young age, being on holiday in Bridlington in the early 70s listening to Radio North Sea International and a Knickerbocker glory ice cream. Oh those days will never come back!

[Deleted User] · 22/08/12 - 20:28

Chiltern The Hot FM, Power FM, The Superstation, Luxembourg, Atlantic 252, KKBQ Houston (a friend brought a tape back. Yes, a tape. It was the 80s). WRKS Kiss FM New York (regular trips to Manhattan when on Camp America in New Jersey in, yes you guessed it, the 80s).

Ollie_h19 · 22/08/12 - 20:31

Atlantic 252 at first. Then Chris Evans started at Radio 1 which also led me to discover Mark & Lard's 'graveyard shift' and the rest is history.

[Deleted User] · 22/08/12 - 20:34

Mine was Lincs FM... acheived at the age of 18!

BMR · 22/08/12 - 20:34

As a teenageer? Atlantic 252 and BRMB (this would have been circa 1990). Both sounded waaay cooler to me than Radio One!!!

Phil Dodd · 22/08/12 - 20:45

BMR wrote: »

As a teenageer? Atlantic 252 and BRMB (this would have been circa 1990). Both sounded waaay cooler to me than Radio One!!!

If it was 1990s, they probably were !

In olden days we used to have real bugs in the radio ! The old valve sets in use until the mid 1960s used to get nice and warm, and had little lightbulbs behind the tuning dial. It was quite common for all sorts of things to live inside the sets and move around when they got warm. Spiders especially would put in appearance behind the tuning dial a short while after it lit up...

But at least the programmes were good in the 1950s - even the adults enjoyed them...

darnall42 · 22/08/12 - 20:46

Radio Hallam,Luxemborg,and in the summer when we went away to the coast i loved caroline and later on laser 558

kev · 22/08/12 - 20:53

Atlantic 252, (Red Rose) Rock FM (started going down hill around the time Sally Stone joined), Red Rose Gold, and later Century 105.

[Deleted User] · 22/08/12 - 21:02

Agree with Sally stone she was shocking

spanners · 22/08/12 - 21:02

49m band Shortwave radio in the seventies: Radio Netherland's "Happy Station", BBC World Service, RTL on Sunday mornings, Radio Prague, Radio Moscow and several shortwave pirate stations.

[Deleted User] · 22/08/12 - 21:20

Atlantic 252 & Beacon Radio

FM Lover · 22/08/12 - 21:22

Laser 558 for me, that was so slick on air and I though "hell yeah, I wanna do that"

Martin Phillp · 22/08/12 - 21:37

Invicta.

Bollard · 22/08/12 - 22:17

2CR, Geoff Allen.

[Deleted User] · 22/08/12 - 22:25

Atlantic 252 and Radio City 96.7 and also the Pepsi Chart use to love taping the new songs off that:)

steve w · 22/08/12 - 22:42

Atlantic 252 and Galaxy when I was a teenager

Gary Brenton · 22/08/12 - 23:19

It has to be 'Beacon Radio' (97.2 in the Midlands) and BRMB (94.8 in Birmingham) - BOTH now the same station (Free-Radio)

These were both completely different stations at the time and both very unique in their own way.

Gerry1 · 22/08/12 - 23:53

No mention of Caroline?

Rich_McLean · 23/08/12 - 00:18

Pirate FM back in the 90's. Many happy memories of Ian Palmear making a fool of himself

LaurelandHardy · 23/08/12 - 00:34

Radio Luxembourg, RNI and Caroline were the stations for me in the 1970's.
I was a teenager in the late 1960's but our house was so regimented that my sister and I weren't allowed to listen to those stations that "play the Devil's music!" Hence I have such awful memories of "Sing Something Simple" like I have mentioned before!

wckartist · 23/08/12 - 01:50

Gary Brenton wrote: »

It has to be 'Beacon Radio' (97.2 in the Midlands)

I know i've alluded to this before, but even though my first gig as a "young 'un" was on a more high profile station, i was always envious of the way Beacon went about their business......how i wish i could have opened a station with "Sunrise" by Eric Carmen!!!

colinhanslip · 23/08/12 - 03:18

Ocean Sound for me

[Deleted User] · 23/08/12 - 10:00

Radio Luxembourg, Radio 1 (late 70s/early 80s) and recently stations like Radio Six International.

Seagull259 · 23/08/12 - 12:12

Really got into radio in 1971/72 so it was Luxembourg, Veronica & RNI followed by Caroline's return.

wckartist · 23/08/12 - 12:33

Seagull259 wrote: »

Really got into radio in 1971/72 so it was Luxembourg, Veronica & RNI followed by Caroline's return.

Obvious really, given your name on here!:D;)

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