First Radio Stations You Ever Listened To
Jonathan1990
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Sharing a few memories here.
With me been a young adult the first I remember about radio was when my Dad used to have Jimmy Young on every day which was BBC Radio 2 around 1993. I remember opening the 1st door on the very first advent calendar I had while he had it playing. I was living about 7 miles from Holmfirth then so I imagine it must have been from Holme Moss on 89.3 and I do remember the areal never having to go up.
First AM station I listened to must have been Radio 10 Gold on 675 AM but it's hard for me to remember as I just remember getting a little toy radio that could not receive well on the FM band but got loads of AM stations and I remember one that played this music which must have been about 1996.
First DAB was whatever was first on the MXR North East block as that was the first I ever received on Christmas Day 2003 when I got my first handheld one and went for a walk with it. There was no DAB signal in the house then. My local transmitter started to transmit the BBC and Digital 1 in February 2008.
First internet station was Virgin Radio which was also about 2003 or maybe even 2002 when I was in a IT lesson at school. I remember telling a classmate that I could get radio on the internet and I got thumped for it. Bad memory there but it was the first time I listened to a station from the internet.
With me been a young adult the first I remember about radio was when my Dad used to have Jimmy Young on every day which was BBC Radio 2 around 1993. I remember opening the 1st door on the very first advent calendar I had while he had it playing. I was living about 7 miles from Holmfirth then so I imagine it must have been from Holme Moss on 89.3 and I do remember the areal never having to go up.
First AM station I listened to must have been Radio 10 Gold on 675 AM but it's hard for me to remember as I just remember getting a little toy radio that could not receive well on the FM band but got loads of AM stations and I remember one that played this music which must have been about 1996.
First DAB was whatever was first on the MXR North East block as that was the first I ever received on Christmas Day 2003 when I got my first handheld one and went for a walk with it. There was no DAB signal in the house then. My local transmitter started to transmit the BBC and Digital 1 in February 2008.
First internet station was Virgin Radio which was also about 2003 or maybe even 2002 when I was in a IT lesson at school. I remember telling a classmate that I could get radio on the internet and I got thumped for it. Bad memory there but it was the first time I listened to a station from the internet.
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Then of course the offshore stations from 64.
Hello again ! Nothing wrong with YOUR memory ! Advent calendars too !
This thread could have been called "Video didn't kill the radio star". Arguably the "golden age" for children's radio was in the 1950s. Television, what there was of it, didn't have its merciless hold on the general population at that time. There were some really good radio programmes for children then. One was called "Toytown". It had a great signature tune, and as the name suggests, was all about a make-believe town. Star of the show was Larry the Lamb, who could go "BAAA" but could also talk to the humans. There was "Mr. Mayor" who thankfully had common sense. Another character was Mr Grouser, who used to moan about EVERYTHING... "THIS IS DISGRACEFUL !!! It should NEVER be allowed !!!". A right Daily Mail reader he was ! Plot ? No - but it was fun, and very similar to the "Magic Roundabout" of TV fame. In the 1950s we also had "Nature Parliament" where experts told us about the natural world, before we humans started destroying it with DDT etc. There were several drama series - one with a young actor from Cardiff - Michael Aspell. That was all on the Home Service, which was mutilated at the start of the 1960s when it's budget was destroyed thanks to - television.
And the ironical thing is that what comes around, goes around ( or is that the other way around HA HA ). Now, nobody sits there all night watching television, because there is nothing worth watching ( so TV owners tell me ). But radio is going strong, and we're still listening - as you prove, Jonathan...
It's always good to read your posts - so many memories for someone so young !
Have a good weekend !
The forces radio was fantastic, I think it was based in Germany.
Neither. Winter Hill carried no radio services until 1982
World Service and VOA on short wave 49 metre band though is a long time ago. We had the Radio on from breakfast time to late in the evening.
Then in 1964 . . . ;-)
Capital's heyday from around 1991-1994 (Tarrant, Sharp, Fox, Collins, Brown, Jenson, Allinson) made me want to become a DJ.
Atlantic 252 sounding so big around the same time despite the awful sound quality on LW.
DX-ing in my bedroom while doing homework, enjoying local radio from Invicta, Chiltern, 2-Ten, Essex FM, Mercury before a combination of networking and the London pirate explosion in the late 90s killed that pastime off.
My cousins introduced me to Radio Luxembourg which I avidly listened to until 1964 when I also joined Ian_Scott and several million others and listened to Caroline.
Over the next few years my radios improved and hence the stations I could receive. Radio 2 (1500m) and the Great 208 (Luxy) were next.
It's funny how some of the documentaries that were on when my dad was listening to the radio obviously sunk into my brain. One particular one was a doc about Lobby Ludd, which featured interview with the man himself.
I remember hearing "better music mix" and it changing to "today's best mix". Not sure of the year.
1997/8. On SGR (and I think Broadland as well) the long standing strapline "The Best Mix of Music quitetly became Today's Best Music Mix, then Today's Better Music Mix (the GWR Network slogan at the time) to try and ease the changes in. It seems like a third of the playlist was cut out each time.
As for memories, SGR-FM on AM from until 1995 (what became Amber's frequency), SGR Colchester launching and Essex FM's much younger sound to other locals then the 1997 launch of the great Vibe FM
Jimmy Young and Listen with Mother are the memories from these stations.
Despite being only 4 1/2, I can vividly remember staying with relatives in York and hearing radio 1 on the day it launched, 30th September 1967 and being transfixed on hearing Emperor Rosko.
Jump forward a few years and Stewart Henry on a Saturday morning on Radio 1 in the early 1970's with the mad jingle montage at the start of his show.
I've just listened to some of these on the Radio Rewind site and despite it being 45 years ago it still sounds so familiar.
On a side note I used to enjoy the breakfast show on Invicta back in the 80's when it was presented by a DJ called Glen Thompsett. Then last week while listening to GOLD on DAB he popped up reading the news.
My first memory of listening to radio on FM was listening to commentaries of Birmingham City away games on BRMB. That would have been sometime in late '99.
My first experience of DAB would have been my mother listening to Heart while I was getting ready for school in the mornings but the first time I listened to a DAB-only station was when I listened to the Storm (why do the stations I like always get shut down?) in the afternoons when I returned from school. That would probably have been late 2004/early 2005.
And my first experience of listening to the radio online would have been listening to the grime shows on Rinse FM on a Sunday afternoon in late 2008, back when it was still a pirate before it went legit in 2011.