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BBC Radio Lancashire

Launched 26th January 1971 as BBC  Radio Blackburn Renamed 26th January 1981 as BBC Radio Lancashire  

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BBC Radio Manchester / BBC GMR

The station was originally called BBC Radio Manchester then BBC GMR, then briefly renamed GMR Talk in the mid 90′s before returning to BBC GMR and finally back to BBC Radio Manchester.        

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BBC Radio Merseyside

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BBC Radio Stoke Letterhead 1977

BBC Radio Stoke

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Century Radio

Century FM launched on 8th September 1998 across the North West on 105.4FM Click here to listen to the Century Radio Launch

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Fortune 1458 / Lite AM

The presenters at Fortune 1458 Martin Emery Jonathan Dean John Grindley Inspector Fortune was a competition that ran on the Breakfast Show and the image above is actually a cardboard cassette box which was distributed with milk by Manchester milkmen! – The idea was to listen to the short play on the tape (featuring Inspector …

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KFM

KFM broadcast from Stockport in the early 90′s and was originally a pirate station. It was replaced by Signal  Cheshire, and the frequency is now used for Imagine FM. Images / Jingles in 80′s section courtesy of Alastair Bates. First Jingle courtesy of Simon Beattie  

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Kiss 102 / Galaxy 102

Kiss 102 broadcast in Manchester in the mid/late 90′s. The license was previously held by Sunset Radio.   Kiss 102 was replaced by Galaxy 102   The 102 frequency is Manchester is now used by Capital

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Marcher Sound Letterhead 1984

Marcher Sound / MFM

Marcher Sound Started in the 80′s as the ILR station for North East Wales and Cheshire In the 90′s the AM frequency was used for Marcher Gold while the FM service became MFM Later the FM frequencies would split into 2 services, 103.4 for Chester, Wexham and North Wales, and 97.1 for The Wirral (the …

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Piccadilly Radio letterhead 1981

Piccadilly / Key 103

Piccadilly started out in the 70′s as Manchester’s first Independent Local Radio station. It has always been know for it’s famous presenters. Pictured below are Gary Davies, Tony Emmerson, Timmy Mallett and a young looking Steve Penk. The Timmy Mallett picture was featured on the BBC2 Documentary “Fame, Set and Match” Piccadilly dropped the 261 …

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Radio City

Radio City started out in the 70′s as Liverpool’s first Independent Local Radio station.   The station split frequencies in the late 80′s with City Talk on AM and City FM. Later City Talk was renamed Radio City Gold.   Presenters Much more Radio City material can be found at  http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/briansaudio/radiocity/    

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Radio Wave

Radio Wave 96.5 broadcasts to Blackpool and the Fylde Coast.

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Red Rose

Red Rose first went on air in 1982 as Lancashire’s first Independent Local Radio station. Below are pictures of presenters Allan Beswick and Simon Tate. In the early 90′s Red Rose split their frequencies with Red Rose Gold on AM and Red Rose Rock FM. Below are pictures of Scottie McClue and Adrian Allen who …

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Signal Radio

Signal Radio started out as the ILR station for Stoke-on-Trent on the 5th September 1983 John Evington was the launcher of signal radio and the first song he played was Neil Diamond’s Beautiful Noise   On the 14th September 1992 Signal split its AM and FM frequencies with the AM service renamed Signal Gold and …

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Silk FM

Silk FM went on Air at Midday on Bank Holiday Monday 26th May 1998 with Guest Sammy McIlroy (Macclesfield Town FC Manager).

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Sunset Radio

Broadcast in the early 90′s in Manchester, Lost their license in Mid 90′s to be replaced by Kiss 102.

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