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Magic 828
Greatest Hits Radio West Yorkshire (previously Radio Aire, Magic 828/Radio Aire 2, Ridings FM and Pulse 2) is an Independent Local Radio station serving West Yorkshire on 96.3 and 106.8 FM, DAB, online and via the app. The station was launched on 7 January 2019, replacing Radio Aire 2, following the decision to remove local station names from the northern England Medium Wave stations owned by Bauer Media. As of March 2024, the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 177,000 listeners, according to RAJAR. History Radio Aire (See dedicated page for Radio Aire) Magic 828 Magic 828 was launched by Roger Kirk at 8:28 am on 17 July 1990. The station was formed due to Radio Aire splitting its AM and FM frequencies, with Radio Aire rebranding as Aire FM. The station broadcast on 828 kHz AM and the first song played was "Magical Mystery Tour" by The Beatles. The 'Magic 828' name was created by Bob Preedy who was a presenter on Radio Aire at the time. The first jingle pac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production and trading centre (mainly with wool) in the 17th and 18th centuries. Leeds developed as a mill town during the Industrial Revolution alongside other surrounding villages and towns in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was also known for its flax industry, iron foundries, engineering and printing, as well as shopping, with several surviving Victorian era arcades, such as Kirkgate Market. City status was awarded in 1893, and a populous urban centre formed in the following century which absorbed surrounding villages and overtook t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magical Mystery Tour (song)
"Magical Mystery Tour" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles and the title track to the December 1967 television film of the same name. It was released on the band's '' Magical Mystery Tour'' soundtrack record, which was a double EP in Britain and most markets but an album in America, where Capitol Records supplemented the new songs with tracks issued on the Beatles' 1967 singles. The song was written primarily by Paul McCartney and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. The Beatles recorded the track in April and May 1967, soon after completing work on their album ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'', and several months before committing to make the ''Magical Mystery Tour'' film. The song serves as an introduction to the audience, in the style of McCartney's opening title track to ''Sgt. Pepper'', and includes ringmaster calls, a trumpet fanfare and traffic sounds. Composition "Magical Mystery Tour" is credited to Lennon–McCartney, although written prim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic 1548
Greatest Hits Radio Liverpool & The North West is an Independent Local Radio station based in Liverpool, England, owned and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK as part of the Greatest Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to Merseyside, Cheshire and South West Lancashire. The station forms part of Greatest Hits Radio North West. As of December 2024, the station has a weekly audience of 331,000 listeners according to RAJAR. Early history Originally it was known as " 1548 City Talk", this service existed between 1989 and 1991 originally between 0700 and 1900 on weekdays. It was not a success, and a "Gold" format of music was introduced as the station initially became "Radio City Gold", and then "City Gold". Radio City was purchased by EMAP in 1998, and City Gold was rebranded Magic 1548 as part of the network of Magic stations on AM. In December 2001, EMAP decided that it was more economical for the Magic network to share off-peak programmes and in line with the other Magic AM stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic 999
Greatest Hits Radio Lancashire is an Independent Local Radio station, owned and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK as part of the Greatest Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to Lancashire and North West England. As of December 2024, the station has a weekly audience of 207,000 listeners according to RAJAR. History The radio station launched as Red Rose Radio on 5 October 1982 at 6:00am on 301 metres medium wave (999 kHz) and 97.3 VHF stereo, broadcasting from a converted church ( St Paul's) at St. Pauls Square in Preston, Lancashire. The station's first presenter on air was Dave Lincoln - the first record played was "Evergreen" by Barbra Streisand. Other early presenters on the station included Dave Lincoln, Allan Beswick, Sally Moon, Derek Webster, Keith Macklin, Russell Harty and Steve Collins. At this point it was owned by Trans World Communications. On 1 June 1990, Red Rose Radio split into two stations - the FM service became Red Rose Rock FM (now known as Rock FM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic 1170
Greatest Hits Radio Teesside is an Independent Local Radio station serving Teesside, as part of Bauer’s Greatest Hits Radio network. History Originally launched as Great North Radio by the Metro Radio Group in March 1989. The station broadcast on the old Radio Tees AM frequency of 1170 kHz Medium Wave. In 1996, Emap bought Metro Radio Group and at the start of 1997, Emap decided to scrap Great North Radio and replaced it with local stations under the brand name of ''Magic'', with a new format of Hot Adult Contemporary music. Magic 1170 launched on 19 February 1997. Tom Davies was the first ever voice heard on Magic 1170 and successfully hosted the breakfast show on the station for a number of years. In December 2001, EMAP decided that it was more economical for the Magic network to share off-peak programmes and in line with the other Magic AM stations began networking between 10a.m.-2p.m., and 7p.m.-6a.m. During these hours it was simply known as Magic, although ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic 1152
Greatest Hits Radio North East is an Independent Local Radio station, based in Newcastle, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Greatest Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to North East England. History Great North Radio (also known as G.N.R) was formed in March 1989 using the AM frequencies of Metro Radio and Radio Tees. This happened after the Metro Radio Group decided to split the FM and AM frequencies up. GNR's output consisted of mellow music from the 1950s through to the 1980s, including current hits that fitted the format. There were also specialist programmes each evening, including Country Music, Jazz, and Classical. In 1996, Emap bought Metro Radio and at the start of 1997, Emap decided to scrap Great North Radio and replaced it with local stations under the brand name of ''Magic'', with a new format of Hot Adult Contemporary music. Magic 1152 launched on 19 February 1998. In December 2001, Emap decided that it was more economical for the Magic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greatest Hits Radio South Yorkshire
Greatest Hits Radio South Yorkshire is an Independent Local Radio station serving South Yorkshire and the North Midlands, which broadcasts as part of the Greatest Hits Radio network. As of March 2024, the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 272,000 listeners, according to RAJAR. Technical The station broadcast on three separate frequencies, 990 kHz in Doncaster, 1305 kHz in Barnsley and 1548 kHz in Sheffield. It now just broadcasts on DAB. History The station was created when Radio Hallam split its FM and medium wave frequencies to provide two different services. The AM station became "Classic Gold", then "Classic Gold Radio", "Great Yorkshire Gold" and "Great Yorkshire Radio". The original incarnation was owned by The Yorkshire Radio Network who were then taken over by Metro Radio Group before being bought by EMAP in 1996. At the start of 1997, EMAP decided to scrap the regional Classic Gold station and replaced it with local stations under th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic 1161
Greatest Hits Radio East Yorkshire & Northern Lincolnshire is an Independent Local Radio station serving East Riding of Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire. The station was replaced by a relay of Magic UK, as part of a restructure, on 1 September 2020. On 19 September 2022, GHR Hull & East Yorkshire became part of the Nation Radio network, and was relaunched as Nation Radio East Yorkshire following the end of the licensing name agreement which had allowed GHR to broadcast on the Nation-owned licence. As of March 2024, the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 133,000 listeners, according to RAJAR. History On 31 October 1988, Viking Radio permanently split its 1161 (originally said "Double-One-Six-One") medium wave frequency from its FM service when it launched "Viking Gold". Many different station names have been used over the years. "Viking Gold" was followed by "Classic Gold" (not to be confused with the service operated by UBC), "Classic Gold Radio", "Great Yorksh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EMAP
Ascential (formerly EMAP) was a British-headquartered global company, specialising in events, intelligence and advisory services for the marketing and financial technology industries. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Informa in October 2024. History Richard Winfrey purchased the ''Spalding Guardian'' in 1887 and later purchased the '' Lynn News'' and the '' Peterborough Advertiser''; he also started the ''North Cambs Echo''. He became a Liberal politician and campaigner for agricultural rights and the papers were used to promote his political views in and around Spalding, Boston, Sleaford and Peterborough. During World War II Winfrey's newspaper interests began to be passed over to his son, Richard Pattinson Winfrey (1902–1985). In 1947, under the direction of 'Pat' Winfrey, the family's newspaper titles were consolidated to form the East Midland Allied Press (EMAP): this was achieved by the merger of the Northamptonshire Printing an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Superstation
The Superstation (or ''Radio Radio'' as it was known in the industry) was set up in 1987 as an overnight sustaining service for Independent Local Radio. Launched in July 1988, the station broadcast from 10.00pm until 6.00am on many of the UK's commercial radio stations, as a more economically viable alternative to local programming. Brief history The concept of the Superstation came from David Campbell and Rob Jones who worked for Virgin's radio arm and was backed financially by Richard Branson. The service originally broadcast from British Forces Broadcasting studios in Paddington, London, but later moved to Manchester. By 1990, it was broadcasting across 21 stations and was mainly backed by Transworld Communications, together with GWR Group, Yorkshire Radio Network, Radio Trent and Radio Forth. At this stage, Jonathan Ross and Ruby Wax had left the station and had been replaced by presenters such as Nigel Williams, Phil Kennedy and Peter Tait. Snooker player Steve D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Hall (actress)
Alex Hall (born Patricia Anne Thompson now Fisher, 17 July 1949) is a British actress and radio presenter. Early life Her father was a semi-professional footballer for Nuneaton Borough FC. She lived in Peterlee from the age of 3 until 10, then in Billingham both on Stockton Street and York Crescent, when her father worked for ICI. She attended St John the Evangelist Primary and St Joseph's Convent grammar school in Hartlepool. She worked in the advertising sales department of the '' Northern Echo'' and the '' Evening Gazette''. Television career Hall appeared in ITV's ''Emmerdale'' as Jean Strickland, the headteacher of Hotten Comprehensive, sporadically between 1999 and 2001. Her character was killed-off in a hit and run involving a number of her students. Hall had previously appeared in many well-known TV shows including ''Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' (colloquially referred to as ''Corrie'') is a British television soap opera created by ITV Granada, Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Tait (radio Presenter)
Peter Richard Tait (15 March 1950 – 20 September 2002) was an English radio presenter A radio personality is a person who has an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality who hosts a radio show is also known as a radio host (North American English), radio presenter (British English) or radio jockey. Radio personali .... Early career Tait was born in Croydon, Surrey, England. After leaving school, he started a career in insurance, however he soon turned professional as a DJ with residencies in Leicester, Southend-On-Sea, Richmond, Brighton, East Grinstead and Croydon. In 1977, he got a job at United Biscuits Network, U.B.N. which was a radio station for the workers of United Biscuits. After 18 months, he landed the job as afternoon show presenter at Radio Trent in Nottingham where he worked for five years. In 1983, Radio Caroline relaunched and returned to the North Sea. Tait was offered the Radio Caroline breakfast show where he was known as Peter Clark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
