On 08/04/17 11:35, Eiron wrote:
On 08/04/2017 09:59, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

Making it sound punchier on AM radio was the beginning of that.

Radio 1 started in 1967. When did that get its own FM service?

Radio 1 took over the Radio 2 FM transmitter on weeknights from 22:00 to
midnight
and for live concerts on Saturday afternoons from the early seventies.
They were the only things worth listening to on Radio 1.

I dive in now and then to recorded Radio 1 things on BBC iplayer, the
rest is not any more for my ears. I listen to recorded music rather than
the radio.

Though in the eighties, me standing ready for hammering 'record/play' on
a C90 cassette, it was amusing to record the Sunday announcer handover
from Radio 2s 'sing something simple' to Radio 1 for the Top 40. It was
typically delivered with a kind amusing almost patronising warning for
them with fragile ears.


Isn't there a Radio Times archive where we can check these things?


I think there is, but Radio 1 went full time FM somewhere in 1988. A
needless long time stalled by the same attitudes that were present a
long while ago when Radio 1 first launched.

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Adrian C