What a great way to conclude this series and it’s sad that true local radio isn’t local anymore, but all good things have to come to an end! I better do my usual commentary. Seems like all my predictions were right, since I got them from the timeline of independent radio in the United Kingdom on Wikipedia! 1:37 How strange - GWR was somehow nice enough to let GEM-AM keep their simplified jukebox logo instead changing it to Classic Gold’s detailed jukebox logo. 4:36 You could’ve used one of the jingles what Bespoke Music made for Quaywest Radio, but oh well! 5:49 Another long image song! 8:06 After all that searching - you managed to find a jingle for Cambridge Red FM. 11:09 This kinda got me, since you couldn’t find any recording or jingle for Goldbeat 828. 12:56 The return of a legendary name in radio. 14:08 Time for radio to go digital! Great how you managed to find a way to represent DAB Digital Radio on this. 18:25 Isn’t it just scary how Greatest Hits Radio has consolidated more heritage stations than Heart has?
Thanks as always for the kind words. This particular episode has - to say the least - been a real challenge not least because, for a fair number of stations, there is little or no audio online and some stations (like Melody/Magic in London) morphed from one to another over a period of time rather than had a specific rebrand “changeover date”. I couldn’t actually find any audio for some - including Qiaywest (any links you might have would be gratefully received!). I cheated a little on Cambridge Red. It is actually from a “Cambridge Red TV” commercial but I assumed - perhaps wrongly - that they would have a similar “sound”.
The 50th Anniversary of UK Commercial Radio was yesterday, so I decided to compile all 8 of the timelines into 1 video and show it to my school, everyone loved it. And just if you're curious, I gave credit to you in the introduction.
And then we get the sad reality that there's hardly any local radio left anymore and what does exist of it is community stations like Hailsham FM carrying 'sky news' or county wide networks like More Radio on FM frequencies of what used to be local licences.
I live in what used to be the Marcher Sound/Wirral's Buzz area. North East Wales, almost in Cheshire. It's really saddening to see how many local heritage stations have been sucked up into Global's networks. I can also pick up what used to be Radio City from Liverpool and a bit of what used to be Key 103 from Manchester rather well from my house. Volunteering for a community radio station has made me see how important local radio is, it's a lifeline to the communities; how it keeps local people in the know with their community and surrounding area with news relating to their town, events that the stations put on in the local area and also weather warnings, you don't get any specialised programming for your area now, apart from a drivetime show if you're lucky. Shame there's none of that now that the stations have been swallowed up by Bauer and Global. PS: Those jammy Scots get more local programming on their radio, they get a breakfast show on their local versions of Heart and Capital.
@@tvradiotimelinesI'm in Knottingley, West Yorkshire - and I can remember Galaxy becoming Capital (in 2011) and Real Radio becoming Heart (in 2014). Also in the past 10 years, we had Magic 828 (later Radio Aire 2) and Pulse 2 becoming Greatest Hits Radio, only for the 828 frequency to shut down and Radio Aire and Ridings FM to become GHR. Not to mention that in 2014, The Pulse became Pulse 1, then of course earlier this year that station became Hits Radio West Yorkshire.
This is (sort of) covered from 16:17 in this video. I am currently working on something for 2025 that will take a long time to research and produce. Only once that is done will I move on to the next project.
Also Viking FM/Hits Radio East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire now comes from Leeds and has done for the past couple of years, and you missed out Pulse 1/Hits Radio West Yorkshire from the Hits Radio list too
Radio remains technically "local" in the UK but most previously independent stations have been bought up by multi-national conglomerates meaning that the programming is networked and contains only minimal local content. There are a few exceptions - but not many!
I live in the us. I get: country station pop station rock station talk station(am) sports station(am) and more stations in the nearby area ALL OF THEM UNAFFILIATED WITH ANY NATIONAL STATIONS all of the uk gets: hits radio heart fm greatest hits radio nation radio gold bbc radio uk radio, why are you like this
I wonder how many people still listen to any of the commercial radio stations on offer, and how many have abandoned radio altogether to stream their music off Spotify, UA-cam, and the like. I don't know about anyone else, but I find it horrible that four major corporations control the commercial radio space, alongside the single ITV plc which covers the commercial television space in the UK (nevermind that the Scottish STV holds the licence in Scotland, given that the entire schedule seems to be wholly ITV1 except for the local news and idents, meaning there's no fundamental difference in the programming). Homogenisation has really killed commercial media - or rather, commercial media was always going to be homogenised as the technology had been progressing, and the financial structure of the companies involved would thus open up to the point where one single person could probably operate the entire station, no need for fancy-shmancy sound engineers and producers and assistants and whatnot. These days, too, will pass. No one will need pre-scheduled, pre-planned timetables and music running orders anymore. Like with television, I expect more people are streaming the music they want to hear when they want to hear, and nuts to the radio stations, which don't really have any hope of progressing or developing much of top of what has already been achieved or developed by now. There won't be any radical changes any time soon - until, of course, when AI determines all a human's entertainment, without that human's input. It truly does raise the question of the value of traditional, conventional radio, if UA-cam and Spotify can provide the background noise and not your FM, AM, or digital radio station.
I tend to agree with much of what you say; the general bland identical programming of stations across the nation with little or no local input totally contradicts the original ethos of the network. These days I listen to Boom Radio, which is very much like the early local stations of the 1970s in terms of style and presentation and even includes many of the presenters from the period. As time goes by, however, you have to wonder how that can possibly be maintained. It is a real shame!
I'm lucky where I live that 2 neighbouring ilr ststions have remsined 100%, but msny milluins of ilr lidtebers in most other areas in thr UK have lost all but 3 or 4 hours of it apsrt from local news, local weather, local sport, local travel and local ads. Msyve we will get a new communications regulator can xomw in upon chsnge of government and demand that the likes of Bauer and Global sre forced to bribg back either local breakfast or local drivetime and either mid morning or mid afternoon back to all these msinly UK networked on the way towards bringing back full ilr services again, or better still force Bauer and Global to divest all those stations to make them all local sooner
All the sucking up of all these llr stations is a grest example of how true locsl radio in the UK hss been almost totally destroyed. All very disgraceful. The very Weak communications regulatord Ofcom just bowed to the likes of Bauer sbd Globsl to allow them to do all of this.
I know what you mean but I could not resist putting the whole thing in! I LOVE the idents that list loads of local place names. Kind of makes a none-too-subtle point about the whole idea having now virtually disappeared.
I remember Heart 100.7 first starting. Soft Rock Favorites, station . Played songs like, Fleetwood Mac, , Robert Palmer. 👍 Then, Global take over , & it's, More music variety apparently ? .plastic pop station, more like, and doing same to other stations up & down the Country . Same tunes everyday. Now Awful. 👎
I was waiting for this one. Heard both Isle of Wight Radio's switchover and Wave 105's launch as an overexcited 14 year old 😂😂 It's an absolute disgrace how Bauer and Global have swallowed them all up and destroyed their local identities. That was the best bit about local radio. It was meant to be just that.
@@chrispearce6024 I now live in Nottingham and was dismayed to find how Gem FM had been replaced with Greatest Hits Radio on 3rd October. So I fear Wave 105 isn't much longer for this world, sadly.
Both Wave 105 and Isle of Wight Radio still exist. (For now at least) Although I can see Wave becoming GHR and Isle of Wight Radio Becoming More Radio since it shares all shows besides Breakfast with the 4 More Stations in Sussex also owned by Total Sense Media.
What a great way to conclude this series and it’s sad that true local radio isn’t local anymore, but all good things have to come to an end! I better do my usual commentary.
Seems like all my predictions were right, since I got them from the timeline of independent radio in the United Kingdom on Wikipedia!
1:37 How strange - GWR was somehow nice enough to let GEM-AM keep their simplified jukebox logo instead changing it to Classic Gold’s detailed jukebox logo.
4:36 You could’ve used one of the jingles what Bespoke Music made for Quaywest Radio, but oh well!
5:49 Another long image song!
8:06 After all that searching - you managed to find a jingle for Cambridge Red FM.
11:09 This kinda got me, since you couldn’t find any recording or jingle for Goldbeat 828.
12:56 The return of a legendary name in radio.
14:08 Time for radio to go digital! Great how you managed to find a way to represent DAB Digital Radio on this.
18:25 Isn’t it just scary how Greatest Hits Radio has consolidated more heritage stations than Heart has?
Thanks as always for the kind words. This particular episode has - to say the least - been a real challenge not least because, for a fair number of stations, there is little or no audio online and some stations (like Melody/Magic in London) morphed from one to another over a period of time rather than had a specific rebrand “changeover date”.
I couldn’t actually find any audio for some - including Qiaywest (any links you might have would be gratefully received!). I cheated a little on Cambridge Red. It is actually from a “Cambridge Red TV” commercial but I assumed - perhaps wrongly - that they would have a similar “sound”.
Central FM, Kingdom FM and Original 106 stay local.
But all this consolidation is terrible.
The 50th Anniversary of UK Commercial Radio was yesterday, so I decided to compile all 8 of the timelines into 1 video and show it to my school, everyone loved it.
And just if you're curious, I gave credit to you in the introduction.
Sad to watch this, but very grateful I live in Hitmix 107.5 land and we get the nearest thing to how local radio used to be.😊
And then we get the sad reality that there's hardly any local radio left anymore and what does exist of it is community stations like Hailsham FM carrying 'sky news' or county wide networks like More Radio on FM frequencies of what used to be local licences.
I live in what used to be the Marcher Sound/Wirral's Buzz area. North East Wales, almost in Cheshire. It's really saddening to see how many local heritage stations have been sucked up into Global's networks. I can also pick up what used to be Radio City from Liverpool and a bit of what used to be Key 103 from Manchester rather well from my house.
Volunteering for a community radio station has made me see how important local radio is, it's a lifeline to the communities; how it keeps local people in the know with their community and surrounding area with news relating to their town, events that the stations put on in the local area and also weather warnings, you don't get any specialised programming for your area now, apart from a drivetime show if you're lucky. Shame there's none of that now that the stations have been swallowed up by Bauer and Global.
PS: Those jammy Scots get more local programming on their radio, they get a breakfast show on their local versions of Heart and Capital.
It's a shame that the original concept of truly "local" city/area stations has all but disappeared.
@@tvradiotimelinesI'm in Knottingley, West Yorkshire - and I can remember Galaxy becoming Capital (in 2011) and Real Radio becoming Heart (in 2014). Also in the past 10 years, we had Magic 828 (later Radio Aire 2) and Pulse 2 becoming Greatest Hits Radio, only for the 828 frequency to shut down and Radio Aire and Ridings FM to become GHR. Not to mention that in 2014, The Pulse became Pulse 1, then of course earlier this year that station became Hits Radio West Yorkshire.
Plz do an ILR history 2000-present bcuz I wanna finnish my ILR history presentation
This is (sort of) covered from 16:17 in this video. I am currently working on something for 2025 that will take a long time to research and produce. Only once that is done will I move on to the next project.
13:22 wplj big time radio moment
Needs updating for the Hits Radio take over of stations like Lincs FM
If I updated every time a station changed to "Hits/Greatest hits" branding, I would have to do a weekly update!
Where did you get all these recordings from? I've not heard most of them before.
A mis-spent youth trawling the net! :)
I wonder where i can find "Across The (insert some city here), Playing, (insert station here)"...
Sorry -I have not come across a generic version. I will post here if I do!
Alright then you can send thru my email too.
Also Viking FM/Hits Radio East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire now comes from Leeds and has done for the past couple of years, and you missed out Pulse 1/Hits Radio West Yorkshire from the Hits Radio list too
Thanks for the feedback - much appreciated!
Wait, radio in the UK is no longer local?
(from the US and local radio is still alive such as NPR)
Radio remains technically "local" in the UK but most previously independent stations have been bought up by multi-national conglomerates meaning that the programming is networked and contains only minimal local content. There are a few exceptions - but not many!
Everything is nearly Capital, Heart or Greatest Hits Radio now.
Not all commercial radio is not local.
One of my favourite local commercial stations that launched in late 1998 airs not far from where I live.
I live in the us. I get:
country station
pop station
rock station
talk station(am)
sports station(am)
and more stations in the nearby area
ALL OF THEM UNAFFILIATED WITH ANY NATIONAL STATIONS
all of the uk gets:
hits radio
heart fm
greatest hits radio
nation radio
gold
bbc radio
uk radio, why are you like this
I wonder how many people still listen to any of the commercial radio stations on offer, and how many have abandoned radio altogether to stream their music off Spotify, UA-cam, and the like. I don't know about anyone else, but I find it horrible that four major corporations control the commercial radio space, alongside the single ITV plc which covers the commercial television space in the UK (nevermind that the Scottish STV holds the licence in Scotland, given that the entire schedule seems to be wholly ITV1 except for the local news and idents, meaning there's no fundamental difference in the programming).
Homogenisation has really killed commercial media - or rather, commercial media was always going to be homogenised as the technology had been progressing, and the financial structure of the companies involved would thus open up to the point where one single person could probably operate the entire station, no need for fancy-shmancy sound engineers and producers and assistants and whatnot. These days, too, will pass. No one will need pre-scheduled, pre-planned timetables and music running orders anymore. Like with television, I expect more people are streaming the music they want to hear when they want to hear, and nuts to the radio stations, which don't really have any hope of progressing or developing much of top of what has already been achieved or developed by now. There won't be any radical changes any time soon - until, of course, when AI determines all a human's entertainment, without that human's input. It truly does raise the question of the value of traditional, conventional radio, if UA-cam and Spotify can provide the background noise and not your FM, AM, or digital radio station.
I tend to agree with much of what you say; the general bland identical programming of stations across the nation with little or no local input totally contradicts the original ethos of the network.
These days I listen to Boom Radio, which is very much like the early local stations of the 1970s in terms of style and presentation and even includes many of the presenters from the period. As time goes by, however, you have to wonder how that can possibly be maintained. It is a real shame!
I'm lucky where I live that 2 neighbouring ilr ststions have remsined 100%, but msny milluins of ilr lidtebers in most other areas in thr UK have lost all but 3 or 4 hours of it apsrt from local news, local weather, local sport, local travel and local ads.
Msyve we will get a new communications regulator can xomw in upon chsnge of government and demand that the likes of Bauer and Global sre forced to bribg back either local breakfast or local drivetime and either mid morning or mid afternoon back to all these msinly UK networked on the way towards bringing back full ilr services again, or better still force Bauer and Global to divest all those stations to make them all local sooner
What are you planning to do next?
Await divine inspiration???? 😁
What about looking at the history of pirate radio, or community stations in the U.K.?
That is a definite "maybe".... After that last epic, though, I need a rest!
bbc local radio??
I think that’s a very good idea the history of bbc local radio
Hallam FM, Radio City, Rock FM, Signal 1, and the rest of the english stations owned by Bauer will rebrand to Hits Radio by next month. Sad Times.
Yes - and Pirate FM and Wave 105 have recently succumbed to national branding too.
All the sucking up of all these llr stations is a grest example of how true locsl radio in the UK hss been almost totally destroyed.
All very disgraceful. The very Weak communications regulatord Ofcom just bowed to the likes of Bauer sbd Globsl to allow them to do all of this.
To be fair, by the time Peak 107 got to the music, I’d have turned off 😂
I know what you mean but I could not resist putting the whole thing in! I LOVE the idents that list loads of local place names. Kind of makes a none-too-subtle point about the whole idea having now virtually disappeared.
I guess commercial radio is like ITV but with MORE choice
I guess it depends on your definition of "choice". Radio - like TV - has been all but consumed by larger groups with a few honourable exceptions.
When you least expect it... The Return of the King
The King has left the building!😂
ILR Local West 05/04/1998
Kettering & Corby
KCBC 107.4 05/04/1998 3:01
KCBC Change 22/11/1999 15:26
Wellingborough
ConnectFM 97.2 05/04/1998
I remember Heart 100.7 first starting. Soft Rock Favorites, station . Played songs like, Fleetwood Mac, , Robert Palmer. 👍 Then, Global take over , & it's, More music variety apparently ? .plastic pop station, more like, and doing same to other stations up & down the Country . Same tunes everyday. Now Awful. 👎
... and very VERY boring!
This is heart
Heart 106.2 Fm
London Ids 2011 25:49
I was waiting for this one. Heard both Isle of Wight Radio's switchover and Wave 105's launch as an overexcited 14 year old 😂😂
It's an absolute disgrace how Bauer and Global have swallowed them all up and destroyed their local identities. That was the best bit about local radio. It was meant to be just that.
The are the Carlton of Independent Radio 🙁
Wave 105 remains a stand alone station and local 24/7...at the moment of course...
@@chrispearce6024 I now live in Nottingham and was dismayed to find how Gem FM had been replaced with Greatest Hits Radio on 3rd October. So I fear Wave 105 isn't much longer for this world, sadly.
@@GryphLane Wave is no1 radio station according to the latest rajar in Hampshire, West Dorset, Isle of Wight & West Sussex
Both Wave 105 and Isle of Wight Radio still exist. (For now at least) Although I can see Wave becoming GHR and Isle of Wight Radio Becoming More Radio since it shares all shows besides Breakfast with the 4 More Stations in Sussex also owned by Total Sense Media.
Don't say no but we can have radio stations back
We have radio stations - but not as we knew them!😥
2000 to 2001 ❤
2000-2001 next
Hopefully, I have covered that period at the end of this video/.