A small tribute to a wonderful industrial radio station and all those who worked there in the nine years of its life. Remembering especially those who sadly are no longer with us.
Fantastic to see. Many of you will know that the gear was re-installed in The West Middlesex Hospital and enjoyed a second life for a long time there. Sad that Alan Hardy, the force behind RWM died last month. A great guy and gave so many a start in radio.
A Great presentation Giles ~ and I'd forgotten how MANY of the UBN people I worked with at Metro, Piccadilly and Trent. Without UBN, ILR would not have been the exciting business it was in the 70s and 80s! No Dale, was he camera shy !?
Aren’t you the same guy who, while working at Metro, got your voice put through a delay machine, resulting in you sounding weird? They once played a retrospective of old clips and bloopers and they played that - the presenter said something about “ … unsuspecting DJ Len Groat!”.
At 1:38 that's Andy Lloyd. He was one of the last presenters to join UBN. He said he was "immensely proud" to have been on UBN because it was a passport to join ILR and he did just a couple of months. After it closed in autumn 1979 he joined Mercia Sound in Coventry in May 1980. A great presenter too, but he obviously became very disillusioned with the increased formatting of radio and so became a property developer.
The zest and creativity in radio back then sadly no longer exists in modern broadcasting.
A fine documentation of UBN Giles... I had forgotten that statio theme,
Peter Quinn
Fantastic to see. Many of you will know that the gear was re-installed in The West Middlesex Hospital and enjoyed a second life for a long time there. Sad that Alan Hardy, the force behind RWM died last month. A great guy and gave so many a start in radio.
I was an engineer in the chocolate refinery & the audio compression something else,i even ended up with one of the plessey cart m/c's.
Where did they all go?
A Great presentation Giles ~ and I'd forgotten how MANY of the UBN people I worked with at Metro, Piccadilly and Trent. Without UBN, ILR would not have been the exciting business it was in the 70s and 80s! No Dale, was he camera shy !?
Aren’t you the same guy who, while working at Metro, got your voice put through a delay machine, resulting in you sounding weird? They once played a retrospective of old clips and bloopers and they played that - the presenter said something about “ … unsuspecting DJ Len Groat!”.
At 1:38 that's Andy Lloyd. He was one of the last presenters to join UBN. He said he was "immensely proud" to have been on UBN because it was a passport to join ILR and he did just a couple of months. After it closed in autumn 1979 he joined Mercia Sound in Coventry in May 1980. A great presenter too, but he obviously became very disillusioned with the increased formatting of radio and so became a property developer.