> Mick - this link may be informative for you..
> http://www.arar93.dsl.pipex.com/mds975/content/ukradio2.html
> ;-)

> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:49:08 +0200, AlfaMS wrote:
>

>> Mick - this link may be informative for you..
>> http://www.arar93.dsl.pipex.com/mds975/content/ukradio2.html
>> ;-)

>
>
> maybe it's just me RJ, but I can't find any reference to Solent radio on
> that site.

>
> ..There is at least this quote, and there are links to more history:
>
> When the two year BBC local radio experiment came to an end the current
> stations were not only allowed to continue broadcasting, but the
> experiment was seen as so successful that additional stations were added
> with Radios Birmingham (95.6), Bristol (95.4), Blackburn (96.4), Derby
> (96.5), Humberside (95.3), London (95.3), Manchester (95.1), Medway
> (97.0), Newcastle (95.4), Oxford (95.0), Solent (96.1)

> Gotcha. Missed that on the way down. Good read that. Knew lots already
> but lots of new information. cheers.

> Completely my pleasure for sure, Mick. I certainly may be glorifying the
> days of pirate stations, but then they were my only means to listen to
> up-to-date popular music in those days, and I was experimenting around a
> lot in order to improve reception here.

> If you ask me - pioneer's days indeed, and today we have stations about
> like Skyline.fm giving us the music we like so much over the interweb.

> Web based radio is excellent. Skyline is great because it's local and I
> get my name mispronounced at the drop of a hat.

> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:31:21 +0200, AlfaMS wrote:
>

>> Completely my pleasure for sure, Mick. I certainly may be glorifying
>> the days of pirate stations, but then they were my only means to
>> listen to up-to-date popular music in those days, and I was
>> experimenting around a lot in order to improve reception here.

>
> Certainly not overglorifying as far as I'm concerned. The Pirates
> changed the face of radio. Of course radio one tried its best to
> change it back again but fortunately it failed.
>

>> If you ask me - pioneer's days indeed, and today we have stations
>> about like Skyline.fm giving us the music we like so much over the
>> interweb.

>
> Web based radio is excellent. Skyline is great because it's local and
> I get my name mispronounced at the...

> Certainly not overglorifying as far as I'm concerned. The Pirates changed
> the face of radio. Of course radio one tried its best to change it back
> again but fortunately it failed.

> Web based radio is excellent. Skyline is great because it's local and I
> get my name mispronounced at the drop of a hat.

> Mine too! :-D Matt-rix indeed!