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Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 8:45 am
by duncanorak
ah yes 01 462 2222, used a lot by Radio Telstar South

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 1:56 am
by Albert H
OK.... 01 698 8447

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 8:16 am
by duncanorak
I was gonna post that one if you hadn't, RFL Radio Free London

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 1:48 am
by Albert H
OK - which station ran the "Phantom Phonebox" competition?

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:35 am
by Shedbuilt
Albert H wrote:OK - which station ran the "Phantom Phonebox" competition?
Thameside ?

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 10:03 am
by Shedbuilt
Shedbuilt wrote:
Albert H wrote:OK - which station ran the "Phantom Phonebox" competition?
Thameside ?
Do I win a Mars bar ?

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:51 pm
by 4therecord
How about 01 443 1191

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 8:39 am
by Albert H
Shedbuilt wrote:
Shedbuilt wrote:
Albert H wrote:OK - which station ran the "Phantom Phonebox" competition?
Thameside ?
Do I win a Mars bar ?
Nope - a packet of Spangles!

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 8:40 am
by Albert H
4therecord wrote:How about 01 443 1191
Don't remember that one....

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2016 1:20 pm
by 4therecord
Hi Albert, 01 443 1191 - North London Radio // Veronica // Music Machine etc etc.... Mr Stevens & Co

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2016 1:35 pm
by Albert H
Ah.... you mean "Boring Barry" & Co....

They used to use Marconi's number 01 445 2255 as well!

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 9:52 pm
by 4therecord
Well, I never found him boring but I guess you must have a reason for saying that! - last time I spoke to him over the phone which was a long time ago I found him most insightful! - As I do you too...

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 12:36 pm
by Albert H
I think that it was Dave Fuller who nicknamed him "Boring Barry", and it sort of stuck!

I found a tape last week from the early 80s of "Radio Red Flag" that was broadcast on a May Day Bank Holiday. It was a very funny spoof - on Medium Wave - "the medium of the proletariat - none of that elitist FM stuff" - as "London's First Socialist Radio Station".

One DJ claimed that "I've just been voted behind the microphone for the next hour" and it was very well put together with some excellent lefty choices of music!

Why don't we have intelligent pirates like that any more?

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 3:50 pm
by pure94
0860 278 771

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 1:57 am
by drumandbasshead010
techie76 wrote: Sat Aug 22, 2015 10:19 pm i will make it easy they use to share the same flat with another station ( if the rumours are true ? ) and london based

Probably gotta be Rush then.

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:17 pm
by jonny b
techie76 wrote: Fri Aug 21, 2015 2:14 pm is 0831 308 424 don fm ?

how about

0860 395 262

0860 418 217
0860 408217
sounds of the weekend rush

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:21 pm
by jonny b
techie76 wrote: Sat Aug 22, 2015 10:19 pm i will make it easy they use to share the same flat with another station ( if the rumours are true ? ) and london based
kool & rush
1 was in the kitchen and the other in front room
good old days of radio

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2017 1:15 am
by Albert H
We had a Soul station and a Pop & Rock station using the same house (on top of a very high hill) to broadcast from up in Yorkshire (in the early 80s). The two transmitters were at either end of the loft, with aerials on each end of the house roof. The studios were in nearby houses, about five doors apart. Both studios fed their rigs by cables buried through the gardens. I don't think that either station was raided there, but the set-up lasted for one Christmas and New Year.

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 9:14 am
by SamTheDog
01 300 3500 Nice sidcup number :-)

Also on the same turf... 01 300 1234

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:58 am
by Albert H
Sam, was 01 300 1234 a phone box? I seem to vaguely remember a couple of good consecutive numbers in phone boxes next to each other in either Hurst Road or Penhill Road.....