In legal radio, a narrow playlist equals more listeners. Upfront obviously went for the audience that liked the 'poppier' sounds of UKG and it worked for them at that period.
Delight seemed to be a promotional vehicle for So Solid.
In legal radio, a narrow playlist equals more listeners. Upfront obviously went for the audience that liked the 'poppier' sounds of UKG and it worked for them at that period.
Capital were a minority shareholder in Choice and bought the station outright in 2004. Various company takeovers led it to become part of Global who relaunched the station as Capital Xtra.
Capital Xtra in London has 816,000 listeners, more than anything Choice achieved. For accuracy, nationally they have 1,792,000 listeners.Albert H wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2019 1:35 am FameFM - you're exactly right. When Crapital (then Global) took it over, it lost any credibility it ever had. It has only got an audience today (which is unlikely to be anywhere near 1.8m) because it's the only national station that tries to play the material it does. Radio 1Xtra is a bit of a joke (I'm told by my friends who listen to that kind of thing).
Yep. I remember it reached overseas on many occasions n that’s not a tropo thing
Speaking of Ireland and based on your above messages (as well as in previous topics), I think you'd probably prefer the selection of pirates in Dublin than London. Among the Dublin pirates are 2 or 3 oldies music operators who would've worked on the bigger stations of the 70s and 80s and often collaborate and do a joint broadcast. They play bottom of the barrel stuff as well as the general stuff. Energy 1395 - the only one of them on mediumwave - has been received in Blackpool lately. There's also, as you've mentioned before, Radio North and Radio Star Country up north.Albert H wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2019 2:00 pm I remember hearing Starpoint on 88.6 in Hamburg, in noise-free stereo!
However, the really big pirate signals were from County Monaghan in the 80s and 90s. A couple of the bigger ones achieved 1MW erp (that's 1 million Watts!!!) and aside from reaching their target areas in Northern Ireland, could also be received - consistently - in solid stereo up much of the west coast of Scotland!