The Stage and Television Today – 13 November 1980
1980 DevonAir Radio
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Herald Express 08 November 1980
DevonAir chairman Norman Devonport and managing director Maurice Vass look out over Torquay harbour. But to them the fourth floor Harbour Point balcony offers more than a view.
In tune at Devonair yesterday were the former Bishop of Crediton the Rt. Rev. Wilfred Westall and TV personality Keith Fordyce, seen outside the Exeter studios. Devons new independent local radio station came to life at exactly 6 am yesterday. Early birfs throughout the wide area of the county were […]
Community leaders from Devon were guests at an Exeter lunch to mark the opening of the new independent local radio station DevonAir.
In the hush of an Exeter broadcasting studio at precisely 65 secons before 6 am tomorrow, Bob Kingsley will push a button and make radio history.
Right in the heart of Exeter is a tiny box room which cost £50,000. Once inside, you are as close being suspended in mid-air as an ordinary mortal is ever likely to be – because this odd room has hardly any contact with the outside world.
The Westcountry’s new independent radio station, DevonAir will provide a unique community service when it begins broadcasting next month. Programme Controller Mr Jeff Winston said this yesterday when disclosing plans for the station at a special conference at Dartington Hall.
A new DJ taking to the air? No, Exeter’s MP, Mr John Hammam, in the presenter’s seat when he visited the studios of Devonair, the new commercial radio station in Exeter. With him are Mr Maurice Vass, left, managing director, and Mr Nick Johnson. The station plans to start broadcasting […]
A former “World in Action” man is to be the programme controller of Devon’s new independent local radio station, Devonair. He is Jeff Winston, at present programme comtroller of Pennine Radio in West Yorkshire.
DevonAir Radio, the new commercial local radio service for Exeter and Torbay, will be on air later this year. Mr Norman Devonport, the chairman of the consortium that was awarded the franchise by the Independent Broadcasting Authority, said on Tuesday that the Exeter studios were several months ahead of schedule.
Devon men are to fill the top two executive posts at Devon’s new independent radio station, Devonair. They are Mr Maurice Vass, 45, and Mr Nick Johnson, 32, and both have started their new jobs in Exeter this week.
The man who was to have been the first managing director of Devon’s new independent local radio station, DevonAir, will now not be taking up the job. Mr Colin Mason, 36, of Bristol, right, and DevonAir Radio Limited, announced jointly today that they had not been able to complete their […]
A £350,000 contract for broadcasting equipment for Devonair Radio studios in Exeter and at Torquay was signed in Exeter yesterdat by the Chairman, Mr Norman Devonport (second from left).
This will soon be the nerve centre of the newest radio station in this part of the world. The actual date for the start of broadcasts from this unassuming property in St Davids Hill, Exeter, is still up in the air, but work has started in making it into a […]
An exciting future is opening up for these houses (above) at St Davids Hill, Exeter. After starting life as private homes, they were converted into Government offices. Now they are to become the headquarters and Exeter studios for Devon’s new independent local radio station, Devonair.
Independent local radio for the Exeter area came a stage nearer today with the news that a managing director has been appointed. He is 36-year-old Mr Colin Mason, of Bristol, and he takes over in Exeter next month.
Exeter is to become the focal point of a Devon local radio war with two rival stations competing to win listeners. For the BBC has decided to base and you would local radio service for Devon in the city and it is bound to seek to win viewers away from […]
Devonair Radio, the new commercial local radio service for Exeter and Torbay, will be on the air later this year. Mr. Norman Devonport, the chairman of the consortium that was awarded the franchise by the Independent Broadcasting Authority, said on Tuesday that the Exeter studios were several months ahead of […]
Two Devonians have been named as the first of about 30 people with full-time jobs at DevonAir – the commercial radio station for Exeter and Torbay which is expected to start a broadcasting later this year. The first is 45 year old Mr. Maurice Vass, who grew up in Buckland […]
DevonAir meet Dartington A group from DevonAir, the new commercial radio station which starts broadcasting in the Exeter and Torbay areas in November, is visiting Dartington Hall next week as part of a series of meetings with people and organisations in the area aimed at gearing their services to the […]