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.
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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.
Wull, m’dears, yer be the latest nooz ’bout thicky local wireless stashun Exeter be gwain to ‘ave vor itzelf any year now. An’ if you be thinkin’ this be a passel of ol’ crams, readon m’dears, read on. For one of the aims of the new station, to be called […]
DevonAir, the proposed independent local radio station for Mid and East Devon expects to be broadcasting by 1981, possibly earlier. Mr. Norman Devonport, its chairman, said at a press conference in Exeter yesterday that the station, to be run by Radio Haldon Limiter, would cost about £750,000 to start, but […]
Devon’s new independent local radio station – Devon Air – will make history as the first of its kind in the world. It will be the first to run a “twin” operation – with a service for the Exeter area on one side and the Torbay on the other.