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.
DevonAir Radio
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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 […]