Radio

Hospital Radio Basingstoke

Since June 1990, I have been a member of Hospital Radio Basingstoke which broadcasts to the patients and staff at North Hampshire Hospital. For much of that time, I have been Programme Controller, and I have also served as Treasurer and Station Manager.
The station web site is at www.hrbasingstoke.co.uk

The Sound of Sunday

The Sound of Sunday is my regular weekly show on HRB. The show started on 24 March 1991.

The dedicated web site for the show is at www.soundofsunday.co.uk 

Kestrel FM

Kestrel FM was Basingstoke’s commercial station from 1998 until 2012.

The station had its roots with Hospital Radio Basingstoke, being formed following 4 short term stations run by HRB in the early 90s. I presented and produced shows for all four short term stations, and for 6 months helped produce the sports programme on the full time station. In August 2004, I helped produce an outside broadcast for Kestrel FM. Whilst the presenter Mike Harrison was broadcasting live from Festival Square in Basingstoke, I was in the studio operating the desk and playing in the music.   Kestrel FM became part of the Tindle Group and then in 2012 became The Breeze.  In 2020 The breeze was taken over by Bauer Group and all stations were rebranded as Greatest Hits Radio.  The local part of this is virtually non-existent nowadays but what local content there is now comes from Southampton.  The Basingstoke studios have gone. 

Wey Valley Community Radio/Delta FM

I was a member of Wey Valley Community Radio Association from November 1999 until its demise at the end of 2002. WVCRA was a voluntary organisation which produced community programmes for Delta FM 102, which at the time was based in Alton in North East Hampshire.  Delta FM later became part of Kestrel FM in Basingstoke and then became The Breeze.

I produced two editions of Talkabout every month – Talkabout The Environment and Talkabout Debate.

Talkabout The Environment was named “Best Talk Programme” on Delta FM in 2001 and I won the award for “Best Studio Manager” in the same year.

I have also done the occasional show myself on Delta FM including a Country and Western show. I also once stood in for an absent Talkabout presenter at 20 seconds notice.

Delta FM’s owners at the time, Tindle Radio, decided to merge the station with nearby Kestrel FM in Basingstoke in 2010.   To start with there was split programming to the two areas but that eventualy stopped and all shows covered both areas before both stations became part of The Breeze network and now Greatest Hits Radio.

Wey Valley Radio

Wey Valley Radio returned with a community radio licence in 2017.  I presented voicetracked shows for the station for a while but had to stop regular presenting due tolack of time.  My one task now is to download and add to the playout syaytem one of their weekly syndicated shows. 

Reach On Air

Reach On Air is an online radio station that I originally signed up to in Nvember 2020.  All presenters preseter their shows from their home studios.  I went on air for the first time in January 2022 with a show called 80s Revival and continue to do up to 2 shows a month when I have the time. 

Studio 63 Media

Studio 63 owns the format to all my shows and develops new shows.  I have now developed an interest in video editing as well as audio production.