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Radio City
Reg Calvert
Dorothy Calvert
(from June 1966, after Reg Calvert’s death)
Wavelengths/
Frequencies
At first used the old Radio Sutch frequency of 194m (1542kHz ) then changed to 195m (1535kHz), 197m (1524kHz ) and finally back to 195m (1535kHz )
238m (1262kHz) (from 30th September 1964)
Music broadcasts were switched to 290m (1034kHz) (but announced as 299m), while sponsored religious programmes were broadcast on 188m (1605kHz )
(from mid December 1964)
Broadcasting Hours
7.00am-7.00pm
(from September 1964)
6.00am-7.00pm
(from June 1965)
6.00am-12 midnight
Opening Date
** September 1964
Closing Date
8th February 1967 (12 midnight)
Landbased Address
7 Denmark Street,
London WC 2
Later – Clifford House,
15 Clifford Street,
London W1
Local office:
20a Oxford Street, Whitstable,
Kent
Format
Pop and chart material (Top 60), (but always heavily promoting artists managed by Reg Calvert)