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BBMS (Britain’s Better Music Station)

Owner


Roy Bates

Roy Bates

Landbased Address


33 Avenue Road, Southend on Sea,

Essex

Broadcasting Hours

24 hours a day

(The 24 hours schedule continued six days a week with a six hour closedown early on Monday mornings to enable transmitter maintenance work to be carried out)

Wavelength/

Frequency


222m (221.7m) (1353kHz) Medium Wave (AM)

Later moving to 222.4m (1349kHz) but still announced as 222m

(from December 1966)

Knock John Fort

Knock John Fort

Opening Date


6th October 1966


Closing Date

25th December 1966 (4.30pm)

Format

Easy listening music during the day  and pop music between 9.00pm and 6.00am

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