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'LIVEWIRE?' · 13th Feb 2020, 9:01 am

Unless they moved it, my memory tells me that SSS was on before Pick of the Pops, which, again, IIRC, went out between 5 & 7PM. IIRC, in those days Radio 1 was a 'part time station; which meant that often 247M (or 275/285, whichever it was on by then) carried Radio 2. Slightly OT maybe, but I recall my brother, who was and is a Viennese music enthusiast, being annoyed when, at 5PM one Sunday, Radio 2's FM network switched to Radio1, and he had to listen to the Viennese music program on Medium wave. B.T.W., anyone recall when that practice stopped? It was obviously when, and after Radio 1 was allocated 97-99Mhz and no longer had to share R2's FM allocation.

13th Feb 2020, 9:01 am	#89
'LIVEWIRE?' Rest in Peace Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: N.W. Oxfordshire(Chipping Norton) Posts: 7,306	Re: Favourite Radio Stations past and present. Unless they moved it, my memory tells me that SSS was on before Pick of the Pops, which, again, IIRC, went out between 5 & 7PM. IIRC, in those days Radio 1 was a 'part time station; which meant that often 247M (or 275/285, whichever it was on by then) carried Radio 2. Slightly OT maybe, but I recall my brother, who was and is a Viennese music enthusiast, being annoyed when, at 5PM one Sunday, Radio 2's FM network switched to Radio1, and he had to listen to the Viennese music program on Medium wave. B.T.W., anyone recall when that practice stopped? It was obviously when, and after Radio 1 was allocated 97-99Mhz and no longer had to share R2's FM allocation.