Merseyside Free Radio began broadcasting a big signal across the North West on 1242kHz in early December 1982.  It appeared to be a re-incarnation of the old powerful Station J1000, which had continued with Andy Davis on the FM band only during 1982.  The station initially didn't seem to have a name but the term D.B.C. was heard (was this short for the 'Davis Broadcasting Company'?, after its operator Andy Davis), but mostly, deejays just referred to it as 'free radio on AM and FM'.  Frequencies were announced as 1242kHz / 241 metres on AM and 97.55MHz FM in stereo.   By January 1983 the station began announcing as Merseyside Free Radio.   M.F.R. had several well known jocks on from the time including Kevin Hall, Steven Bishop and Andy Davis and pumped out a massive signal across the North West. On the broadcast on Sunday 17th April 1983, deejays announced it may be the final transmission due to new laws being introduced. It is not known how long the station broadcast after this but by 27th July, they were reported in Tim Jackson's 'Merseyside Report' as having closed, having not been heard for 'some time'.