RADIO JULIE FM - 104.8MHz

     Radio Julie operated from The Wirral between 1986 and 1988. The signal on 104.85MHz FM (usually announced as 104.8MHz) at times covered a reasonable area of the North West.

According to Anoraks UK 'Weekly Report' the station was raided on 15th February 1987, but returned to the air shortly after with a stronger signal. All the recordings we have in our audio library were received near Blackpool after their return following that raid. The station seemed to have left the air by the summer of 1987, but then re-appeared in early 1988 and at that time were thought to have a connection to North Coast Radio which was operating on 1350kHz Medium Wave.

The clipping below is from The Liverpool Echo of Wednesday 22nd April 1987. The station returned to high power the following weekend.

A cutting from the Birkenhead edition of 'The News', 29th April 1987
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The above headline in the Liverpool Echo of 20th May 1987 was a little premature,
as Radio Julie was still heard on the air during June

Radio Julie seemed to disappear during July 1987, possibly due to heavy DTI activity at the time. In fact in the recordings of 28th June above, they were wondering how long they would be able to stay on for. The next recordings we have are from March 1988 when the station appeared with a test transmssion using high power, suggesting they had been operating for a while on low power.