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Red Nose Radio was a one off FM station from Merseyside in support
of the second Red Nose Day, now better known as Comic Relief. It broadcast on 104.9MHz on Friday 10th March 1989.
The original plan was concocted by staff at North Coast Radio and
Radio Merseywaves and the transmissions were to be on two medium
wave (presumably 1350kHz and 1242kHz) and one FM channel. Due
to the unavailability of the AM transmitters, the station eventually only
broadcast on FM, apparently in mono with about 70 watts which
commenced at 0300 on Friday morning with DLC (Dave Collins). The
signal got out quite well and the recordings below were all made
near Blackpool on the edge of its transmission range, hence some fading and crackling. Red Nose Radio continued until the early hours of
Saturday morning, finally signing off after Tony Simmons, with Dave Collins at 0210. The station used 'Popcorn' by Hot Butter as its theme tune. |
| 1989_03_10_fri_rednoseradio_1049fm_1030-1230_johnlewis-gh792.mp3 | Two hours of the late morning show with John Lewis (not the same one as Radio Caroline) who signs off at 12:30 and hands over to DLC (Dave Collins). |
| 1989_03_10_fri_rednoseradio_1049fm_1230-1340_dlc-gh792.mp3 | The first 70 minutes of the afternoon show from Dave Collins. |
| 1989_03_10_fri_rednoseradio_1049fm_1345-1727_dlc-gh792.mp3 | Three hours of airchecks of the afternoon shows as the signal at the recording location was fading somewhat. |
| 1989_03_10_fri_rednoseradio_1049fm_1727-2045_richiec_johnlewis-gh792.mp3 | Richie C hosts into the evening and John Lewis takes over at 8pm |
| 1989_03_10_fri_rednoseradio_1049fm_2045-2220_johnlewis_paulmiller_manicmandy-gh792.mp3 | John Lewis hands over to Paul Miller at 9pm for half an hour and then Manic Mandy hosts from 9:30pm until 11pm |
| 1989_03_10_fri_rednoseradio_1049fm_2220-2325_manicmandy_johnlewis-gh792.mp3 | End of Manic Mandy and into another 30 minutes from John Lewis. |
| 1989_03_11_sat_rednoseradio_1049fm_0030-0100_dlc-gh792.mp3 | Into the last couple of hours of the station with DLC |
| 1989_03_11_sat_rednoseradio_1049fm_0120-0205signoff_tonysimmons_davecollins-gh475.mp3 | Tony Simmons with the last programme and then DLC does the final closedown of Red Nose Radio at just after 2am |
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