Thanks for posting this footage. I recall the day when Roger got booted out from Radio Kent and decided to take this new post down in Cornwall. Shame the post did not last for long? However nice to have him back week day eves on the BBC. Keep up the good work Twiggy!
Don't get how you can call it a "Truly Dreadful Automated station".
Pirate was, and still is the pinnacle of ILR in the South West. And yes, like DJPhil76 says that is Studio Two and im not entirely sure how many refurbs its had since then. At least two. The current studios look amazing. I've actually had the honour of recording in Studio Two, its quality quality stuff.
Automation is just a tool. Since the 60s stations have used paper to achieve exactly the same thing, often with a stack of carts on chain. Automation is just the same thing done more eligantly.
At the end of the day, if you setup your playlists to play junk and limit your presenters to a single strapline, you're going to sound bad however you do it.
What's cool is that better tech than this is now available to even smaller broadcasters, some of which are using it in really inovative ways.
a good example of why the offshore stations were SO good. Music is emotion....machines dont have or recognise emotion. A sad foretaste of what was to come..'uniformity' and 'conformity' in broadcasting , upheld by an inhuman & alienating technology. "Pirate radio on dry land?"...No! Just dry, dusty radio on dry land.
Thanks for posting this footage. I recall the day when Roger got booted out from Radio Kent and decided to take this new post down in Cornwall. Shame the post did not last for long? However nice to have him back week day eves on the BBC. Keep up the good work Twiggy!
saveyourkisses4me 1 month ago
Don't get how you can call it a "Truly Dreadful Automated station".
Pirate was, and still is the pinnacle of ILR in the South West. And yes, like DJPhil76 says that is Studio Two and im not entirely sure how many refurbs its had since then. At least two. The current studios look amazing. I've actually had the honour of recording in Studio Two, its quality quality stuff.
manicstreetsaint 1 year ago
garbage equipment/software and not perfectly legal today
pspheaven 2 years ago
Automation is just a tool. Since the 60s stations have used paper to achieve exactly the same thing, often with a stack of carts on chain. Automation is just the same thing done more eligantly.
At the end of the day, if you setup your playlists to play junk and limit your presenters to a single strapline, you're going to sound bad however you do it.
What's cool is that better tech than this is now available to even smaller broadcasters, some of which are using it in really inovative ways.
jckcip 2 years ago
thats studio two and they have updated the kit again now.
djphil1976 3 years ago
That is brilliant. Great too to see that old Acorn in use.
wisteela 3 years ago 2
WOW 4000 tunes, you can fit that in ya pocket theses days
MrRedPolo 3 years ago
he is on bbc radio southern counties at 7pm week days.
mrshenley1980 3 years ago
Check out that mouse usage!
ian9outof10 3 years ago
@ian9outof10 poor old DJ roger ..he hasnt quite realised its not like a tv remote
ndgreenaway 1 year ago
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manicstreetsaint 4 years ago
Pirate FM Rule!
manicstreetsaint 4 years ago 4
a good example of why the offshore stations were SO good. Music is emotion....machines dont have or recognise emotion. A sad foretaste of what was to come..'uniformity' and 'conformity' in broadcasting , upheld by an inhuman & alienating technology. "Pirate radio on dry land?"...No! Just dry, dusty radio on dry land.
sesquisquadrate 4 years ago