Ze wisten (dan) zeker niet dat Tony Blackburn en Keith Skues gewoon ex Radio Caroline dj's waren. 🙂
Schrijf je jingles nou expres verkeerd?
Hik.
'' After considerable interpersonal wrangling at management level Radio London had decided on one particular interpretation of the American Top 40 format; not surprisingly it was the one then being relayed by KLIF Dallas.
London’s chosen ‘Fabulous 40’ package consisted of three categories of records: an ‘A’ list, consisting of the Top Ten records of the week, a ‘B’ list consisting of the remainder of the Top 40, and a ‘C’ list consisting of new releases.
In addition to this there were slots for LP tracks, and hits from the past – the first time ‘oldies’ were played as a distinct category on British pop radio.
DJs were forbidden from choosing their own records, and had a ‘Top 40 climber’ selected for them each week by station management. In time-honoured fashion the presenter simply had to endorse the product.''
'' A format that has been enormously successful in the States is the Top 40 format.
And this means simply playing the top 40 records of the week – and incidentally this is nothing to do with the charts, nothing to do with which records happen to be selling, because in fact those aren’t the top 40 records of the week.
They are the top 40 records of about three or four weeks ago. By top 40 we really mean the best of the new records that are coming along now. (Philip Birch)''
https://monoskop.org/images/6/65/Chapman_Robert_Selling_the_Sixties_The_Pirates_and_Pop_Music_Radio.pdf
'' In stark contrast to the station’s extremely professional daytime output nocturnal programming had always seemed like a managerial afterthought. Owing to the strong interference from foreign stations that Radio London suffered during the hours of darkness the night-time listenership had always been a fraction of what it was during the peak daytime period, and there was a corresponding lack of interest from advertisers.
The slot was initially filled by a show called London after midnight, which played light music, and had less emphasis on a rigid Top 40 format.
Throughout 1966 the programme was subject to the whims and musical preferences of individual DJs who seized the opportunity to be selfindulgent at a time when audiences could in all probability be measured in five figures rather than seven.
One school of thought, dictated by senior announcers such as Paul Kaye and Duncan Johnson, was that the programme should adhere to its original light music brief.
Junior announcers were often less faithful to this policy. Tony Blackburn, for instance, initiated a weekend soul music programme.
It was this haphazard scheduling inheritance that enabled John Peel to develop his programming ideas without resistance. He started playing the kind of music which was emerging, predominantly but not exclusively, from the west coast of America, and from the burgeoning underground scene in London, which had up to this point received virtually no exposure in the UK.''
https://monoskop.org/images/6/65/Chapman_Robert_Selling_the_Sixties_The_Pirates_and_Pop_Music_Radio.pdf