MORE COMMERCIALS!

ByANDY FLEMING, Webmaster

It's time to have another nostalgia trip, this time back to 1975 and 1978 with four commercial breaks thanks again to Neil Siddaway of Middlesbrough, Teesside. Neil has lovingly taped programmes, jingles and commercial breaks from the station and most importantly has kept them all this time, and has indeed built up a superb audio archive!

Enjoy these advertisements and if you have any material you would like to share via the Metro Radio 261MW 97VHF Tribute Website, no matter what the quality (we have ways of digitally cleaning it up!), then please don't hesitate this friendly historical website. We are starting to gain thousands of visitors many of whom are listeners and former presenters, and any material you possess I'm sure would bring nostalgic memories flooding back!

Submitting material couldn't be easier either via e-mail attachment, a free file hosting service or by post. To submit audio visual material and/or your memories or for inquiries, please contact the site here. 

Many thanks,
Andy.

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The Flying Scotsman. (The Journal); Stanley Discount Superstore; Esso Extra Motor Oil; Kenwood Cook Pot; North Of England, Equestrian Centre, Stannington; Woman's World; Manpower Services Commission; Blue Boar Disco, Stanley; The Journal; Minories Car Hire; The Carpet Warehouse, Willington Quay; 1978; 6 mins 01 secs.

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.Visit Hexham; Tavaras Promo; Crossley Carpets. (Willie Rushton); Jaffa Grapefruits; Liverpool Express Promo; Clunk Click, Every Trip; Metro T-Shirts Offer. McEwans Best Scotch; Derek Thorpe, TV & Hi Fi, South Shields; 1978; 5 mins 06 secs.


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Tyneside Summer Exhibition 1975; Windowlene; Wrigley's Spearmint Gum; Viking Taxi's Jarrow; Lambton Pleasure Park, Chester le Street; Stolen Car Message; Circus, Debut Album; The Daily Express Telephone Challenge.
Maxwell's Old Time Music Hall, Tynemouth; Leach Homes; The Sunday Sun; 1975; 5 mins 35 secs.

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Spiderman, The Dragons Challenge, Film; Unipart; K. Tel; A Reason To Live, A Reason To Die, Film; Dave Gregory, Promo; Brazilian Blend Coffee; The Seven Golden Vampires, Film; Dreams, Promo. (Metro Daily); Metro Your Station, Promo;  1979/1975; 5 mins 51 secs.

More of Neil's fantastic archive of commercials and jingles is available on Time for a Commercial Break page.

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BACK TO 1977 FOR A COMMERCIAL BREAK!

ByANDY FLEMING, Webmaster

Fancy another trip back in time to the north east of England in 1977, and a whole tranche of advertisements carried by Metro Radio on 261MW and 97VHF around the time of the Queen's Silver Jubilee?

Thanks go out once again to Neil Siddaway of Middlesbrough, Teesside who has lovingly taped programmes, jingles and commercial breaks from the station and most importantly has kept them all this time, and has indeed built up a superb audio archive!

These fantastic recordings give a rare snapshot of the social and economic life of the region in the late seventies. As you wallow in nostalgia you'll hear some very rare jingles from EMISON, the jingle arm of EMI Music, that even at the time were rarely broadcast on Metro Radio. These sound superb, and will be of particular interest to jingle collectors.

UP NEXT, THE MID-DAY MUSIC EXPLOSION!

ByANDY FLEMING

Time for another fix of nostalgia and a journey back through the decades to listen to Metro Radio in the late seventies, specifically to a time when the movie Grease had been released at the cinemas. Once again we are indebted to Neil Siddaway of Middlesbrough for these absolutely fantastic recordings. I'm sure Neil that I am not the only one who can a spend a happy couple of ours relaxing and reminiscing whilst listening to your superb archive.

Steve King, presenter of the
weekday programme, the
  Mid Day Music Explosion.

It's five minutes past twelve on Friday June 23, 1978, and musically John Travolta and Olivia Newton John were riding high at number one in the UK charts with a single spin-off from Grease. Picture the scene; you're in the kitchen making a few sandwiches and your transistor radio is tuned to Metro Radio on 261. It's time for the daily Mid Day Music Explosion presented by Steve King, a fantastic one hour mix of oldies and their statistics and chart positions. The oldies are mainly from the sixties and early seventies and the show is a great mixture of blockbuster oldies along with a sprinkling of singles that you haven't heard for some time.

The Mid Day Music Explosion was followed by fifteen minutes of Metro News, Weather and Sport at 1pm, presented either by one Metro Radio's journalists, one of its presenters or one of Tyne Tees Television's in-vision continuity announcers from City Road in Newcastle such as Neville Wanless who also worked for the radio station.

Steve's programme continued at 1.15pm with more contemporary hits and a guest depending on the day of the week. These included Denise Robertson, Metro Radio's "agony aunt" helping listeners with relationship and personal problems, and the station's astrologist Joan Porter with her horoscope predictions.

So relax, settle back and let us take you on another nostalgic trip back to 1978, this time with a full programme, courtesy of Neil Siddaway.

The Mid Day Music Explosion, presented by Steve King. Air date: June 23, 1978. Duration: 55 minutes.



The rest of our ever expanding programme archive is available at the Metro Radio 261MW 97VHF Tribute website's Programme Downloads page.

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TIME FOR YET ANOTHER COMMERCIAL BREAK!

ByANDY FLEMING, Webmaster

Thanks are due to Neil Siddaway who has contacted the Metro Radio 261MW 97VHF Tribute website again with another couple of montages of commercial breaks.

So once again, it's time to delve into the anals of north east broadcasting nostalgia for another snapshot of social and economic history from a late seventies perspective on Metro Radio. Neil of Middlesbrough in Teesside has lovingly taped programmes, jingles and commercial breaks from the station and most importantly has kept them all this time and has indeed built up a superb audio archive.

Please enjoy these latest recordings, that are nearly forty years and thanks once again to Neil, of whom we're heavily indebted.

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L&T Homes, New Hartley Village; Clifford James Caravans, Hexham; J.H. Fisher Homes; Robbs of Hexham; Gateshead Car Centre; Van Allan, Northumberland Street; The Metro Express. (Steam Train Journey); Spend The Day In Seaham; Coquet Vale Hotel, Rothbury; Barratt Homes. Late 70s; Duration 6 mins 28 secs.

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Smokey On Metro Promo; New Musical Express; S Plate Special, Leyland Cars (Dutton Forshaw); Anadin; Pepsi Cola (Lipsmakin Pepsi Cola); Elf Garage, Dunston; The Cassandra Crossing Film; The Metro Man Promo; Gough Electronics, South Shields; Sava Centre; Denim (After Shave); Black & Decker Power Tools (Maxwells DIY); 5 mins 02 secs.

More of Neil's fantastic archive of commercials and jingles is available on Time for a Commercial Break page.

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ROGER KENNEDY, GNR'S FIRST BREAKFAST SHOW HOST

Original Great North Radio (GNR) presenter, and Breakfast Show host Roger Kennedy contacted the site and said:

Hi Mate

Just came across your Tribute page.

Before it went on air, I was head-hunted from Southern FM (Brighton) to become the station's Senior Presenter (i.e. deputy Programme Controller) and was the station's first Breakfast Show presenter (and yet I only seem to get a mention at the bottom!).

After four years at GNR I went on to set up Wessex FM, then I came back to Century North East, then onto Magic 1170 for many years (plus a spell on Magic 1152 and Alpha FM in-between).

I now present the Late Show six nights per week on Sun FM in Sunderland.

Regards, Roger Kennedy,

Wessex Radio Productions,

Website: http://wessexproductions.co.uk

Webmaster: Cheers Roger, and thanks for contacting the site. We've got you at the bottom? We'll have to change that!

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