EGGS AND BACON, TOAST AND CORNFLAKES... AND BILL STEEL!

North east personality, chief Tyne Tees Television in-vision continuity announcer and Metro Radio presenter,  Bill Steel.

ByANDY FLEMING

WEBMASTER

It's time for another excerpt from one of Bill Steel’s legendary north east Breakfast Shows, this time from September 1977 from 8.30am. In addition to great music, Bill's show featured news every half an hour, the all-important traffic and travel news, horoscopes, what’s on information, weather and sport. The Bill Steel Breakfast Show also included Sports Editor Charles Harrison’s Metro Mount Up, which although sounding risqué, was only the day’s horse racing tips!

Thanks go out once again to Neil Siddaway of Middlesbrough who lovingly recorded the following excerpt of Bill Steel’s programme via radio-cassette, and most importantly has lovingly kept this compact cassette recording for nearly forty years. I am sure it will bring back some great memories of Bill’s programme that was for many years an institution on Metro Radio, and indeed in the wider north east.

In late 1974 and 1975 while Metro Radio's output included the superb PAMS Productions Inc. of Dallas The North East Sound/Solid Rock 2 jingle package, Bill had some of his own PAMS cuts specifically for use on the Breakfast Show, and these are also included below.

Bill Steel's Breakfast Show. Air date: September 26, 1977. Duration: 22 minutes.

Bill Steel's Breakfast Show Jingles, PAMS Productions Inc. of Dallas The North East Sound/Solid Rock 2 jingle package. Air date: September 26, 1977. Duration: 22 minutes.

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