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ByANDY FLEMING

WEBMASTER

Presenter of the Mid Day Music Explosion, Metro Radio's
Steve King.

It's time for another trip back in in the musical time machine and another excerpt from 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. This excerpt is from August, 1977.

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 Metro Radio.

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 the early days of Independent Local Radio (ILR) in north east England, courtesy of Neil Siddaway of Middlesbrough. Thanks Neil!

The Mid Day Music Explosion, (excerpt) presented by Steve King. Air date: August, 1977. Duration: 17 minutes.

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