A brief insight into life as an Atlantic presenter, although by the time this was shot the glory days were long gone, a sense of adventure still remained. www.atlantic252.com/video.asp?...
I'm Algerian, I discovered Atlantic 252 in the early 90s after our local french language chaine 3 station which uses the same frequency shuts down at 2AM. I loved Atlantic to the point that I would stay up late when I could waiting for our station to shut down so I can listen to Atlantic.
Back in 93 on a Caravan site Skeggnes. Everyone had 252 blasting out stuff like Spin Doctors, Sub Sub, Haddaway, on a hot summer day ,it was gr8. My girlfriend at the time asked me to switch it on, on the travel back home. Unfortunately we had no LW band on the car stereo. ☹️
I remember Atlantic from 1990-1992. It was always on somewhere - could be heard from other people's homes or garages even. I can always remember names like.Charlie Wolf and Dusty Roads. Madonna Crazy for you, was always playing and the 'Free Money Hit'. Had a Luxembourg, pirate feel to it and the LW signal added to this sense it was a far off "music powerhouse".
The transmitter was powered down at night as long wave propagation changed. I didnt have a problem where I lived in Saddleworth, i could hear it continuously.. however i know certain spots over to the east suffered fading at night as the long skip kicked in!
@@bungle6668 The night time reception was absolutely awful with long periods of continuous distortion as if you were well off the frequency. The further west you were the better the reception but in Middlesbrough just awful and inaudible.
I first tuned in to Atlantic 252 from May 1991. Playing current hits from that month/year, likes of Lenny Kravitz, Chesney Hawkes, Crystal Waters, Reception at the time where i once lived in the Midlands, England was quite good, Quality from 6pm -6am dropped slightly, by nightfall recpetion was pretty poor with co channel of Algerian Radio also on 252 LW
In the late 1980's my husband picked up Atlantic 252 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia Canada. He had 22 minuets of listening time before the signal faded on that summer evening so long ago. My part of the world is hit by Hurricane or Hurricanes every year. Internet Radio is easily knocked out. Better dependable AM Radio without all that junk hanging off of the towers. Europe will change its mind about AM radio if it is ever hit by the kind of weather the Atlantic Coast of North America gets at the end of summer.
I can't lie I preferred radio one in the 90s but I liked Atlantic 252 and miss it now..reception was a bit dodgy at night in Devon Wiltshire on my Grundig party boy radio
CLT (Compagnie Luxembourg De Telediffusione) ruined it like they did to Radio Luxembourg and finally got rid of it. When A252 went 24 hours after Luxembourg shut, A252 would wind down the power to 300 kW after a short transmitter switching break and test tone and then reception would worsen over the UK.
When they first started, Sowing the seeds of Love by Tears for Fears was constantly played on a fucking loop...On the rare occasions when I hear it nowadays I think of Atlantic 252 and how cheesy it was.
Reception was always poor in London and the South East of England, plus there were plenty of other radio channels to tune into that offered quality FM stereo reception. Also many newer radios didn't even include Long Wave. The fact that therefore their popularity in the most populous region of the UK was low must have hassened the demise of a radio station that needed big audiences to attract the advertising they relied on.
@@capella5783 Being a foreign based concern I presume they weren't allowed to set up a network of FM transmitters in the UK to improve reception there even if they'd have wanted to. Like Radio Luxembourg which they had a connection with they were forced to broadcast into their target area from outside it rather than from within it. This meant using the frequency they did because despite its limitations and problems an AM signal would be the only one to travel the distances required. FM just doesn't have the range compared to AM.
