Having just taken a trip to 1976 courtesy of Radio 1 jingles, now I'm back in the hospital laundry where I worked in 1984 and Radio 1 was pretty well a permanent fixture. "Gary's bit!!"
They used a U.S. jingles agency JAM creative to do all of these from the 70s through to when Matthew Bannister came in and modernised it in the 90s. I did my work experience there (Egton House) in 1988 and they were just starting to making their own trails using samplers and an in house musician
Radio 1 would have benefited from being in stereo full time from launch - as it was, it “timeshared” with Radio 2 - though it was mostly Radio 2 - Radio 1 was only available in stereo on FM from 10:00 on weeknights for John Peel and The Friday Rock Show - although they were allowed access to that frequency on Bank Holiday Mondays - on Saturday between 1 pm and 7:30 pm and the whole of Sunday evenings from five - but, for the most part, you could only get it on medium wave - the current music of any era would have benefited from being heard on an FM frequency - not sounding like an automatic washing machine on the spin cycle! With all those foreign stations interfering, it made them sound like pirate radio - like a bunch of amateurs, or like it was coming from abroad!
The Bannister and DanDan the hatchet man😢 the knackered Radio 1 in 2 months flat. The joke at rhe time was ratings are sliding down the bannister. When Simon Bates went the rating slide was unstoppable.
There were a number of problems that occurred when Matthew Bannister took over as Radio 1 controller, almost all of which were caused by him. To start with, he wanted to get rid of the older DJ's & get younger ones to reflect the audience. Sounds fair until you notice that even some young ones - notably Jakki Brambles who was 25 at the time - got the chop as well. He also didn't like Simon Bates as he felt he talked too much, then he employs Danny Baker who talked even more than Simon Bates !. During Bannister's tenure, they were only 4 "genuine" music-loving DJ's....Anne Nightingale, Pete Tong, Trevor Nelson & the legendary John Peel. Even then, he was in 2 minds whether to get rid of John Peel because of his age. If he had, both he & Radio 1 would've been finished right there & then
@arthurvasey Radio 1 could've gone on it's own FM service in 1978 as part of the frequency shake-up. The station could've broadcast between 88.1-90.2, Radio 2 between 90.3-92.4 & Radio 3 between 92.5-94.6. Radio 4 could've been on 200 LW & the various AM relays (with a few programmes carried in stereo on Radio 2 & 3) & the local & regional stations, which were mainly in mono, on AM. But of course BBC snobbery showed it's stiff upper lip & it didn't happen. Even avid fans of Radio 4 couldn't figure out why their predominantly mono station was on FM & Radio 1 wasn't. The BBC had applied for a 4th FM network in the 70's, but NOT for Radio 1....it was for an educational channel !. Even the UK government couldn't believe it, utterly ridiculous. It were painfully obvious that the BBC bosses back then didn't like nor want Radio 1. It was treat like a poor relation & unsurprisingly a large number of ILR stations cashed in with stereo transmission, modern-minded bosses & vibrant programming
Great package! Some very familiar jingles here and others which I haven't heard in ages. Importantly it sounds exciting and fresh. Not sure about the "Robbie Vincent/Rhythm buds" jingles though!
@robalexander8065 I've just heard those & I agree. I always liked the "Robbie Vincent, stereo radio 1, stereo radio 1, stereo radio 1" done by a guy on a vocoder. It was usually followed by deep-voiced bloke saying "If it moves, funk it" 😲 I'm glad that, for a change, autocorrect didn't change "funk" into a swear word while I was typing this ! 🤣
